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The Mido Multifort has one of the most specific and most underappreciated origin stories in Swiss watchmaking. Mido was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1918 — the same Swiss watchmaking town as …

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On 2 August 1971, Colonel David Scott stepped onto the lunar surface during the Apollo 15 mission and performed something no astronaut had done before: he dropped a geological hammer and a falcon feat …

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The Seiko Monster is a watch with a name that earns itself. The original Monster — the SRP309, SRP311, SRP313, and SRP315 introduced in the mid-2000s — was built around an oversized unidir …

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The Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight is the Black Bay that changed the conversation. When Tudor introduced it in 2018 the dial said "Fifty-Eight" and the case said 39mm — a deliberate return to the p …

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The Marathon GSAR is not a watch that made its reputation through marketing. It made it through government procurement. The GSAR — Government Search and Rescue Automatic — is developed to …

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Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH was founded in Frankfurt in 1961 by Helmut Sinn, a pilot and flight instructor who understood what a watch needed to do in a cockpit. The first Sinn watches were navigation inst …

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