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CWC — the Cabot Watch Company — is the least famous watch brand most serious military watch collectors know by name. Founded in Huddersfield in 1972 by Ray Mellor, a former UK Managing Dir …

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The Hamilton Jazzmaster is the watch that most clearly expresses the tension at the heart of the Hamilton brand. Hamilton was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1892 and built its reputation supply …

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The Seiko Turtle is one of the most immediately recognisable dive watches in production — and one of the few watches whose nickname was not applied by marketing but by the shape of the case itse …

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Baltic Watches was founded in Paris by Etienne Malec, who grew up around his father's collection of vintage timepieces and set out to recreate the specific character of 1950s and 1960s dive watches at …

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The name "Record" in the Longines Record Collection carries specific meaning. Longines acquired the Record Watch Co. of Geneva in the 1960s, absorbing a brand that had built its reputation on chronome …

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IWC has held an official licence to use the US Navy Fighter Weapons School "TOPGUN" logo since 2007 — one of only two watch manufacturers to do so, alongside Breitling. The relationship is not p …

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