While our attention slowly drifts towards SIHH 2016, Harry Winston reminds us today that brands that won’t be displayed inside the Palexpo of Geneva later this month are not idle.

With four equal sides and four equal angles, no watch is more instantly recognizable than the TAG Heuer Monaco. Named after Jack Heuer’s favorite Grand Prix track, it was a revolution when it was introduced in 1969, becoming the first square water-resistant automatic chronograph.

Switzerland is by no means the only destination for watch geeks. Our resident watch expert, Arthur Touchot, reveals the watchmaking industry’s favourite five-star hotels…

The telescopes in Glashütte must have special lenses, because the craftsmen from this tiny German village located on the edge of the Eastern border have captured the moon in a way none had ever before them.

Many luxury watch brands have partnerships in football because of the popularity of the sport and the interest professional players have been showing in timepieces of late.

What better way to celebrate the bicentenary of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s appointment as chronometer-maker to the French navy, than with an exclusive marine chronometer, limited to 200 pieces?

As expected, Patek Philippe raised the largest sum during this afternoon’s Only Watch charity auction, benefiting Muscular Dystrophy Research. However, no one expected it to raise quite as much as it did: a whopping $7.3 million.

This year, the independent watch brand, co-founded by Christophe Claret and Thierry Oulevay (who passed away in 2013), returned to the design, this time presenting the watch in a round case and a Stromatolite dial.

We were delighted when Breguet invited us to get an exclusive preview of Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking.