Style,Watches

Want list – Grand Seiko watch

Want list – Grand Seiko watch

For its 130th anniversary, Japanese watch brand Seiko this year unveiled three limited-edition timepieces based on the original 1960 Grand Seiko. This, the platinum version — steel and gold are also available — is our favourite. Accurate and durable, it’s a style suited as much to black tie as to PJs. (from £5,000, jurawatches.co.uk)

Style,Watches

Five of the best – blue watches

Five of the best – blue watches

Be it navy, sapphire, cobalt or cornflower, a vibrant shade of blue is easy to pull off and looks good with pretty much everything. The best way to wear this super-adaptable hue? On your wrist. Here are five of our favourite true-blue timepieces out there right now. [Read more...]

Watches

Jaeger-LeCoultre pay tribute to 1931

Jaeger-LeCoultre pay tribute to 1931

The latest news from the camp at Jaeger-LeCoultre, is that the new Grand Reverso Ultra Thin “Tribute to 1931” – which is heavily inspired by the original 1931 Reverso – is to be unveiled at next week’s SIHH watch fair in Geneva. [Read more...]

Esquire Wish List,Watches

The Esquire Wish-list – Day Fifteen

The Esquire Wish-list – Day Fifteen

Zenith Captain Central Second

If elegant discretion is the name of the game this rose-gold model from Zenith’s collection (new and much-improved this year) is simple but stylish with its design cues taken from the Fifties. [Read more...]

Watches

The first William & Son watch

The first William & Son watch

Ten years after opening for business on London’s Mount Street William Asprey’s eponymous jewellery and luxury goods store has, for the first time, stepped into the world of watch production. [Read more...]

Watches

Rolex Submariner Facelift

Rolex Submariner Facelift

How do you update a classic? Rolex’s much-imitated Submariner is one of only a handful of watches that would be immediately recognisable without the company logo, and it’s just been subtly updated. [Read more...]

Watches

Watch and learn

Watch and learn

Though it constitutes only a small part of any look, an ill-judged timpiece can ruin even the best outfit. Get your watch wrong and you’ll end up looking like a colourblind East End diamond dealer, but get it right and you’re one step on the path to style supremacy. [Read more...]

Design,Style,Watches

A wrist with a Vue

A wrist with a Vue

Bad design is everywhere. Literally everywhere. From touch screen electric hobs yet to recognise a finger, to fridges with an inch of space between each shelf – now we’ve brought it up you’ll find it all over the shop, much like pregnant women or turquoise cars. [Read more...]