Rolex has launched a new version of its left-handed GMT The watch keeps the previous black-and-green “Sprite” bezel but adds a green dial The dial is made of Cerahrom, making it Rolex’s first ceramic ...

If you were reading Esquire thirty years ago and wanted to know about watches, you'd turn to James Dowling. In fact, when Esquire UK launched in 1991, Dowling became the magazine’s first watch writer, ...

No other industry is as strongly associated with one nation as watchmaking is with Switzerland. Despite elite timepieces being produced in several other countries, no one uses “like a German watch” or ...

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The accuracy of the watches was a plus because at that time Rolex didn’t actually own a factory [eg: it assembled watches from specialist Swiss suppliers rather than producing its own movements or ...