Limited edition watches designed especially for the Middle East, particularly the Gulf countries, have been a favourite of watchmakers in recent years with growing demand for fine watches in the region. Of all the editions made for the Middle East, the most popular watches – some have even gone viral on social media – are the ones […]
Tanaka Hisashige was a genius of epic proportions, perhaps Japan’s greater inventor ever. He built the country’s first steam locomotive, steamship, and telegraph, but is best known as the founder of electronics giant Toshiba Corporation. Often cited as the Thomas Edison of Japan, Tanaka was a remarkable figure whose career spanned a crucial era in Japanese history – […]
The compact, formal men’s watch went into retreat starting in the mid-2000s, as the diameters of wristwatches grew and grew and grew some more. Large, aggressively styled watches by the likes of Audemars Piguet, Hublot and Richard Mille are the quintessential wrist accessory of this era, so much so that Swiss bank Vontobel estimates that they are […]