Football link brings pink tinge to Tudor Black Bay watch
In last year’s Precision special we told the story of how the Tudor trademark was created after Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf saw an opening for a collection of high-quality watches…
Rolex evoked the wonders of the galaxy with its Space-Dweller watch of 1963, followed it up four years later with the Sea-Dweller extreme dive watch and then set about catering…
Plenty of luxury watch brands have sought to attract wealthy riders from the two-wheeled world by making motorcycle-inspired timepieces. During the early 2000s the now dormant JeanRichard collaborated with MV…
I’m just back from a motorcycle ride: eight days, 2000 miles from Copenhagen to Norway’s North Cape, the place they call ‘the end of the world’, inset, below. The Arctic…
This time last year it was announced at the annual Geneva Watch Days that the world’s second-oldest dial name would return – despite not having made a single timepiece in…
Think big name watch brands with links to motor sport and the two obvious ones that spring to mind are Rolex and TAG Heuer, which has been inextricably linked since…
“On May 1st, motor racing history was made, for Stirling Moss won the 1000-mile Mille Miglia, the first time this has been achieved by a British driver, and I had…
Twenty twenty-five is a renaissance year for TAG Heuer. With parent company LVMH becoming the main sponsor of Formula 1, the driver-orientated watchmaker reprises the role of official timekeeper it…
When a classic watch meets a legendary livery: TAG Heuer's new Gulf-edition Monaco timepiece is a feast of racing nostalgia
If anyone had told me a week ago that I’d return from a trip to Daventry feeling dazed and amazed, I would never have believed them. But that was before…
There’s a debate about who created the first wristwatch, with opinions varying between Breguet’s effort for the Queen of Naples (1810) to the one Cartier made for pioneer Brazilian aviator…
In seven years of the Precision page, never before have we highlighted a watch that isn’t linked to cars or driving – so bringing news of this latest launch from…
Steve McQueen, Hollywood’s so-called ‘King of Cool’, will forever hold a place in the horological history books as the man who gave fame to the Heuer Monaco chronograph. As anyone…
The Omega Speedmaster chronograph is well known as the ‘moon watch’ on account of its multiple outings beyond the Earth’s atmosphere as part of the equipment list of numerous astronauts.…
With a history in motor sport that dates back more than a century, TAG Heuer has enjoyed associations with some of the greatest drivers of all time – but the…
If you’ve ever been into a Porsche Design store you’ll know that the legendary German marque is involved in a lot more than making cars. Porsche Design can sell you…
Baresi & Caine Honda has licensed UK motorcycle engineer/historian George Beale to make 60 watches commemorating the 60th anniversary of the RC164 motorcycle of 1964 that set the marque on…