BeckerTime BLOG

You would think it would be an easy enough question to answer; which watchmaker has been around the longest? However, as if to prove that absolutely nothing is straightforward, as soon as you start delving into it, the question throws up a series of stipulations. For many of the ‘oldest’ manufactures, what they claim as […]

In our last article looking at record-beating watch prices, we listed the most expensive of the current models you could, hypothetically, buy at Coming out on top was Patek Philippe’s glorious Grandmaster Chime ref. 6300/400G, yours today for the knockdown sum of just $3.85m or so. That is a fairly serious amount of anyone’s money. […]

I recently entered into one of those calm, well-reasoned and grammatically flawless debates at which the internet excels concerning which timepiece brand offers the best value for money. And while names such as Hamilton, Seiko, Longines and Christopher Ward (all excellent marques) featured heavily and garnered some typically vociferous support, by and large, there was […]

For the majority of people, and especially those not actively engaged in the field, the word most synonymous with watch collecting is ‘expensive’. It is a fair point. Spending thousands, or even multiples of thousands, on something which doesn’t tell the time as well as the phone in your pocket can seem like a frivolous […]