Blog posts from Andy Callan
The Top 5 Chronographs: The Breitling Navitimer
There are a number of watches so distinctive they are impossible to mistake for anything else. Some find their particular form purely for aesthetic reasons; the Patek Nautilus, for instance, was styled in the eccentric way it was simply because it looked good. Others, however, have become inimitable through necessity. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso gained its signature […]
No Tricks, Just Treats: The Beckertime Guide to the Best Rolex Watches for Halloween
I don’t know about you, but as I get older, Halloween is becoming my favorite holiday of the year. Ok, it might be mainly because I want the excuse to eat my bodyweight in candy without judgement, but there are plenty of other great things about the spooky season. Firstly, Halloween movies are the best. […]
Our Favorite Military-Inspired Watches
As much as it is unpleasant to think about, it is the times of war and conflict which have been more instrumental in ultimately positive innovation than any other periods of human history. Among the list of inventions literally too numerous to mention, we can ‘thank’ warfare (if that’s the right word) for giving us […]
The Beckertime Guide to the Best Rolex Watches Under $10,000
Hear ‘Rolex’, think ‘expensive’. If there is one thing most people, albeit mainly non-horology fans, associate with Rolex it is that their watches cost a fortune. And in many ways, that is exactly what Rolex want them to think. Back in the brand’s first heyday of the 1950s, they built their reputation solely on the […]