Blog posts from Andy Callan

Under the circumstances which, let’s hope, we’ll all be able to look back on one day and laugh, Rolex can probably be forgiven for not coming up with the most breathtaking collection of new releases for 2021. The coronavirus pandemic has relegated every horology expo to a strictly online platform for the most part—hardly optimal […]

There have been plenty of times over the last year and a half—alternatively in lockdown then not in lockdown, in the office and then working from home—when I’ve completely lost track of what day of the week it is (and what month, on occasion). In circumstances like that, a day-date watch of some kind would […]

For the first time in living memory, this year’s new Rolex releases were announced somewhere other than the annual horology extravaganza that is (or rather, used to be) Baselworld. Although the majority of the show chosen as a replacement, Watches & Wonders (previously known as SIHH) was forced onto an online platform, it was as […]

Luxury Swiss brand, Longines was founded in 1832, making it one of the oldest watchmaker’s still in existence. While they have a long history of pioneering innovation behind them, they are also a manufacture which clearly cherishes the tried and tested; the Longines headquarters has remained in the same Jura mountain village for the last […]