Blog posts from Andy Callan

If you are in the market for a luxury dive watch, the biggest problem you will likely have is deciding just which model out of the seemingly endless selection on offer is your favorite. Practically every manufacture worth its salt has at least one on its books, and all are more than capable of living […]

In business since the middle of the 19th century, Zenith is today something of an oddity; a manufacture perhaps best known for one of their movements rather than the watches themselves. Truth be told, the brand has always done things a little differently. They were the first Swiss watchmaker, for instance, to break from the […]

At its core, the basic process by which a mechanical watch keeps time has barely changed for the last 350-years. Updates in the form of new cutting-edge materials might improve the accuracy and performance, but the underlying method is pretty much the same now as the one invented by Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer, Christiaan […]

Although it doesn’t much look like the type we are now used to, there is a definite case for calling Panerai’s Radiomir one of the world’s first dive watches. It may be missing familiar elements like a rotating bezel or helium escape valve, but seeing as it was built specifically for military frogmen in the […]