Blog posts from Andy Callan
The Coolest New Watches Released In 2021
With the relatively unlamented demise of Baselworld in 2020, just about every major manufacturer turned to the Watches and Wonders Geneva show to roll out their newest wares for this year. So, rather than the grand unveiling from the industry’s most important players being staggered across several different events over the course of 12-months, we […]
The Beckertime Brand Series: Blancpain
While nowhere close to the likes of Rolex or Omega in the recognition stakes, Blancpain is, nevertheless, an extremely important player in the luxury watch business. One of those names familiar more to those ‘in the know’, Blancpain can officially claim to be the oldest horology brand in existence. Its roots date back to the […]
How Watch Design Has Changed: 2010 to 2020
For a field so rooted in the traditional, the speed at which the design of luxury timepieces changes is amazing. The industry for wristwatches is really little more than 100-years old, but in that time we have witnessed an almost uncountable number of variations in style, size, materials and usage. Sometimes these changes have been […]
Rolex Tool Watches And Their Original Roles
One of the many many areas of dispute among the watch collecting fraternity centers on the, ‘who invented the tool watch?’ debate. The more stubbornly traditionalist members will often point to the Flieger models built for the German Luftwaffe in the Second World War as the earliest examples, or even the initial chronograph stopwatches made […]