Blog posts from Andy Callan
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 […]
Review: The Rolex Oyster Perpetual ref. 1005
Rolex’s Oyster Perpetual series, the longest-established name still in production in the brand’s history, sits comfortably in amongst the Classic Collection. It shares the space with the likes of the Datejust and Day-Date as something of a crossover; not one of the all-conquering tool watches, but not an out-and-out dress model either, such as you […]
Luxury Timepieces: A Look Back at 2020
I never go out of my way to be controversial just for the sake of it, but some things simply need to be said, so here goes; 2020 was not the greatest year on record. No, really, I can explain. It didn’t seem to matter who you were, where you lived or what you did, […]
