BeckerTime BLOG

At their heart, every chronograph does the same thing. Taking their name from the Greek for ‘time’ (chrono) and ‘writer’ (graph), they are, essentially, models which feature a stopwatch in addition to the standard time telling function, and can be powered by anything from a manually wound mechanical movement through to the latest digital circuitry. […]

In our comprehensive blog archive, you will find a whole host of articles dedicated to giving you the best, most up-to-date insights on a range of watch collecting subjects. Now, obviously, as a preowned Rolex dealer, much of the information is skewed in the crown’s favor. We have, for example, already published comprehensive guides to […]

Regular visitors here will already have read our list of the top 5 dive watches ever made. This time around, we are going to look at one of the few categories of timepiece which can rival that one for expanse, popularity and variety; the chronograph. Of the two genres, it is hard to choose which […]

If there’s one thing I enjoy more than discovering a brand new watch, it’s a party with food and free booze. Very occasionally the stars align and I get to experience  both in one evening. Said evening in question was 19th September this year when Belfast-based Nomadic Watches held a launch event for their newest creation, the […]