BeckerTime BLOG

I saw an interview once with Desmond Llewelyn, the much-missed actor who made the role of 007’s cantankerous quartermaster, Q, his own in a total of 17 Bond films. In it, he was asked to chime in on that most perennial of questions of which I’m sure he was thoroughly sick; who is the best […]

The Eiffel Tower, Mickey Mouse, The Statue of Liberty, Batman; some things are recognizable just by their silhouettes. To that list we can easily add the Panerai Submersible. Its rounded square case is distinctive enough on its own, but when you then add the unmistakable crescent moon of its innovative crown guard, it offers as […]

In our last post, we presented our definitive, set-in-stone, never-to-be-challenged-by-anyone round-up of the top five dive watches of all time. Now that that thorny subject has been put to rest in perpetuity, we get to delve a little deeper into each of the finalists and explore just what it is that makes them so worthy […]

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. […]