BeckerTime BLOG

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 […]

There are a number of watches so distinctive they are impossible to mistake for anything else. Some find their particular form purely for aesthetic reasons; the Patek Nautilus, for instance, was styled in the eccentric way it was simply because it looked good. Others, however, have become inimitable through necessity. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso gained its signature […]

The XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris is playing host to some 10,714 athletes, contending in 329 events across 32 different sports. But in whichever discipline the competitors are engaged, be it anything from the explosive fury of boxing or karate to the graceful artistry of rhythmic gymnastics or equestrian dressage, the Games have always been […]