BeckerTime BLOG

Wouldn’t it be lovely if the biggest problem you had in your life was having to choose from which of these two extraordinary manufacturers you were going to buy your next watch?! Unlike with some of the brands featured in our ongoing ‘Rivalry’ series, the incredible quality displayed by our two players this week means […]

A matchup between rival Swiss brands TAG Heuer and Breitling is a particularly interesting one. Each has a long and illustrious history in the business and, in terms of popularity, there is very little to choose between them. The two brands are often seen as the gateway into luxury timepieces for many people (myself included), […]

Tudor’s releases this year saw them continue the good fight for what can be described as ‘proper’ tool watches. It is a tactic which has seen them thrive in recent years, picking up where their parent company, Rolex, left off when they changed mission in the 1980s. Where that horologic giant was once famous for […]

With this edition of our ‘Rivalry’ series, it feels like we’ve finished sitting through the warm-up fights, we’ve enjoyed the spectacle of the undercard scrappers, and we are now fully into the main event. Make no mistake, the Patek Nautilus versus the AP Royal Oak is about as heavyweight a battle as watchmaking offers. Both […]