BeckerTime BLOG

We tend to go pretty deep into the minutiae on occasion over here at the Beckertime blog. It sometimes seems as if there’s an almost infinite amount of material we could talk about, and it is always fascinating to dig down into the real intricacies surrounding watchmaking in general and Rolex in particular. Every now […]

There is no other watch in the world like the Submariner. Sorry, no, that’s not true at all. There are a million watches like the Submariner—practically every brand, either in existence now or in the past, has used it as ‘inspiration’ for a dive model of their own. It is quite possibly the most emulated, […]

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 […]

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 […]