The Watches Worn at the 2024 Olympic Games
All eyes are on Paris right now as the French capital plays host to the XXXIII Olympic Games. We’ve had the opening ceremony which was, well, it just…was, and now we can concentrate on watching the world’s greatest athletes do battle against each other, the elements and the clock. What Timepieces Do Olympic Athletes Wear? […]
Omega – The Official Timekeeper of the 2024 Olympics
Just as we have been conditioned to associate Rolex with F1 races and Grand Slam tennis events, or Hublot with the soccer World Cup and Champion’s League, so the Olympic Games and Omega are joined to an almost Pavlovian degree in our minds thanks to constant branding recognition. You will see the Swiss manufacture’s simple, […]
Watches and Motorsport
It’s a pretty obvious statement but, without accurate timekeeping there can be no racing. And of all the various forms competing can take, it is surely in motorsport where the need for split-second accuracy is most called for. The bond between the meticulously fastidious world of watchmaking and the high octane thrills, glamor and danger […]
The World’s Oldest Watch Brands
You would think it would be an easy enough question to answer; which watchmaker has been around the longest? However, as if to prove that absolutely nothing is straightforward, as soon as you start delving into it, the question throws up a series of stipulations. For many of the ‘oldest’ manufactures, what they claim as […]
