Sam Kessler

Flights of fancy aren’t exactly new in watchmaking; nobody with a firmly grounded mind builds a resonance movement. But there are always those willing to take things a bit further, well into the realms of fantasy. I don’t mean conceptual either, I mean ti... See more

Straps are the single easiest way to customise a watch. Forget dropping serious money on a bespoke diving bezel with your family colour and personal font all over it, you can make a bigger change in the five minutes it takes you to switch from a stainless... See more

If you were able to quit your job today with a golden handshake that let you do whatever you want, what would that be? Right now, I’d spend a year sunning myself on a tropical beach somewhere with a trio of nannies on rotation and a mixologist on hand. Yo... See more

Once upon a time, guilloché used to be a byword for the kind of upper echelon of watchmaking that doesn’t have factories – it instead has maisons, all hand-made artisan crafts and eye-watering price tags. Well, no more. The fine art of regularly engraved ... See more

A logo says a lot about a watch brand. Sure, most of them funnel their grand creative energies into their watches (or at least that’s what you’d hope), but the logo sets the tone, whether it’s front and centre on a dial, more subtly on a crown, or just a ... See more