We round up four key players in the world of watches to up your wrist game

A good watch is about more than telling the time, creating intrigue with unusual design and impressing with mechanical prowess. Whether you flex a rugged, tech-heavy chronograph or a classic, slimline dress watch, your timepiece says a lot about you. Here are some top choices

Smooth and seamless in their design, integrated bracelets are a growing trend you need to get behind

THE 1950s WAS QUITE A DECADE. There was plenty to worry about, like the Suez crisis, Korean war and the threat of nuclear apocalypse. But the postwar tech boom also brought passenger jets, power steer

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Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom