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The chronograph is one of the most popular watchmaking complications, along with the calendar, and yet very few of us use it in our daily lives. The ability to measure short time intervals is nevertheless its raison d’être
12 January 2022
Cast your mind back to 1986. Top Gun was showing in cinemas. Tom Cruise looks exactly how we’ve come to picture him: eyes shaded by Ray-Ban aviators, leather bomber jacket, and a pilot’s watch on his wrist. But when, exactly, did the pilot’s watch first appear?
5 January 2022
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