Who would have thought that a decades-long feud within the Porsche family would result in one of the most iconic military watches of the 1980s?

The story of the automatic chronograph continues with the arrival of daily beater chronographs in the age of quartz.

Twelve military watches designed to the same specifications, a collective name borrowed from one of the coolest war movies ever made – we can only be talking about The Dirty Dozen.

One of IWC’s rarest and most intriguing Ingenieur models leads to dreams of desert travels, Arabian horological etiquette and the customising work of a very British jeweller.

If you think customised watches and strap fetishism are recent phenomena, think again. Ken Kessler tells us a tale of the guys who might've started it all.