There are two really big main events in the watch world every year in Switzerland. The really big one is Baselworld, which has been going on for decades, and which is where the vast, vast majority of Swiss and other watch brands show their wares to an eager public. The other is the Salon International […]

Four years ago, @Ruaridhnicoll penned a column in The Guardian about a two-decades long obsession with Red Wings . After buying his first pair, they became the yardstick for every other similar product he owned.  A year after reading it, as Red Wings grew popular as a defacto celebration of “made in America,” we got

Jeans have been an American staple for decades. Throw them on when you’re lazy or dress them up for the office; we don’t need to tell you that jeans are one of the most versatile pieces in your wardrobe. But shopping for jeans can be stressful. Finding the right type of fit for your height

There’s an art to navigating the airport and a formula to flying smart that requires forward thinking. No one can role out of bed and get through a travel day seamlessly without some proper planning. It all begins with the carry on bag, the keeper of your travel essentials, and it can go one of

We’re just ten days into the New Year so it seems to me a good time to look at the year gone by and take stock of what happened in horology – and what did not happen as well. First of all if you watch the watch people, and companies, that make watches, you might

Bet you thought the distressed look was finally over, huh? Nope. It’s just winter, and it’s too cold to have holes in your pants right now. I guarantee that, come the first halfway-warm day of spring, you’ll be seeing these Holy Jeans all over the place again. IMO, we have Saint Pablo’s Yeezy Season to

Name the things you’d never leave the house without. Your Explorer? Your Phillips boots? Your mobile? What about man’s most under appreciated accessory: eyeglasses? If you’re among the 60 per cent in the developed world that rely on specs to see, those too will be on your list. And for good reason. If you need

I live in Canada. That means for five months out of the year, it’s too damn cold to wear anything decent. Today, for example, it was -27 degrees outside. Between November and March, 99% of people you’ll see on the streets are in massive parkas, rubber boots and fur hats. There’s a reason that the

When it comes to style, men are often classified into two categories; the haves and the have-nots. In the eyes of most observers, you are either a guy who has your look together and spends a large amount of time cultivating your appearance or you are rather clueless and know nothing about style. And if you fall in the

Oversized watches are something most men have given some serious thought to on occasion. Like many of the appealing items adopted by fashionable gents over the years, their unique design was developed for purely functional reasons by men working under military or government contract for whom style was hardly a consideration. Their enduring popularity, in many