Technology and design have undergone countless transformations since 1904 when Louis Cartier imagined the Santos for aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, and still this revolutionary wristwatch hasn't aged a day. For proof, the new Santos collection, presented this year, bears a striking similarity to the original, as befits a true classic.

It'll be red carpet time on Sunday March 4th as the American film industry celebrates its actors, directors and movies at the 90th Academy Awards. What if the nominees were from the watch industry instead? And the winner is...

Fine watchmaking has long been a world dominated by men, but a stroll around SIHH this year suggested things are starting to change. With more and more new releases, from Romain Gauthier's first ever ladies' watch to Richard Mille's new RM 07-01, we are seeing women's watches reach higher levels of complexity. It looks like ladies' watches are slowly beginning to rival men's.

Cartier, Panerai, Hermès, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC… these are the names that send watch enthusiasts into raptures. Better still, some of their newest timepieces don't carry a five-figure price tag. Gentlemen, here's our selection of luxury watches priced under €6,000*.

Repeater watches built on decades of invention so that hours, quarters and minutes could ring out in the dark, and would do so for more than 160 years. Until the day an Austrian chemist found a way to manufacture red phosphorous.