“We’re lucky in that we don’t attract the smash ’n’ grab kind of criminal,” says David Silver. “I don’t think that kind of criminal would really know what to do with what we sell. You’d need the ...

You can travel the world over and you may never find another store like The Vintage Watch Company. The father and son team of John and David Silver founded the store in 1995. They say it contains the ...

Rolex watches have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become symbols of status and achievement. The brand’s association with high-profile events, celebrities, and athletes has further reinforced ...

The high-end watch industry has long taken a slightly sniffy attitude to the pre-owned watch market, rightly seeing it as a rival for sales, but also for its establishing a more dynamic (for which ...

Modern watchmaking seems to get deeper into the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s by the day. Brands are relentlessly unearthing forgotten models to reissue, funky colors and design elements to ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. It's something of an understatement to describe vintage Rolex ...

The features, designs and clockwork of modern mechanical timepieces are part of a lineage that stretches back hundreds of years. But most wristwatches today are a mere echo of an idealized past, a ...

“This book is not for collectors of Rolex,” says David Silver, author of the new tome Vintage Rolex: The Largest Collection in the World. “My customers are not the heavy-duty collectors. They are not ...

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It’s something of an understatement to describe vintage Rolex collectors as meticulous. From the nuanced color change of a tropical dial to the degree of fade on a bezel, the tiniest elements of a ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. In David Silver’s new book, Vintage Rolex: New Edition: The Largest ...