All reels

Every episode so far.

Builds add a complication to our base movement. Explainers answer one question about a watch you might own. Watch Stories tell the history behind a famous moment. New reels every Wednesday and Saturday on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Nº 06 · Explainer

How to use a tachymeter

Time one kilometre, or one box off a line, and the ring tells you how many an hour.

Nº 05 · Explainer

Why some dive watches have a helium valve

Saturation divers live under pressure for weeks, and helium creeps into their watches. That little valve at ten lets it out.

Nº 04 · Explainer

The GMT watch

A red 24-hour train keeps home time; a jumping hour hand clicks to local time.

Nº 03 · Explainer

How to read a chronograph

Start, stop, read the minutes then the seconds, back to zero: the stopwatch from part 2, explained in under a minute.

Nº 02 · Build

The chronograph

A stopwatch built inside a watch, one part at a time, on top of the watch from part 1.

Nº 01 · Build

How a mechanical watch works

A spring, a chain of gears and a wheel that swings at its own steady rhythm, built one part at a time.