The Genevan watchmaker’s take on Lamborghini’s Huracán Evo, now available in titanium with “Verde Ithaca” detailing. If you had said to anyone 20 years ago – even keen observers of the horological world – that Roger Dubuis would be finding serious success with a watch that brought together ancient English mythology and the latest V10 Lamborghini, well let’s just say eyebrows would have been raised.

The moon-phase complication provides an excellent allegory for the appeal of luxury watches as a whole. It has been a very long time – several hundred years, at least – since mankind needed to refer to the Moon’s progress through its monthly wax and wane for practical purposes, yet a great many fine watches (themselves not a strict necessity since the 1970s) display just that information.

A subtly improved – and enlarged – update to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s staple watch, the Master Control. Sports fans will remember the principle of “marginal gains”. It was all the rage a few years ago, when we gloried in Team GB’s dominance of the world of cycling under the guidance of fanatical improver Sir David Brailsford. The idea is simple: if you improve a multitude of factors even by just one per cent, the sum total amounts to a step change in quality that puts you at the top of the game.

A lot of the time, it’s easy to forget that your watch needs looking after. It’s a testament to how well these little machines are made. They contain hundreds of miniscule components operating at extremely fine tolerances – we expect them to keep time 24/7 and soak up a great deal of punishment along the way. Here’s how to make sure it keeps on ticking: what to look out for, how to clean your watch and the simple truth about luxury watch servicing.

The Genevan watchmaker’s take on Lamborghini’s Huracán Evo, now available in titanium with “Verde Ithaca” detailing. If you had said to anyone 20 years ago – even keen observers of the horological world – that Roger Dubuis would be finding serious success with a watch that brought together ancient English mythology and the latest V10 Lamborghini, well let’s just say eyebrows would have been raised.

The moon-phase complication provides an excellent allegory for the appeal of luxury watches as a whole. It has been a very long time – several hundred years, at least – since mankind needed to refer to the Moon’s progress through its monthly wax and wane for practical purposes, yet a great many fine watches (themselves not a strict necessity since the 1970s) display just that information.