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Recap: The Best New Watches From Geneva Watch Days 2026
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (69+ words) For more information, please head over to the previous article here. For more information, please check our hands-on video story here. For more information, please visit our hands-on video review here. For more information, please read our introductory story here....
First Look: The Marcu Initial, The Debut Watch of an Experienced Watchmaker
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (659+ words) An industry expert and our Swiss Editor, Xavier Markl became hooked on mechanical watches when he started working for Cartier and then Girard-Perregaux. A subject, which was initially a professional necessity, developed into a horological obsession. Unable to ignore the…...
Czapek Inaugurates its Quai des Bergues 27 Boutique with Special Editions of the Quai des Bergues and Place Vend??me Complicit??
1+ week, 3+ day ago (729+ words) As a freelance journalist specialising in watches and jewellery, Rebecca Doulton began writing for the Financial Times in Mexico City in the early 1980s. Formerly the web editor of Tiempo de Relojes website, and watch editor of The Jewellery Editor, Rebecca…...
First Look: The Frederique Constant Classics Moneta Handwinding, now with a Mechanical Movement
1+ week, 5+ day ago (565+ words) As a freelance journalist specialising in watches and jewellery, Rebecca Doulton began writing for the Financial Times in Mexico City in the early 1980s. Formerly the web editor of Tiempo de Relojes website, and watch editor of The Jewellery Editor, Rebecca…...
First Look – O&HoraPictor Atelier Launches the New Duet Collection, an Attainable Take on Grand Feu Enamel
1+ week, 5+ day ago (744+ words) Enamel watches are nothing new, of course, but it is always interesting to discover a young independent brand approaching this centuries-old craft with a new take. O&HoraPictor was founded only recently, in 2024; the brand grew out of founder Eriks’s…...
Introducing: The Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Tribute to the Animal Kingdom
2+ week, 2+ day ago (470+ words) Vacheron Constantin has long been one of the great names in artistic watchmaking, regularly using engraving, enamelling, guilloché and other traditional crafts to transform the dial into a canvas. For this new collection, part of the Maison’s “One of Not…...
Hands-on: The Porsche Design Chronogrpah 1 All-Titanium
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1305+ words) Small changes can go a long way, but when a watch goes from bracelet-only (sort of) to a leather strap, it can go a very long way. Especially when said watch is a true pioneer in the field, with historical…...
The ABCs of Time: The History and Evolution of Watch Clasps
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1394+ words) Following up on our recent ABCs of Time article on the history of watch bracelets, we turn our attention to clasps, which are much more than simple closures today. In fact, some of the best are R&D marvels with…...
Twelve on Time: Artya's Yvan Arpa and his Personal Relationship with Time and Watches
3+ week, 2+ day ago (497+ words) 1 – Which watch changed the way you looked at watchmaking? 2 – What is the quality you value most in a watch? Innovation. For me, this is the most important point. A watch must create not only a new emotion, but it must…...
Twelve on Time: Louis Erard's Manuel Emch and his Personal Relationship with Time and Watches
3+ week, 4+ day ago (372+ words) 1 – Which watch changed the way you looked at watchmaking? 2 – What is the quality you value most in a watch? Character. A watch should have a personality before it has specifications. If you can recognise it across a room without reading…...