22+ min ago  (761+ 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…...

3+ hour, 21+ min ago  (642+ 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…...

1+ day, 47+ min ago  (383+ words) Whether you're new to the watchmaking game or have been collecting watches for years, finding a great deal is always a joy. But buying an affordable watch doesn't mean you have to make concessions to style or practicality. On the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1725+ words) In the early days of primitive watch movements, going back to the 16th century and German Nuremberg Eggs, decorations were important to enhance visual appeal for these mechanical contraptions reserved solely for the wealthy and royalty. Early decorations included intricate engravings…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (514+ words) Frank Geelen is an expert on Haute Horlogerie and his horological heart beats faster from beautiful hand-finished mechanical movements. He loves to explain all technical details of complications like tourbillons, minute repeaters, constant force escapements and column-wheel chronographs and he…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1073+ words) Monochrome Watches The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa Deste is an annual highlight on the vintage car scene calendar. Every year, the very finest cars ever made get invited to the shores of Lake Como in Italy and proudly displayed for the…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (871+ words) Marco Lang, known to many as co-founder of Lang & Heyne, has always practised watchmaking with a deeply personal perspective. Since leaving the Dresden-based manufacture and launching his own independent path, his work has become even more intimate and experimental, and…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (620+ words) Kross Studio has never been about conventional watchmaking, whether through its openworked designs or collaborations tied to everything from Star Wars to Batman. Last year, the Geneva-based brand introduced the MT1 Tourbillon, a manually wound tourbillon with a smooth lug-less case,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (950+ words) Teaming up with independent watchmaker wizard Stephen Mc Donnell in 2015 catapulted MB&F into the rarefied domain of haute horlogerie. Mc Donnell's extraordinary, award-winning LM Perpetual marked a before-and-after in the genre. A fully integrated 581-component calibre, the complication is…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (866+ words) In the past few years, Union Glash'tte, the sister brand of the more high-end Glash'tte Original manufacture, has strongly focused on connecting its watches with car-related events and car-inspired designs. Take, for example, the Limited Edition Sachsen Classic 2025, the Noramis…...