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The 1916 Company Launches Jewelry Exhibition with Contemporary Designers
The 1916 Company Launches Jewelry Exhibition with Contemporary Designe...

The 1916 Company and Eleonor Picciotto will showcase collections by Suzanne Syz, Alexandra Rosier, Selim Mouzannar, and Elie Top. The 191...

Audemars Piguet Wins Big At The GPHG
Audemars Piguet Wins Big At The GPHG

The company’s Code 11.59 Universelle RD#4 takes home the top prize, the Aiguille D’Or. The 2023 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie...

Geneva Watch Days: Is Bigger Better?
Geneva Watch Days: Is Bigger Better?

The biggest ever edition of Geneva Watch Days may be the shape of things to come. It was not all that long ago that the tradition of mult...

The Louis Vuitton Tambour, In Steel
The Louis Vuitton Tambour, In Steel

A steel drum serenade for the wrist. For every major fine watchmaking brand, there is a design which is so strongly identified with it th...

The De Bethune DB28xs Starry Seas
The De Bethune DB28xs Starry Seas

A company with big ideas makes a small miracle. De Bethune’s DB28 collection is not, of course, the only family of watches that De ...

H. Moser & Cie. Serves Up Tantalum With a Side of Stone
H. Moser & Cie. Serves Up Tantalum With a Side of Stone

H. Moser & Cie. takes tantalum to a new level with Jade and Lapis. The history of watchmaking is, in part, an exercise in material sc...

The Lion in Winter: The Carillon Tourbillon Biver
The Lion in Winter: The Carillon Tourbillon Biver

“I will be the master of my cheese until the last piece.” — Jean-Claude Biver, 2009 I have a lot of memories of Jean-Claude B...

Roger Smith “Masterpiece” Pocket Watch No. 2 Up for Auction at Phillips
Roger Smith “Masterpiece” Pocket Watch No. 2 Up for Auction at Phillip...

The watch that earned the blessing of one of watchmaking’s toughest critics: George Daniels. In every professional life, if you are...

A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023
A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023

Variety is the spice of life. This year’s Watches and Wonders Geneva was the biggest version of the show so far — there were over...

Why the Relaunch of Gérald Genta Matters
Why the Relaunch of Gérald Genta Matters

The first name in watch design’s time has come (again). Gérald Genta was, as they say, the hero watchmaking deserved but not the ...

A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023
A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

Refreshes, Reboots and Disruptions from Rolex Watches and Wonders 2023 is the last remaining instance of a kind of event that used to d...

The Journe x Francis Ford Coppola “FFC” Joins The Regular Collection
The Journe x Francis Ford Coppola “FFC” Joins The Regular ...

An extremely exotic prototype becomes an extremely exotic production watch. Back in 2021, one of the most unusual watches F. P. Journe ...

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023
Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

High notes from the biggest industry event of the year. One thing that makes watch collecting an absolute joy is diversity of opinion. ...

Rolex Revamps The Daytona, Launches New Dress Line, And Gets Downright Whimsical At Watches & Wonders 2023
Rolex Revamps The Daytona, Launches New Dress Line, And Gets Downright...

We also bid a sad farewell to the niche, but beloved, Milgauss and Cellini collections, but there’s a whole new collection in town....

Introducing The Latest From De Bethune: The DB Eight
Introducing The Latest From De Bethune: The DB Eight

The latest release from De Bethune features its 31st new caliber. De Bethune has just announced the latest new member of its small family...

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