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Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents Ascendant

Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents As...

Condition is everything – except when it isn’t. Phillips: The Hong Kong Watch Auction XVI, took place over the 24th and 25th of May...

Geneva Auction Week: Indies Shine, Classics Climb, And That Million Dollar Milgauss

Geneva Auction Week: Indies Shine, Classics Climb, And That Million Do...

Or should I say, two million dollar Milgauss? The dust is settling from this spring’s Geneva Auction Week 2023, and while it may be...

Recap: Christie’s The Art of F.P. Journe

Recap: Christie’s The Art of F.P. Journe

In a white glove sale, F.P. Journe cemented his position as one of the most collectible watchmakers alive today. It was hard to deny the ...

We may not want to admit it, but quartz is here to stay — and that’s a good thing. When we talk about watch enthusiasts, what we usually ...

Hot Lots and Hidden Treasures at Geneva Auction Week

Hot Lots and Hidden Treasures at Geneva Auction Week

Not the usual suspects. Although the news out of Geneva this week has been, for understandable reasons, dominated by the thematic Christi...

Christie’s “The Art of F. P. Journe” Is A First For The Auction World

Christie’s “The Art of F. P. Journe” Is A First For ...

The auction is the very first thematic auction dedicated to a single independent watchmaker. In 1989, an auction took place which redefin...

The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tourbillon evolution, fast forward. The tourbillon, as we’ve seen, was for the most part a device used quite rarely in watchmaking ...

Taking Sides: The Tourbillon is Not a Complication

Taking Sides: The Tourbillon is Not a Complication

Why one of today’s most popular complications is anything but. In this first installment of Taking Sides, Jack Forster and Griffin ...

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...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch

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Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch

The last word in pocket watch accuracy becomes the first name in wristwatch complications. In the late 1970s, as we (probably) all know, ...

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 ...

World Tour Recap: Jack Forster Reports From Dubai

World Tour Recap: Jack Forster Reports From Dubai

The WatchBox “World Tour” has a more formal name, which is the Retrospective Exhibition: Two Decades Of De Bethune And F. P. ...

WatchBox World Tour Continues In US

WatchBox World Tour Continues In US

Next up, New York, Miami and Los Angeles Our traveling Retrospective Exhibition is underway, and we’re heading to New York, Miami and Los...

Variations On The Moonphase

Variations On The Moonphase

One of watchmaking’s oldest complications is still evolving. The moonphase complication is as old as watchmaking itself. In fact, i...

Auction Innocence Foundation to Auction Unique F.P. Journe and Richard Mille Watches

Auction Innocence Foundation to Auction Unique F.P. Journe and Richard...

Gstaad, Switzerland is set to host some of the world’s top watch collectors next week on February 16, as the Action Innocence Found...

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

Let’s face it, acquiring a watch that only a select few others will own is always an appealing proposition. We live in an industry satura...

8 Things to Know About IWC

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8 Things to Know About IWC

There’s a lot we all know about the beloved International Watch Company. Famed for their iconic pilot’s watch collection, the longstandin...

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

When it comes to dive watches, depth rating is always a talking point. Though recreational divers never breach the 100m mark, every dive ...

The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

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The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

As the world remains at home, we are forced to come together—remotely, of course—to find a new way to work and solve novel problems. The ...