This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of De Bethune, and in that time, the company has evolved at an unprecedented pace. ...
Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...
There is something archetypally satisfying about a round wristwatch. Time, it has been intuited for as long as humans have measured it, o...
The so-called dress watch has been under attack as a category of watchmaking at least since the early 1970s, when the first stainless ste...
There is among watch enthusiasts a tendency to dismiss gem-set watches as purely decorative objects whose primary function is to act as a...
Classically Sized, Gem-Set and High Design—three distinct visions of watchmaking, three distinct worlds of horology full of hidden treasu...
Symphonies in the key of the tourbillon. Even by the rarefied standards of high end independent watchmaking, where obsessive attention to...
A sensor-loaded “lab watch” is the first step to customized mechanical chronometry. One of the great classic problems in watc...
Moon complications can be poetic, technical, or both. The Moon itself may never change, but it hasn’t stopped captivating watchmakers—and...
For those with a passion for well-made things, the obsession lies not only in how an object is made but why it came to be made that way. ...
Picasso’s Guernica. Widely regarded as one of the most powerful anti-war pantings in history, the piece combines many elements, generally...
Put ten collectors in a room and ask them why they collect and you’ll get ten very different answers. Some spend their lives searching fo...
If you don’t yet know Shahendra Ohneswere, you certainly know his work. As Senior Vice President of Content Development & Co-Head of ...
The Swiss watchmaking industry was built upon the division of labor. The story of farmers in the snowy mountains spending their winters p...
It’s widely understood that Haute Horology requires singular focus, unshakable determination, and a lifetime of dedication. Yet, being a ...
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