Taking Sides: The Tourbillon Is A Complication
Taking Sides: The Tourbillon Is A Complication

“When I use a word, it means exactly what I tell it to mean.” Humpty Dumpty, Alice In Wonderland In this first installment of...

Highlights From LVMH Watch Week
Highlights From LVMH Watch Week

Open dials, brilliant colors, glittering gems and surprising classics. The trade show calendar was at one point the defining feature of t...

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution
Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of De Bethune, and in that time, the company has evolved at an unprecedented pace. ...

December Auction Report
December Auction Report

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...

Jack’s Picks: High Design Timepieces
Jack’s Picks: High Design Timepieces

There is something archetypally satisfying about a round wristwatch. Time, it has been intuited for as long as humans have measured it, o...

Jack’s Picks: Classically Sized Watches
Jack’s Picks: Classically Sized Watches

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...

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting
Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

There is among watch enthusiasts a tendency to dismiss gem-set watches as purely decorative objects whose primary function is to act as a...

Jack’s Picks
Jack’s Picks

Classically Sized, Gem-Set and High Design—three distinct visions of watchmaking, three distinct worlds of horology full of hidden treasu...

Greubel Forsey: <br>The Masters of Invention
Greubel Forsey:
The Masters of Invention

Symphonies in the key of the tourbillon. Even by the rarefied standards of high end independent watchmaking, where obsessive attention to...

De Bethune Introduces The Sensorial Chronometry Project
De Bethune Introduces The Sensorial Chronometry Project

A sensor-loaded “lab watch” is the first step to customized mechanical chronometry. One of the great classic problems in watc...

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