The Watch Industry’s Role in Your Speeding Ticket
It was the development of the chronograph, essentially a stopwatch, that laid the groundwork for automobile speed limits.
It was the development of the chronograph, essentially a stopwatch, that laid the groundwork for automobile speed limits.
Patek Philippe’s first new collection in 25 years came as a particular shock to a British watchmaker who already had a (far less expensive) doppelgänger on the market.
The Type 1D model, created by the team of Mark Cho, Naoya Hida and Joshua Nathan Shapiro, won’t even be ready until early next year.
The lead stylist for Rihanna and Dua Lipa wears a watch not for its practicality, but for what it represents in his career.
‘We’re just friends having fun, doing something that we would like for ourselves,’ one Kollokium founder said.
The French-made timepiece, on display for the art event, was one of many ordered by Rama V in 1873 as gifts for some Buddhist monks.
Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said.
Brian Duffy, the company’s chief executive, reflects on growth, philanthropy and a new opportunity in jewelry.
Benoît Mintiens of Ressence thought he would never recover his cherished prototype watches that were among 14 taken from his home in a 2014 robbery. But then he got a message.
After decades of classic round contours, geometric, Brutalist and frankly fantastical forms have stolen the spotlight.