September 2022
Your Wednesday Evening Briefing
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Watch Brands Are Having a Great Year. So Why Is Everyone Nervous?
The red-hot secondary market has cooled off in recent months. But that’s not the only thing worrying the industry.
An 11-Year-Old Geneva Schoolgirl Is Making a Name for Herself in Watches
A Geneva schoolgirl has spent the last year charming the industry with her online opinions about timepieces.
Gem-Studded Watches Are Not Just Status Symbols
Are gender-fluid fashion trends guiding Swiss brands to add more stones to their timepieces?
Grail Watch Was Created to Elevate Limited Editions
Wei Koh, founder of the watch magazine Revolution, said he wanted his new business to go “beyond just changing the dial color or the material.”
Piaget Chief Executive Extols ‘Excellence’ for Watch Brand
Benjamin Comar says Piaget is trying to recapture the allure it had during the 1970s.
An American Collector of Soviet Watches With a Chance to Help Ukraine
An American collector is drawn to watches produced in the Soviet Union because of their technology and aesthetics and, now, a chance to help Ukraine.
A Watch Worn on ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Is Reborn Offscreen
The American Girl ‘K’, a ’50s-era timepiece, has been added to Bulova’s Archive Series.