March 16, 2012 - It was September 1999 when the world of horology drew a pensive breath after the Swatch Group revealed it had purchased the legendary brand founded in 1775 by the master himself, Abraham-Louis Breguet. As the industry considered the impact this purchase would have on the future of this revered but l...

March 14, 2012 - There’s perhaps nothing more gratifying for the serious watch collector than owning a piece of horological history. That’s exactly what Jaeger-LeCoultre proposes with its Proto Zero watches—highly sought-after original prototypes of the Swiss Manufacture’s most iconic limited-edition mod...

March 12, 2012 - Creative watch design is usually born of unique inspiration—an exotic flower, modern architecture, an automobile dashboard or a classic icon from the past. A concept watch, however, elevates the art form, ambitiously stretching the limits of conventional thought beyond design. If creative watch de...

March 9, 2012 - A 28-inch tall automaton with 600-piece mechanism called The Writer depicts a little boy sitting on a stool writing with a goose-quill pen on a mahogany table. The lifelike boy is programmable to write any forty-character text onto three lines, one letter at a time, on a piece of paper that shifts i...

March 7, 2012 - Last November Hamilton CEO Sylvain Dolla traveled from Switzerland to Los Angeles to preside over what has become, in a short five-year period, one of his company’s biggest media events, the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards. Unlike other sporting, entertainment, and cultural events whose title sp...