February 8, 2012 - It’s a public secret well known to watch lovers everywhere: no-one is actually timing a car rally with the tachymeter scale on their chronograph or checking their equation of time indicator to see if their appointment is running late (or early, depending on the season) according to the Sun. Today'...

February 7, 2012 - Thierry Stern President, Patek Philippe iW: Please describe the path that led you to your current position. Stern: I was six years old when I decided that I would like to make watches. Right out of school I joined the company full time. With family businesses such as ours, it can be a l...

February 6, 2012 - There is something entirely surreal about explaining the realistic dimensions and extreme usability of a watch that costs more than 200,000 Swiss francs and is destined to be limited by its very nature. However, it is this editor’s firm belief that this particular watch represents at least part of...

February 2, 2012 - By Paul Boutros Audemars Piguet’s 1997 launch of the Jules Audemars collection couldn’t have been more spectacular. Introduced to showcase the best of Audemars Piguet’s horological expertise in a round case form, the first model in the collection, the Jules Audemars Grande et Petite Sonn...

January 30, 2012 - Watchmaker Bernhard Zwinz 
is working on a project that will become the most expensive manual-winding wristwatch created by an independent watchmaker In the backyard of a farmhouse in L’Orient in the Swiss Vallée de Joux, a man mucks out a hen coop as a bottle of Moët & Chandon pops in ...