January 4, 2012 - Hermès' newest timepieces aim to change your relationship with your watch-–and with time itself.   By Michael Thompson Too often, time is our enemy. We race against time, run out of time and prefer things that are timeless. Luc Perramond wants to change that perception. As CEO of LA Mont...

January 13, 2012 -   In today’s on-demand society we are used to being able to read the time from our watches when and wherever we want.  When wristwatches first became popular during and after World War I, they were novel enough in themselves, but it wouldn’t take long before owners wanted the abilit...

January 9, 2012 -   It all started in 1999, as Dr. Bertrand Piccard, scientist and aeronaut, completed his non-stop around-the-world balloon flight with Brian Jones in a record-breaking 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes in the air – a time that aeronautic experts had deemed impossible. That flight rema...

January 4, 2012 - In October A. Lange & Söhne held a special watchmaking academy among the famous vineyards of the Napa Valley By Jonathan Bues By the time we arrived in late October, the vineyards and wineries that dot the lush landscape of the Napa valley were winding down their harvest, pressing and b...

January 4, 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 t...

January 4, 2012 - Visitors to A La Vieille Russie in New York this past November 
witnessed a gallery of historic clocks, watches and automata unlike any seen in the United States previously. The exhibit space was home to fifty mechanical pieces on loan from the Maurice-Yves Sandoz collection and Château des M...

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