November 14, 2016

Tattoo and Graffiti Artists Add Their Flair to Watches

For Cyril Phan, the French graffiti artist known professionally as Kongo, a recent project posed a less predictable obstacle than, say, staying dry while painting on […]
November 14, 2016

Virtual Reality Takes Fans Inside the World of Watches

Swiss watchmakers are nostalgic by nature. How else to explain their constant reference to a golden era of timekeeping, more than 200 years ago, when masters […]
November 14, 2016

When It Comes to Watches, She’s the Real Gomelsky

My last name, uncommon even in my native Russia, is like an uneven sidewalk: People tend to stumble over it. When my twin sister Julia and […]
November 14, 2016

Dominique Renaud, Revolutionary Watchmaker

RENENS, Switzerland — Revolutionary is a word often used with abandon. A color combination on the runway. A new hairstyle. A different way of steaming fish. […]
November 14, 2016

Christie’s Marking 40 Years of Patek Philippe’s Nautilus

No one raises an eyebrow today at a luxury watch made of — gasp! — stainless steel. But in 1976, when Patek Philippe introduced the Nautilus […]
November 14, 2016

This Fashion Pirate Prefers Hublot

It’s no surprise that a blogger with 180,000 followers would be drawn to a watch by its social media profile. “When Hublot took over a whole […]
November 12, 2016

Unbuttoned: Is Fashion’s Love Affair With Washington Over?

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN On Wednesday, when Hillary Clinton stood in the New Yorker Hotel for her farewell speech, she did so in one of her […]
November 12, 2016

Future Tense: What Is a TinyLetter? Like Ye Olde Blog, but Less Public

Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE “If there’s one silver lining in this whole thing: Donald Trump has cured my Impostor Syndrome,” Maris Kreizman, the editorial director […]
November 12, 2016

Breaking Up With Twitter

Twitter, the well-known but less-well-used social network of 140-character quips about the news, is polarizing. You’re either an addict, or you don’t get it. And if […]
November 12, 2016

Bidding to Own a Piece of David Bowie

LONDON — Waiters held trays of Champagne-filled glasses on the landing. Enormous photographs of David Bowie stared or smiled out from the walls. The soundtrack from […]