March 23, 2017

Watch Archives Prove Their Worth

When three guests spent more than $4 million on new Jaeger-LeCoultre watches during a recent visit to the company’s heritage gallery in Switzerland, their host, Philippe […]
March 23, 2017

Piaget’s New Chief Executive on Glass Ceilings and Vision

Women are underrepresented generally in high-level management positions, and the luxury watch and jewelry industry is no exception. Some brands are aware of the imbalance in […]
March 23, 2017

Time to Sell Online?

Over the last decade, as luxury retailers large and small grew to accept — then embrace — e-commerce, most Swiss watchmakers struck a tone of defiance, […]
March 23, 2017

Richard Mille: The Watchmaker Who Says He Isn’t One

PARIS — “I am not an engineer, I am not a watchmaker and I am not a scientific guy,” Richard Mille said during an interview in […]
March 23, 2017

.: A Dance of Luxury and Timepieces

LONDON — The Swiss watch industry’s tribulations in 2016 were well documented: Demand in China drifted as the government’s corruption crackdown continued, terror attacks in Europe […]
March 23, 2017

Hard Stone Watch Dials Make a Comeback

In fashion, the insouciance of the ’60s and ’70s found expression in bell-bottom trousers and flowing caftans. In watchmaking, the same bohemian style was reflected in […]
March 23, 2017

In Watches, Enamel Comes Back Into Style

One feature firmly in the spotlight at many luxury watch brands: hand-painted enamel dials that, in a technique used for centuries, are fired in an oven […]
March 23, 2017

In Hong Kong, Timepieces Are Just Another Joyride

HONG KONG — In the early 1990s, Carson Chan persuaded the owner of an automobile garage in Los Angeles to allow him to work there without […]
March 23, 2017

Swedish Watches Show Signs of Viking Past and Stellar Future

LINKOPING, Sweden — In a dark forge outside this historic university city, sparks flew as Johan Gustafsson hammered a metallic sandwich of layers of nickel, iron […]
March 23, 2017

Smartwatches at a Crossroads, and Some Analysts are Optimistic

HONG KONG — Some battery-powered watches at Fossil’s flagship store here have traditional minute and second hands, but their displays sync with a user’s smartphone and […]