Every two years, some of the most renowned luxury watchmaking brands come together for a good cause: a charity auction of unique pieces sold to benefit medical research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, royal patronage was the chief force behind the watch trade's technical and aesthetic innovation, and royal families have ever since been a reliable source of income for the industry..
The National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, Pa., lays out, with an overwhelming accumulation of examples, a history of the measuring of time and the attempt to chronicle life.
An American fashion designer who has been practicing traditional French haute couture and a French interior designer working in the United States create a weekend refuge in the California desert