Clocks and Watches

September 7, 2016

New York Fashion Week: An Oral History: The First Shows

As New York Fashion Week approaches its 75th year (the first official shows, massed under the heading of Press Week, were held in 1943), with 151 […]
September 7, 2016

Everything You Need to Know About This Crazy, Mixed-Up, (Maybe) Very Good Season

Gather ye memories while ye may: Fashion week as it has been for the last 50-plus years may, finally, be over. This is not crying wolf […]
September 7, 2016

On Time: How to Buy a Vintage Watch (and Not Get Fleeced)

On Time By ALEX WILLIAMS These days, vintage watches are hot enough that some aficionados treat their collections like 401(k) accounts: a great way to build […]
September 6, 2016

On the Runway: Neon Makes a Point at the U.S. Open

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Blame it on its proximity to New York Fashion Week, which officially starts on Thursday (unofficially, it starts on Wednesday), but […]
September 6, 2016

The Hunt for Asia Watch Sales

Even as Swiss watch exports continue to decline, watchmakers are sharply focused on trying to find just the right combination of marketing and retail strategies in […]
September 5, 2016

Luxury in Myanmar: ‘A Long-Term Investment’

YANGON, Myanmar — “Every man has a crazy hobby,” said U Thiri Thein Than, an automotive engineer from Yangon who also has a home in Tokyo. […]
September 5, 2016

Wild About Watches

SINGAPORE — “Welcome. Please sit in the Spitfire chair.” Dr. Bernard Cheong, a physician and probably one of the world’s quirkiest watch collectors, gestured at a […]
September 5, 2016

Tourbillon Watches, Made in Hong Kong

HONG KONG — On the eighth floor of an industrial building here, along a concrete hallway lined with metal security gates, is a lovely wooden door […]
September 5, 2016

A Ulysse Nardin Watch Fan

Abel Hwong knows a thing or two about luxury. His success as a banker during the Asian boom of the 1990s positioned him to create AM […]
September 5, 2016

‘A Mechanical Bestiary’, With Time

PARIS — “Who is ticking?” Alexis Kugel playfully asked a group of ornate animal figures in his palatial antiques gallery at the historic Hôtel Collot. The […]
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