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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This year the Swiss watchmaker HYT is saluting the 200th birthday of another well-known creation of Swiss provenance: Frankenstein’s famous monster, which Mary Shelley dreamed up […]
Rites of Passage By BENNETT MADISON The summer I became a phone psychic, you could still wear shoes through airport security, Britney Spears had not yet […]
Enlightened urbanism is not the first thing that comes to mind when a prestigious jeweler owned by a multinational luxury goods conglomerate throws open its doors. […]