Watches and Clocks

November 22, 2018

Cuba Gooding Jr. on Longines’ ‘Razzle Dazzle’

The actor, who recently starred as Billy Flynn in “Chicago” on Broadway, says the watch brand’s history intrigues him.
October 1, 2018

Yet Another Arnault Steps Up

Frédéric Arnault, 23, has been named strategy and digital director of the Swiss watch giant TAG Heuer.
September 18, 2018

Leica to Add Luxury Watches

As one executive at the famed German camera maker said: “We are very good at making precise instruments, so why not do a watch?”
May 10, 2018

Tom Ford Designs a Watch. But the Price Isn’t What You’d Expect.

“I don’t know that I would buy a $20,000 watch from Tom Ford,” the designer said. So he ensured his entry level watch was around $2,000 […]
March 22, 2018

‘A Man and His Watch’

In a recent book, Sylvester Stallone, Ralph Lauren and a Japanese dye master are among the owners talking about their treasured timepieces.
January 16, 2018

Watchmaking’s New Favorite? Ceramic

Advertisement Step aside gold, and make way titanium and steel. Ceramic, the high-tech material first introduced to watchmaking by IWC Schaffhausen and Rado in the ’80s, […]
January 16, 2018

As an Independent Watchmaker, Romain Gauthier Has His Own Ideas

Advertisement For someone who was born, raised and still lives and works in the Vallée de Joux, the famed watchmaking hub of Switzerland, Los Angeles might […]
January 16, 2018

Watches: IWC Schaffhausen Celebrates 150 Years

Advertisement GENEVA — In 1868, a 27-year-old American engineer named Florentine Ariosto Jones arrived in Schaffhausen, a Rhine River town in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, […]
January 16, 2018

Watch Collectors Talk, Uh, Watches

Advertisement LONDON — Invite two passionate watch collectors to meet, ask them to bring along a few of their favorite watches and then just let the […]
January 16, 2018

In Watches, Swapping a Motor Sport Focus for the High Seas

Advertisement Jean-Marc Pontroué has mixed feelings about leaving the Swiss watch brand Roger Dubuis, after six years as its chief executive, to take the same role […]