Watches and Clocks

November 14, 2016

When It Comes to Watches, She’s the Real Gomelsky

My last name, uncommon even in my native Russia, is like an uneven sidewalk: People tend to stumble over it. When my twin sister Julia and […]
November 14, 2016

Dominique Renaud, Revolutionary Watchmaker

RENENS, Switzerland — Revolutionary is a word often used with abandon. A color combination on the runway. A new hairstyle. A different way of steaming fish. […]
November 14, 2016

Christie’s Marking 40 Years of Patek Philippe’s Nautilus

No one raises an eyebrow today at a luxury watch made of — gasp! — stainless steel. But in 1976, when Patek Philippe introduced the Nautilus […]
November 14, 2016

This Fashion Pirate Prefers Hublot

It’s no surprise that a blogger with 180,000 followers would be drawn to a watch by its social media profile. “When Hublot took over a whole […]
November 2, 2016

On Time: 3-D Printing Pioneer Goes Low Tech, With a $5,800 Watch Made in Brooklyn

On Time By ALEX WILLIAMS Seven years ago, Bre Pettis established himself as a Silicon Alley futurist when he helped found MakerBot, a pioneering Brooklyn company […]
November 1, 2016

Watches See a ‘Brexit’ Boom

LONDON — The effect on the value of the pound of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has rarely been out of the headlines since […]
November 1, 2016

Reviving Fears for a New Generation of Watch Fans

When Nicholas Bowman-Scargill’s mother made a joke at a Sunday lunch about restarting the family’s 170-year-old Fears watch business, he laughed. The company closed 60 years […]
November 1, 2016

Audemars Piguet on Display in Shanghai

With some 200 timepieces on display until Nov. 13, “To Break the Rules, You Must First Master Them,” an exhibition at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, […]
October 6, 2016

On Time: A New Bronze Age for Wristwatches

On Time By ALEX WILLIAMS In an effort to stay au courant in the 21st century, watchmakers have been turning more and more to high-tech materials […]
September 14, 2016

A Steel Watch Inspired by the Skies

Rather than assume the mantle of the famed French watch company his family founded in the 18th century, early aviator Louis Charles Breguet decided instead to […]