Watches and Clocks

November 17, 2016
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A Love Affair with Cartier

Loretta Lazar has a continuing love affair with Paris and with Cartier. “Cartier is a maison with a great history, and I like what they do,” […]
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November 14, 2016
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Tattoo and Graffiti Artists Add Their Flair to Watches

For Cyril Phan, the French graffiti artist known professionally as Kongo, a recent project posed a less predictable obstacle than, say, staying dry while painting on […]
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November 14, 2016
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Virtual Reality Takes Fans Inside the World of Watches

Swiss watchmakers are nostalgic by nature. How else to explain their constant reference to a golden era of timekeeping, more than 200 years ago, when masters […]
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November 14, 2016
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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 […]
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November 14, 2016
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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. […]
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November 14, 2016
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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 […]
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November 14, 2016
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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 […]
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November 2, 2016
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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 […]
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November 1, 2016
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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 […]
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November 1, 2016
Published by Grandfather_Clocks at November 1, 2016
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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 […]
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