Clocks and Watches

March 23, 2017

In Watches, Enamel Comes Back Into Style

One feature firmly in the spotlight at many luxury watch brands: hand-painted enamel dials that, in a technique used for centuries, are fired in an oven […]
March 23, 2017

In Hong Kong, Timepieces Are Just Another Joyride

HONG KONG — In the early 1990s, Carson Chan persuaded the owner of an automobile garage in Los Angeles to allow him to work there without […]
March 23, 2017

Swedish Watches Show Signs of Viking Past and Stellar Future

LINKOPING, Sweden — In a dark forge outside this historic university city, sparks flew as Johan Gustafsson hammered a metallic sandwich of layers of nickel, iron […]
March 23, 2017

Smartwatches at a Crossroads, and Some Analysts are Optimistic

HONG KONG — Some battery-powered watches at Fossil’s flagship store here have traditional minute and second hands, but their displays sync with a user’s smartphone and […]
March 23, 2017

TAG Heuer’s Revolution: It’s a Smartwatch. It’s a Mechanical Watch, Too.

A watch introduced last week has reignited the debate about Switzerland’s role in the future of smartwatches. TAG Heuer’s Connected Modular 45 will allow owners to […]
March 23, 2017

It’s Graff, but Not a Diamond in Sight

The new MasterGraff Structural Skeleton Automatic is unmistakably Graff, yet there isn’t a diamond in sight. The high jewelry house lays claim to some of the […]
March 23, 2017

Roger Dubuis and Pirelli Mix Watches and Formula One Racing

Partnerships between the watch and motor sport worlds are well-covered ground, but one duo this year has truly gone the distance. The Geneva watchmaker Roger Dubuis […]
March 23, 2017

The Watch Collector in Black

HONG KONG — Watch collectors often focus on a certain niche once they start getting serious. For some, it is all about key models of a […]
March 22, 2017

At Hermès, a ‘Company Man’

The French don’t have an expression for a “company man” but, if they did, it would almost certainly describe Laurent Dordet. The 48-year-old Frenchman has spent […]
March 22, 2017

Remembrance of Watches Past

LA GOLISSE, Switzerland — Marie-Lise Renaud, who will turn 89 in September, is comfortable in the traditional wood chalet that her father had built in 1937, […]
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