Visits: 1 Heist-out, a feisty publication that debuted last year, is working with the auction house on an “underground” sale (scheduled in a wine cellar). Frustration is often the impetus for starting a business, and that’s exactly what produced heist-out, …
The Hunt for a Retirement Keepsake
Visits: 25 On a family trip to Switzerland, Joseph Barreto fell in love with an Omega Constellation. In 2022, several months after Joseph Barreto retired as a high school guidance counselor in East Harlem, he got a keepsake gift: a …
HYT Aims to Bounce Back — Again
Visits: 17 After the brand’s roller-coaster decade, Vincent Perriard is now running the show — and trying to calm the waters. There will be all manner of watchmaking stories at the Watches and Wonders trade show this week — from …
Miami Steps Up in the Watch World
Visits: 26 While the city has long attracted both brands and buyers, some recent changes are turning it into a shopping destination. Year-round sunshine and advantageous tax policies for the rich have made Miami a magnet for high-net-worth individuals, celebrities …
This Watchmaker Admits to a Longtime Obsession
Visits: 27 Bernhard Lederer says the escapement, the part of a mechanical timepiece that regulates the gears, has fascinated him for decades. In the almost five decades that Bernhard Lederer has been working with timepieces — making and maintaining clocks …
Piaget Reintroduces One of Its Classic Models
Visits: 21 The Polo 79 looks a lot like the original Polo, but with some tweaks that appeal to buyers’ tastes and lifestyles today. The Piaget Polo 79, unveiled Feb. 5, may be new, but it looks an awful lot …
Despite Limited Resources, He Makes Watches by Hand
Visits: 25 It is hard to get parts and materials in China, but Logan Kuan Rao has persevered. When it comes to watchmaking, Logan Kuan Rao is motivated by a Chinese proverb that, loosely translated, says your character is shaped …
A Watch Collaboration Includes a London Landmark
Visits: 26 A special-edition Bovet timepiece celebrates the history and future of the Old War Office building, which now contains residences, a hotel and more. There is a bit of collaboration fatigue in the Swiss watch world these days, but …
A Watch Honoring an Explorer Joins His Son’s Antarctic Trip
Visits: 22 In 1990, Reinhold Messner crossed Antarctica on foot. In December, Simon Messner ran a marathon there with a Montblanc watch that could keep up. On a sun-drenched, windswept afternoon in mid-December, as temperatures hovered well below zero, two …
Belgium Emerges as a Source of Watchmaking Creativity
Visits: 38 Dozens of brands are at work in the nation despite hurdles such as a shortage of factories and struggles for name recognition. Belgium has long been a hothouse for homegrown designers like Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela or …