No longer hidden among the archives, these heritage directors have become sought-after stars in the horological world.

In the Japanese language, Shizukuishi, the name of a small town in the north of Honshu, Japan’s main island, translates to “water trickling on stone.” It’s a fitting detail on a mid-September morning ...

Writer Oren Hartov criss-crossed Japan to divine what makes the brand so special and came home with a watch for myself.

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Ulysse Nardin Freak. Who says the ...

Watchmakers are always striving to add more features to their timepieces, but it’s the most simple and obvious feature—accurately keeping the time—that’s the holy grail of horology. And now you can 3D ...

This November, Phillips will hammer incredible watches from the 1980s and 1990s in their thematic auction Reloaded: The Rebirth of Mechanical Watchmaking. These two decades were decisive for the Swiss ...

Every year, the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) is a pageantry of over-the-top watches, insane movements and exquisite finishing. This year was no different — complex movements, ...

It's with some bemusement that I've been reading, lately, occasional dire warnings in the watch enthusiast press and on the Internet about the terrible coming crisis facing the Swiss watch industry.

The Vacheron Constantin Twin Beat is one of the biggest innovations in mechanical watchmaking to come along in awhile. It contains two separate, yet linked movements that operate at different ...