The Chairman Calls

While many watch companies have made their dials appear on iPhone screens, only a handful have gone the distance to develop a genuinely new design...

Astronomical Invention

Two thousand and nine was the 400th anniversary of one of science’s most important achievements, Galileo Galilei’s legendary improvement...

Beyond the Atelier

Watchmakers are not baseball players who generate neat tables of easily judged statistics. Yet when I asked that question of eleven great watchmakers...

Full Slate

For over thirty years Paul Picot has delivered new technologies and materials to its timepieces, all the while honoring fine Swiss watchmaking...

Set in Stone

In 1910 the Verneuil process was invented to make synthetic rubies and later corundum (also known as sapphire crystal). Only then did a small Swiss...

Comfortably Thin

Today very few watch firms can back up a claim that they’ve never made quartz pieces. Blancpain, however, was the first to make such a boast,...

Deep Thought

Riding high after winning the Geneva Grand Prix for best sports watch last year, Richard Mille continues to innovate in what is a new arena for his...