Büsser’s Creative Lab

In 2005, after seven years at Jaeger-LeCoultre and seven years at Harry Winston, where he introduced the trailblazing Opus series, Maximilian...

Cartier’s Concepts

Cartier has long been known for its legendary models like the Tank, Pasha, Santos, Baignoire and Tortue, watches in pleasing shapes that embody...

iW Interviews Luc Perramond

Industry veteran Luc Perramond (left) joined Hermès nearly two years ago after directing H. Stern in Europe and the Middle East and, before...

Special Section: Adventure and exploration

Portable timepieces and exploring have been linked since John Harrison’s H4 made its first test at sea in 1761. Of course, it was...

The Best and the Brightest

There is no shortage of superlatives when it comes to the marketing of luminosity in watches. Brightest, longest, first, most, and best are just a...

MagneticAttraction

By the time Charles-Edouard Guillaume won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920, the spiral hairspring had long established itself as the regulating...

Oslo Architecture

A lot has changed since Michel Paulsen, one of Norway’s oldest watchmakers, returned from Hamburg in 1836 to start his own business. For one...