American watchmaking was once a thriving industry. After the Civil War, the U.S. dominated the world market in inexpensive, accurate watches, a position maintained into the first half of the 20 th ...

Born in Valais and deeply inspired by the spirit of the mountains, Norton Peak embodies a new generation of Swiss watchmaking ...

Shona Taine, a 27-year-old watchmaker, became the first woman to join the prestigious Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants this month. - Muriel Antille Watchmaking doesn’t feel like the most ...

A well-worn adage of mechanical watchmaking is preserving tradition while driving innovation. Today’s brands take advantage of manufacturing technology that has advanced the state of the art without ...

“Half of my watchmaking is traditional . . . with a little bit of a development,” says Eric Coudray, chuckling at his headquarters at TEC Ebauches, in Vallorbe, Switzerland, as he describes his ...

In less than ten years, Venezianico has gone from being a micro-brand born out of the Kickstarter era to a credible player in European independent watchmaking. With the Redentore Utopia II and its ...

Bulgari: Beyond Time is guaranteed to look nice on the coffee table - the basic standard of any decorative book of its type - but it goes well beyond that. In addition to exploring the brand's ...

Every year the watch industry celebrates its intense research and innovation with the unveiling of its newest timepieces—watches that will be the trendsetters for years to come—at the most exclusive, ...

The new brand, named after a mythological Swiss animal, combines celestial symbolism and tarot with the technical rigour of ...

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 ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Baltic Bicompax. A cursory survey of the ...