Neil Duckworth designs watches that have a distinctly vintage feel at a price “I would spend myself.”
Category: Watches and Clocks
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Fragrance and a Watch Strap
Move your wrist, and scent suddenly surrounds you. Vacheron Constantin and a Paris couturier have created a strap embedded with microcapsules of perfume.
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D-Day’s 80th Anniversary Inspires Watches
Commemorative pieces include a steel model similar to a British wartime watch and one with Normandy beach sand in its crown.
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The Hunt for a Retirement Keepsake
On a family trip to Switzerland, Joseph Barreto fell in love with an Omega Constellation.
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Hermès Created a Shape for Its New Women’s Watch
The house’s creative director says the case’s sculpted form has “a kind of complexity in its simplicity.”
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Slowing Down for Poetry and Time
A London exhibition by Van Cleef & Arpels will showcase heritage pieces alongside novelties introduced at the Watches and Wonders fair.
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Watch Fair Opens in a Time of Uncertainty
Brands hope the new models unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva will attract buyers despite the tough retail climate.
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HYT Aims to Bounce Back — Again
After the brand’s roller-coaster decade, Vincent Perriard is now running the show — and trying to calm the waters.
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Brand Beats Its Own Record for Most Complicated Watch
A Vacheron Constantin pocket watch has 63 complications, including what the brand said is another world first: a Chinese perpetual calendar.
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Bulgari Recaptures the Crown for the World’s Thinnest Watch
The Octo Finissimo Ultra Mark II is 1.7 millimeters thick, half a tenth of a millimeter less than the previous record-holder.
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The Watch Brand SpaceOne Debuts Its Second Timepiece
The Tellurium includes the sun, earth and moon as three-dimensional orbs floating across the watch’s face.