Online sales continue to be a focus, but brands are having a hard time finding enough days for all their ribbon cuttings.
Category: Watches and Clocks
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For Many Watch Buyers, the Appeal of Exotic Skins Is Waning
Trading in the crocodile, alligator, lizard and python skins often used to make watch straps involves a labyrinthine process of documentation.
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A Designer Who Starts With Destruction
Plus: varsity jackets, a craze for cabbage and more from T’s cultural compendium.
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A Classic Yachting Watch Gets a Second Wind
TAG Heuer’s new timepiece is inspired by one that commemorated the 1967 America’s Cup.
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In Opera, Clocks Take the Spotlight
Time often plays a role in operatic plots, but this year several productions have timepieces onstage.
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J.N. Shapiro Makes a Watch in the United States.
J.N. Shapiro markets its Resurgence model as the first watch produced entirely in the country since 1969.
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Customization Becomes a Watch Brand’s Calling Card
“Our goal is to make watches for people that are meaningful to them,” one of Jurmo Watches’ founders said.
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Ticking the Boxes on a Watch Brand’s 10-Year Plan
Greubel Forsey has already increased some production and reorganized distribution to safeguard what its chief executive called ‘rarity and exclusivity.’
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The Return of Manual-Wind Watches
One industry executive describes the old-fashioned way of keeping a watch working as “a moment of contemplation, a moment to take for yourself.”
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Jaeger-LeCoultre and the ‘Golden Ratio Musical Show’
The Swiss watch brand, whose Reverso model was inspired by the mathematical proportion, commissioned a short symphony in its honor.
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Put a Louvre Masterpiece on Your Wrist
A buyer gets to choose an artwork from the museum’s collection for Vacheron Constantin to recreate on a watch dial. Just not the ‘Mona Lisa.’