Watches and Clocks – Page 61

5 Types of Watches Define the Market

The options for building a solid collection of timepieces are almost limitless, but choices from these categories would be a good start.

By Denis BalibouseReuters

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Small Bits of Leather Shape an Industry

A one-man family business still produces watch straps and other small leather items. But the number of such companies has been declining sharply in Italy.

By Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times

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Can’t Buy the Watch You Want? It’s Partly a Lack of Watchmakers.

With student enrollments down and retirements rising, Swiss brands worry that growth will stall.

By Karla Hiraldo Voleau for The New York Times

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A New Trio of Watches That Honors Breitling’s Founding Family

Each timepiece is named after the brand’s patriarchs, spanning three generations of craftsmen.

By Lindsay Talbot

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