The people responsible for the Audemars Piguet of today are often given rock-star status by fellow luxury watch industry colleagues. This perception is often credited to the beautiful synergy between the visual and technical design arms of the prestigious Swiss watch maker. Traveling to Audemars Piguet’s headquarters and movement manufacture in the La Vallee du […]

Richard Mille and John Simonian walk like good friends with arms around one another. They are smiling as though reminiscing about fond memories. Richard Mille is the man behind the phenomenally successful ultra high-end, technically sophisticated sports watch brand, while John Simonian has long been known as the most important name in Independent watch brands […]

One of the most successful watch brands of modern times literally sets in green pastures between Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland. I recently visited the factory and learned how Hublot is advancing. The unique high profile luxury watch brand was in sputtering disarray just a few years ago. In 2004, the now well-known Hublot received […]

Ladoire’s first watch had the curious title of “Roller Guardian Time,” a unique name that matched the avant garde nature of the watch’s design. Slightly smaller, and with a diverse set of personalities, Ladoire has now released the Black Widow collection to follow up the “RGT.” Using the same type of movement that has undergone a series of […]

The luxury watch industry as we know it hasn’t been around for all that long. It really began when cheaper-to-make quartz watches removed a lot of the relevancy that mechanical watches had up until that point. This caused the mechanical watch industry to partially reinvent itself. Certain high-end timepieces of today hearken back to watches […]

A watch like this is for a commander, a leader who needs information at their fingertips. That might sound like a cliché self-aggrandizing remark a high-end Swiss watch brand might say about their products, but this new piece from Vacheron Constantinis more about information than it is about the traditional minimalism you might consider when thinking […]

Timepieces are the original traveler’s gadget. In fact, historically speaking most long distance travel and navigation was reliant on suitable timing instruments. Back when A. Lange & Sohne only made pocket watches they would occasionally put together a watch with two dials and movements in it for clients who needed a watch to track two […]

Second to telling the time where you live, the most useful function a watch can have is the ability to tell you the time wherever else you might be. Travelers used to jet setting with a dedicated “world time” watch often never go back to a single time zone watch given the ease of reading […]

“Micro-decoration” (as I call it) is a thing of love. It is the process whereby fine watches are made even finer because of an enormous amount of time spent on making the movement look pretty. There are functional uses to decorating a movement – such as corrosion prevention and ensuring that parts fit together properly, […]

A Study In Consistency Isochronism. A strange word that means a lot in the mechanical watch industry. The idea really being that something moving in the watch does so at a consistent rate–this is the basis of accuracy in a watch. Some high-end watches experiment with a trick to improve isochronism by using two parts […]

Richard Mille and John Simonian walk like good friends with arms around one another. They are smiling as though reminiscing about fond memories. Richard Mille is the man behind the phenomenally successful ultra high-end, technically sophisticated sports watch brand, while John Simonian has long been known as the most important name in Independent watch brands in the United […]

There exists a place between gadgetry and luxury where Richard Mille watches are positioned. You absolutely must have an appreciation for mechanical gizmos to ‘get’ Richard Mille – even more so than you do for “normal” high-end mechanical watches. Forget for a moment that Richard Mille himself partially created the brand as an homage to the high-tech […]