Go into any boutique that sells luxury watches and you’ll be confronted with a scale of prices that rise sharply as watches become more complicated.  At the pinnacle is the complication known as the tourbillon (French for “whirlwind.”)  If you’ve never seen one before, one look and you’ll remember it forever; it’s a rotating spiderweb […]

What goes around, comes around –call them ultra thin or extra flat, thin dress watches are back, and a rose by any other name would be just as elegant.  Though a newcomer to fine watchmaking in recent years might be forgiven for not knowing it, making a thin watch (and wearing one) was for decades […]

Classics are classics for a reason. The Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso watch has been putting the haute in haute horlogerie (high watchmaking) for 80 years.  Ironically, though the Reverso is now known as a timepiece that sets the benchmark for elegance in luxury men’s dress watches, it started out as one of the first watches ever […]

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 […]

You know what I have never seen? A calculator decorated and studded with diamonds. Or how about a solid gold hammer? We typically aren’t used to tools getting such lavish treatments. The idea almost seems preposterous, but when it comes to watches the opulent mentality reigns – and we love them for it. This is […]