In early December, Nicolò Villa, a jeweler from Milan, was in Manhattan for a trunk show when he spotted a pre-owned Rolex Lady-Datejust with a blue-green opal dial in a shop on West 47th Street. At 26 millimeters in diameter, the watch’s two-tone case was only slightly larger than a 25-cent piece. Mr. Villa bought…
Louis Vuitton’s watchmaking division has doubled down on its ambitions to sustain rare artisanal handicrafts with the introduction of the Escale Cabinet of Wonders, three upscale métiers d’art watches. They were aesthetically derived from an extensive collection of Japanese tsuba, or sword guards, that were owned by Gaston-Louis Vuitton, the third generation Vuitton, who ran…
Men’s style, if you haven’t noticed, has made a quantum leap in recent years. That has been especially true on the red carpet, where guys have gone from wearing generic tuxedos to dressing like Timothée Chalamet, who at the Golden Globes in January wore a Celine Homme sequin-studded blazer and a diamond necklace by Cartier….
There often is a subtle difference between the way men and women collect things. Many men tend to take a systematic approach, choosing pieces that mesh with the rest of their possessions, be they stamps, cars or watches. A woman, however, may have a hundred pairs of shoes, but whether or not they amount to…
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In September, Swatch released a group of watches in collaboration with the venerable brand Blancpain: the Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms collection, which, the company said, “met all the needs of underwater exploration.”…
Given the outsize effect that Taylor Swift suddenly seems to have on everything from the Super Bowl to the U.S. presidential campaign, it was no surprise that her Grammy appearance in a choker featuring a vintage Concord watch had media proclaiming the start of a trend. But recently a growing number of celebrities, from Emma…
In 2019, Fred Mandelbaum, Breitling’s brand historian and a watch collector who lives in Vienna, learned the hard way about the intricacies of crossing national borders with multiple wristwatches. “I was too late in preparing the paperwork for my personal watches for a presentation at Baselworld,” he said, referring to the now-discontinued annual trade fair….
The medieval tale of King Arthur hardly calls to mind watchmaking, which wasn’t developed until a couple of centuries later. But in contemporary watchmaking, King Arthur is synonymous with the Swiss watchmaker Roger Dubuis. The brand’s Knights of the Round Table collection, first introduced in 2013, featured watch dials with imaginative scenes from the legend,…
Just as the worlds of architecture and industrial design have played with novel color combinations in recent years, so has the luxury watch sector, with brands including ArtyA, Chronoswiss, Oris and Zenith capitalizing on color as a way to stand out in the crowded Swiss watch field. By using cutting-edge techniques and processes such as…
Apple is expected to begin selling its flagship smartwatches without the capability to detect people’s pulse rate. The tech giant is likely to drop the feature after losing a patent case over its blood-oxygen measurement technology two months ago. The court ordered Apple to stop selling its Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2…
