Best of the Best: Watch Dealers
Jun 01, 2004
Unlike many specialty watch stores, Cellini does not carry a massive selection of brands at every price level. Rather, the inventory consists of only the very best, and this uncompromising quality complements Cellini’s high-jewelry offerings. In addition, the depth of Cellini’s watch assortment dangles the prospect of walking out the door....

Antiquorum Opens 30th Year with $4.4 Million Auction
Jun 01, 2004
Antiquorum opened its 30th year with a March 24 auction of important collector's wristwatches, pocket watches, and clocks that brought in $4,441,196. The sale was held in New York City at the Grand Havana Room. A number of timepieces went for double and even triple their presale estimates. The live Web broadcast on www.antiquorum.com was followed by more....

Feature: Time for Yourself
May 03, 2004
Sadly, the days of ordering a custom timepiece from Patek Philippe have passed forever, probably because of the mind-boggling value such pieces would have among those who treat watches as investments. Each one is by definition one-of-a-kind, and because rarity is one of the characteristics most prized by collectors, custom watches from the major....

Consumer optimism despite a weak dollar
Apr 14, 2004
If wishes and hopes could make it so, the American watch market would be back up and running at full speed. Unfortunately, it's not. Though there are some signs that the market is coming back, the truth (which many people are loathe to admit) is that things aren't as good as brands and retailers would like them to be, but they aren't as bad as they could be,....

'Fashion watches' have transformed watchmaking
Jan 01, 2004
A few years ago (light years away as it seems now), the watch community had only one name on its lips. It was the 'magic' name of Gucci. Thanks to the grace and talent of its chief designer Tom Ford combined with the Florentine intelligence of his boss Domenico De Sole and the novel rigour of its collections, Gucci was able to break through the previously....

Patek Philippe, Cartier take year-end watch honors
Dec 11, 2003
The end of the year annually heralds a round of prizes in the Swiss watch industry for leading luxury watches. Here are some of the winners:  Luxury watchmaker Patek Philippe has won the L’Aiguille d’Or, the top prize in the 2003 Grand Prix d’Horologerie de Geneve, for its 10 Jours Tourbillon, a wrist chronometer with a 10-day power reserve and a....

Time: Revolutionary Thinking
Nov 03, 2003
Barat’s reasoning notwithstanding, even Patek Philippe has made concessions to those who prefer perception over purism. Its new 10-day tourbillon is the company’s first with a cage that can be viewed—through a sapphire exhibition back. To offer this unobstructed look at the new mechanism, Patek Philippe’s engineers repositioned....

Furnishings: Glamour Guy
Sep 01, 2003
The main focus of the new collection is a one-piece bathing cabinet—a tub and basin in laminated carbon fiber set into a curved Scandinavian masur birch wood frame ($33,000). For the kitchen, a single sculptural piece includes fridge, oven, Angolan granite counters, sink, cupboards, and an elevated glass table with a central hotplate and cocktail....

World Record Prices Paid For Rare Rolexes
Aug 01, 2003
Red-hot bidding for two rare Rolex prototype Daytona wristwatches produced record-setting prices at Antiquorum's June "Important Watches, Collector's Wristwatches, & Clocks" sale in Geneva, Switzerland. The extremely rare Rolex Oyster Cosmograph Daytona gentleman's wristwatches—also known to collectors as "Paul Newman" Rolexes—sold for....

Time: One Hand Clapping
Aug 01, 2003
Chronoswiss Chronoscope regulator, $10,950. (Click image to enlarge) Actually, Patek Philippe bears more than a little responsibility for the popularity of retrogrades, which is a modern phenomenon. Retrogrades have been titillating pocket watch owners for almost 300 years, but only a handful of individual wristwatches were made with this feature until....