Features: The Real Deal
Apr 01, 2003
Vacheron Constantin's Le Grande Classique. (Click image to enlarge) The silver lining of this controversial topic is that as collectors’ watchmaking knowledge grows, so does their passion for complicated watches. And if much ado is made of the most tangled complexity and tiniest detail . . . well, these are watches we’re talking about after all. A. Lange....

C.D. Peacock Expands Again
Mar 01, 2003
C.D. Peacock, Chicago's oldest fine jeweler, recently relocated to larger retail space in Northbrook, Ill. The move follows the opening in 2000 of two new downtown stores on Michigan Ave., for a total of five locations in the Chicago area. The Northbrook Court store features luxury watch and jewelry brands including Rolex, Cartier, Patek Philippe, Bulgari,....

Watches: Historical References
Nov 02, 2002
With histories that are measured in centuries, venerable brands Patek Philippe and Girard-Perregaux can easily justify having their own museums. But Officine Panerai? Some might say a museum is a bit presumptuous for a company that produced only 300 wristwatches exclusively for military purposes between 1938 and its entry into the consumer market in 1993.....

The Endangered Art
Aug 21, 2002
“Unlike oil paintings, which darken over time, these enamel watches show the true colors of the 18th century,” says enamel expert Hans Boeckh, who curates one of the most significant enamel watch collections at the Patek Philippe museum in Geneva. Geneva’s Bovet Fleurier grew out of the last great era of enamel painting in the early 19th....

Style: Rare Birds
Apr 01, 2002
A host of other factors, such as the way the movement sits within the case, can have a dampening effect and must be exhaustively adjusted before the watch is ready to leave the workshop. Another important issue is case size, which may explain why the complication flourished in the pocket watches of the 19th century. Repeating wristwatches, including the....

NYC Watch Auction Totals $2 Million
Jan 01, 2002
Antiquorum, one of the world's leading horological auctioneers, opened its fall season Oct. 3 in New York City with a sale of collectors' pocket watches, wristwatches, and clocks that took in more than $2 million. The auction's results surpassed all expectations, declared Osvaldo Patrizzi, Antiquorum's chairman. Because of the terrible events in September,....

Steel Patek Sets World Auction Record
Nov 13, 2001
The unique 1926 Patek Philippe watch--with single-button chronograph, vertical registers and pulsometer--was sold for $1,129,500 to a private Swiss museum. Another record was set with the sale for $$685,400 of a Breguet & Fils pocket non-gold chronometer with jumping hour hand, Peto cross escapement, and four-minute tourbillon regulator. The buyer....

New Patek Philippe Museum is a tribute to watchmaking
Nov 09, 2001
Patek Philippe, one of the world's oldest and most celebrated luxury watchmakers, officially opened its new museum-housing more than 1,600 historic timepieces and a library devoted exclusively to horology-in Geneva, Switzerland on Nov. 8. The project has been active since 1997, but some of the collections were assembled up to 30 years ago. The Patek Philippe....

'T 150' Marks Unique Partnership of Tiffany and Patek Philippe
Oct 01, 2001
A unique partnership in retailing was celebrated in July by Patek Philippe, one of the world's premiere watchmakers, and by Tiffany & Co., one of the world's leading luxury goods retailers. That business relationship began with a handshake agreement in 1851 between company founders Antoine Norbert de Patek and Charles Lewis Tiffany. Officials of the two....

Antiquorum Prestigious Watches Auction
Mar 01, 2001
Back to Daily News Index watches homepage > daily news > Antiquorum "Prestigious Wristwatches" Geneva, March 31, 2001 by Gloria Teresi Borel Antiquorum is organizing an auction of "Prestigious Wristwatches" which will take place in Geneva on March 31, at the Hotel Richemond, where it will be exhibited from March 27. The sale....