All About Swiss Watch Manufactures and Swiss Watch Movements
Aug 21, 2007
There are a variety of fine watches produced today by a multitude of companies, both old and young.  Part of the appeal of luxury mechanical watchmaking is in the complexity and fine details of the ticking mechanisms which make these marvels work.  Within the specialized market that luxury watches represent, few terms raise the pulse of the....

Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Tourbillon Minute Repeater Chronograph watch
Apr 19, 2007
The Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Tourbillon Minute Repeater Chronograph watch is a superb example of haute horlogerie at its summit, both technically and aesthetically. By combining a hand-wound column-wheel controlled chronograph with two of the most difficult complications in watchmaking, Audemars Piguet has created a stunningly beautiful luxury....

Feature: Time for Yourself
May 03, 2004
Today, those who value such prestige look beyond what is available over the counter to reach for the horological Holy Grail: a made-to-order timepiece. Only an exceptional client will be considered for such an undertaking, and the end result usually represents the zenith of the manufacturer’s capabilities. Collectors covet the creations of....

Zenith: Nothing succeeds like success
Mar 27, 2006
TRIO GRANDE CLASSE OPEN The morning after, however, it was back to business. Prior to presenting his new watch collections, Thierry Nataf gave a brief breakdown of Zenith’s progress in 2005 followed by his ambitions for this year. “The USA is quite definitely Zenith’s number one market and I believe it is the future of....

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....

Watch’s Couth – a new online watch shop
Apr 02, 2007
Watch's Couth is an online shop with the goal of allowing private customers as well as commercial players active in the watch sector to expose the watches they wish to buy or sell, in a simple and direct way, locally or around the world. The aim of this Internet platform is to facilitate the purchase, sale and exchange of watches worldwide without....

Magazine contents August - September 2005 issue
Sep 05, 2005
Editorial The parable of the sock Cover Story Jaeger-LeCoultre reinvents the Minute Repeater Mechanical Watches Beauty and Fragility in the Golden Age Parmigiani Fleurier is now master of the watch’s strategic heart The innovative verticalization of Ulysse Nardin The Breguet Tradition The global....

Magazine contents October - November 2004 issue
Nov 08, 2004
Editorial Two Speeds Cover Story “Ideale” a new chapter in the story of Jaeger-LeCoultre Glamour Women, women, women, women, women, women, women … Audemars Piguet’s feminine side Zenith’s Mechanical Stars Recreating an “entirely and extremely feminine” brand -....

Swiss Watch by JCK Adds Advisory Board
Feb 01, 2006
Organizers of the fourth annual Swiss Watch by JCK 2006 luxury trade fair announced in late 2005 that its slots for vendors is sold out. The appointment-only event takes place June 3–7 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Participating brands include Baume & Mercier, Bulgari, Corum, Concord, Christian Dior, Ebel, Dunhill, Girard Perregaux, Hermes,....

GRANDE CHRONOMASTER OPEN by Zenith
May 21, 2004
Stainless steel case equipped with an El Primero automatic chronograph movement. Silvered dial with ‘Grain d’Orge’ guilloché with opening dial at 10 o’clock, hours and minutes, small seconds at 9 o’clock with a 3-branched hand, power reserve indicator from hour axis, central second hand, 30-minute counter at 3....