May 21, 2013
By Stephanie Schaefer, Editorial Assistant
Christie’s will auction James Bond’s Breitling Top Time watch, worn by Sean Connery in the 1965 movie Thunderball, during its Pop Culture sale on June 26.Made by Breitling in 1962, the watch was...
May 9, 2013
By Daniel Ford, Web Editor
Luxury giant Richemont has named two new chief executive officers to its Montblanc and Jaeger-LeCoultre brands.Jérôme Lambert, current CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, was appointed CEO of Montblanc, the...
May 7, 2013
By Rob Bates, Senior Editor
Stéphane Linder has been appointed the new CEO of watch brand TAG Heuer, effective June 1.Linder is currently the brand’s vice president of sales for North America.He takes over from Jean-Christophe...
April 28, 2013
By Victoria Gomelsky, Editor-in-Chief
Timing, as they say, is everything—especially when you’re talking about trade fairs for the timepiece industry. And this year’s show schedule is more complicated—no pun intended—than ever.That’s...
April 22, 2013
By Rob Bates, Senior Editor
Hermès has purchased a majority stake in Joseph Erard, a 125-year-old Swiss company that makes watch box cases.It previously held a minority stake in the business.“For Hermès, this latest acquisition...
March 29, 2013
By Victoria Gomelsky, Editor-in-Chief
Most Americans born before 1980 recognize Shinola, a shoe polish marketed in the first half of the 20th century, for being name-checked in an alliterative figure of speech: “You don’t know s--t from...
March 27, 2013
By Victoria Gomelsky, Editor-in-Chief
It’s a little misleading to talk about “trends” in the watch business. Timepiece fashions may come and go, but compared with the apparel industry, tastes change rather glacially. So none of the...
March 27, 2013
By Rob Bates, Senior Editor
On March 26, Swatch completed its $1 billion acquisition of Harry Winston—a marriage of two of the biggest names in the jewelry and watch worlds.
March 27, 2013
Mark Harmon, the star of TV’s No. 1 show, NCIS, has been shopping for timepieces at Feldmar Watch Co. on Los Angeles’ nondescript Pico Boulevard since 1979, when both he and the store were pretty ...
March 25, 2013
By Emili Vesilind, Senior Editor
Inspired by The Temple of Flora, a 1799 British book of lush botanical illustrations, the China Limodoron timepiece from Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin couples pinprick-precise watch mechanics...
