Elite watchmaker Vacheron Constantin is partnering with the Louvre Museum in Paris to collaborate on future watchmaking co-creations and restorations. Vacheron teamed up with the Louvre two years ago ...

Christian and Hannelore Lass are still filling orders for their brand’s first timepiece, but a bigger workshop has them looking ahead. Christian and Hannelore Lass in their new watchmaking workshop, ...

The restoration of a historic clock, undertaken by the Musée du Louvre in collaboration with Swiss luxury watchmaker Vacheron Constantin three years ago, is evolving into a formal partnership between ...

A Swiss magazine publisher leads an effort to digitize horology’s history. By Victoria Gomelsky Imagine if the world’s horological archives — and their cache of pamphlets, drawings, reports, ...

With the opening of the Hôtel des Horlogers and the neighboring Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet in the brand’s ancestral home of Le Brassus, Switzerland, Audemars Piguet established a new destination ...

When Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet founded Audemars Piguet in 1875, they were laying the foundation of what was, for their era, the 19th-century version of a tech start-up. Now, ...

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When it comes to watches, mechanical timepieces are considered the best investment in terms of quality and value retention. But even in the world of luxury timepieces, very few brands can craft their ...

Each year, the world's finest timepieces are celebrated at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) award ceremony, which is marking its 25th anniversary in November. As the year making the ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. In late July, I woke up to an out-of-the-blue text: “Hello Victoria, ...

If enamel continues to adorn watch dials today, it's all thanks to women. "They are the ones who saved enameling," said Anita Porchet, arguably the best-known and most respected enamelist today. While ...