Carol Besler

While still making room for a double-axis tourbillon.

Retro inspirations and re-editions based on vintage timepieces have been all the rage in new watch introductions this year as the craze for a bygone era of watchmaking continues to heat up in the secondary market. Case in point: Carl F. Bucherer’s Bicompax Annual Calendar is inspired by a 1956 model from its archives, updated with a […]

The watch mimics the leather and wood interior of the Continental GT Number 9 Edition by Mulliner, inspired by the 1930s Blower of legendary racer Sir Tim Birkin.

The new sapphire crystal Recital 26 Brainstorm Chapter 1 features a sloped case and movement design inspired by a desk.

Or deep diving in French Polynesia with Guillaume Néry.

The face of the watchmaker’s founder can be found within the timepiece’s moving animation on the dial.

Fellow indie watchmakers Akrivia, Pierre Laurent, and Greubel Forsey also win big at Grand Prix d’Horlogerie Genève.

The neo-vintage trend of the past few years kicked off a race among watch producers to develop new, scaled-down movements to fit the smaller cases dictated by vintage designs. It incidentally spawned a surge in the development of new, smaller calibres for ladies’ mechanical watches, and several new movements were introduced at the watch fairs […]

Nayla Hayek is CEO of Harry Winston Inc. and chairwoman of Swatch Group Ltd., the company founded by her father, Nicolas Hayek Sr. Here Nayla Hayek talks about leading the world’s largest watch company and what it’s like to be a woman in a largely male driven business. Her brother, Nicolas Hayek Jr., is CEO of the […]