HYT Launches The Limited Edition H5 Model

Luxury watchmaker brand HYT just announced the launch of a new, limited-edition model, the H5, equipped with HYT’s new propriety caliber 501.

By Adrienne Faurote

Patek Philippe and Sotheby’s: It’s Complicated

Patek Philippe burst onto the stage of haute horology in 1851, immediately making a name for itself by presenting Queen Victoria with a key-wound, pendant-style montre at the famous Crystal Palace. Today, the Geneva-based watchmaker continues to outfit the world’s elite with some of the globe’s most expensive and technically complicated  watches. Earlier this year […]

Girard-Perregaux Young Watchmakers Take Over NYC

The iconic Swiss watch brand Girard-Perregaux recently announced the unveiling of the print and online journal: The New Face of Tradition, Eight Young Watchmakers and the Art of Making Time. The journal follows these young watchmakers from Girard-Perregaux  Manufacture, based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in their own workshops and in their personal time with friends and family. From […]

New Face Of Tradition: Girard-Perregaux’s Young Watchmakers

A few years ago we were all hearing about how hard it was for the watch industry to recruit enough watchmakers to do repairs on existing movements, never mind develop new ones. Brand reps would say things like “there are only three guys in Switzerland who can make this complication.” Watchmaking was just not resonating […]

Dr. George Daniels’ Watch Collection To Be Sold By Sotheby’s

The private collection of watchmaker Dr. George Daniels is to be sold by auction by Sotheby’s in November 2012. The collection, which reflects 50 years of collection, is rumored to be as magnificent as it is extensive. With 130 lots, the private collection is anticipated to raise more than 5 million sterling pounds to be […]