By Roberta Naas Just recently, Greubel Forsey unveiled its $1.3 million Double Tourbillon 30-Degrees Technique Sapphire watch. The entire case of this limited edition (8 pieces) watch was milled from a single piece of sapphire, revealing the 396-part movement. This watch is exemplary of the new direction many watch brands are taking when it comes to utilizing high-tech materials for watchcases.

By Victoria Townsend Manually corrected only once every year, annual calendars count the total number of days in 11 months out of 12 and provide useful information on creative dials. With a quick glance at your wrist, you can see not only the time but also the day, date, month and (often) the phase of the moon. Here are three annual calendars that are so beautiful and user-friendly you will find yourself looking forward to February 28…or 29, just for the pleasure of resetting your watch on March 1st.

With Father’s Day around the corner, we went out on a limb to find some unusual timepieces just right for dad. Just like we brought “lace and fabric” watches to the forefront for Mother’s Day, now we bring you a close up, comprehensive look at some wonderful luxury watches with wooden dials and bezels.

By Roberta Naas It was eight years ago that the United Nations officially recognized June 8 as World Oceans Day. Today, we celebrate globally our Earth’s seas and our working together to keep them clean and healthy. Not only are organizations around the world fighting for this cause, but so, too, are a host of watch brands. Among them: Jaeger-LeCoultre, Rolex, Blancpain, Omega, IWC and a few others who offer everything from creating timepieces with proceeds going to organizations, to sponsorships of projects and expeditions, and more.

By Roberta Naas Every year, it seems, watch brands get more and more creative when it comes to artistic dials and unusual elements. One key trend in a growth pattern from luxury watch brands: lace- or fabric-inspired dials, which are perfect gifts for Mother’s Day. While some watch brands are actually using fabric, lace and embroidery on their dials (and sometimes spilling over into straps), others are creating artistic dials that are inspired by feminine lace and shimmering fabrics.

By Roberta Naas It was an incredible year thus far at the world watch shows, with so many amazing new black-and-white watches for men and women making a strong appearance on the market. The new black/white look is on target with 2016 fashion trends, where black, white (and a lot of color) make strong appearances -- particularly in geometric patterns. Here we bring you a quick look at 10 Top black and white watches for the spring, summer and fall season.

By Roberta Naas In honor of Earth Day, we salute the watch brands that work to preserve our animals, our land and our seas. A host of watch companies take part – often on a behind-the-scenes basis – in the care and preservation of our Earth and its resources. From Rolex to Audemars Piguet, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Chopard and others – watch brands try to buy us more time with Earth’s treasures.

Independent watchmakers were on top of their game at this year's SIHH. Here are five of our favorites.

These five ladies watches stole the show at this year's SIHH.

By Roberta Naas Every year we delight in finding amazing timepieces at Baselworld. This year was no exception. True, due to global economic downturns and investment-shy retailers, there was not as much newness (in terms of quantity) unveiled at the exhibition as we may have liked, but what was introduced was quality timepieces. In fact, this could be the year that the “less is more” mantra, or “quality over quantity” played out the strongest. Among those quality watch unveilings this year were several “world firsts.” In fact, we counted nearly a dozen that are worthy of discussion, but that is far too many for this article, so we are planning installments. Here we bring you the first four world-first or world-record-setting watches unveiled at BaselWorld 2016.

By Roberta Naas As technology and Nano-technology continues to evolve, watch brands are becoming ever more adept at making more precise components for watches and at finding new and different ways to put components together for incredibly advanced timing. This leads to a host of new developments and the ones we expect to see shine brightly at this year’s show are tourbillons, skeletonized watches, calendars and multi-timers. With such great thrust forward into new technical aspects, we have also witnessed a resurgence in the use of new materials and we expect to see a host of cool high-tech materials emerge, as well as a small foray into some beloved not-much-used watch materials such as bronze.

Take a sneak-peek at our most anticipated Baselworld releases.

The Chinese year beginning on February 8th 2016 is ascribed to the monkey and the Swiss are celebrating the only way they how, by making monkey watches....

This is it: our definitive top five (in no particular order) modern Speedmaster Moonwatch models...

SIHH 2016 is right around the corner, which means we’re about to find out what the fair's regulars and newcomers have been working on the past few years.

For those who aren't satisfied with just a bit of green, here are five watches that went all in, with green straps to match their lush dials...