If you think about any watch that Urwerk makes, you'd be hard-pressed to find one that you might be able to immediately call conventional, thanks to all kinds of time-telling systems and funky case shapes. Even the "roundest" watch in the lineup, the UR-102 Reloaded, throws normal time-telling out the window with its hands-free semi-circular…
Richemont struck a deal to sell its Baume & Mercier watch brand to Italy's Damiani Group in a move expected to fire the starting gun on a fresh round of Swiss watch industry brand sales and asset reshuffling. With close to 200 years of history, Baume & Mercier has been a storied name in the…
Around Christmas, I was stuck inside at my parents' house in Wisconsin, with wind chills of -15ºF and snowstorms, and, of course, I reflexively opened Instagram. I landed on the recommended content and saw a wrist shot of an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Openworked in white ceramic, with bright blue bridges, worn…
Since 2002, the Voutilainen workshop's evolution and its founder's philosophy have been expressed through refined and robust in-house mechanisms, high-level finishing, distinctive cases, and hand-guilloché dials. This in-depth journey, presented by independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen, highlights his workshop's most exclusive timepieces, shaped by a unique blend of Finnish and Swiss influences, and showcasing mastery across…
Prices for used and pre-owned watches rose during the fourth quarter, the first broad-based quarter-over-quarter increase in several years, as major groups, including Richemont, Swatch Group, and LVMH watch brands, enjoyed gains and the secondary watch market strengthened. Data compiled by WatchCharts and compiled in a report by investment bank Morgan Stanley shows that prices…
On this week's episode of The Business of Watches, we wrangled some time with someone born intothe Swiss watch industry but who has taken an outsider's path to business success. Manuel Emch is the managing director of Louis Erard and also one-third of the radical upstart micro-brand Kollokium. We sat down last year, and Emch…