Gary Striewski is no stranger around these parts—Talking Watches alum, SportsCenter anchor, all-around great guy—so we could think of no better person to help kick off this year's UBS House of Craft. He sat down with Ben Clymer to talk through this year's theme, "Icons of Time," and the exhibition's twelve carefully curated watches.
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The term "photic zone" refers to the depth of the ocean to which light penetrates, allowing for photosynthesis. It's where you find the most prolific and diverse marine life. While the actual depth limit of the photic zone varies in the oceans around the world, it is generally considered to be within the first 200…
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The whole of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s developmental history is hard to boil down to a single focus. Breguet’s pursuit of chronometry and his perfection and implementation of his contemporary John Arnold’s tourbillon concept are probably at the top of the list. Today, as the pièce de résistance for the brand’s 250th…
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It was pretty widely known that, going into December 2025, Breguet wasn't done with their 250th Anniversary celebrations. I've said it before, I'll say it again, but Breguet is on a tear this year, and while I was in Paris to see their final launch, they surprised us with two…
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We just finished celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday here in America, and that means one thing: an immediate switch to all things Christmas and winter. And it looks like Swatch has done the same for its final Moonshine Gold Moonswatch edition of the year, and shockingly, it's a bit different than…
When the first version of the Code 11.59 Starwheel launched back in 2022, it was probably the first Code 11.59 that I genuinely, enthusiastically fell in love with. Sure, I'm excited anytime there's a splash of aventurine anywhere on the dial, but in this case, it was because Audemars Piguet completely reinterpreted its compact, dressy,…
This has been a particularly great year for history-shaping horological discoveries. The sale of the J. Player & Son's Hyper-Complication at Phillips Geneva went extraordinarily well, achieving CHF 2,238,000, or just shy of $2.8 million in US dollars. That's on the heels of the sale of a pocket watch by Derek Pratt for Urban Jürgensen…