Geneva (Switzerland)

April 14, 2024

Watch Fair’s Welcome Grows Even Bigger

This year Watches and Wonders Geneva added a third public day — and here are some of the new timepieces visitors have been seeing. Until last […]
April 9, 2024

Watch Fair Opens in a Time of Uncertainty

Brands hope the new models unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva will attract buyers despite the tough retail climate. Just what sort of shape is the […]
April 8, 2024

With Watch Sales Down, Brands Hope for a Trade Show Boost

Organizers say the 2023 Watches and Wonders Geneva had a global reach of 700 million. Many in the industry hope for that kind of interest this […]
April 8, 2024

A Maverick Watch Magazine Lends Some Edge to Sotheby’s

Heist-out, a feisty publication that debuted last year, is working with the auction house on an “underground” sale (scheduled in a wine cellar). Frustration is often […]
April 7, 2024

Getting Ready for Watches and Wonders Geneva

What do you pack? How many watches do you bring? Everyone from first-time invitees to veterans agree that this trade show requires planning. Some refer to […]
December 10, 2023

Journe, the Watchmaker, Puts His Name on Journe, the Restaurant

The décor, emphasizing a horological theme, includes a 17th century wall clock and watch parts embedded in the knife handles. The seaweed-wrapped leek fondant circle, sitting […]
November 7, 2023

Conceiving the Watches of Tomorrow

Graduate students in a rare diploma program for watch design are creating timepieces for the future. It was a Monday morning in mid-September and summer vacation […]
November 7, 2023

Calls for Financial Details Stall Charity Watch Auction

A social media outcry over its more than $100 million in donations led Only Watch, one of the industry’s most high-profile events, to cancel its Nov. […]
November 7, 2023

Auction to Celebrate Piaget’s 150th Anniversary

The French house Artcurial says the sale will highlight men’s and women’s styles from the 1960s through 2000s. What did Salvador Dalí, Jackie Kennedy and Elizabeth […]
October 19, 2023

At Van Cleef & Arpels, Going Into ‘Unknown Territories’

Rainer Bernard, the house’s director of research and development of watches, says a sense of exploration drives its horological efforts. As the director of research and […]