And though the complication is now an Urwerk signature, the Genevan maison has plenty of other horological tricks up its sleeve. To wit: Check out the brand-new UR-10 Spacemeter ($94,000). With its ...
Just recently, luxury giant LVMH Group purchased a minority share of Japanese-owned Swiss watch movement maker Manufacture La Joux-Perret SA (which, until now, was a fully owned subsidiary of the ...
You can’t see it when it’s on your wrist, but the heart of even the simplest mechanical watch, with its minute components whirling on jewel bearings, is incredible. And even a humble mechanism can ...
For the want of research funding, which the team at the advanced materials department at Manchester Metropolitan University are now trying to raise, the watch industry could be at the tipping point ...
The new 7340/1R is the first watch with complications in the Twenty~4 collection. Prop Stylist: Miako Katoh; photo by Brian Klutch There’s a new movement sweeping through town in the form of Patek ...
Google designed the Pixel Watch 4 to be serviceable (or repairable) and an iFixit teardown today shows how easy it is to do so. In all, you just need three screwdriver bits (1IP, 2IP, and 5IP), a ...
One of the long-awaited changes with the Pixel Watch 4 is that, finally, the smartwatch can actually be repaired. In an interview, Google details how that was made possible, and is also teasing that ...
The Pixel Watch 4 has just launched, and it will be Google’s first repairable smartwatch. Previously, Google would simply replace broken or faulty watches. With this generation, Google is opening up ...
Takes a licking — keeps on ticking. For 42 years, David’s Shoe & Watch Repair shop was a staple at the corner of Hudson and Barrow in NYC’s West Village — repairing timepieces and mending soles for ...
This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. Anyone who’s ever had to repair a luxury timepiece knows the drill: ...
Quartz or manual-wound movements used to be the only option for small watches, but now brands such as Bulgari, Piaget and Chopard are putting automatic mechanisms in them. By Carol Besler Automatic ...