On my second day of appointments at the 2013 Baselworld watch fair, I discovered a number of intriguing new timepieces, including a slew of “affordable luxury” pieces from Maurice Lacroix, Chopard’s second-most-complicated watch ever, and Carl F. Bucherer’s first tourbillon. Maurice Lacroix, now majority-owned, we learned at the show,  by Asian conglomerate DKSH,  obviously has [...]

 

Growing fascination with the inner workings of mechanical watches has sparked a boom in skeletonized looks. Click here to download wallpaper images of skeleton watches from Breguet, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Piaget and more of the watches showcased in our feature, “The Inside Story,” from the upcoming March-April issue of WatchTime.     For more wallpaper images [...]

 

It’s the holiday season, the time for giving and receiving gifts — and accumulating next year’s calendars for your home and office walls. How about some great horological calendars to decorate your desktop? Click here to download beautiful images of calendar timepieces from some of the top haute horlogerie watch brands. Click on the photos [...]

 

The November-December issue of WatchTime is in stores now, featuring tests of Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak Extra-Thin and IWC’s Top Gun Perpetual Calendar, an exclusive connoisseur profile of Arnold Schwarzenegger, our annual sports-watch showcase, and more. Click here for highlights from the issue… • In our cover feature, Jens Koch conducts WatchTime’s most comprehensive watch [...]

 

In this feature from our current issue, Gisbert Brunner profiles Hanhart, a Swiss-German company known mostly in Europe — and mostly for its stopwatches — and its plans to bring its wristwatches to the United States. Ever hear of Hanhart? If not, you have company. Hanhart, a watch brand based in Switzerland, with a manufacturing [...]