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6 Things to Look for in a Luxury Watch

6 Things to Look for in a Luxury Watch

Against all odds, business is booming for luxury watchmakers. “The time displayed on our mobile phones and other digital devices will always be more accurate than the time displayed on even the most skillfully engineered mechanical watch,” writes The Guardian’s Simon Garfield, “yet the industry has a visual presence in our lives like few others.” Continue reading 6 Things to Look for in a Luxury Watch

Wonder Watches: Breaking Stereotypes in the Modern World

Wonder Watches: Breaking Stereotypes in the Modern World

Gone are the days when watches were mere time-keepers. Today they are symbols of status, indicators of taste and reflectors of personality. People don’t just wear watches anymore; they don their preferences on their wrists. A collector’s delight, a timekeeper’s pride, and a source of anxiety for the tardy, there is no denying that watches Continue reading Wonder Watches: Breaking Stereotypes in the Modern World

That Luxury Timepiece Might Be More Useful Than You Think

That Luxury Timepiece Might Be More Useful Than You Think

For most people, a watch is a watch. It serves a useful, but nevertheless clear and constrained, purpose: telling the time, and maybe the date. Sure, the digital revolution has created new timepiece categories. Millions of Americans now own smartwatches — devices that, not content simply to tell time, connect to the Internet, boast SMS Continue reading That Luxury Timepiece Might Be More Useful Than You Think