Pocket Watch

And it was gifted to him by Charles C. Ritz, owner of the lauded writer’s favorite Parisian haunt.

The late British watchmaker George Daniels’s most complicated timepiece ever—made entirely by hand—hits the block in May.

Jewelry designer Jacquie Aiche gives vintage timepieces a stylish revamp.

The gold Thomas Tompion quarter repeater was last sold by Sotheby’s in 1973…

The auction house is offering a selection of Nautilus watches in celebration of the model’s 40th Anniversary…

Roger Dubuis embraces its founder’s values with a series of vintage-movement timepieces. The first in Roger Dubuis’s series of one-of-a-kind timepieces organized around combinations of vintage movements, the Hommage Millésime pocket watch ($892,500) is the most interesting and, in many ways, counter­intuitive project the Geneva-based watch brand has undertaken in years. Although restoring and assembling these […]

A carefully thought-out tourbillon reflects the 18th-century legacy of Ferdinand Berthoud. “I got to know who Ferdinand Berthoud was through my grandfather’s pocket-watch collection,” recalls Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, a copresident of Chopard. “The more I read about him, the more I admired what he did.” In honor of the 18th-century horologist, Scheufele—who has built up his […]

The famed 1925 pocket watch once owned by Henry Graves is the most complicated timepiece ever built entirely by hand…

The mechanical-watch renaissance of the past decade or so has proven a boon for just about every sort of timepiece, as brands have developed and produced countless new models of complicated, simple, classical, and modernly styled watches. The only form seemingly uninvited to the party happens to be the one that started it all: the […]