Founded by Louis-François Cartier in Paris in 1847, the Cartier brand has represented brilliance, luxury, and masterful engineering for nearly 200 years. And while Cartier has developed the lion’s share of its modern cachet from its multicolored jewelry, Cartier has been a genius horologist since the 19th century. Starting with the whimsy of mystery clocks — … [Read more…]
In 1868, American designer Florentine Ariosto Jones immigrated to Switzerland, merging American ambition with centuries of Swiss engineering to create an atelier whose watches would embody both traditions beautifully. IWC Schaffhausen watches were the first timepieces to implement the innovation of a digital (featuring digits, in this case) hour and minute display. Rich with innovation … [Read more…]
Watches exist in a strange middle ground: They’re not wholly necessary anymore, but people still adore them for their aesthetic grace. What does that mean for the way that watches are designed? The fact that watches straddle the line between “classic” and “modern” is the root for the assertion that the finest watches are those … [Read more…]
As much as we hate to admit it, sometimes the bad guy of a movie is so compelling that they bring a certain charisma and flair to the film in which they’re menacing the good guys. Now, we’re not saying we sympathize with the baddies we chose today, but … we do like their style.
People buy watches for all sorts of reasons, but in an age of smartphones and ubiquitous computers, “keeping time” isn’t necessarily one of those reasons anymore. However, that means that timepieces have been freed from their original use, and can fit into many new, creative categories.
Baselworld Watch and Jewellery Show is the world’s premier trade show of the international watch industry, named after the city in which it’s held annually: Basel, Switzerland. The Baselworld trade show is such a powerhouse in the timpiece industry that the trends, fashions, and tastes that crop up at the Swiss show tend to influence the watch trade for the … [Read more…]
What does “watch culture” look like? In an age when everything has a timepiece attached to it, there’s an argument to be made that timepieces aren’t really necessary anymore, per se. But removing the necessity of watches has transformed them in the modern age — from purely functional objects into art. They’re a kind of … [Read more…]
So, let’s say you’ve just gotten a new watch. What can you do it? You might be saying to yourself: “It’s just a watch. What can someone do with a watch, other than tell time?” But that’s not thinking creatively! Today, we’re going to look at five different watches by a group of esteemed horologists … [Read more…]
The British newspaper, the Daily Mail, recently created an article, titled: “Floyd Mayweather flaunts wealth at Conor McGregor at London show with diamond encrusted watch worth £1m”. What the Daily Mail neglected to note in their article title, however, is the company behind Floyd’s watch—the illustrious Hublot. In recent years, Hublot and Floyd Mayweather have … [Read more…]
So you just got a subscription for Hulu or Netflix, and — dang! Good on you. There’s been a lot of good shows on those two lately, and people are celebrating the services as being the HBO-killer. But let’s say you want to pick a watch that matches your favorite shows on the services. What can … [Read more…]