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This $600 dress watch dials in on the year’s hottest high-end trends
Swedish boutique watchmaker Anders & Co. offers a classic stone dial dress watch in five variations at a price most watch ...
Geneva, Switzerland (CNN) — Even by the standards of watch boxes — typically oversized for the objects they hold — Chopard’s latest leather case, unveiled at watch fair Watches and Wonders, is ...
Porcelain, enamel, carbon fiber, meteorite, mother-of-pearl, onyx, aventurine… boring! They all sound exotic and have attractive applications but are, in fact, relatively common watch-dial materials.
Watchmakers have long been obsessed with the cosmos. For the most part, however, they’ve indulged their interest by making timepieces, from the earliest astrolabes to the working planetarium ...
Sifting through more than 100 timepieces at the recently-concluded Watches and Wonders trade show in Geneva, three broad trends stood out: an increased use of recycled materials, continued reduction ...
If you wanted a clock during the Renaissance, you were getting one with an enamel dial. You lucky duck. Enamel dials are stunning. Not that you would’ve known from Adam — back then, watchmakers didn’t ...
To understand the role that color plays in the most rarefied corners of the Swiss watch market, consider the Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5711/1A-010, the one with the standard blue dial. Discontinued ...
With all due respect to the Pantone Color Institute, its color of the year announcement for 2021—naming Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, a bright shade of yellow, as the year’s twin hues—was way ...
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Why stone dials are winning watch guys over again
There’s something about a watch that doesn’t look like every other watch on the planet. Walk into any room full of grown men who care about this stuff and you’ll spot plenty of black dials, blue dial ...
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