Until she took charge at Audemars Piguet last year, Ilaria Resta had spent her career in fragrance and beauty. A little more than a year ago, when Ilaria Resta was interviewing for the role of chief executive at the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, she and her family spent a few days in the Vallée de
Jean-Frédéric Dufour, the CEO of Rolex, warned against the trend of treating luxury watches as investments, a practice that has seen a significant uptick during the pandemic. What Happened: He stated, “I don’t like it when people compare watches with stocks. This sends the wrong message and is dangerous.” Dufour voiced his concerns during a
Seven local brands are registered to exhibit in Melbourne at what the organizer says will be the country’s first watch event. Australia doesn’t have much of a homegrown watch industry, and what it does have primarily sells online — facts that spurred Domenic Italiano, founder and designer of Grip Auto Timepieces, to organize what he
Heist-out, a feisty publication that debuted last year, is working with the auction house on an “underground” sale (scheduled in a wine cellar). Frustration is often the impetus for starting a business, and that’s exactly what produced heist-out, a glossy watch magazine introduced in May 2023 — and now it is teaming with Sotheby’s Geneva
In early December, Nicolò Villa, a jeweler from Milan, was in Manhattan for a trunk show when he spotted a pre-owned Rolex Lady-Datejust with a blue-green opal dial in a shop on West 47th Street. At 26 millimeters in diameter, the watch’s two-tone case was only slightly larger than a 25-cent piece. Mr. Villa bought
The Tellurium includes the sun, earth and moon as three-dimensional orbs floating across the watch’s face. It took Guillaume Laidet and Théo Auffret four weeks to raise a million dollars for what they called their “neo-futuristic horology” watch company. And a split second to lose it. Having funded their project on Kickstarter, the two Frenchmen
When it comes to tasteful implementations of unusual and unexpected colors, NOMOS does it better than almost any other brand, and for Watches & Wonders Geneva 2024, the Glashütte-based manufacturer has flexed every single one of its colorful muscles. Rather than unveiling a new model, NOMOS has created 31 different limited-edition colorways for the 38mm
Since the beginning of time, we mortals have measured its passage through the waxing and waning of the moon. If you’re intrigued by the motions of the moon for practical or romantic reasons, you’ll need one of the best moon phase watches to track lunar cycles in style. In our technological era, it’s easy to