In recent years, the giants of European horology have been locked in a heated battle to design the world’s thinnest mechanical watch. Luxury brands Bulgari, Piaget and Richard Mille have all, since ...

Bernhard Lederer says the escapement, the part of a mechanical timepiece that regulates the gears, has fascinated him for decades. By Rachel Felder In the almost five decades that Bernhard Lederer has ...

Welcome to “How I Became,” the Lifehacker series where I ask real people about how they really got their jobs. This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Matt Chapman, a modern watchmaker. The ...

A day on the beach, a lifeguard, a basketball enthusiast, an ice-cream vendor, a metal detector user, and devotion to rituals ...

In the 1800s, the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland was a day’s journey from the big city of Geneva in the best weather, and isolated for months when the mountain snows came. Farmers idle in the winter ...

Watchmaker Fossil Group is losing sales on purpose. Around this time last year, new leadership looked at the company and saw some problems. Fossil sold too many watches at a discount, which was eating ...