Watchmaking

Assembly of the Musical Clock Couture Workshop There was once a time when watches were items of necessity. Anyone and everyone who wanted to conveniently keep track of the unyielding…

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date in Everose gold with President bracelet Everose Gold These are all complicated points and we will be covering them briefly. We bring this point to the…

Kurt Klaus As you read this issue, a titan of watchmaking will have just celebrated his 90th birthday. Plenty of watches make it well past this mark but this reminds…

Patek Philippe Ref.5236P with the diamond indicating that the case is platinum After almost a decade of deep dives into material innovation in traditional watchmaking, we have finally come full…

Counterfeits spotted by Watchfinder Keeping it Real The luxury watch industry has never resolved the issue of high-quality fakes taking big bites out of its margins and, perhaps more importantly,…

Parmigiani Fleurier CEO Guido Terreni In Parmigiani Fleurier, one discovers an entirely unlikely success story; like so many of these, it appeared to happen virtually overnight yet it was decades…

Rolex gemmologist checks the quality of diamonds Luxury is a fast-changing industry. Luxury watchmaking, not so much. Hampered by tradition, classicism, and, more often than not, a lack of vision,…

Image courtesy of IWC As most readers will know, the bulk of Swiss watchmaking happens in the French-speaking part of the country. Those less familiar with Switzerland than Swiss-made timepieces…

The Lange I building after the renovation (Image taken in 2013) For our first visit outside Switzerland this issue, and the first one in Legacy overall, we will take a…

With the advent of Piaget’s 150th anniversary this year, you would expect the maison to pull out its heavy hitters and boy, they sure did with the Piaget Polo 79. If anything,…