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.

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 ...

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 strikingly large. But the grandeur ...

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 ...

Piaget has two signature specialties: ultra-thin movements and hard-stone dials. In fact, it was Piaget’s penchant for making watch dials using hard-stone minerals that led it to develop ultra-thin ...