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  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    How To Spend It
    How Van Cleef & Arpels put a ballet inside a watch

    In a feat of unmatched clock-making, Balanchine’s Jewels has been animated, scored, and put inside three new timepieces

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Top tick tocks to celebrate the Year of the Ox

    As the Chinese New Year approaches, find starry new watches inspired by the celestial calendar

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Porsche and TAG Heuer – together, at last

    TAG Heuer and Porsche have both named products after a notorious 1950s motor race. Now, 70 years later, their Carreras are coming together

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Special Report
    Watches and Jewellery: January

    Watchmakers ramp up fashion tie-ups to target younger buyers; steel chronograph competition heats up; mood-lifting designs see high demand; how accessories help convey political views; electric hues pop the gloom

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    Watchmakers ramp up fashion tie-ups to target younger buyers

    Fashion deals keep luxury watch brands up with the times

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    Gerald Charles — dialling into social networks to take on bigger rivals

    The Swiss independent watchmaker generates sales by nurturing its customer base as a community

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    Deconstructed watch: Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomètre FB 2RE

    Chopard revives rare wrist watches aimed at wealthy connoisseurs

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    Digital nomads shake up watch finding model

    ‘Finders’ use power of online networks to source luxury pieces, bypassing traditional dealers

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    Julien Tornare bets on Chronomaster Sport to lift Zenith into the big league

    LVMH’s smallest watch brand covets a spot on the top 25 of Swiss makers by competing in the steel chronograph category

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  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Reverso – an icon at 90

    Arguably the first sports watch, created for the rigours of the polo field, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s reversible-dial watch has since become an ageless classic

  • Sunday, 13 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Why the industry’s biggest watchmakers are hands-on brands

    Five philanthropic initiatives from five major names

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Crunch time – the future of sustainable watchmaking 

    Ocean plastic, digital waste and old cars are just some of the ingredients making the eco-timepieces of tomorrow

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Tourbillon time: six showstopping watches

    Defying gravity – and maybe reason – these new timepieces are the ultimate in virtuoso making

  • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Tick tock star – the artist who made a masterpiece of time

    Meet the graphic designer who put down his paints, aged 60, to create a clock from scratch

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Meet Gloria, Donna, Diana and Grace – Richard Mille’s new line of disco diva watches

    Designer Cécile Guenat’s latest collection for women is a tribute to the legends of Studio 54

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    Watch and luxury shopping industries contest end of UK tax-free scheme

    House of Lords peers join retailers to warn of ‘blow’ to business if VAT refunds are scrapped

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    InterviewWatches & Jewellery
    Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Catherine Rénier: ‘Zoom will never replace the thrill of live events’

    Watchmaker aims to be more accessible digitally and physically, says its CEO

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    ‘K-shaped’ recovery favours stronger watch brands

    Ecommerce is booming but any bounceback is unlikely to be big enough to recover lockdown losses

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    Hermes International SCA
    Deconstructed Watch: Hermès Arceau Lift Tourbillon Répétition Minutes

    The latest model in a series of ambitious designs is based on the celebrated 1978 Arceau case

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Collecting
    Israeli museum of Islamic art puts cultural tolerance first

    Arab director of L.A. Mayer Museum hopes Sotheby’s sale will help him continue work begun by Jewish founder

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Takumi time: the rise of Japanese watchmaking

    Once decried as the death knell of haute horlogerie, Japanese watchmakers are now enjoying a well-deserved moment in the sun

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    ‘Made in China’ watches gain domestic popularity

    Emergence of local high-end luxury brands gives hopes of changing perceptions about quality

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    Deconstructed Watch: Grand Seiko Snowflake

    The hybrid mechanical-quartz system provides a smooth, sweeping hand action that, the maker says, ‘represents the true motion of time’

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    Watches & Wonders fair brings back the buzz for luxury brands

    Exhibitors take their business straight to the biggest driver of the watch market: China

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    Sam Hines: the postboy who delivered Sotheby’s to the top of the pile

    Watches chief expects auctions will become marquee events for just exceptional lots, with the rest sold online or privately

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