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Russian Officials Need To Stop Wearing Incredibly Expensive Watches
Earlier this year we brought you the story of Russian Orthodox Church Leader and his mysterious disappearing $30,000 watch.Patriarch Kirill's team had apparently Photoshopped the Breguet watch out a...
View ArticleIt Took Thieves Only 13 Seconds To Swipe $19K Worth Of Watches From Macy's
It took a group of ambitious thieves in Texas only 13 seconds to steal 80 watches worth $19,000 from a Garland, Texas Macy's.“It happened so fast that it takes a second or two for the employees to...
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What You Need To Know About Watchcases Before Buying Your Next Timepiece
This is an excerpt from Jason Heaton's ebook, "Build The Ultimate Watch Collection."Artistry in watchmaking is not only in the movement.An expertly beveled shoulder or contrasting brushed and polished...
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Apple Is Already Late To The Smartwatch Game (AAPL, GOOG)
Apple is reportedly looking into developing a watch product.This is only one in a line of other wearable tech that people have been buzzing about, most notably Google Glass.We suspect that this will be...
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Swatch Buys Luxury Brand Harry Winston For $1 Billion
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's biggest watch maker, Swatch Group AG, says it has agreed to pay about $1 billion to acquire Canada's Harry Winston watch and jewelry brand.The Biel, Switzerland-based...
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The Best New Watches To Buy This Year
New year, new watches.The first big watch show of 2013 is happening in Geneva: the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie.The SIHH is organized and hosted by Richemont, the company that owns such...
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Luxury Watch Sales Have Hit Record Highs Despite The Downturn
Amid gloomy talk of a possible triple-dip recession in Britain and the march of austerity across Europe, some people somewhere are spending an absolute fortune on showpiece watches.Luxury watch sales...
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The 7 Hottest Watches At The World's Biggest Timepiece Fair
The world's biggest watch show is wrapping up in Basel, Switzerland. Hundreds of watch and jewelry retailers from around the globe showed off their finest goods and newest designs at the fair, called...
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'Apple Poses Absolutely No Threat To Our Market,' Says Swiss Watchmaker
BASEL—Among the 122,000 enormously rich watch fanatics assembled here last week, you’d have been hard-pressed to find any who didn’t think the rumored iWatch is daft and the reported Samsung watch...
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DEAR APPLE: We Don't Want A Smart Watch Because The Classic Wrist Watch Will...
Hey Apple head honchos, we don't care about smart watches, so don't even bother trying. Watches have been around for over 500 years, surviving wars and tech revolutions. We may have advanced past the...
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The 24 Most Expensive Watches Ever Sold At Auction
The collectible market is booming, with art, cars, and jewelry all breaking records in recent months.Watches are no different. Google, Apple, and Samsung may all be rushing to make smart watches, but...
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This Wrist Watch Has 876 Parts And Costs $2.5 Million
You may think that for a watch to cost more than a million dollars, it should have some historical significance or be dripping in diamonds.But watches at the highest end of the price spectrum don't...
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Why Watch Collectors Are Still Obsessed With Complicated Timepieces
Great objects often foster great obsessions.In A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World’s Most Legendary Watch, Stacy Perman chronicles the creation of an extraordinary timepiece, the Patek...
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James Dean's Lucky Pocket Watch Is Filled With Rich Hollywood History
An actor, a handsome, brooding, and profoundly superstitious sort, considers his pocket watch a lucky charm and wears it, not in a vest pocket as any young swell over a half century ago might, but...
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Rafael Nadal's $690,000 Watch Is So Light He Can't Even Feel It On The Court
Tennis great Rafael Nadal is one of the most obsessive, ritual-oriented players on the tour. From the placement of his two water bottles, to tying his shoes and wiping off the sweat from his face...
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This $1 Million Watch Is Made From Fragments Of Meteorites
Watchmaker Richard Mille and jewelry maker Boucheron have teamed up to combine meteorite fragments and rare earth rocks to create the RM-018 Tourbillion wristwatch. It's worth a cool $1 million, and...
View ArticleYou'll Never Be Able To Look At The Watch Ad The Same Way Again After Seeing...
Brady Haran, self-described numberphile, created this video to blow your mind about something you may not have noticed, but constantly will from now on: Watch advertisements always show the time as a...
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Astronauts And Fighter Pilots Are The True Pioneers Of Wristwatches: A...
The pilot wrist watch is an instrument which has been present in the cockpit since the very beginning of aviation.The evolution of pilot watches shows aviation has always relied on cutting edge...
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This $164,000 Watch Looks Like A Shiny Spacecraft For Your Wrist
Swiss luxury watchmaker De Bethune has unveiled what they call "an authentic wrist sculpture"— a smoothly curved titanium timepiece known as the Dream Watch 5 (via Gizmodo). This delta-shaped watch,...
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Here's the $380,000 Watch Investor Tom Perkins Bragged About On TV
On Monday legendary venture capitalist Tom Perkins gave an interview to Bloomberg during which he defended a controversial letter that said people who criticize the rich were behaving like the Nazis...
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