Category: Luxury Accessories

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Editor’s Note: This is a departure from my usual “Time Machines” column to present something a bit shorter and focused more on the current state of the industry than on historic watches. Like most watch enthusiasts,…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Easily one of the most controversial wristwatch accoutrements is the bund strap. Some people adore them, and some people hate them. Bund straps are watch straps that flare widely behind the case and cover the entire…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Last year, at the end of September, I got a chance to see Isotope’s watches firsthand at the Toronto Timepiece Show. Like many of the popular brands, including Oris, Christopher Ward, Doxa, Sinn, and AnOrdain, there…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Stephen Forsey, half of the duo that founded the highly technical Swiss watch brand Greubel Forsey, has stepped down from the company’s board of directors and will no longer have a role in the day-to-day operations…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Pitti Uomo, the Florence-based bi-annual Mecca of menswear, strode into its 109th edition with confidence and record attendance. Many a watch enthusiast was among the 19,000+ designers, fashion-buyers, journalists, and influencers. While vintage watches have long…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. What We Know Launched at this spring’s Retromobile classic car show in Paris, Chopard and Zagato are teaming up for the lightest titanium watch the watchmaking maison has ever launched. The new Chopard Zagato Lab One…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. From the ancient Egyptians to the Incas — and seemingly every culture in between — gold has been valued above all else. Whether from its rarity, its resistance to corrosion, or simply its incomparable lustre and…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. The folks at Louis Erard are not known for sporty watches. Quite the opposite; the brand is best known for its endless string of collabs and its regulators. To be sure, so dominant are those pillars in…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Over the past several years, the watch industry has seen a remarkable democratization of complications. Layouts and features that were once reserved for the wealthiest of collectors are increasingly available even at the entry level, and…

Editor’s pick — Accessory quick take: key highlight (movement/specs for watches, materials/finish, limited run, pricing tier) in 1–2 lines. Since 2007, LÜM-TEC has taken a very specific approach to watchmaking: The brand builds tough, legible, mechanically honest watches, then keeps refining them year after year. No constant reinvention for its own sake — just steady…