Watchmaking doesn’t feel like the most 21st century profession. The job requires unwavering patience and a delicate touch, with watchmakers taking months or even years to create a single timepiece.

Ever since watches began bringing order to the ephemeral passage of time, they also started doing something else: breaking. Own one long enough and something will probably go wrong. It'll run slow. Or ...

It is these small, high-end independent watchmakers we are celebrating here, the masters of the craft, design, tools, and technology that drive today’s high horology. From well-known masters like ...

A journey through Switzerland’s ‘Watch Valley’ offers travelers a rare insight into how this complicated craft is alive–and ticking–in the Jura mountains. Visitors to Switzerland‘s “Watch Valley” can ...

Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro gripped the machine’s worn handle with his left hand and exhaled. Standing at the helm of the 100-year-old “rose engine,” he peered through a microscope at a small, square ...

Stoll & Co. started over 43 years ago in Dayton, Ohio as a one-man business. In 2024, 40 watchmakers tend to the needs of their customers while a large support staff of 20 people perform ...

Only a handful of luxury watch brands possess the prowess to create slim timepieces and elevate their mechanical boundaries, with Piaget leading the market by retaining the elegance and refinement ...