Jack’s Picks
Classically Sized, Gem-Set and High Design—three distinct visions of watchmaking, three distinct worlds of horology full of hidden treasures.
Global Editorial Director, Jack Forster, presents three deep dives on categories of watches that fall outside the realm of the ordinary, but which offer extraordinary satisfaction — sometimes in more ways than one may think.
Classically Sized looks at the so-called dress watch and smaller-sized watches; which are finally having their more-than-fifteen-minutes of fame after long languishing in the shadow of their burlier horological brethren. We also look at what exactly a “ladies’ watch” means and why the category is more elastic than ever.
High Design looks to watches daring to push the design language of fine watchmaking further than ever before — and, no surprises here, the charge is being led, and has been for many years, by independent watchmakers.
Finally, Gem-Set watches takes a closer look at a category often thought of by serious enthusiasts as simplistic technically, but require a highly challenging skill of execution. Gem-set watches exist in an already high-wire world of gem cutting, where setting is practiced with a precision to rival anything in the world of mechanical complications.