Buccellati’s ethereal jewelry designs are achieved through time-honored Italian goldsmithing techniques.  Mario Buccellati opened the doors of his first jewelry store in the heart of Milan in 1919. Buccellati, who had mastered the art of traditional Italian goldsmithing during an apprenticeship at a leading Milanese goldsmith, intended from the outset to incorporate the same time-honored handcrafting skills into all...

How three generations of family leadership led Chopard to luxury sports watch nirvana. In 1963 Paul-André Chopard, having no children, sold his family-owned watchmaking business to Karl Scheufele III, a German goldsmith and watchmaker. Not long after, in the late 1970s, Karl III’s son, Karl-Friedrich, approached his father with an idea for an integrated-bracelet luxury...

Pilot’s watches for when going gets tough Bremont’s history as a watchmaker is deeply intertwined with the history of modern aviation, and since the brand was founded in 2002, its watches have found their way onto the wrists of both military and civilian aviators. The company has also created a number of watches for specific aviation units,...

Some watchmakers are pure craftsmen; others are pure engineers; Denis Flageollet is both. Ask a man on the street, and he’ll describe the poster on his teenage bedroom wall, a red blur rocketing down the highway, or a centerfold in an unmentionable magazine. But prompt an historian of Sant’Agata’s finest, and the response will be...

For the die-hard horological aficionado, the idea of the pièce unique — a one-of-one creation — holds a particular sway. Who, after all, wouldn’t want to own a watch that only he or she would ever have the opportunity to possess?  While the pièce unique can be an inordinately expensive proposition, there is another avenue toward ownership of one-off watches that is significantly more accessible:...

Greubel Forsey Is Many Things to Many Watch Collectors, but Its Heart and Soul Is the Tourbillon Greubel Forsey is many things to many watch collectors, but its heart and soul is the tourbillon. At a factory where overkill is just enough, the tourbillon occupies both seminal and leading-edge roles in the brand’s mech-rococo narrative.  ...