How does Longines rake in over $1B in yearly revenue? Uninterrupted production, a robot or two and a top industry veteran at the helm …
How Your Favorite Brand Makes Watches
If you imagine your intricate mechanical watch to be singlehandedly made by some gnome-like craftsman sitting in a snowy cabin, you might be slightly disillusioned by the reality. The advanced facilities behind luxury watches' glitzy facade, however, in some ways seem almost magical, and a look inside them is an eye-opening experience.
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In the watch world, “in-house” movements are revered as a gold standard. But vertically integrated companies take the concept a step further by …
There’s a lot of intricate work happening at the factory of a watchmaking legend. In the 1800s, the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland was a day’s journey …
IWC has opened a beautiful new manufacturing center in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in time for its 150th anniversary. The challenges facing the …
A look at the brand’s R&D facility in Hamura and production line in Yamagata. It’s well established in watch lore that in the early ’80s, after …
The people and machinery behind the world’s largest watchmaker — and the world’s thinnest watch. In 2013, a surprising figure was dropped on the watch …
anOrdain has been making affordable enamel-dialed watches since late 2018, but it took the company 3 years to perfect its process. Last fall, we wrote …
We show you around Montblanc’s watchmaking facilities, including a beautiful building in Villeret that once housed the Minerva manufacture. Driving …
A visit to Japan pulls back the curtain on Seiko, whose single-minded pursuit of lofty goals often makes it appear unconcerned with larger trends. In …
Nick and Giles English are on a mission — to bring watchmaking back to the United Kingdom. And they’re succeeding brilliantly. “We haven’t tried to …