By Elisabeth Wagner (with Marton Radkai) Any snapshot of the watch industry will inevitably reveal something about the ebb and flow of markets. These tiny […]
Watching Hong Kong 2024
As a journalist with a specialty in watches, a trade fair is more than just…
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By Elisabeth Wagner (with Marton Radkai) Any snapshot of the watch industry will inevitably reveal…
What’s the difference?
One oft-heard cliché about watches today is this : “No-one needs a watch,” and the…
Watching Hong Kong 2024
As a journalist with a specialty in watches, a trade fair is more than just…
Baselworld 2019: peaks and peeks
The trickle of brands leaving Baselworld a few years ago turned into a torrent in…
An Adventure For the Wrist
Watches can be a major investment. So naturally, many collectors, especially of more recent vintage…
The genius of Paul Gerber
You haven't heard this one yet: Four top experts, a micro-engineer, an industrial designer, an…
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 2
From steam to punk and thereabouts As time moves along, styles are becoming jumbled. The…
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 1
Whither the watch Anyone with a decent nose and a functioning lizard brain would have…
Man of the People – Nicolas Hayek
Nicolas Hayek died the way he probably wanted to, enjoying his daily leisure time at…
Baselworld 2010 Part 1: Return of the watch
Watch yourself! Baselworld 2010: a review Part 1 If we are to believe the…
Wristwatch Annual 2026 is available
The latest edition of Wristwatch Annual (my 16th!) is on the market, so order your…
Asian Buzz: Hong Kong 2025
By Elisabeth Wagner (with Marton Radkai) Any snapshot of the watch industry will inevitably reveal…
What’s the difference?
One oft-heard cliché about watches today is this : “No-one needs a watch,” and the…
Watching Hong Kong 2024
As a journalist with a specialty in watches, a trade fair is more than just…
Baselworld 2019: peaks and peeks
The trickle of brands leaving Baselworld a few years ago turned into a torrent in…
An Adventure For the Wrist
Watches can be a major investment. So naturally, many collectors, especially of more recent vintage…
The genius of Paul Gerber
You haven't heard this one yet: Four top experts, a micro-engineer, an industrial designer, an…
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 2
From steam to punk and thereabouts As time moves along, styles are becoming jumbled. The…
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 1
Whither the watch Anyone with a decent nose and a functioning lizard brain would have…
Man of the People – Nicolas Hayek
Nicolas Hayek died the way he probably wanted to, enjoying his daily leisure time at…
Baselworld 2010 Part 1: Return of the watch
Watch yourself! Baselworld 2010: a review Part 1 If we are to believe the…
Wristwatch Annual 2026 is available
The latest edition of Wristwatch Annual (my 16th!) is on the market, so order your…
What’s the difference?
One oft-heard cliché about watches today is this : “No-one needs a watch,” and the subtext: “Especially not a really expensive watch with all kinds […]
Watching Hong Kong 2024
As a journalist with a specialty in watches, a trade fair is more than just looking at new collections and posting them online as fast […]
Baselworld 2019: peaks and peeks
Baselworld 2019 was quite exciting even without a slew of major brands, which stayed away this year.
An Adventure For the Wrist
Watches can be a major investment. So naturally, many collectors, especially of more recent vintage (and notably in emerging watch markets) prefer to play it […]
The genius of Paul Gerber
You haven’t heard this one yet: Four top experts, a micro-engineer, an industrial designer, an artist with a specialty in metalwork, and an accountant, walk […]
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 2
From steam to punk and thereabouts As time moves along, styles are becoming jumbled. The 1930s and Art-Deco have become something of a fixation, and […]
This time at Baselworld (2011), part 1
Zenith represents well the changes that have swept the Swiss watch industry over the past, say, 10 years, when people believed in the magic growth of money and the Madoff snake oil. How could something promoted with loud and ostentatious events and fetching
absurd prices not be worth a lot of money?
Man of the People – Nicolas Hayek
Nicolas Hayek died the way he probably wanted to, enjoying his daily leisure time at his desk in Biel. He was a grand entrepreneur in […]
Baselworld 2010 Part 1: Return of the watch
Watch yourself! Baselworld 2010: a review Part 1 If we are to believe the chroniclers of the wealthy like Steve Forbes, what affects the […]
Wristwatch Annual 2026 is available
The latest edition of Wristwatch Annual (my 16th!) is on the market, so order your copy ASAP! https://www.abbeville.com/products/wristwatch-annual-2026… This annual “Bible” of the watch industry […]
The Vortic Battle
I’m waiting for Hollywood to pick up this story: For the past years, R. T. Custer (no one knows his real name except his parents, […]
In the Vortic: Two American Tales in One
In 2015, thanks to the Baselworld jungle drum, I landed an appointment with a man named R. T. Custer. It’s his name, by the […]
Black and White Issue
Rubric: Racism is not just a knee on a neck…. It’s bigger than that, and it’s deeper. In the wee hours of June 12, as […]
Watch out, be sure!
Watch lovers, collectors, repairmen and -women all face a core issue: How to determine whether a watch is running on time and whether it […]
The Watch Tester
Watch lovers, collectors, repairmen and -women all face a core issue: How to determine whether a watch is running on time and whether it […]
SIHH 2018: a touch of madness
Disclaimer: Those who know me also know I do not have the gift of termination. Sure, I could “keep it short,” after all, in my […]
SIHH 2016 (part 1): wild cards
Tivoli Soldat Dos The 26th edition of the SIHH closed its doors recently and so it is time to take a look back over four […]