Time On Show: the Italian art of the vintage watch fair
LETTER FROM ITALY
March 2026
This latest instalment of our Letter from Italy reads almost like a “Letter from Italians”. Our journey begins in Bologna, detours through Paris and will (…)
Rhapsody in red and blue: meditations on the GMT
GUEST COLUMN
January 2026
A lawyer with over 15 years of experience in diplomacy, based in Geneva, Rodolfo Rivas has served as a front-line negotiator on multilateral agreements, a (…)
CollectorSphere: when watch buyers speak up
February 2025
The new platform, bringing together influential collectors from around the world, focuses on producing reports that offer the buyers’ perspective on their (…)
HK club Watch Ho & Co celebrates its first anniversary in style
June 2024
Over 130 horological aficionados from across Asia converged at the American Town Club in Hong Kong to raise a glass to this milestone. The highlight of the (…)
Meeting the leading female collectors from Kuwait
January 2024
An engineer by training and a lover of fine watches, Anwar Yaqob Alyousef founded the Kuwait Watch Club Ladies early last year. We caught up with her to (…)
Female watch collectors: a meeting with TickTockBelles
July 2023
This new platform was launched as a community on Instagram to support women’s interests in watch collecting. We met its co-founders who share their plans (…)
The Swiss Hour: serving the Swiss watch ecosystem
January 2023
Watch clubs are springing up worldwide, from the US to Singapore, Dubai and Switzerland, where Thomas Campion has launched The Swiss Hour for the country’s (…)
What is your horological golden age?
COLLECTORS’ CHOICES
July 2022
For some collectors, it’s the Roaring Twenties, when the wristwatch was really just emerging – exactly one century ago. For others, it’s the conservative (…)
The breathtaking OAK Collection unveiled in London
May 2022
Lovers of horological treasures, hasten to London to see the OAK Collection of Patrick Getreide, one of the largest collections in the world, devoted (…)
Open season on collectors
REPORT
April 2021
With the opening of the 2021-2022 season, the “Collector”, whether real or imaginary, has become the preferred prey of the watchmaker-hunters emerging from (…)
Claude Sfeir collects only the crème de la crème
COLLECTOR PORTRAIT
April 2021
Claude Sfeir. How do you introduce Claude Sfeir? Or rather: does Claude Sfeir still need any introduction? Because this renowned jeweller and gemmologist is (…)
“A predilection for the innovation of the 1960s and 1970s”
COLLECTOR PORTRAIT
April 2021
Sy Block, a psychiatrist and watch enthusiast, has the distinction of being related to the legendary Gerry Grinberg, who was a distributor for Piaget in the (…)
