A grinning golfer with a modest belly, admiring a drive. A silver fox in a suit jacket, enjoying a glass of wine as a beautiful woman gazes into his eyes. A bearded father, cooking for his children in a sun-dappled kitchen. These are the models of well-being promoted by Fella Health, a start-up that prescribes…
It took Guillaume Laidet and Théo Auffret four weeks to raise a million dollars for what they called their “neo-futuristic horology” watch company. And a split second to lose it. Having funded their project on Kickstarter, the two Frenchmen readied their first Argon watch for delivery in the summer of 2023, investing half of the…
The largest luxury watch fair in Switzerland opens April 9 — just as the Swiss watch industry appears to be entering a slowdown. More than 45,000 visitors are expected to visit Watches and Wonders Geneva and its 54 exhibiting watch brands before the show closes April 15, just weeks after the Federation of the Swiss…
A little more than a year ago, when Ilaria Resta was interviewing for the role of chief executive at the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, she and her family spent a few days in the Vallée de Joux, the area in the Jura Mountains known as the cradle of Swiss watchmaking. “It was a way for…
Australia doesn’t have much of a homegrown watch industry, and what it does have primarily sells online — facts that spurred Domenic Italiano, founder and designer of Grip Auto Timepieces, to organize what he called the country’s first watch fair. After all, Mr. Italiano, 37, said, watchmakers there “don’t get an opportunity to have our…
The trappings of dressmaking — including thimbles, thread, scissors and measuring tapes — feature in a new 20-piece Couture O’Clock watch collection by Chanel, inspired by the house’s couture workshops on Rue Cambon in Paris. Arnaud Chastaingt, director of Chanel’s Watchmaking Creation Studio, wrote in an email that he had chosen to focus on the…
Frustration is often the impetus for starting a business, and that’s exactly what produced heist-out, a glossy watch magazine introduced in May 2023 — and now it is teaming with Sotheby’s Geneva for what is described as a subversive kind of auction. Lorenzo Maillard and Maxime Couturier had been working for several years at the…
“In the beginning it was not the goal to be independent, to create a brand,” the independent watchmaker Raúl Pagès said in his two-room hillside atelier in the Swiss hamlet Les Brenets, overlooking the Jura Mountains. “It was just to design a movement, to create something from scratch.” It is here, in a house that…
In early December, Nicolò Villa, a jeweler from Milan, was in Manhattan for a trunk show when he spotted a pre-owned Rolex Lady-Datejust with a blue-green opal dial in a shop on West 47th Street. At 26 millimeters in diameter, the watch’s two-tone case was only slightly larger than a 25-cent piece. Mr. Villa bought…
When your mind hates running even more than your body does, you have to strategize.