Welcome to Watchword, a series in which we break down key terminology to help you better understand the lay of the ...

Most watch dials start as a disc of raw metal. It doesn’t matter if your watch costs a few hundred dollars or a few thousand. That metal disc is then painted, machined and finished through a myriad of ...

Porcelain, enamel, carbon fiber, meteorite, mother-of-pearl, onyx, aventurine… boring! They all sound exotic and have attractive applications but are, in fact, relatively common watch-dial materials.

Meteorite-dial timepieces aren’t just aesthetically pleasing—they also contain the secrets to the origins of life.

The highlight of Cartier's most artistic of high-end luxury watches for 2014 will be a limited edition piece with a parrot avian made out of flower petals. This in fact seems to be the very first time ...

For someone in the market for distinctive aesthetics, excellent craftsmanship and a unique look that’s sure to turn heads, an enamel-dial watch could be the perfect choice. Often rendered in ...

Shinola, the luxury Detroit watch and bicycle maker, will begin producing its own watch dials sometime next year out of its flagship retail store in Midtown. The company will hire between 10 to 14 new ...

Even by the standards of watch boxes — typically oversized for the objects they hold — Chopard’s latest leather case, unveiled at watch fair Watches and Wonders, is strikingly large. But the grandeur ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. Creating a new type set from scratch is a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle: As you ...

With all due respect to the Pantone Color Institute, its color of the year announcement for 2021—naming Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, a bright shade of yellow, as the year’s twin hues—was way ...