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.

Geneva, Switzerland (CNN) — 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 ...

If you wanted a clock during the Renaissance, you were getting one with an enamel dial. You lucky duck. Enamel dials are stunning. Not that you would’ve known from Adam — back then, watchmakers didn’t ...

Sifting through more than 100 timepieces at the recently-concluded Watches and Wonders trade show in Geneva, three broad trends stood out: an increased use of recycled materials, continued reduction ...

Piaget has two signature specialties: ultra-thin movements and hard-stone dials. In fact, it was Piaget’s penchant for making watch dials using hard-stone minerals that led it to develop ultra-thin ...

To understand the role that color plays in the most rarefied corners of the Swiss watch market, consider the Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5711/1A-010, the one with the standard blue dial. Discontinued ...

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 ...