“We wanted to show to the world what Patek Philippe is able to do,” Thierry Stern, co-owner and president of Patek Philippe, told Gulf News on  the opening day of the Watch Art Grand Exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The first-of-its-kind museum exhibition of luxury watches showcases 400 timepieces by the brand, including one of the top three [...]

A nicely built and finished throughout deadbeat verge variation—a Garnier type—was featured in the October 1944 NAWCC Timekeeper. The watch is signed “Barrauds, London” and is from the collection of Chief Warrant Officer, U.S.A., Ira W. Leonard, of Denver, CO. The movement is hinged into an open-faced silver case. The movement and dial have the inscription “Patented [...]

One of the rarest watches ever made appeared in the July 1944 Timekeeper—the Whiskeybury watch. This early American watch is made entirely of glass and never needs winding! It always shows the right time. The Waterbury watch, the first cheap American watch, was a remarkable product, with duplex escapement, revolving train, no jewels, and a mainspring 8 ft. long. [...]