Like wedding rings and china sets, antique pocket watches often become precious family heirlooms passed down from parent to child for generations. They never lose their charm no matter how beaten and ...
At a Phillips auction on May 18 in Geneva, even before that Basquiat painting broke records for selling at a breathtaking $110 million, the auction house recorded another slightly less covered record ...
Springfield 016, with a movement from a 1923 Illinois Watch Company pocket watch, $4200, vorticwatches.com. When it comes to watches, the Swiss get all the glory. It wasn’t always so. Beginning in the ...
The top lot at the Phillips 'Decade One' sale was a Patek Philippe perpetual calendar chronograph Ref. 1518 in stainless ...
You spend so much time on watches — could I ask you to recommend a pocket watch as a favor to eccentrics like me? — Henry Haskell, Tulsa, Okla. Very few of the big watch names still make pocket ...
You probably already own a couple of Charles Dickens’s books, but now you can have one of his timepieces, too. A vintage pocket watch once owned by the late, great English novelist is about to go ...
Vortic is among relatively few companies specializing in converting vintage pocket watches into wristwatches. While the majority of such pocket watches tend to be classically styled, Vortic’s newest ...
Aiche is best known for her signature bohemian designs—think vibrant, chunky turquoise pendants accented with shark teeth, drop earrings made with ammonite fossils, and rings crafted from ...