Results for The 1985 Swatch Consolidation

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Jérôme Lambert

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Georges Kern

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: François-Paul Journe

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Louis Ferla

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Jean-Frédéric Dufour

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Angelo Bonati

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Jean-Claude Biver

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Marc Hayek

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Aurel Bacs

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Jean-Christophe Babin

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Raynald Aeschlimann

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Maximilian Büsser

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Philippe Stern

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Nicolas G. Hayek

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Nicolas Bos

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Günter Blümlein

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Johann Rupert

The Revolutionary List – 26 Inspirational Leaders: Jean Arnault

The Revolutionary List: 26 Inspirational Leaders – François-Henry Bennahmias

Writing the Future: Breguet Launches the Expérimentale 1

Hands-On: The Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Starwheel in Rose Gold

A few striking updates to AP's most unique execution of a time-only watch.

Hands-On: The 36mm Tudor Ranger 79930 Is What Fans Wanted All Along

A step toward a more heritage-focused Ranger also comes with a big visual update that is sure to make a lot of people very happy.

The Amazing Panerai Luminor

Complicated Collectors: Gerd Ahrens

In the autumn of 1948, at Galerie Fischer’s auction house in Lucerne, a young Swiss watchmaker secured Lot 155, a Breguet pocket watch, No. 4763, circa 1848, with a straight-line club-tooth lever escapement. The case, fitted later by E. Brown at George Daniels’s suggestion to employ original movements and parts held in stock, aligned with his purpose. For most collectors, such a purchase might not have represented a pure Breguet. But for Gerd Ahrens, it was something altogether different: the first sentence in what would become a four-century narrative of mechanical ingenuity. Gerd Ahrens in his shop office on Schwanenplatz 7 around 1955. Image – Gerd Ahrens Foundation: a life built on wheels and springs Gerd Ahrens was born on September 18, 1920, in Hamburg, Germany, at a time when mechanical watches represented the pinnacle of portable precision. His father, Otto Ahrens, born in 1877, had already established himself as a highly respected watchmaker. Otto’s path, however, would be marked by the upheavals of the twentieth century. Before World War I, he had operated a successful shop in Paris and had built connections throughout the watchmaking centres of Inner Switzerland. The evidence of his skill was tangible: Otto personally built ten pocket watches, demonstrating not just commercial acumen but genuine mastery of the craft. Then the war came. Otto was forced to close his Paris shop in 1914, and the conflict left him penniless. A trained craftsman of the highest...

Schwarz Etienne Stuns with the 1902 Reserve de Marche