No watchmaking genre celebrates the intricate and delicate craft of mechanical watchmaking quite like a skeleton, or open-worked, design. Dispensing with the watch’s dial, skeletonization seeks to ...

One of the most challenging crafts in watchmaking, skeletonization calls for the functional architecture of a movement, whether modern or classic, to be pared down to the bare essentials in a way that ...

Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. One of the more taxing exercises in making dress ...

Watches&Wonders (Hong Kong) -- Piaget is the master of the ultra-thin watch. Here, the brand decorates the razor thin (3mm) automatic movement with black enamel and sapphires before suspending it in a ...

As in the watches mentioned above, the movement for the Voyager Skeleton is purpose-built, developed exclusively for this watch, with technology firmly in the service of design. The feat of the ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Literary tracker of timepieces and luxury goods. It’s no secret that green has become the new blue this year when it comes to ...

Plenty of dial names produce watches that look the part on board a boat, but few can boast quite such strong links with the sea as Ulysse Nardin. The watchmaker first became renowned for its marine ...

Swiss brands Maurice Lacroix and Label Noir reunite for black DLC and turquoise AIKON Manufacture Skeleton, limited to 100 ...

Few modern watch brands enjoy experimentation quite as much as Ulysse Nardin. The brand today is best known for its Freak line which utilizes the watch’s movement as its dial and hands, and there are ...

Louis Vuitton has announced the launch of a new watch, the Voyager Skeleton, an exclusive edition limited to 150 pieces. Drawing on the technical expertise of openwork (skeleton) movements such as the ...

From the beginning, Paris-based Bell & Ross looked at pilots’ watches a bit differently. Instead of viewing them as aeronautical aids, the brand aimed to bring the experience of sitting in a cockpit ...