The Centurion Watch Program will offer its U.S members exclusive and curated watch offerings and VIP services at select Watches of Switzerland showrooms.
The watch industry is reaping unprecedented profits, and public sales events are going through a golden moment. EL PAÍS was present in one led by auctioneer extraordinaire Aurel Bacs in Geneva
A rare limited edition1946-manufactured Patek Philippe #1436 watch is set to break Australian price records as it goes under the hammer along with other fine jewelry over the next five days.
There have been expensive wristwatches for as long as there have been wristwatches of any kind, but it took the arrival of the smartphone and various other digital assistants to light a fire under the “luxury timepiece” business. There’s some justification for it, actually. After a brief and embarrassing period of Apple Watch mania, we all now understand that this much-coveted supercomputer-on-the-wrist is simply a closer and more humiliating leash to one’s employer, a public declaration of fealty to the imperious demands of email and Slack messages that can vibrate one’s pulse point instead of one’s pocket tackle.