A journey through Switzerland’s ‘Watch Valley’ offers travelers a rare insight into how this complicated craft is alive–and ticking–in the Jura mountains. Visitors to Switzerland‘s “Watch Valley” can ...

It is these small, high-end independent watchmakers we are celebrating here, the masters of the craft, design, tools, and technology that drive today’s high horology. From well-known masters like ...

Stoll & Co. started over 43 years ago in Dayton, Ohio as a one-man business. In 2024, 40 watchmakers tend to the needs of their customers while a large support staff of 20 people perform ...

There is a shortage of watchmakers in the U.S., which has vexed upstart American watch brands looking to grow. Rolex’s new school for watchmakers opened in Dallas last fall and includes 27 students in ...

In the grand bastion of watchmaking, the words TAG Heuer and innovation are rarely far apart. For more than 160 years, the La Chaux-de-Fonds-based luxury watchmaker has built a reputation for pushing ...

Spencer Torok, 25, a watchmaker at J.N. Shapiro Watches in Torrance, recently graduated from Rolex's Lititz Watch Technicum. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Ever since watches began bringing ...

Ever since watches began bringing order to the ephemeral passage of time, they also started doing something else: breaking. Own one long enough and something will probably go wrong. It'll run slow. Or ...