L’ORIENT, Switzerland — Of all the techniques employed by the luxury watch industry to make its products beautiful and special, guillochage is one of the most obscure. To the eye, it seems to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. De Bethune’s work in the way of astronomical timepieces has been epitomized in recent years though its various Starry models, ...

The watch world is full of highly technical, often highly French terms that any normal person, reasonably, doesn’t know. Welcome, then, to Horology in a Hurry, a semi-regular column where we’ll break ...

Japanese banknotes are patterned with highly intricate, geometrical designs of a style known as guilloche, or saimon in Japanese. Guilloche was first introduced to Japan in the beginning of the 19th ...

Originally published by Cole Pennington on Hodinkee. The "Old Mind" series consists of two prototypes, each featuring a different style of hand-guilloche pattern on the dial, and a 60-second ...

Arnold & Son unveils a new reference of its iconic Time Pyramid featuring the hand-chamfered A&S1615 calibre, housed in a 18-carat red gold case with a new case back beautifully decorated with a ...

Jochen Benzinger’s atelier in Pforzheim, Germany, a sunlit room filled with intricate antique rose engine machines, is more reminiscent of a museum than a workshop. But such an atmosphere seems ...

Why did God create hedge-funders? Maybe to provide a market for the luxury products needed to sustain endangered technologies and crafts. Behold the Guilloché machine, an amazing (and endangered) ...

Japanese banknotes are patterned with highly intricate, geometrical designs o a style known as guilloche, or saimon in Japanese. Guilloche was first introduced to Japan in the beginning of the 19th ...