Buona parte delle storie di successo dei grandi marchi di orologeria inizia da un nome, da un cognome, da un luogo. Quella di Panerai non fa eccezione. La differenza con le storie più note, però, sta proprio nel dove. Niente Svizzera ma Italia, Toscana. Niente Neuchâtel o La Chaux-deFonds ma Firenze. Più precisamente Ponte alle Grazie. È lì che nel 1860 Giov[...]

When, in 1868, Florentine Ariosto Jones founded the watch company bearing his name in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, he probably had no idea it would be the beginning of a story that would lead to the birth of one of the most famous and coveted brands in the world, IWC. The peculiar thing is that this man, born in 1841 in New Hampshire, United States, had decide[...]

Sandro Fratini cannot be clearer in describing what it means for him to own a watch. He’s one of the world’s most important collectors, sorry... lovers, as well as great connoisseur of the subject. A former textile entrepreneur and now a hotelier, he has a vast collection, even if he has no idea how big it is or the total worth: “I’ve never counted the watch[...]

Many brands presented watches with GMT or World Time complications, the tools for globetrotters who like to move with dynamism and elegance. The GMT function allows the local time to be displayed by means of the normal 12-hour hand and the time of the place of origin by means of an additional hand that makes a single turn of the dial in 24 hours, typically a[...]