For more than 500 years, people have marveled at the Torre dell’Orologio, the magnificent clock tower on Piazza San Marco in Venice. But only two visitors were so inspired by it that they created a watch company called Venezianico, or, in English, Venetian. Alessandro and Alberto Morelli, the brothers who founded the brand in 2017,…
When the redesigned Louis Vuitton Tambour was introduced in mid-2023, it marked a change in direction for the Parisian luxury company’s watch division. The time-only steel sports watch started at $18,900, about three times the cost of the collection’s previous entry point. At the time Jean Arnault, the company’s director of watches, acknowledged that the…
Last fall when Patek Philippe unveiled its square Cubitus watch, based on the beloved Nautilus, there was a lot of chatter in the watch world over its polarizing design. But one key feature didn’t draw much comment: Its case, measured diagonally, was 45 millimeters. Despite the social media frenzy around vintage-inspired 30-something-millimeter timepieces, large watches…
Mr. McElherron noted that anyone should be wary of purchasing an expensive timepiece at auction without examining it first: “The problem is we don’t know what condition these watches are in and the images are really poor.” Dirty Laundry A month before the auction, several officers gathered around a conference table in Chief Officer Gubbin’s…