ABTW At Home On Instagram Continues This Week With Two New Live Interviews
With many of our friends in Europe heading back to work this week, and many parts of the United States showing signs that there’s indeed a road map charting a course towards the light at the end of...
View ArticleInterview: Anthony de Haas, Director Of Product Development At A. Lange & Söhne
Conversations we normally used to have at places like Watches & Wonders and Baselworld have moved on to a digital interface — hopefully, temporarily. Still, a bit of social distancing won’t have us...
View ArticleThis Week On ABTW At Home: Instagram Live With MB&F And A Special Team...
We’re down to the final two weeks of our twice-weekly Instagram Live show ABTW at HOME, but that hasn’t stopped us from ensuring we’ve got a full schedule of interesting guests and insightful...
View ArticleInterview: Jean-Francois Sberro, President Of Hublot North America
Jean-Francois Sberro has been with luxury group LVMH since 2004. Following five years at TAG Heuer, the last 11 years he’s been with Hublot, working closely with Jean-Claude Biver and Ricardo...
View ArticleThis Week On ABTW At Home: Instagram Live With Rado and Zenith
This is it — we’re in the home stretch, with just one week at home before the state of California finally allows many of us cast aside our sweatpants and shaggy quarantine haircuts and set unfettered...
View ArticleInterview: Citizen Watch America’s Jeffrey Cohen On Realigning For The Future
With nearly 30 years of experience at his disposal, Jeffery Cohen is the person responsible for running Citizen and its group of watch brands in the US as the President of Citizen Watches America. What...
View ArticleInterview: Understanding the Swiss Made K1 Automatic Movement With Creator...
At the heart of each timepiece is a movement. It is an engine whose development has been continuously improved upon since the 16th century. Literally, hundreds of years of human skill and innovation...
View ArticleInterview: HOURUNIVERSE Watch Festival Officially Replaces Baselworld Trade Show
MCH, the parent company of Baselworld, today announced a new show name and concept with “HOURUNIVERSE.” Sharing relatively few details in the press release statement on the topic, I spoke to Mr. Michel...
View ArticleInterview: Angelus Watches CEO Bertrand Savary
For 2020, Swiss Angelus watches welcomes a new CEO with Mr. Bertrand Savary. To my knowledge, he is the first dedicated leader of the relaunched brand (in 2015) after it was spearheaded by former La...
View ArticleNew Study Ranks aBlogtoWatch As “The Most Influential Watch Website” For...
A new study about watch consumer behavior and e-commerce has come to some important conclusions about how people make decisions when it comes buying watches online. The report, “How To Increase Your...
View ArticleInterview: Head Of Watch Marketing At Piaget Discusses The Grandness Of Being...
High up in the Swiss mountains above the city of Neuchâtel is the small town of La Côte-aux-Fées. It has a population of less than 500, and it also happens to be the home of Piaget’s fine watchmaking....
View ArticleNixie Time Zone Clock V2 Merges Meticulous Swiss Design With No-Longer-Made...
Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch by advertiser Veteran creative and production firm Adatte Design in Lausanne, Switzerland is no stranger to timekeeping, or good taste. Responsible for...
View ArticleSwiss Watch Industry CEOs Speak Out About How To Do Business Post-Pandemic
In six months, the pandemic crisis seems to have transformed the way the watch world works more profoundly than the industry has changed in the last decade. The acceleration of digital technology, the...
View ArticleInterview: Christian Knoop, IWC Creative Director On 2020 IWC Novelties
Early this year, on a special preview of 2020 IWC novelties, we took the chance to talk watch design, IWC heritage and future, and all things watchmaking with Christian Knoop, IWC’s Creative Director....
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Stephen Hawking’s Son Talks Time, His Dad, & Limited-Edition...
In close collaboration with the Estate of Stephen Hawking and his family, England’s Bremont watches recently unveiled a new set of limited-edition “Bremont Hawking” watches that includes three men’s...
View ArticleDesigner Giorgio Galli Discusses His Celebrated Timex Galli S1 Automatic Watch
Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch by advertiser Until recently, Timex Chief Executive Creative Director Giorgio Galli had never before experienced his own name on the dial of a timepiece,...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: The G-Shock Watch Strategy By Casio’s Tadashi Shibuya
After a number of years in the market, Mr. Tadashi Shibuya has recently been promoted to run Casio watches in the U.S., the most important market for Casio outside Japan. Since the 1980s, the American...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Talking Cars & Watches With Lincoln Design Director Kemal Curic
If you spend enough time in the watch industry, you come to the realization that most of today’s wristwatch designers started off as automotive designers in the course of their modern industrial design...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: The Louis Moinet Space Revolution Watch & Wearable Art
The “independent watch movement” that began in the early 2000s was defined by a marked deviation from horological style norms of the past. This time period is what I call the second-wave of modern...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Accomplished Swiss Watch Designer Fabrice Gonet
There are two types of successful watch designers in the timepiece industry: those whose names are promoted, and those whose names are a bit more discreet. Traditionally, the role of watch designer...
View ArticleOmega Watches Profess Values & Energy In San Francisco
Blocks away from where I originally started aBlogtoWatch in San Francisco, I found myself enjoying the hospitality of Omega’s newest boutique near the popular Union Square shopping district. Omega...
View ArticleInterview: Christophe Musy On Mauron Musy Watches & Brand’s Future Developments
Independent watch brands are not identified by business ownership but rather by leadership. Brands operated by and for timepiece enthusiasts who are serious about making a real difference in the...
View ArticleVideo: Discussion With Founder Of ‘Class Watches’ eBay Store
Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch by advertiser In the below video, aBlogtoWatch founder Ariel Adams interviews Mauricio Pier, founder of Class Watches. Based in Los Angeles, California, Class...
View ArticleBuying A Watch Shouldn’t Be This Hard: Handling Hyped-Up Horology
At the outset of 2022, one major topic is on the minds of many watch lovers out there: Will buying watches still be so difficult this year? Unfortunately, for many people, 2022 will probably still...
View ArticleVideo Interview: George Bamford’s Weird Watch Collecting On eBay
In this special video interview, George Bamford (of Bamford Watch Department) and Ariel Adams (founder of aBlogtoWatch) discuss some of the peculiar vintage and historic timepieces that interest Mr....
View ArticleWatch Collecting And A Casual Approach To Excellence With Breitling...
I’m in Milwaukee as a guest of Breitling for the evening, and as I wait for the elevator to arrive at the fifth floor of the hotel, a single word sticks in my head from the welcome letter that was...
View ArticleJean Arnault On Who Should Apply For The Louis Vuitton LV Watch Prize
While in Courchevel, France attending a launch of new high-watchmaking products from Louis Vuitton, I sat down with the company’s Watch Director to discuss the first-ever LV Watch Prize campaign...
View ArticleInterview: Breguet Watches Head Of Patrimony Emmanuel Breguet And CEO Lionel...
Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch for advertiser. Following the launch of the Type XX and the recent appointment of a CEO, aBlogtoWatch interviewed two leading figures behind the historically...
View ArticleHands-On: Delma 1924 Tourbillon Watch
The tourbillon is one of watchmaking’s most prestigious innovations, although there has been somewhat of a democratization of this highly desirable complication in recent years, and a surprising...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Ludwig Oechslin, Watchmaker, Historian, Inventor, Academic
Ludwig Oechslin is a name you may not have heard of unless you’ve been introduced to the deeper world of haute horology. He is one of those rare polymath mechanical geniuses responsible for some of the...
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