Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a 22-year-old Roger Smith showed George Daniels the first pocket watch he had made, the master horologist ...
Some upmarket wristwatches are all bells and whistles, while for others their attraction isn’t in what they do, but how they’re made. One case in point is the Christophe Claret Maestoso showcased at ...
WHAT: When a pocket watch sells for more than 12 times the high estimate at auction, that’s news. It happened last month in Geneva when four bidders fought over a rare 18K rose gold pocket watch, the ...