The best Christmas-themed gadget for the holidays is a chiming watch – actually not a gadget at all but the highest achievement in complicated watchmaking. Hublot and Chopard recently introduced new ...

If there’s one common saying that sums up the genre of chiming watches, it’s this: There’s levels to this. In other words, there are multiple types of chiming watches — mechanical watches that use a ...

A unique chiming wristwatch made by Swiss independent producer Philippe Dufour will go to public auction for the first time in December and is expected to fetch at least $2 million in a sale that will ...

The engineers at Patek Philippe Advanced Research have extended the horizon of its chiming watches by developing a totally new all-mechanical sound amplifying system. This fortissimo “ff” module ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Literary tracker of timepieces and luxury goods. This article is more than 7 years old. This year you can ring in the new year -- ...

Omega has dropped a near half-a-million dollar Speedmaster with an all-new chiming chronograph complication inside. The Speedmaster Chrono Chime sounds out the minutes, tens-of-seconds and seconds of ...

EVEN in the world of complicated watches, a grande sonnerie is considered a unicorn. Few watchmakers attempt one and even fewer succeed – and almost none would dream of reinventing it. Don’t tell that ...

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