Welcome to Watchword, a series in which we break down key terminology to help you better understand the lay of the ...

For just about any watch, the dial is its most recognizable part. After all, that’s where you look to tell the time, so it makes sense that watch companies would go out of their way to make their ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. Creating a new type set from scratch is a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle: As you ...

Whether inlaid or embroidered, sturdy or smooth, the textiles present their own set of challenges. By Joshua Hendren Among the precious metals, enamels and ornamental stones often used to create watch ...

It might be somewhat perplexing to modern sensibilities that someone would want a garish Domino’s Pizza logo on the dial of their otherwise elegant Rolex watch. Even more potentially head-scratching ...

Watchmaking, by nature, is an incredibly intricate process. Dial-making is a particularly difficult creation within a timepiece, but crafting a gemstone dial is a truly delicate task. It is quite ...

Not since the quartz fashion-watch era, with its dearth of mechanical movements to scrutinize, have discussions about dial colors so preoccupied the collector community. Dial color was the essence of ...