Most watch dials start as a disc of raw metal. It doesn’t matter if your watch costs a few hundred dollars or a few thousand. That metal disc is then painted, machined and finished through a myriad of ...

For someone in the market for distinctive aesthetics, excellent craftsmanship and a unique look that’s sure to turn heads, an enamel-dial watch could be the perfect choice. Often rendered in ...

“It does pull your mind away,” said Alison Moriarty, who now fires dials and assembles watches for her own brand. By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Tulla, Ireland “A pinch of this and a sprinkle of that ...

In 2018, we wrote for the first time about anOrdain, a Scottish company producing in-house enamel-dialed watches in Glasgow. At the time, the company was just six people strong and only capable of ...

With the bang of a gavel at a 2002 Antiquorum sale in Geneva, a Patek Philippe platinum World Time watch sold for $4,026,524—the highest price paid for a vintage (pre-1990) wristwatch at auction. The ...

Coinciding with the opening this month of the immersive Reverso pop-up exhibition in New York entitled “Reverso Stories,” the Swiss watch brand Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils two Métiers d’ Art masterpieces ...

Scotland does not have a long history of watchmaking or working in grand feu, the painstaking technique of oven-baked enameling. But now a Glasgow-based start-up is offering an enamel-dial mechanical ...

Louis Erard’s latest release features a dial made by the most respected enamel studio in watchmaking but in a watch that costs significantly less than its nearest equivalent. The Louis Erard ...

Having explored every known Métiers d’Art dial from flinqué enamel to miniature painting and Fleurisanne engraving, Bovet 1822 is now adding sugar to its repertoire. That’s right, sugar. In a complex, ...