Throughout his life, Swiss engineer Jean-Léon Reutter was fascinated by the idea of a clock that could keep time for centuries without a winding mechanism or an external power source. In 1928, upon ...

We like to think our self-winding watches can run forever. But they will stop eventually, and before then their accuracy will degrade. Friction, viscosity, air resistance, not to mention entropy ...

Anyone who knows Marc Newson knows he loves watches. Indeed, he has been creating them since the mid-1990s, when his Swiss Ikepod brand refreshed traditional horological thinking with a whole new ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s recently re-appointed CEO Jérôme Lambert has two focuses for his new era at the venerable Swiss label: “watchmaking creativity” and “revolutionary product”. At least, that’s what he ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the small test room of a clock factory, while learning about how to minimise metallic elasticity for ...