Brandon Moore, writing for Watches by SJX:

Arguably both the largest founder-led artisanal brand and the smallest industrial brand, F.P. Journe occupies a market niche all its own, making watches like no other.

Interesting to note that in addition to the new dials that Journe's Les Boîtiers de Genève (BDG) produces for itself and others, BDG also provides restoration services for a number of storied brands.

I've long admired miniature enamel painting—even before I trained to become a watchmaker. One thing I did not anticipate appreciating about them until after working on a few, though, is how much easier these small masterworks make it to spot pieces I've worked on at auction and how much more strongly my mind associates with them than their plainer counterparts. This is the second time this unique piece that was painted by Hélène May-Mercier for Patek Philippe has hit the auction block since it first crossed my bench a little over a decade ago.

Replicating the texture carved into a block of ash wood onto a sheet of enamel-coated silver, the dial of the Model 3 Method serves up an interesting play of texture and light.

My brother is a fine carpenter and has integrated this texture into the handles of cooking utensils and other items I have the pleasure of using around my house on a daily basis. On the one hand, I have a deep appreciation for the craft that inspired this new release from anOrdain. On the other, I am disappointed they opted to use laser ablation as the penultimate step toward achieving the same texture in silver.

An unequivocal piece unique, the Patek Philippe reference 3843 was commissioned in 1990 and completed in 1994. The lasque diamond that protects the blue, sunburst dial of the timepiece is thought to be the third largest of its kind in the world.

Over the long arc of history, I firmly believe we are on the cusp of seeing synthetic diamond crystals supplant the synthetic sapphire crystals that have become par for the course in high-end watchmaking. Nevertheless, a unique and storied timepiece like this, with the subtle inclusions of its natural, cleaved diamond will retain a steadfast charm and rarity.

Created by the Besançon-based company, SilMach, PowerMEMS are high-resolution, electrostatic motors etched from silicon wafers. Compact, non-magnetic, low-energy, extremely light, and mass produceable to within incredibly tight tolerances, PowerMEMS appear to be an ideal candidate as a successor to the Lavet-type stepping motors traditionally used in battery-operated, analog wristwatches.

Designed by Zanwen Li, the Mobius Ring Calendar Clock captures both the infinitude and cyclical nature of time.

Utilizing magnets hidden within the three-dimensional form of the möbius ring, the owner of the calendar can move the ferrous marble indicating each day and month by hand to record the passage of time.

In clocks and watches that employ cycloidal tooth forms, the upper portion of the gear tooth flank employs an epicycloidal form (versus the hypocycloid arc that leads into the valley formed between two gear teeth inside of the pitch circle). Sophie Houlden has taken this same mathematical principle, normally used to form gear teeth, and applied it to display the time in a unique but intelligible way on the dial of virtual clock.

While a multiplicity of one-piece tape dispensers made of plastic have existed for decades, the Push tape dispenser made by German Industrial Designer, Jasper Ohainski, while he was a student at Kunsthochschule Kassel in Northern Germany, takes the concept to a sculptural level.

Fit for display at a museum of modern art—or, at the very least, fit for sale in its gift shop—the (almost) one-piece tape dispenser was crafted from a single sheet of laser-cut, bent, formed, and polished brass with a small support rest inserted as a convenience for the end of the tape to stick to after it has been cut.

From eponymous, white-labelled watches to partnerships with NASA and Omega, Charles Schultz's beloved beagle has a longstanding legacy in the watch industry.

Robert Leedham, reporting for GQ, dives into the process that Paige Braddock and his team at Charles M Scholtz Creative Associates went through, alongside the designers at Apple, to create the 12+ minutes of animation that lend a splash of whimsy to the new Snoopy dial available in watchOS 10.

Thor Svaboe, writing for Fratello, goes behind the scenes at Laurent Ferrier and F.P. Journe's Cadraniers et Boîtiers de Genève, who produce the dials for Laurent Ferrier and others, including Vacheron Constantin.

To me, what’s inside the case is almost more important than the actual function of a watch, not to mention the time it takes to finish and assemble and finish a piece of Haute Horlogerie.