By Mike Thompson Roger Dubuis enhances its Poinçon de Genève appeal with skeleton movements featuring bold colors and unconventional materials, including a cutting-edge carbon case. Traditional Swiss watch manufacturers embellish their skeletonized models with intricate flowers, delicate patterns and lacy engraved flourishes. Most also start with existing movements and then cut away excess metal to create their skeleton version of...

As Girard-Perregaux celebrates its 225th anniversary this year, the Swiss haute horlogerie manufacture unveils the 1957. This 40mm steel watch features a revisited vintage design strongly inspired by the aesthetic codes of the Girard-Perregauxís Gyromatic watches dating from the 1960s. For centuries, watchmakers had been fascinated by the prospect of winding a watch's mainspring automatically. Girard-Perregaux produced a revolutionary solution...