When my grandmother passed away last year, my mom inherited her Rolex: a dainty ladies' watch with a distinct, scalloped pattern on the gold band and a circle of small diamonds lining its round face.

Stoll & Co. started over 43 years ago in Dayton, Ohio as a one-man business. In 2024, 40 watchmakers tend to the needs of their customers while a large support staff of 20 people perform ...

WatchCheck says it can arrange repairs and maintenance for more than 200 brands and 38,700 models. By Rachel Felder As the founder of Oliver & Clarke, a luxury watch resale business, Linden Lazarus is ...

With student enrollments down and retirements rising, Swiss brands worry that growth will stall. By Roberta Naas The watchmaking world is facing an unprecedented problem: a severe lack of watchmakers ...

There is a shortage of watchmakers in the U.S., which has vexed upstart American watch brands looking to grow. Rolex’s new school for watchmakers opened in Dallas last fall and includes 27 students in ...

To fill the gap, Rolex recently opened a watchmaking school in Texas that offers free training in exchange for working for Rolex’s service department. We’ve seen Cartier refresh its watchmaking ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. Anyone who’s ever had to repair a luxury timepiece knows the drill: ...

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Ever since watches began bringing order to the ephemeral passage of time, they also started doing something else: breaking. Own one long enough and something will probably go wrong. It'll run slow. Or ...