Timeless Prestige in Every Tick
In 1990, a year after reunification gave East German craftsmen access to a Western market they had been separated from for 40 years, a young entrepreneur named Roland Schwertner registered a watch company in a small Saxon town. Nomos Glashütte was founded with neither the...
In early May, the chandeliers inside Phillips’ Geneva saleroom glowed like freshly polished balance wheels. Bidders lined the wooden benches, clutching numbered paddles, while anxious specialists whispered last-minute estimates. When the hammer finally fell on the Breguet Sympathique No 1, applause echoed under the vaulted...
