Paige Reddinger

Names like Chanel and Louis Vuitton are still fighting for watchmaking credibility despite brining innovative designs to market. Here's how.

It also sets the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction by a living independent watchmaker—eclipsing the previous record-holder, Philippe Dufour.

Color, color, color! Word on the street is colored stones are becoming increasingly important to serious collectors and the high jewelry houses in Paris certainly delivered this season.

Online watch marketplace, Bezel, has sold a two-tone Patek Philippe Cubitus Ref. 5821/1AR for $112,500 during a digital watch auction.

DIAMOND CAVIAR RING Hidden in this white-gold caviar-boulé ring, laden with rose-cut diamonds, is a gold dish topped with blue sapphires.

CEO Thierry Stern followed a simple ethos is creating the new model: “Take the best of what you know and improve it.”

Harry Winston's new necklace is inspired by Japan's Mount Fuji and its snowy cliffs, with a baroque South Sea pearl of over 28 carats at the center.

Van Cleef & Arpels Treasure Island Collection Image Credit: Van Cleef & Arpels

Shown off-schedule in Miami, the new collection was expansive and full of sizeable colored stones.

French company, Okros, has invented a Watchlock system to prevent your Daytona from getting stolen.