In 2001, when Laura Kivel joined the team at Grand Central Watch—a watch repair business in New York City owned by her husband’s family since 1952—she was “dazzled by the watches but overwhelmed by ...

The complicated 18th-century pendulum clock was in a blackened state of disrepair and deemed unfixable by Sotheby’s auction house. Known as the Pendule Sympathique, it was a showcase of the legendary ...

Watch the transformation of a delicate Maurice Lacroix Swiss automatic watch, powered by the reliable ETA 2671 movement. This tiny timepiece, known for its elegance and precision, faced a host of ...

We were rooting around in the family safe and came across Dad’s old Bulova wristwatch. It had been Mom’s wedding day gift to Dad in 1946 and it was dead as a doornail. We braced ourselves: Restoring a ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. The most poignant stories involved the families of immigrants. “This ...