Watches

From the diamond Patek Philippe, to Krayon's glowing aurora borealis-inspired green, the colour green is taking over the watch industry

The Athens Equestrian Festival 2023 will be held for the third consecutive year at the Olympic Equestrian Center in Markopoulo, East Attica, from Thursday to Sunday.

Two Rolexes that carried "sentimental" value for actor Paul Newman will be auctioned as part of a broad collection of the late icon's personal effects, with the timepieces each expected to earn up to $1 million.

Sotheby's said last month that more than 300 items owned by the movie star and car racer Newman and his wife of 50 years Joanne Woodward would go under the hammer on June 9.

Swiss watches are in high demand these days, but sales of second-hand timepieces are also booming, driven by Generation Z buyers who want luxury goods but are also sustainability-minded.

A mechanical watch can last 500 years, but a digital watch can last only 10 to 15 years, says a watchmaker who has been in the profession for the last 52 years.

Nezihi Arıcı repairs mechanical watches, from antique watches dating back to the 1800s to pocket watches of the most famous brands of the period, in his shop in Istanbul's Kadıköy district.

Yalçın Meral, an antique watch enthusiast in the central Anatolian province of Yozgat, reproduces and repairs the missing or damaged pieces of antique pocket watches designed by British and French watchmakers during the 16th-century Ottoman period.

Meral works for weeks or even months to hear the "tick-tock" sound from antique watches, which are over 4 centuries old.

The moment I stepped in the unassuming building, I felt like a feather floating in the air. The ambiance was very light and airy. All embraced in the lightness of white, the interior design of LUME makes one truly weightless, even slightly dizzy. A few moments later, I would witness the same effortless lightness in the dishes, with a strong stroke of sunshine.

However in terms of value the Swiss watch industry remains the world's largest exporter, in 2016 the Swiss watch exports were even lower than in the previous year.

For digital timepieces, doing many things is as simple as writing a few lines of code, but reproducing those functions mechanically in the world of haute chronologie is something else entirely.