Watches
Here Are the Highlights From the Biggest Watch Show of the Year
Eight clever timepieces that will be added to our wish list.
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Laying eyes on the bustle of Baselworld, you would hardly get the idea that watchmakers are, as sales figures and other indicators attest, not enjoying their rosiest days. Here—in Basel, Switzerland, at the industry's foremost trade show—business would seem to be booming. Then you start listening to the jokes.
At a press party on the eve of opening day, a spokeswoman for Nomos Glashütte simultaneously plugged a new model (water resistant to 200 meters) and attempted shop-talk comedy: "Even if the industry is taking a dive overall, we have watches for that occasion, too!"