In 2005, Richard Mille was an extremely young luxury watch brand, but very much one that displayed immense promise given the competitive atmosphere. Aiming for ultra complexity and a close synergy ...

Corning’s Gorilla Glass has been all the rage in a market dominated by growing smartphone touchscreen displays with its scratch-resistant and break-resistant properties, but there’s something even ...

Apple Watch Ultra is Apple's latest approach to pro athletes. With a bulkier 49mm size, it has a titanium finish and a tweaked design to help users during the wildest workouts. With a $799 price tag, ...

SAPPHIRE is now one of the most in-demand materials in watchmaking, but a decade ago, Richard Mille seems to be alone in grasping its true potential for use on an entire watch case – where one was ...

Imagine you’ve just spent $3 million on a new Bugatti Chiron, and want an appropriately pricey and suitably unique watch to go along with it. Innovative watchmaker Jacob & Co. has exactly what you ...

Sapphire crystal, held up by analysts and industry watchers as a wonder material that's virtually indestructible, was a no-show as the display on the new iPhone 6. It's an anticlimactic end to months ...

Richard Mille is having fun again. The independent Swiss watchmaker is known for avant-garde designs and technical prowess, but in recent years, the company has also been having a blast playing around ...

During a recent interview, Huawei’s CEO Richard Yu showed off a modified version of the Ascend P7 smartphone, fitted with a sapphire crystal screen, and even encouraged people to try and scratch the ...

Few timepieces combine the past and the future of high-end watchmaking as elegantly as Girard-Perregaux’s new Quasar Azure, the latest version of its cutting-edge wristwatch, which comes encased in ...

GT Advanced Technologies, a New Hampshire company that struck a lucrative deal last year to supply sapphire screens to Apple, has filed for bankruptcy. The company filed Monday to reorganize its ...

Girard-Perregaux‘s wildly modern Quasar watch just got a facelift that is taking the haute-horology timepiece to new heights. The watch first debuted exactly a year ago and highlighted the watch brand ...

If there’s one thing you can predict about haute horology, it’s watchmakers are anything but transparent about what they’re cooking up. Ironic, then, that see-through sapphire crystal watches are ...