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 ...
Watches highlights the fine balance between restoring vintage timepieces and preserving their authenticity. A watch ...
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 ...
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The most poignant stories involved the families of immigrants. “This watch was important enough for someone to put it in a small bag of possessions to emigrate,” Kivel says. “It was one of the very ...
This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. In 2001, when Laura Kivel joined the team at Grand Central Watch-a ...