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It was a Sunday morning in May when the message that Benoît Mintiens thought might never arrive popped up on his phone. In it were photographs of three beaten-up watches,...

On a bright Saturday in September, in a clockmaker’s workshop surrounded by farmland in the western Irish county of Clare, three curious students bent over workbenches covered with clock parts....

In 1924, the same year that Britain’s first Labour government took office and the Empire Exhibition opened, Watches of Switzerland began a mail order business, selling imported watches from its...

In a little over a year, Kollokium has sold out two limited-edition versions of its first watch and had online orders for a third iteration, opened in early October, sell...

A 19th-century clock, a gift from King Rama V, the Thai king of the era, is one of many pieces of art and history that have turned buildings and temples...

In 1938, when refugees fleeing the ravages of the Dust Bowl poured into California’s Central Valley, Sanora Babb worked in the migrant camps, setting up tents, planning dances, taking their...

As museums experiment with ways of attracting new visitors beyond a niche audience of art lovers, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has assembled an ambitious exhibition anchored in...

“I want to go on living even after my death!” Anne Frank writes in one of the most unforgettable lines from her venerated “Diary,” the book that has done more...

High above a rocky bluff overlooking the Atlantic, on the far eastern end of Montauk, N.Y., sits a rustic stone house visible mostly to fishermen and water enthusiasts. “This place...

When thinking of flying’s environmental impact, the CO2 emitted from burning jet fuel is usually what springs to mind. But there’s another lesser understood climate culprit hiding in plain sight...