BeckerTime BLOG

It is fair to say that Grand Seiko is responsible for completely transforming the image of Japanese watches. Before the manufacture was established in 1960, the country had produced little else other than cheap, relatively primitive models. It didn’t help that parent company, Seiko was also the driving force behind quartz movements, a technology which, […]

Making up one third of the so-called Holy Trinity of horology, Audemars Piguet sits alongside the other watchmaking titans of Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. Formed in the late 18th century, the marque was founded by two friends, each bringing his own particular strengths and attributes to tackle the myriad challenges of producing timepieces which […]

No one would ever claim trying to break into the horology industry was easy. It is a business dominated by a handful of mammoth players (the ones everyone has heard of regardless of how much interest watches hold for them), followed by a relatively large number of mainstream brands which are almost as recognizable. After […]

The story of the now sadly defunct De Grisogono jewelry empire has just about everything you could ask for; a rags to riches tale, a playboy protagonist immersed in the world of the impossibly glamorous elite, a clientele of the ultra-rich jet set, and an ending mired in scandal and controversy. All told, it is […]