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Serial entrepreneur and Aera Instruments co-founder Jas Minhas can trace his horological roots back to the 1960s when his father set up a watch distribution business in Birmingham. Minhas, now 51, liv

Universal Genève, the lost giant of Swiss watchmaking, rises again

A new cohort of watchmakers are breaking from the shackles of tradition to create unconventional models — with surprisingly rewarding results

VISIT THE GENEVA Watch Days event in early September and it’s easy to get watch-drunk. After wondering if you’d get caught pocketing a perfect replica of Louis Moinet’s original 1816 chronograph and d

Chronographs are inextricably linked with motor sport these days, but five years after Louis Moinet invented the function in 1816, Louis XVIII’s watchmaker Nicolas Rieussec developed a contraption tha