https://dialandcrown.com/ The latest culture stories from Dial & Crown. en https://dialandcrown.com/culture/patek-philippe-museum-geneva-portable-time/ https://dialandcrown.com/culture/patek-philippe-museum-geneva-portable-time/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Some 2,500 objects across five centuries, from sixteenth-century drum watches to the Stern family's archives: inside the Geneva museum that treats the whole history of the portable timepiece. https://dialandcrown.com/culture/musee-international-horlogerie-teaching-time/ https://dialandcrown.com/culture/musee-international-horlogerie-teaching-time/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Born from a watchmaking school's teaching collection in 1865 and housed since 1974 in a largely underground building, La Chaux-de-Fonds' horology museum remains a working research instrument. https://dialandcrown.com/culture/bulova-apollo-15-moon-watch/ https://dialandcrown.com/culture/bulova-apollo-15-moon-watch/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 On Apollo 15, a backup Bulova prototype ended up on the lunar surface. It later sold for $1.625 million, still the record for an astronaut-owned artefact. https://dialandcrown.com/culture/architects-wrist-design-essay/ https://dialandcrown.com/culture/architects-wrist-design-essay/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 From Max Bill's Bauhaus dials to Gerald Genta's integrated bracelets, the most enduring watches of the last seventy years were drawn by people who thought like architects, not jewellers. https://dialandcrown.com/culture/gphg-2026-nominees-landscape/ https://dialandcrown.com/culture/gphg-2026-nominees-landscape/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 With Patek Philippe, Cartier, Vacheron Constantin and Breguet all absent from this year's nominations, the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve has handed independents and smaller houses an unusually open stage.