The days when bigger meant better are long gone. Over the past decade, watchmakers have set their sights on the small scale, churning out impressive releases that reject the bulky frames of yesteryear ...

Bulgari has broken the record for the world’s thinnest watch at 1.7mm. Bulgari has broken the record for the world’s thinnest watch at 1.7mm. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

For years, the title of “world’s thinnest mechanical watch” largely yo-yoed between Bulgari’s Octo Finissimo Ultra and the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept. So, when Richard Mille and Ferrari’s RM UP ...

(CNN) — In recent years, the giants of European horology have been locked in a heated battle to design the world’s thinnest mechanical watch. Luxury brands Bulgari, Piaget and Richard Mille have all, ...

The watch-making world has long been locked in an arms race to build the thin watches. Bulgari has routinely been a critical player in creating extraordinarily thin, recording-setting timepieces. And ...

Independent Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin has shared a new Wristmons prototype at Geneva Watch Days. Dubbed ThinKing, the timepiece is Konstantin Chaykin’s attempt to challenge what could be ...

Friendly competition keeps things interesting in the watch world—and occasionally leads to vaguely unsettling arms races. The thinnest watch. The most complicated watch. The deepest dive watch ...

A new watch from Swiss luxury brand Richard Mille is as thin as a US quarter — just 1.75mm. The RM UP-01 collaboration with Ferrari is now the thinnest mechanical watch in the world. Bulgari briefly ...

As the Quartz Crisis took hold in the 1970s, family-owned Piaget was nimble enough to read the writing on the wall: Signing on with a consortium of Swiss watch brands, it helped develop the electronic ...

Ten years ago, Bulgari forever changed the landscape of ultra-thin watchmaking with the release of the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon, marking the thinnest tourbillon movement and thinnest tourbillon watch ...