Carol Besler

Carol Besler has written about watches for more than 20 years. From 1990 to 2005 she was editor and publisher of Canadian Jeweller magazine, while contributing regularly to several other publications, including International Watch, Robb Report, Patek Philippe Magazine, Financial Post and Worth. From 2006 to 2009 she was editor of the ladies edition of International Watch and remains a regular contributor to International Watch, Journal Haute Horlogerie, Haute Living, Watch Journal, Robb Report, Fashion Magazine, The New York Times (Watch Your Time), Sharp For Men, The Book For Men, Nuvo, Experience (for Bombardier) and the custom magazines about watches and jewelry published by Tufts Communications.

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Audemars Piguet: Saving the Planet One Tree at a Time

By Carol Besler
Audemars Piguet: Saving the Planet One Tree at a Time

Although you never need a reason, beyond the obvious, to buy an Audemars Piguet watch, it is good to know that when you do, you are helping to preserve the world’s rainforests. The Audemars Piguet Foundation was established out of the love of trees, a respect kindled in its own back yard. The brand’s headquarters, the Manufacture des Forges, is surrounded by the Grand Risoux forest nestled in a valley of the Jura Mountains in the village of Le Brassus, the heart of the Swiss watchmaking industry. It is an old-world forest, with trees nearly as tall as the mountains, READ MORE

Best of Baselworld 2013

By Carol Besler
Best of Baselworld 2013

Ten years ago, it would have been difficult to compile a list of five top tourbillons introduced at Baselworld, since so few brands were invested with the expertise or means to develop this prestigious complication. Today, compiling such a list is even more difficult, because so many brands are making tourbillons, some introducing several at one show. Since the tourbillon was invented more than 100 years ago, today it is not the invention itself but the artful adaptation of it that we admire. Meanwhile, ladies’ timepieces are on everyone’s radar for two reasons. Watch companies have been inventing new movements READ MORE

Sweet Sound of Watchmaking

By Carol Besler
Sweet Sound of Watchmaking

The aisles were alive with the sound of music at the Baselworld watch fair this year. Minute repeaters chimed to the antics of jaquemarts and music boxes tinkled out tunes ranging from classical Bach to classic rock, adding a new sensory component to this annual carnival of watches. Some of these watches are actually tiny traditional music boxes that produce melodies by way of teeth lined up on a steel comb, which interact with pins strategically placed on a revolving cylinder. Recreating this mechanism in a watch movement is a complicated process of miniaturization, which is then harnessed to a READ MORE

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