With the debut of the new Ingenieur Automatic 40 at Watches and Wonders Geneva, IWC Schaffhausen is shining the spotlight anew on the legacy of the late designer Gérald Genta, whose 1976 Ingenieur SL, ...

This spring, Sotheby’s hosts “Gérald Genta: Icon of Time,” a series of sales taking place in Switzerland, Hong Kong, New York, and online featuring 100 original drawings by the legendary Swiss watch ...

At Watches & Wonders Geneva, which opened its doors this morning for the biggest watch exhibition of the year, IWC Schaffhausen unveiled its newest Ingenieur watches. This is a collection that was ...

No name looms larger in watch design than Gérald Genta‘s. The prolific designer—who many credit with saving the Swiss watch industry from the Quartz Crisis of the 1970s thanks to penning popular ...

CHIMING IN: For watchmakers, a minute repeater complication is a demonstration of technical mastery. Achieving the most beautiful sound was what mattered to legendary watch designer Gérald Genta. That ...

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Like Ernest Hemingway, Frank Lloyd-Wright and Andy Warhol, the product designer Genta emerges from the 20th Century as a towering figure in his field. But unlike his fellow artists, few outside of ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. On a rainy afternoon in Paris last month, Evelyne Genta, whose late ...

What would the modern watch landscape look like without the designer who pioneered concepts like the luxury sport watch? It’s no understatement that Swiss-born Gerald Genta has had a tremendous impact ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Gérald Genta Gefica Safari.

Works by the designer of the Royal Oak and the Nautilus are to be sold online this spring. By Ming Liu Gerald Genta is a world-famous watch designer, but the man behind horological prizes like the ...

LONDON — He has been called the father of modern watchmaking and the Picasso of watches — and now Gerald Genta has an official foundation in his name, too. Founded last month by his widow, Evelyne, ...