The Economist Takes A Look At "High-Tech" Mechanical Watches

June 11, 2014

It's always fascinating to see how traditional news outlets cover our weird little world of high-end watches. One of the most well regarded journalistic publications on the planet, The Economist, recently took a broad look at some of the most interesting high-tech mechanical watches, and how they are thriving when most people think of high-tech wrist wear as smart watches. Some of the pieces mentioned are no strangers to us at HODINKEE: the Swatch Sistem51, Breguet's history of tourbillons, and the GPHG winning Girard-Perregaux Constant Force.You can read the whole story right here.