It starts with the strap and ends with the full-blown experience of a bespoke timepiece. Personalising a watch has no other limit than the amount you're willing (or able) to spend.

A rarely seen exercise in style ten years ago, skeleton watches are now part of the regular collections at brands intent on showing off their watches' inner beauty.

For the fourth consecutive year, Carré des Horlogers welcomed a panel of brands representing "new watchmaking", the majority of which are intent on shaking up old habits and traditions.

Two schools have emerged in Fine Watchmaking in recent years, one traditional and one unconventional. In 2019, it would appear that the second category has the upper hand. Take the example of these complicated timepieces, all making their debut at SIHH and all characteristic of a new way of thinking.

Renowned antique dealers, Fine Watch and High Jewellery houses gathered beneath the domed ceilings of the Grand Palais for La Biennale Paris. We spotlight two outstanding Manufactures: F.P. Journe and DeWitt.

Having cast off their dial, having rid their movement of extraneous matter, skeleton watches reveal all, or almost all, their mechanical anatomy. Take a peek, in images, at a branch of horology that has nothing to hide.

Between the brands that are stepping up their presence in China and the ones that are rushing to gain a foothold there, barely a month goes by without another high-profile store opening, as watch firms look to tap into China's economic miracle.

As if to prove that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," those companies that weathered the storm of last year's economic crisis are as determined as ever to succeed in the creation of a proprietary movement.