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A Lucerne Luxe magazine issue featuring a blue dial watch on the cover, surrounded by white canvas tote bags printed with Lucerne Watch Week and a pair of white watchmaker handling gloves resting on top
Manila, PH

Manila is the place & Time is the story

Luxury watchmaking was never really about telling time. Sixteen watchmakers from Switzerland, Germany and Japan set up inside the Ayala Museum.

By Igan D'Bayan · August 4, 2026
The blue dial Patek Philippe Ref. 5330G-001 World Time watch with denim-patterned calfskin strap, displaying time zones and dates
Makati, PH

Patek Philippe: How tech intersects with aesthetics

A World Time watch whose date follows you across zones, and a Greenbelt boutique: Deepa Chatrath on making things useful and beautiful.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 28, 2024
Deepa Chatrath and Emerson Yao stand beside a gilded Patek Philippe display at the launch
BGC, PH

A concise history of tomorrow: Patek Philippe launches its ‘Knowledge Series’

Deepa Chatrath tells people the best minds work in mechanical watchmaking: the astronomers, the mathematicians, the master craftsmen.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 21, 2018
Emerson Yao raises a fist and holds up a marathon finisher medal, in a blue running jacket and sunglasses against a bright criss-crossed backdrop
In Focus

What races through Emerson Yao’s mind while running

Lucerne’s Emerson Yao on the ideas that arrive mid-marathon, from Roxas Boulevard to the Champs-Élysées, and why motion is when the mind goes quiet.

By Igan D'Bayan · May 1, 2018
Steel Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso with a sunray blue dial and small-seconds counter, its rectangular case caught mid-swivel above a navy leather strap, against black
Makati, PH

Reverso of fortune

‘It’s like a heart beating, moving inside. The cage is made of a hundred parts and it weighs less than a gram.’ The Reverso turns eighty.

By Igan D'Bayan · November 30, 2011