geneva metal wall clocks

Mad about the '60s

Today's cellphone does the same job with a beep, but it can't equal the bed-stand flair of a retro-looking alarm with a black or red, metal or plastic case on legs -- sometimes, a pedestal. Westclox . Wall clock. Yesterday's office clock said the ...

Men's Watch-Buying Guide

Even though the manufacturers that populate Lake Geneva make claims about the mechanical accuracy of their products, a luxury watch is not about telling the time. At least, not primarily. Because unlike more reliably than metal ever could. Fifty ...

US probes banks over metals markets

HSBC is among at least 10 major banks being investigated by U.S. authorities for possible rigging of the price-setting process for gold, silver, platinum and palladium, The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. Citing information from an ...

Hosseini is Kearney's only master mender of timepieces

Amid grandfather clocks, wall clocks, mantel clocks, Seiko watches and a few dainty cuckoo clocks, Saadat Hosseini sits peering through a magnifying loop at a tiny hair spring that is just .02 millimeters in size, as tiny as the head of a pin. He is ...

Consumers are giddy; businesses, not so much

Orders for manufactured durable goods such as computers, metals and electrical equipment declined 3.4%, and November's drop was revised to 2.1% from 0.7%. Economists expected a rise of 0.4%. Such orders now have fallen in four of the past five months....

Disappearing middle class jobs

24/7 Wall St. reviewed traditionally middle class occupations that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are expected to contract in the 2012-22 period. These jobs often require no more The jobs that are projected to shrink range from ...

Magic Mountain

During the opening ceremony, Schwab, who, besides being the Forum's chairman, is also a professor at the University of Geneva, descends the Congress Center's grand stairway like a tax-haven monarch, pausing to take in the applause of the nobles. In the ...