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Norway Reverts to Cold War Mode as Russian Air Patrols Spike

BODO, Norway — From his command post burrowed deep into a mountain of quartz and slate north of the Arctic Circle, the 54-year-old commander of the Norwegian military's operations headquarters watches time flowing backward, pushed into reverse by ...

For Norway, Cold War reheating in sky

BODO, Norway -- From his command post burrowed deep into a mountain of quartz and slate north of the Arctic Circle, the 54-year-old commander of the Norwegian military's operations headquarters watches time flowing backward, pushed into reverse by ...

An Old-Time Grace in Travel Clocks

LONDON — Travel clocks tend to be associated with old-fashioned luxury travel, a personal trinket to place on a nightstand aboard an ocean liner or on a safari. They hark back to a time when travel wasn't about packed airplanes or cruise ships with ...

Men's Watch-Buying Guide

Fifty years later, this technology found its way from wall-hanging clocks to wrists, and Switzerland's watchmaking industry, being slow to adapt, was decimated. In the 1980s, the Quartz Crisis destroyed more than two thirds of Swiss watch jobs as ...

Cartier's Archive: Home To Hidden Treasures

Her own mother-in-law, Queen Mary, already had a dollhouse full of working, 1/12th-scale Cartier clocks, now on show at Windsor Castle. And that's our essential point. The Cartier archive unveils an unusual view of world history in objets de vertu ...

Why the British Are Better at Satire

Gone is the jaunty, triumphal bombast of the British theme music as an aerial camera spirals in on Westminster. The new opening is a glowering nocturnal There is a winking naughtiness in his frequent asides, when he breaks down the fourth wall to ...

The Swiss Have Finally Started Making Luxury Smartwatches

At 6 o'clock on the watch dial, you'll find two concentric subdials in addition to the big hour and minute hands you're used to. One of the subdials shows the date, with the addition of a sleep indicator and a counter up to 100. This can be used to ...