The Coolest Thing You Can Do to a Watch? Hammer It

As watch collectors’ interests have started to prioritize design—strange shapes like the Cartier Crash and everyone from Rolex to Nomos pursuing big pops of color—the arms race to distinguish one watch from another by any means possible has gotten especially heated. Lately, several brands have revived an ancient technique that involves small hammers, or in the case of one new hotshot, a chisel. What’s really exciting is that while hammered cases and dials were almost exclusively…