Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2001, when Laura Kivel joined the team at Grand Central Watch—a watch repair business in New York City owned by her husband’s ...

A Rolex retailer said they wouldn't try to fix my grandma's old watch. Rolex's policy says they can't guarantee service to watches discontinued over 35 years ago. Some independent watchmakers repair ...

The most poignant stories involved the families of immigrants. “This watch was important enough for someone to put it in a small bag of possessions to emigrate,” Kivel says. “It was one of the very ...