Greubel
Forsey Takes a Subtler Approach with its Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision
The name Greubel
Forsey conjures up many images among horological connoisseurs but classically
simple dials and elegantly thin cases are probably not among them — at
least until now. With the release of the Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24
Secondes Vision, the 11-year-old brand founded by Robert Greubel and
Stephen Forsey proves that it can do […]
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Press
Release: WatchTime’s Newest E-Special Showcases the Watches of SIHH 2015
New York City
(NY); Watchtime.com, the website of America’s best-selling watch
magazine, WatchTime, has announced its latest downloadable E-Special,
collecting its complete coverage of the 2015 Salon International de la
Haute Horlogerie (SIHH). The SIHH, which takes place in Geneva, is an
exclusive, annual event for the luxury watch industry in which many
important watch […]
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Press
Release: WatchTime Tests the Omega Seamaster 300 for its May-June Cover
Story
New York City
(NY): America’s best-selling watch magazine, WatchTime, presents a
comprehensive watch test of the Omega Seamaster 300, written by WatchTime
editor Jens Koch. With the introduction of its new antimagnetic
technology in 2013, Omega set a new standard in the fight against the
effects of magnetic fields on a watch movement. The concept debuted […]
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Rolex, Omega…
Pulsar? New James Bond Watch Exhibit Focuses on the Quartz Era
To readers of
Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels and those who fondly recall the
early Sean Connery films, Agent 007 will always be a Rolex man. To
younger fans, who’ve known no cinematic Bond other than Pierce Brosnan
and Daniel Craig, Bond is inseparable from Omega. But a new exhibit at
the National Watch […]
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Fratello
Friday: Top 5 Rectangular Watches I Might Wear
In my modest
collection of watches, there is not a single one with a rectangular case;
the only non-round one is the octagonal Audemars Piguet Royal Oak
Extra-Thin. Nevertheless, since rectangular-case watches do have their
fans, this week’s Fratello Friday focuses on the top five I would wear…
if I did indeed wear them. My […]
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WatchTime
Reader Tour: Experience Haute Horlogerie In Germany And Switzerland
WatchTime offers
an exclusive watchmaking journey you will never forget, from June 24 to
July 2, in Switzerland and Germany. Tickets are almost sold out; act
fast! Not even the average German knows where Glashütte is located,
yet this beautiful, hidden gem is one of the capitals of watchmaking.
Once a small mining village, Glashütte […]
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Look, Ma, No
Hands: 10 Watches That Tell Time Differently
The vast
majority of watches stick to traditional hour and minute hands to display
the time, but a handful of bold manufacturers use their technical prowess
to find new, innovative, and often downright audacious methods to
indicate the hours, minutes, and occasionally even other functions. Below
is a list of unusual watches that deviate from […]
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5 Affordable
Rolex Watches for New Collectors
Rolex is the
most recognizable and most coveted watch brand in the world. Here are
five popular Rolex watch models that are in stores now and that offer
accessible (for Rolex, that is) prices for collectors of all ages.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Rolex calls it the quintessential Oyster, and the
purest expression of the […]
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Temptation
Thursday by Escapement: Hands-On with the Chopard L.U.C. Regulator
In this week’s
Temptation Thursday, Angus Davies of online watch magazine Escapement
gets up close and personal with the Chopard L.U.C. Regulator, a timepiece
launched by the brand at this year’s Baselworld watch fair. Conforming to
standards Throughout my early adult life, I sought to conform and be a
“regular guy.” On reaching 40, I […]
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Hublot Big
Bang Unico
Since its debut
in 2009, Hublot’s in-house Unico caliber, a column-wheel flyback
chronograph movement, has been used in various models in the brand’s King
Power collection. A few years ago, Hublot introduced the first Big Bang
watch equipped with the Unico. The Hublot Big Bang Unico has a
45.5-mm-diameter case, in either titanium or Hublot’s […]
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10 Things to
Know About Omega
Omega is among
the best-known luxury watch brands on the planet, and certainly the best
known off the planet. From NASA to the Olympics to James Bond, not to
mention names like Speedmaster, Seamaster and Constellation, the brand
has achieved well-deserved rock-star status among watch enthusiasts
everywhere. Here are 10 things you should know about […]
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Dive Watches
101: What Did Divers Use Before Dive Watches?
When Rolex and
Blancpain launched their first wristwatches for divers in the early 1950s
they did, in fact, create the archetype of the modern dive watch, thanks
to the development of the quintessential rotating bezel. However, they
did not invent the first watch used by divers. If we travel back in time,
we find that […]
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Dive Watch
Wednesday: 5 Contemporary Titanium Dive Watches
Even though
Seiko was the first watch company to use titanium for a watch case back
in the 1970s, it was IWC that first commercially launched a watch made
entirely out of titanium in the ’80s. Why titanium? It’s a material with
high tensile strength and toughness, yet comparably light in weight and,
most importantly, […]
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Breitling
Aerospace Evo
Breitling
launched the original version of its Breitling Aerospace Evo in 1985.
Last year, the brand released a new model of the Breitling Aerospace Evo,
a mainstay of its Professional collection, packing all of the existing
functions into a slightly larger and redesigned case. The new Breitling
Aerospace Evo, like its predecessor, is an analog-digital […]
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Watch Insider
Reviews the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter
The Oris Big
Crown ProPilot Altimeter is a wristwatch equipped with a mechanical
barometric altimeter-and-barometer movement. In fact, it is the world’s
first automatic mechanical altimeter watch at an affordable price. Learn
more about it in this in-depth review, excerpted from my blog,
Watch-Insider.com. Here’s how Oris describes the new watch in its press
release: […]
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Tough Timers:
10 Watches for Extreme Conditions
Mechanical
watches are delicate pieces of machinery that can be thrown off kilter if
the proper precautions aren’t taken. Magnetic fields, extreme
temperatures, and shocks are among the risks watches face. Below, in this
list we take a look at some watches designed to withstand these outside
factors. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Extreme LAB 2 […]
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Borrowed
Time: Kentucky Derby Weekend with the Longines Conquest Classic Moonphase
When Longines
invited me to attend the Kentucky Derby, the crown jewel of horse
racing’s Triple Crown, as a guest of the brand, I was very intrigued.
When it agreed to let me wear and review one of its new timepieces during
the event — namely, the Longines Conquest Classic Moonphase, the same
watch awarded […]
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First Watch:
U.S. Presidents and Their Timepieces
With the race
for the 2016 presidential primaries already off and running, we felt it
was the perfect time to share this feature on presidents and their
watches from the WatchTime archives (December 2008). Click here to find
out what brands graced the wrists and waistcoasts of our chief
executives. In 1962, the story goes, […]
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Comparison
Test: TAG Heuer Monaco vs. Breitling Chrono-Matic
In this watch
test feature our writer Jens Koch and photographer Nik Schölzel pit
modern versions of two iconic 1970s chronographs — the TAG Heuer Monaco
and the Breitling Chono-Matic — against each other in a challenge of
retro sports watches. The generation that came of age in the 1970s loves
to revisit its memories […]
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Mastering the
Rolex Sky Dweller (With Video)
In the past
half-century, since it launched its GMT-Master, Rolex has brought out
just two new complications: the Rolex Yacht-Master II, in 2007, with a
countdown yacht timer, and the Rolex Sky-Dweller, equipped with both a
second time zone and an annual calendar, in 2012. In this feature we
explain how the Sky-Dweller, and its […]
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