Welcome to another installment of Facetime! Thanks to Pat Brennan, Vladimir Vakser, and Raef Wyatt for the great pictures! As always, if you would like to be featured in our weekly Facetime section, as well as on Pinterest and our other social networks, please submit a hi-res pic (at least 1mb) to photo@watchtime.com. We’ll also [...]

 

The modern Breitling Superocean is built to withstand the rigors of sea, surf and sand. See how it fares in WatchTime’s test, conducted by writer Alexander Krupp and photographer Nik Schölzel, and originally presented in this feature from our December 2010 issue. Breitling’s first Superocean model, introduced in 1957, was water-resistant to 200 meters. The [...]

 

At Baselworld 2013, Breitling unveiled the new Emergency II, which, like previous Emergency models, contains an emergency transmitter. Alexander Linz got a hands-on look at the Emergency II and has posted several images on his blog at watch-insider.com. For a closer look at the Breitling Emergency II click here, and to read about the technical [...]

 

The Baselworld watch fair, essentially the Super Bowl for watch aficionados and the media that cover the industry, officially kicks off tomorrow. However, members of the worldwide press, including WatchTime, were invited a day early to attend brand press conferences, preview new products, and get a glimpse of the new, larger Baselworld exhibition hall, along [...]

 

In this watch test feature from our December 2008 issue, 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 [...]