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Denim Darling: The New Omega Railmaster

1/5

Borrowed Time: Speake-Marin London Chronograph

2/5

At WatchTime New York: Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite

3/5

Barrel-Shaped Beachcomber: Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Blue

4/5

Borrowed Time: MeisterSinger Lunascope

5/5

FEATURE

Building the Foundation, Part 4: The In-House Movements of Tudor

Rome wasn’t built in a day — and neither was Rolex, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre and other watch manufacturers praised for their vertical integration and lauded for their array of in-house calibers. While we all applaud the handful of brands that bring new and increasingly complicated calibers to market virtually every year, we also should take...

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Aug 13, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Introducing the First-Ever WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest

Taking wrist shots has become an integral part of the horological experience. Whether you’re a journalist, collector, retailer, or brand, taking a good image of a watch on the wrist and sharing it through social media is one of the simplest and most accessible ways to reach the watch community at large. To close out...

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Aug 4, 2018 by WatchTime

MICROBRAND MONDAY:

Hands-On with the LIV GX1-A Limited Edition | Blue Dial

Imagine you had a vision in mind, along with 20 years of experience in the watch industry, but you needed the funds to back your project. A decade ago, you would have been out of luck. But, thankfully, crowdsourcing platforms like Kickstarter have made it so microbrands like LIV Watches can secure the funding they...

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Aug 13, 2018 by Laura Kühn

WATCH TEST

Track Suited: TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 11 Edition Steve McQueen

The TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 11 Edition Steve McQueen, an updated version of the watch McQueen wore in the movie “Le Mans,” has racing written all over it. Did it take the checkered flag in our test?

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Aug 13, 2018 by Alexander Krupp

PORTFOLIO

6 Sports Watches and Dive Watches Built for Adventure

From the WatchTime archives: If you want to climb mountains, explore caverns, or undergo underwater ordeals, these watches will blithely master such extreme situations. But their attributes can also be useful in everyday life.

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Aug 13, 2018 by Jens Koch

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Zodiac Astrographic

While many brands have bolstered their historical collections in recent times, few if any brands have done so like Zodiac. The Swiss brand, with its Fossil-owned backing and archives of interesting pieces from the mid-20th century, has built its entire modern identity, and most of its collections, upon its vintage heyday. Previously on “Vintage Eye,”...

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Aug 12, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH REVIEW

Pilots’ Hours: Testing the Bell & Ross BR V1-92 Black Steel

Bell & Ross’s watches are inspired by the history of aviation. Legibility, reliability and precision lead the list of specs. We checked all these attributes in our test of the BR V1-92 Black Steel.

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Aug 11, 2018 by Martina Richter

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Skelet-One

You can do a lot with a figure eight. Over the years, Jaquet Droz has used its iconic Grande Seconde dial configuration — a figure-eight design with a small subdial for the hours and minutes atop a larger subdial for the seconds — as the template for numerous variations. With the new and somewhat oddly named Grande Seconde Skelet-One, introduced this year at Baselworld, the brand has introduced its boldest and most unusual take on the Grande Seconde to date.

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Aug 10, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH REVIEW

Under the (Magnetic) Waves: Hands On With the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Master Chronometer

The Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Co-Axial Master Chronometer represents Omega’s maritime heritage, but instead of a dive test, we expose this watch to the continuous magnetic force inside an MRT.

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Aug 10, 2018 by Martina Richter

DIVING INTO HISTORY:

7 Milestone IWC Aquatimer Watches

For fans of vintage IWC watches, we highlight here five important IWC Aquatimers from the brand’s history, including IWC's Aquatimer GST Automatic 2000 and Aquatimer Split Minute Chronograph watches.

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Aug 10, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

Swimming with Sharks: Ulysse Nardin Diver Deep Dive

While Ulysse Nardin's most prominent launch of 2018 was undoubtedly the groundbreaking Freak Vision, the Swiss brand identified since 1846 with nautical navigation also debuted the most robust model yet in its sporty Diver collection, the limited-edition Diver Deep Dive, with a hammerhead shark motif and a 1,000-meter water resistance.

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Aug 9, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS:

Oak & Oscar Quietly Releases Two Watches in Batch Nº1

Owners of Oak & Oscar timepieces received a surprise email in their inbox last Friday. Chase Fancher, the founder of the Chicago-based microbrand, was writing to his network of collectors to announce a highly-limited collection called Batch Nº1 that would be available to ship starting on Monday, August 6. The name is a reference, no...

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Aug 8, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: The New RGM William Penn Limited Edition

RGM Watch Company, named for the initials of its founder, Roland G. Murphy, is famously based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area with a rich watchmaking history. Murphy chose to honor the state’s founder, William Penn, with an eponymous timepiece in the early years of his company’s founding. The so-called William Penn Model returns this year,...

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Aug 8, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

PORTFOLIO

Bring On the Water! 11 Watches Built for Water Sports

In addition to diving, water sports include sailing, surfing and even fishing. The appropriate watch can be a topic of conversation during breaks but also provides valuable time-related information. From our February 2018 issue, here are 11 water-sports watches worth checking out.

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Aug 8, 2018 by WatchTime

WATCH REVIEW:

A Hands-On Review of the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Worldtimer

A second time zone indicator ranks among the most useful watch complications, and not just for pilots and other people who fly frequently. But not all of these time-zone displays operate intuitively. They often have a 24-hour hand that can be reset in single- hour increments via the crown, but a watch of this kind...

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Aug 8, 2018 by Jens Koch

NEWS

The Girls of Summer: Girard-Perregaux’s New Laureato Ladies’ Collection

Girard-Perregaux brought back its emblematic 1970s sports watch, the Laureato, in a big way in 2016 and has been expanding it as a core men's collection ever since. This summer, the brand targets the ladies' market with the launch of five new models, in two new sizes, with diamond-set bezels and vibrant colors.

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Aug 7, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: Bovet Récital 22 Grand Récital

WatchTime New York, America’s largest luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October. As we countdown to the big event, taking place at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we’ll be previewing many of the new watches that guests will discover there. Today we’re taking a look at the Bovet Récital 22 Grand...

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Aug 7, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Longines Avigation Watch Type A-7 1935

There’s nothing quite as distinctive — and, in some cases, as polarizing — in the arena of vintage-style timepieces as a really period-accurate replica pilot’s watch, and Longines — whose century-plus timepiece archives have yielded an expansive and increasingly popular collection of Heritage models — has taken the style to a new level with the Avigation Watch Type A7 1935, a re-edition of a watch that debuted in that model name's suffix year and which was worn by U.S. Army pilots in the years leading up to World War II.

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Aug 7, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

TIMEPIECE TIMELINE

10 Milestone Moments in the History of the Wristwatch

Today it is common to wear a watch on one’s wrist, but it was a different story around 100 years ago. World War I, which started in 1914 and ended in 1918, brought to the battlefield much that was new — airplanes, mustard gas, military tanks. It also brought something new to civilian society: wristwatches,...

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Aug 7, 2018 by WatchTime

FEATURES:

Taking a Look at Carl Suchy & Söhne, a Resurrected Austrian Watch Brand

Austria, despite its envy-inducing location on the border of Switzerland and Germany, isn’t home to as many prestigious watchmakers as you might think. In fact, other than the husband and wife duo that forms the independent brand Habring², there hasn’t been much horological activity in the country over the past few decades. That changed in...

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Aug 6, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE

Building the Foundation, Part 3: The In-House Movements of Nomos

Rome wasn’t built in a day — and neither was Rolex, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre and other watch manufacturers praised for their vertical integration and lauded for their array of in-house calibers. While we all applaud the handful of brands that bring new and increasingly complicated calibers to market virtually every year, we also should take...

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Aug 6, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

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