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Rebuilding History: Omega First Wrist Chronograph Limited Edition

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Showing at WatchTime New York: Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver Blue

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Borrowed Time: Frederique Constant Worldtimer Manufacture Green

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First Look: A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Tourbillon in White Enamel

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TAG Heuer Celebrates Le Mans Milestone With New Gulf Editions

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WATCH REVIEW

High Flying Eye: Reviewing the Longines Avigation BigEye

Inspired by a chronograph from the 1930s, the Longines Avigation BigEye unites aviation history and modern watchmaking and boasts a column-wheel movement manufactured exclusively for Longines. We review the watch in this feature from our June 2018 issue.

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Jul 17, 2018 by Martina Richter

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite

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 latest update to Glashütte...

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Jul 17, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE

Faces of Time: 8 Watches with Unusual Time Displays

Many watches show “only” the time. But there’s plenty of latitude for creativity, as we can see on display in this selection of eight unconventionally designed timepieces from eight innovative watch brands.

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Jul 17, 2018 by Alexander Krupp

WATCH REVIEW

Luminor Number Two: Reviewing the Panerai Luminor Due

Unmistakably inspired by the styling of the original Luminor, the Panerai Luminor Due is a contemporary reinterpretation of that classic model from the ’50s. The new version has a slimmer case and a modern in-house movement with a micro-rotor for automatic winding.

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Jul 17, 2018 by Martina Richter

NEWS

Germany Salutes France: Moritz Grossmann’s World Cup 2018 Football Watch

The 2018 World Cup in Russia concluded in dramatic fashion yesterday, with France defeating Croatia 4-2 to win the second World Cup in the country’s history. And in the spirit of international sporting goodwill, it is a German watch brand that has issued the very first special-edition timepiece in congratulation to the victorious French team....

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Jul 16, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

COMPARATIVE WATCH REVIEW

Elegant Solutions: Testing Dress Watches From Longines, Montblanc, and Frédérique Constant

What is the essence of elegance? We compare three dress watches — the Frédérique Constant Manufacture Classic, Longines Master Collection, and Montblanc Star Classique Date Automatique — that offer three very different answers.

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Jul 16, 2018 by Martina Richter

FEATURE

5 Milestone Patek Philippe Watches, from 1868 to Today

Flashing back to one of last year's biggest milestones in the watch-collecting world, Patek Philippe's "Art of Watches" Grand Exhibition in New York, WatchTime offers a look at some of the most notable wristwatches from the company's 178-year history. Read on to discover WatchTime.com's top five.

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Jul 16, 2018 by Gisbert Brunner

FEATURE:

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Yema Superman Héritage

Yema was never a superpower of horology. It wasn’t a renowned brand forgotten by time like Universal Genève, or one revived for the modern era like IWC; it was always just Yema — one French brand alongside a handful of others, producing its best watches in the ultra-competitive 1960s and the live-or-die-by-quartz ‘70s; never standing...

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Jul 15, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

QUIZ

Can You Identify Iconic Watches By Their Hands?

Our latest series of visual quizzes asks: Can you identify well-known watches just by their components? One of the most difficult challenges is to identify a watch solely by the design of its hands, and those who can do so can surely be numbered among the ranks of genuine watch connoisseurs. We’ve illustrated the hands...

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Jul 14, 2018 by WatchTime

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Speake-Marin London Chronograph Valjoux 92

The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, or SIHH, takes place in January in Geneva. In most cases, we in the watch media world tend to wait until the end of the show before naming our favorites, especially since our meetings with many of the horological heavyweights there — IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Vacheron, Cartier, etc....

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Jul 13, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

A. Lange & Söhne Releases Enamel-Dial Special Edition of the 1815 Tourbillon (Updated with Live Photos)

A. Lange & Söhne’s 1815 Tourbillon — introduced into the collection in 2014 and offered in a special Handwerkskunst edition the following year — is notable for combining two patented precision-keeping innovations: the zero-reset mechanism first introduced in 1997’s Langematik model and the stop-seconds function that debuted in 2008’s Cabaret Tourbillon. This week, the Saxon...

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Jul 13, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

7 Milestone Watches From A. Lange & Söhne

We take a look at a century-plus of notable timepieces from A. Lange & Söhne, including the Grande Complication pocketwatch, the first Lange 1, the Zeitwerk, and the Richard Lange Terraluna.

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Jul 13, 2018 by Gisbert Brunner

FEATURE

“Sound” Investments: 10 Notable Minute Repeaters and Chiming Watches

WatchTime takes a look at 10 notable minute repeaters - and other, even more sophisticated, chiming watches - such as the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Striking Time and the Ulysse Nardin Stranger.

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Jul 13, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH REVIEW:

Borrowed Time: MeisterSinger Lunascope

MeisterSinger, the German horological purveyor of single-handed timepieces that are read in five-minute increments, operates in a zone by itself. It has no true competitors, yet its stringent loyalty to the one-handed pursuit of timekeeping has often made me wonder if it’s a limiting factor to the brand’s overall development. This year, the 17-year-old company...

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Jul 12, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE

7 Milestone Omega Watches, from 1892 to Today

In its long history, Omega has contributed numerous important watches and innovations to the world of watchmaking. In this feature, we chronicle seven of the 25 most important watches Omega has ever made, including the Omega Seamaster, the Omega Constellation and the Omega De Ville.

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Jul 12, 2018 by Gisbert Brunner

WATCH REVIEW

Solarzilla: Reviewing the Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Professional Diver 1000M

In a sea of retro-inspired dive watches launched during Baselworld 2017, Citizen stood out as one of the few brands that dared to launch something radically new. The Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Professional Diver 1000m is the world’s first solar-powered watch capable of saturation diving – and the Japanese brand’s second 1,000-meter diver. We give it an in-depth review in this feature from WatchTime's November-December 2017 issue.

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Jul 12, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

NEWS:

Mühle Glashütte Dips into Bronze with a New Yacht-Timer

In the past five years, bronze has become more prevalent than ever in the watch industry. It’s come to the point where any brand looking to change things up turns to the centuries-old material for inspiration. That’s not a bad thing. Bronze provides an intimate charisma, through the development of patina, that other case materials...

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Jul 11, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Girard-Perregaux Laureato in Steel with Rubber Strap

Girard-Perregaux has a long and prestigious history, but the brand over the past decade or so has been, to put it bluntly, a bit hard to pin down as far as its focus and identity. It has produced everything from high-complication masterpieces (the La Esmeralda Tourbillon) to racing-inspired sports watches (Competizione), to vintage-look dress pieces...

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Jul 11, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Moonwatch and Other Milestones

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, with names like Speedmaster, Seamaster and Constellation, the brand has achieved rock-star status among watch enthusiasts. Here are 10 things you should know about Omega.

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Jul 11, 2018 by WatchTime

THE WATCHTIME Q&A

An Interview With Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin

Bulgari set a new world record at Baselworld 2018 with the thinnest automatic watch in the world, and also introduced another sensational watch with its Minute Repeater in a carbon case. CEO Jean-Christophe Babin explains how this came about in an interview with Rüdiger Bucher, editor-in-chief of WatchTime's German sister magazine Chronos and International Editorial Director of Ebner Publishing.

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Jul 11, 2018 by Ruediger Bucher

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