Mark Bernardo

Digital Media Editor

Mark Bernardo was WatchTime’s digital media editor, overseeing content for WatchTime.com and tablet editions. Formerly managing editor (2006–2011), he has written about major and artisan watch brands. Before WatchTime, he edited Smoke magazine and contributed to Robb Report, Worth, and more on luxury topics like cigars, watches, and cars.

Articles by Mark Bernardo

IWC Portofino Hand Wound 8 Days - Blue Dial

Watch Features

Borrowed Time: A Week in Geneva with the IWC Portofino Hand Wound Eight Days - WATCH REVIEW

You’re spending a hectic week in Geneva covering the SIHH watch salon and jumping from presentations to meetings to dinners to après-dinner cocktails with nary a moment to wind your watch. What better timepiece to have on your wrist for such a mission than a luxurious yet versatile watch equipped with an eight-day power reserve? Read on to discover m0re about my ticking travel companion for SIHH 2019, the IWC Portofino Hand Wound Eight Days, with a striking sunburst blue dial.

6 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 30, 2019

Breitling Navitimer 1 B01 Chronograph 43 Pan-Am Edition

Pilot's Watches

Breitling Navitimer 1 Airline Editions Celebrate the Golden Age of Commercial Aviation - WATCH TO WATCH

3 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 24, 2019

Perpetual Calendar

Cracking the Code: Inside the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Collection - SIHH 2019:

6 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 23, 2019

Hermes Arceau L'heure de la Lune - Meteorite

Moon Phase Watches

Full Moon Fever: Hermès Arceau L'Heure de la Lune - SIHH 2019:

3 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 21, 2019

Watches

Cartier Grows the Santos Collection With Chronographs and a Luminous Skeleton - SIHH 2019:

3 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 18, 2019

IWC Big Pilots' Chronograph Top Gun Edition "Mojave Desert"

IWC

Sands of Time: IWC's Ceramic-Cased "Mojave Desert" Edition Headlines New Pilot Top Gun Collection - SIHH 2019:

As we revealed back in December, IWC is shining the spotlight on its Pilots' collection at this year's SIHH — specifically on a trio of sub-brands within the historical, high-flying family, the Spitfire, Top Gun, and Exupéry/Le Petit Prince. Today, we look at new offerings within the Top Gun series, which has been positioned this year as the proving ground for innovative new high-tech case materials.

4 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 15, 2019

Watches

Staying Power: Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar - SIHH 2019:

4 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 14, 2019

Watch Features

It's Elvis Presley's and David Bowie's Birthday. Here Are Their Tribute Watches.

Two of pop music's icons celebrate birthdays on January 8: Elvis Presley, who died in 1977, and David Bowie, who passed away in 2016. Both of them have been honored in the modern day with special-edition timepieces — and in Elvis's case, it's a contemporary version of a watch he actually wore and made famous during his lifetime. Read on to discover more about the Raymond Weil Limited Edition Freelancer David Bowie and the Elvis-inspired models in the Hamilton Ventura collection.

4 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Jan 8, 2019

Watch Features

10 Important Dive Watches Launched in 2018 - 2018: THE WATCH YEAR IN REVIEW

As we approach the end of 2018 and prepare for 2019 — surely destined to be another interesting year in the world of watches — we take a look back at some of the most noteworthy timepieces that came out this year, in various popular categories. Today, we look at some of 2018's significant dive watch releases.

8 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Dec 26, 2018

Luxury Watches

A Tonneau for the 21st Century: The Cartier Privé Collection - SIHH 2019 PREVIEW:

Cartier has a long and distinguished history of dabbling outside the confines of the traditional round watch case, at times with iconic results such as the emblematic Tank and Santos models. At SIHH 2019 in Geneva, Cartier revives another early 20th-century shaped model that went on to become hugely influential, its 1906 Tonneau, in the new Cartier Privé line.

4 minutes

Mark Bernardo

Nov 27, 2018