WatchTime Blog

Welcome to WatchTime’s blog – the watch collector’s daily resource for the latest news on watches and the watch industry. Here, the WatchTime editorial team and other contributors from top watch blogs and online watch magazines post reviews of new watch models, news from the watch industry, reports from watch collector events, and much more.

Monochrome Watches at SIHH 2015: Parmigiani and Bugatti Celebrate A Decade Together

All too often we see relationships between watch manufactures and automobile companies come and then go. Seemingly, the faster the car the more tempestuous the relationship with their time-keeping partner. Not so with Bugatti and Parmigiani. For ten years (2004-2014) they have celebrated a hand-to-glove relationship that sees the world’s fastest car paired-off with one...

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Jan 23, 2015 by Frank Geelen

Sponsored: Artel Rotec Introduces New Sky Series

Independent watchmaker Artel Rotec is introducing its second collection, the Sky Series, this month, with the bold timepiece serving as a worthy follow-up to its V-Series limited edition sports watch lineup. Artel Rotec first formed in 2018, when designer and longtime watch collector Matthew Roknipour launched the brand as a family owned, independent watch company...

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Jan 25, 2023 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication

Cartier’s headliner at SIHH 2015 was a new ultra-thin grand complication that showcases the brand’s technical watchmaking prowess. The Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication has an automatic movement measuring just 5.49 mm in height. Its three major complications are visible on the skeletonized dial: a flying tourbillon, perpetual calendar, and minute repeater. These functions, coupled...

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Jan 22, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

Reader List: Your Personal Top Affordable Watches For Men

WatchTime is now on List.ly, a social channel that allows our readers to add their own selections to our frequent “top-10 lists”. To start things off we have created a list of “10 Affordable Watches for Men.” We encourage you to comment and add to the list by clicking on the “Add to List” button...

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Jan 22, 2015 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Ceramica (Updated with Live Photo and Price)

At SIHH 2015 this week, Panerai Panerai debuted the Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Ceramica – 44 mm. This new model surrounds the P.9100 manufacture chronograph movement with a high-tech matte-black case fashioned from synthetic ceramic based on zirconium oxide.

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Jan 22, 2015 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: New Dial Designs for A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia (Updated with Live Photos)

At the SIHH 2015 watch fair, German luxury watch brand A. Lange & Sohne unveiled three new models in its elegant, understated Saxonia collection. The new-generation versions of the Saxonia, Saxonia Automatic, and Saxonia Dual Time all feature subtly redesigned dials, with two models also sporting new case dimensions.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Carbotech

Panerai has launched several new versions of the Submersible, its hyper-masculine, professional-grade divers’ watch. The most unusual is the Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Carbotech 3 Days Automatic.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Watches: The Arnold & Son Instrument Collection – Golden Wheel

Arnold & Son is a highly productive manufacture. Each time the brand comes out with another novelty, we can’t help but emphasize this point. Just look at all the watches they created last year, each and every one with a unique movement, and you’ll understand that only a few manufactures are able to develop so...

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Jan 22, 2015 by Brice Goulard

SIHH 2015: New Baume & Mercier Watches (Updated with Live Photos and Prices)

Among its new releases at SIHH 2015, Baume & Mercier has launched two new models in its rectangular-cased Hamptons collection and a new complication in the recently launched Baume & Mercier Clifton family.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Watches Review: Porsche Design Timepiece No.1 & Chronograph Titanium Limited Edition

Porsche Design is not only making leather goods and sunglasses. That’s not our material here at Monochrome-Watches. The word “Watches” appears in our blog name, and if we have to talk about Porsche Design, it’s for their undoubtedly interesting timepieces. Black theme and chronographs had always been part of Porsche’s DNA. In order to keep the...

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Jan 22, 2015 by Frank Geelen

SIHH 2015: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater

One of A. Lange & Söhne’s introductions at SIHH 2015 was an all-new minute repeater. The Zeitwerk Minute Repeater combines a chiming mechanism with jumping displays for the hours and minutes. The simple, legible dial belies the complexities of its movement. This is the first Lange watch to combine a jumping time display with a...

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Jan 21, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

SIHH 2015: Greubel Forsey GMT Black (Updated with Live Photos and Price)

Greubel Forsey, a brand known for its ambitious, innovative multi-tourbillon watches, introduced its own singular take on the classic world-time watch in 2011. A new execution of the succinctly named Greubel Forsey GMT, with a blackened titanium case, debuted this week at SIHH 2015.

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Jan 21, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Dive Watch Wednesday: Private-Label Dive Watches Aren’t as New as You Think

It seems like the dive watch category has inspired more “micro-brands” and “boutique brands” over the last few years to start a watch business than has any other watch category in the industry. Of course, while some of these recent start-ups have attempted to produce their very own ideal of “the perfect diver,” many others...

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Jan 21, 2015 by Roger Ruegger

SIHH 2015: The New, Two-Tone Self-Winding Audemars Piguet Royal Oak (With Live Photos)

The Audemars Piguet watch that made the most noise (literally) at SIHH 2015 was the accoustically engineered Royal Oak Concept RD#1, the brand’s undisputed headliner, but AP also released some new versions of its popular standards, including this striking new execution of the iconic Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, in two-tone rose gold and steel.

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Jan 21, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Hublot F1 King Power Austin

Hublot is celebrating the return of Formula 1 to the United States by unveiling their latest King Power watch. The penultimate Grand Prix of the season will take place in the new “Circuit of the Americas” built in Austin, Texas, so Hublot, as the Official Watch of Formula 1, has named their new watch the F1...

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Jan 21, 2015 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: New Roger Dubuis Excalibur Skeleton Watches (Updated with Live Photos and Prices)

Roger Dubuis has declared 2015 to be “The Year of the Skeleton,” unveiling a slew of new skeletonized watches from its flagship Excalibur collection at SIHH 2015. Here’s more on two of them, the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton and Excalibur Spider Flying Tourbillon.

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Jan 21, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Escapement Watch Review: The Piaget Altiplano Double Jeu

A wise eye is seldom fooled merely by the sight of a pretty face. Angus Davies, on his Escapement blog, examines the Piaget Altiplano Double Jeu watch and finds many virtues behind its comely appearance.

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Jan 21, 2015 by Angus Davies

SIHH 2015: Richard Mille RM 19-02 Tourbillon Fleur

At SIHH in Geneva, Richard Mille introduced its new luxury ladies’ watch, the RM 19-02 Tourbillon Fleur. The watch combines a flying tourbillon mechanism with a distinctive automaton feature – all in a characteristically Richard Mille case.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

SIHH 2015: Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astrotourbillon Skeleton (Updated with Live Photo)

At its SIHH 2015 presentation, Cartier introduced a new version of its Astrotourbillon concept: the Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astrotourbillon Skeleton. The watch lays bare the workings of its unusual rotating tourbillon mechanism, suspending it in in the skeletonized movement.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

SIHH 2015: Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Reversed Tourbillon (Updated with Live Photos and Price)

Cartier has introduced more than 100 new watch references at SIHH 2015. One of the most interesting is the Rotonde de Cartier Reversed Tourbillon, a watch whose unconventional flying tourbillon is displayed on a minimalist, sunburst-guilloché dial with an off-center hours and minutes display.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition “75th Anniversary”

To mark the 75th anniversary of its Portugieser watch family, IWC has launched, at SIHH 2015, the vintage-inspired Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days Edition “75th Anniversary,” as part of its newly revamped collection of Portugieser watches.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

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