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.

SIHH 2015 Preview: Richard Mille RM 33-01

For 2015, Richard Mille introduces the new RM 33-01, powered by the skeletonized RMXP3 caliber. This watch offers the striking good looks of the RM 33 Extra Flat, with the added convenience of a date display. In typical Richard Mille fashion, the movement is something to behold.

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Nov 11, 2014 by WatchTime

Sponsored: Where Professionalism Meets Technology, ProTek Sees Its Debut

Crafted with first responders in mind, American watchmaker ProTek launches this month with the debut of their initial collection, the Series 1000. The new brand joins the Time Concepts family of brands, and is helmed by industry veteran Barry Cohen, founder of Luminox. After founding Luminox in 1989, Cohen differentiated the brand as an industry...

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May 10, 2022 by WatchTime

Monochrome Monday: Flight-Testing the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter

Recently, we at Monochrome Watches took to the skies — literally — to test a watch in the environment for which it was designed. Oris released its Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter earlier this year, and cordially invited us to appropriately test-drive the world’s first wristwatch with an automatic, mechanical altimeter.

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Nov 10, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Dive Watch Wednesday: Hands-On with the Citizen Grand Touring Sport

In this dive watch review, we take a look at Citizen's bold, blue-dialed divers' watch, the Grand Touring Sport.

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Nov 5, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Sponsored: New G-Shock Flagship “MRG-B5000”

Photographs by Masanori YoshieText by Yuto Hosoda（Chronos Japan） Released in this spring, the MRG-B5000 revives the G-SHOCK Origin DW-5000C as the latest installment in Casio’s flagship MR-G series. It already is remarkable to see the Origin appear as part of the MR-G series, what really deserves attention, however, is the new watch’s luxury finishing, which goes beyond anything in...

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May 9, 2022 by WatchTime

Dive Watch Wednesday: The New Limited-Edition Blancpain Bathyscaphe Chronograph

Last week, Blancpain introduced its “Ocean Commitment” initiative at Cap d’Antibes in the South of France. This program will unite the manufacture‘s various activities to preserve and protect the world’s oceans as well as to increase public awareness through ocean exploration.

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Oct 15, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Monochrome Monday: Introducing the New Piaget Altiplano Skeleton

Ultra-thin timepieces and the name Piaget have gone hand-in-hand for many decades. So it will not come as a shock that Piaget introduced a number of varieties on the ultra-thin, skeletonized Caliber 1200S. That’s the movement of the Piaget Altiplano 1200, which is the world’s thinnest automatic skeletonized watch.

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Oct 13, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Sponsored: eBay – How a Patient Watch Collector Accidentally Scored a Rare Diver

In its “2021 Luxury Trend Report,” eBay identified the ability to find rare and vintage items one of the main reasons to shop pre-owned, right after price. Recently, the online giant made the process of buying (and selling) a watch even more secure: As one of the world’s largest luxury watch marketplaces, eBay launched “Authenticity...

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May 6, 2022 by WatchTime

Monochrome Monday: Introducing the IWC Portofino Midsize Collection

At last week’s Watches & Wonders fair in Hong Kong, IWC added no less than 20 new models to its Portofino collection. These included 17 new “midsize” models, all adorned with diamonds, and three new versions of the 40-mm Portofino Automatic, now in new 18K rose gold or white gold cases and 72 diamonds set...

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Oct 6, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Omega Collectors Gather in Amsterdam for “Moonwatch Only” Book Launch

If you are into collecting Omega Speedmasters like I am, you need a good reference book. Even though there is a lot of really useful information that can be found online (for instance, in the Fratello Watches Speedy Tuesday section), the world of collecting Omega Speedmaster watches has up until recently lacked a good “standard”...

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Oct 3, 2014 by Robert-Jan Broer

Watchtoberfest: 5 Tough German Sports Watches

Bring out the dirndls, lederhosen and giant beer mugs — Germany’s Oktoberfest is underway! We at WatchTime thought it might also be a good time to showcase some robust sports watches from some smaller German watch brands that may have flown under your radar this year. Here are five recently released German sports watches.

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Sep 22, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Monochrome Monday: Introducing New Jeanrichard Watches for Autumn 2014

For those who are not already aware, Jeanrichard is the “affordable proposition” of the Kering Group, the luxury group that owns the better known Swiss watch brand Girard-Perregaux, the jeweler Boucheron and, as of a few weeks ago, another Swiss watch concern, Ulysse Nardin. With a collection focused on sports watches with a strong and distinctive...

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Sep 8, 2014 by Brice Goulard

Fratello Friday: How to Buy Vintage Watches, Part 2

In last week’s Fratello Friday — part 1 of this feature on buying vintage watches — I offered my take on what I consider the most important aspects of buying vintage watches: knowledge of the watch, the trustworthiness of the seller, the watch’s service history, and whether the package is complete. In this week’s part...

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Sep 5, 2014 by Robert-Jan Broer

Samsung Debuts 3G Gear S Smartwatch Ahead of Apple Launch

If Apple has a major event scheduled next week (it does), it’s a safe bet that competitors will be out to steal some thunder. Apple is widely expected to announce its long-anticipated smartwatch, and Samsung’s preemptive strike is the new Gear S smartwatch with built-in 3G connectivity.

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Sep 3, 2014 by WatchTime

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Swiss Military’s Doxa Dive Watch

Due to the fact that the development of most early dive watches was heavily influenced, or even directly initiated, by armed services around the world, it is no surprise that a large number of these watches were in fact used and issued by them as well. It did, however, come as a surprise to us...

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Aug 27, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Challenge of Proving Your Dive Watch is “Extreme”

In 1953, the first dive watches featuring a rotating bezel appeared. They started with a depth rating of about 100 meters. It took another 10 years for makers of serially produced dive watches to reach the symbolic 1,000-meters mark. And, as we at Diveintowatches.com have discovered, achieving this milestone might have been considerably less difficult...

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Jul 30, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Long-Awaited Return of the Zodiac Sea Wolf

Good news for fans of classic dive watches: WatchTime covers Zodiac's re-launch of the Sea Wolf — not only one of the earliest dive watches, but also one of the most popular of that era.

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Jul 16, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Live Photos: New Omega Watches From Baselworld 2014 Come to NYC

Like many others who attend the Baselworld watch fair, we at WatchTime look forward to seeing the new Omega watches that are unveiled there. This year, we came by at a particularly busy moment at Omega’s always-bustling booth and were only able to see the watches behind the glass walls of their vitrines. So, when...

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Jul 12, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Press Release: WatchTime E-Special: The Watches of SIHH 2014

New York City (NY); America’s best-selling watch magazine, WatchTime, has published its latest E-Special, “The Watches of SIHH 2014.” This digital download edition contains WatchTime’s complete coverage of the new watches, trends, and industry news from the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), an exclusive annual event for the luxury watch industry, which takes place...

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Jun 20, 2014 by Carina Friedrich

Dive Watch Wednesday: Collecting the World’s Smallest Dive Watches

There is good news for all those watch enthusiasts struggling with watch sizes beyond 42 mm… and even better news for boys-at-heart that occasionally recall their beloved Hasbro “G.I. Joe Hard Hat Diver” figure from 1968 (that’s Ref. 7620, should you be wondering about it right now): Not unlike the available after-market parts and accessories...

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Jun 18, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Dive Watch Wednesday: The Visconti Abyssus 3000M

The most eye-catching new dive watch released this year also seems to be the least discussed. This might be because its maker was nowhere to be found in the main exhibition hall at Baselworld 2014 and also. probably, because the brand in question happens to be better known for writing instruments than watches.

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Jun 11, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

JCK 2014: Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Gravity (with Live Photos)

On WatchTime’s final day at the Las Vegas watch and jewelry trade show, JCK 2014 and Couture 2014, we visited Maurice Lacroix and got an up-close look at the brand’s headliner piece from this year’s Baselworld, the Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Gravity.

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Jun 2, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Couture 2014: Bell & Ross B-Rocket Watches

The JCK and Couture watch and jewelry fairs are winding down, but we’re still covering some of the cool watches that we saw in Las Vegas this week. At the Couture show, we got a look at the new Bell & Ross BR 01 and BR 03 B-Rocket watches, as well as the aviation-inspired B-Rocket...

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Jun 1, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

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