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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 2014: Zenith Pays Tribute to the Wright Brothers

This year Zenith honors the Wright brothers with a watch issued in a 1,903-piece limited edition: the Pilot Montre d’Aéronef Type 20 GMT 1903. Of course 1903 is the year Orville Wright successfully flew the appropriately named “Flyer” over a distance of about 130 feet at the Kitty Hawk dunes in North Carolina.

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Jan 23, 2014 by WatchTime

Sponsored: Boasting Cutting Edge Technology, G-SHOCK Introduces Its Latest MT-G

G-SHOCK’s premium MT-G collection of timepieces has long been found at the crossroads of bold style and cutting edge technology, and with the new MTGB3000BD1A that trend only continues. Found as part of the larger MTGB3000 series, the watch is constructed of stainless steel, fine resin, and carbon, and features a renewed Dual Core Guard Structure...

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May 18, 2022 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Christophe Claret Poker

Following the introductions of the 21 Blackjack and the Baccarat, this year Christophe Claret completes his trilogy of gaming watches with the Poker. For my money, this is the best of the three, both because the game it plays – Texas Hold ’em, is so compelling, and because the play on the watch is so...

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Jan 23, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: New Men’s Watches From Vacheron Constantin

After wooing the ladies with its new offerings at last year’s SIHH, Vacheron Constantin turned its focus back to the male haute horlogerie connoisseur this year, and also threw a spotlight on the art of skeletonization, launching no less than six openworked timpieces: four in the brand’s prestigious Metiers d’Art Collection and new, skeleton versions...

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Jan 23, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014: A Small Selection of Images

Each year I attend SIHH and like every digital camera owner, I take far more images than I will ever use. Some will appear in upcoming stories. Most will never appear on your screens. To break the monotony of endless posts about new watches, here are a few images selected for your enjoyment. They include...

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Jan 22, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Montblanc Meisterstück Heritage Collection

Ninety years ago, Montblanc launched a writing instrument that came to symbolize the brand: the Meisterstück. To celebrate the ninetieth anniversary, Montblanc is launching the Meisterstück Heritage Collection of wristwatches. The collection contains four models, each of which is a paradigm of classic design.

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Jan 22, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Richard Mille RM 63-01 Dizzy Hands

From time to time, Watchmakers like to free us from the temporal demands our timepieces can place upon us, because every now and then, we all need to lose track of time. In years gone by, independent watchmakers Andreas Strehler and Thomas Prescher created wristwatches that told time only on demand – to learn the...

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Jan 22, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Greubel Forsey QP à Équation

The perpetual calendar timepieces on our wrists today are not only among the oldest horological complications, they are descended from devices used by the clergy during the Middle Ages to calculate seasonal feasts. For 2014, Greubel Forsey will create a unique perpetual calendar combined with an Equation of Time, all in an easy to read...

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Jan 22, 2014 by WatchTime

3 Standout Skeleton Watches From SIHH 2014

Skeleton watches — which show off the watchmaker’s art by means of removing much of a watch’s movement so that only its “bare bones” remains, and giving us a glimpse of it through a transparent dial — were not as much of a presence at this year’s SIHH as in previous years. However, the few...

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Jan 22, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014: New Panerai Radiomir 1940 Tradition Chronographs

Panerai’s new product releases at SIHH 2014, unveiled to the press yesterday, were heavy on chronographs — and, as always with Panerai, heavy on paying tribute to the brand’s illustrious and now well-known (to Paneristi, anyway) history as a supplier of tough diving watches to Italian naval commandos starting in the 1930s.

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Jan 22, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014: Piaget Altiplano 900P – Updated with Live Photos

For more than half a century Switzerland’s Piaget has specialized in manufacturing ultra-thin mechanical watches and watch movements. Now it has produced what it says is “the thinnest mechanical watch ever.” The new Piaget Altiplano 900P has a total case thickness of 3.65 mm, 9.9 percent less than the thinnest mechanical watch currently on the...

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Jan 22, 2014 by Joe Thompson

SIHH 2014: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept GMT Tourbillon – Live Images

First unveiled in 2002 as a 30th anniversary tribute to the Royal Oak, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept watch is among the most anticipated launches at SIHH. Everyone knows it is coming – what will AP do this year? The answer for 2014 might come as a surprise, because the aesthetics would not likely...

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Jan 21, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Tourbillon

The tourbillon has long been something of an enigma. It is offered as the ultimate in timekeeping precision, and its owners pay dearly for a watch that is supposed to be the ultimate in accuracy. Yet because of its construction, tourbillon watches are almost impossible to set precisely – to the second- with the current...

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Jan 21, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna

There is never any doubt about which watch is A. Lange & Söhne’s “hero” each year at SIHH. The brand presents it proudly in the center of its booth, scaled up to proportions even Panerai would not dream of. This year, it is the Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna, though CEO Wilhelm Schmid told us...

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Jan 21, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: 5 New Calendar Watches

Yesterday, we showed you a handful of possibly overlooked new chronograph watches that have made their debut at the SIHH. Another popular and versatile complication, the calendar in all of its various types, has also been well-represented this year in Geneva, whether as part of a haute horlogerie array of complications or as the main...

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Jan 21, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014 Live Photos: Dive Into IWC’s New Aquatimer Watches

IWC’s focus at this year’s SIHH, as visitors to this site and to our sister blog, Watch-Insider.com, are already aware, is its Aquatimer line of luxury dive watches, which the brand has revamped with new design elements and technical details. Click here to read about the trio of new IWC Aquatimers whose details and images...

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Jan 21, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014: 3 New Chronograph Watches

As per usual, this year’s SIHH watch fair has already yielded a number of super-high-end complicated watches with tourbillons, repeaters, and all manner of other horological magic. But let’s not overlook the most popular complicated watch, the (relatively) humble chronograph; the watchmakers at Cartier, Roger Dubuis, and Jaeger-LeCoultre certainly didn’t.

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Jan 21, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014: Live Images from Cartier

On Day 1 at SIHH we visited Cartier and had a chance to get some quick and dirty live shots of the new models, including the Astrocalendaire, the Earth and Moon tourbillon, the Night & Day, and the new Calibre de Cartier Diver. This post also includes links to WatchTime’s earlier posts on these models,...

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Jan 21, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Roger Dubuis Unveils Hommage Double Flying Tourbillon with Hand-Made Guilloché

We’ve already given you a taste of the new Roger Dubuis watches at SIHH 2014, courtesy of our Watch Insider, Alexander Linz. Now the WatchTime team has gotten a detailed look at all of the new models, including the headliner watch that was kept under wraps until the show: the Roger Dubuis Hommage Double Flying...

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Jan 21, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2014 Day 1: Jaeger-LeCoultre Highlights

It would take a small book to adequately describe Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica 11. But, as this is a day-of-the-show summary, we will have to hit a few of the high points. This watch has eight separate patents, six of which are developments created exclusively for this watch. The Hybris Mechanica 11 is equipped with an...

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Jan 21, 2014 by WatchTime

SIHH 2014: Baume & Mercier Joins the Tourbillon Club

On Day One of the 2014 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, the WatchTime team saw some watches up close and personal that we’d already seen as previews — and then, there were a few surprises. One of those was from “affordable luxury” watch brand Baume & Mercier, which broke with tradition...

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Jan 20, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

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