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 2013: IWC

WatchTime contributor Alexander Linz takes a look at some of the highlights from IWC at SIHH over at his blog on watch-insider.com.

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Jan 24, 2013 by WatchTime

Sponsored: The Return of the Legendary Hanhart 417 ES

The reissue of the Hanhart 417 ES marks the return of a legend among wristwatches. More than 60 years ago, the original model served as the first pilot’s chronograph for the German armed forces. Today Hanhart combines the watch’s iconic historical design with the most modern production techniques to produce a robust chronograph suitable for...

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Oct 20, 2021 by WatchTime

SIHH Day Four: Vacheron Constantin and Ralph Lauren

Geneva’s luxurious SIHH watch fair rolls on. Here’s a taste of the new releases from two more of the exhibiting brands. Vacheron Constantin raised lots of eyebrows this year with its bold and unexpected (at least by those of us in the watch press) decision to focus its 2013 SIHH novelties entirely on ladies. That’s...

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Jan 24, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2013: Audemars Piguet

Alexander Linz of watch-insder.com had a sit-down with Claudio Cavaliere, Audemars Piguet’s head of product management, at SIHH and got an up-close look at the brand’s latest offerings.

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Jan 24, 2013 by WatchTime

Destination Moon: Introducing Two new Hakuto-R Eco-Drive Chronographs from Citizen (with Live Photos)

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and space start-up Ispace Inc. have recently joined forces. As corporate partner of Ispace’s planned commercial lunar exploration program, the 100-year-old Japanese watchmaker and pioneer in the use of titanium has now released two limited-edition chronographs dedicated to the upcoming missions that should also bring parts made of the brand’s Super...

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Oct 13, 2021 by WatchTime

SIHH 2013: Piaget

WatchTime contributor Alexander Linz has the latest from Piaget at watch-insider.com.

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Jan 23, 2013 by WatchTime

SIHH 2013: Greubel Forsey

Alexander Linz continues his SIHH coverage at watch-insider.com.

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Jan 23, 2013 by WatchTime

SIHH Day Three: Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai

It’s Day Three of the SIHH watch fair in Geneva, and despite a late dinner with our friends from A. Lange & Söhne and the Lange Owners Club, not to mention even later cocktails on the SIHH party boat on Lake Geneva, your intrepid WatchTime reporter is back at it to chronicle more headliners and...

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Jan 23, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2013: A. Lange & Söhne

WatchTime contributor Alexander Linz is currently covering SIHH over at watch-insider.com, and brings us a look at A. Lange & Söhne’s novelties for 2013.

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Jan 22, 2013 by WatchTime

Panerai at SIHH 2013

This week WatchTime.com is covering all things SIHH at our SIHH blog. Meanwhile, WatchTime contributor Alexander Linz is also on the scene, with coverage of Panerai’s SIHH novelties. Head over to his blog to get a first look at Panerai’s new timepieces, including the Panerai Luminor 1950 Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Titanio and several others....

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Jan 22, 2013 by WatchTime

SIHH Day Two: Roger Dubuis, Parmigiani, Montblanc

Geneva’s watch fest rolls on, and your WatchTime team is on site to cover it. Day two is a flurry of appointments and meetings with various brands, but in between, here’s a look at some of the people, timepieces and atmosphere that caught my eye late yesterday afternoon and this morning. Parmigiani Fleurier — which...

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Jan 22, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2013, Day One: First Look at Novelties from Cartier and IWC

The 2013 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) — the luxury watch world’s winter festival of new timepieces from more than a dozen top brands — kicks off today, and WatchTime is here to get up close and personal with the slew of new watches, many of which won’t even find their way to...

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Jan 21, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Corum Joins Forces With Vincent Calabrese

Vincent Calabrese, the man who created Corum‘s original Golden Bridge movement, has returned for a new partnership with the Swiss brand. Calabrese won awards at the 1977 Geneva International Inventors’ Show for his creation of the now-iconic baguette-shaped movement, with its linear gear trains, mounted within a transparent case and isolated in space without any...

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Jan 18, 2013 by WatchTime

Rally Driver Sébastien Loeb Joins Richard Mille

Richard Mille has announced rally driver Sébastien Loeb as its newest celebrity endorser, joining the lineup of sports stars already involved with the brand, which includes tennis champ Rafael Nadal and golfer Bubba Watson.

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Jan 18, 2013 by WatchTime

WatchTime’s January-February Issue On Kindle

If you haven’t picked up the January-February issue of WatchTime yet, or simply want to read it digitally, be sure to check out WatchTime on your Kindle device. You can make sure you won’t miss any issue by subscribing for $3.33 a month, with a 14-day free trial, or you can buy a single issue for...

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Jan 18, 2013 by WatchTime

Omega Unveils Anti-magnetic Movement

At a press conference at the Cité du Temps in Geneva on January 17th, Omega announced the creation of an anti-magnetic watch movement resistant to magnetic fields greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss). The first prototype of the anti-magnetic movement has been fitted into an Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra. Several patents are pending for the...

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Jan 17, 2013 by WatchTime

Inside Look at Zenith Manufacture

If you enjoyed our inside look at the Rolex movement-manufacturing complex, be sure to check out the international blog, Watch-insider.com, where WatchTime contributor Alexander Linz has posted an 11 part tour of the Zenith Manufacture, with numerous photos and videos showing the inner workings of Zenith’s watchmaking process. Click here to begin the tour.

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Jan 16, 2013 by WatchTime

WatchTime Reader Survey

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Jan 16, 2013 by WatchTime

WatchTime’s January-February Issue On the Nook

The January-February issue of WatchTime is now on newsstands. If you haven’t picked up the issue and would like to read it on your Nook or Nook-enabled device, you can head to the Nook store now for the latest WatchTime Magazine. You can purchase a single issue for $8.95 or subscribe for $3.33 a month, with...

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Jan 16, 2013 by WatchTime

Panerai’s “O’Clock – time design, design time” Exhibition Opening in Beijing

After its success in Milan, Panerai is once again partnering with the Triennale Design Museum to present a new edition of the exhibition “O’Clock – time design, design time” at the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing from March 7th to April 10th, 2013. Designed and arranged by Patricia Urquiola in partnership with Officine Panerai and...

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Jan 15, 2013 by WatchTime

Audemars Piguet Ambassador Leo Messi Voted World’s Best Soccer Player

On Monday, January 7th, Audemars Piguet “brand ambassador” Leo Messi was voted the 2012 world’s best football player (that’s as in soccer, to us Americans) by football journalists, national coaches and team captains. A winner of the prestigious Ballon d’Or award for the fourth consecutive year, Messi broke the record he jointly held with Michel...

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Jan 11, 2013 by WatchTime

Reactor’s First Mechanical Watch: Poseidon Titanium

The American watch brand Reactor, known for its sports watches, makes its first foray into the arena of mechanical watches with the Poseidon Titanium Limited Edition professional automatic dive watch. The new watch is an update of the previous stainless-steel version, now with a titanium case (which reduces the weight by 40%) and equipped with...

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Jan 10, 2013 by WatchTime

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