Watch Features

Welcome to WatchTime’s watch features section. Here you will find watch feature stories, watch reports, interesting watch technology coverage, interviews with watch brands, background articles about watches, watch brands and technical stories.

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Romain Gauthier Logical One Baguette-Set Unique Piece

America’s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25 – 26, 2019. This year’s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is the independent watchmaker...

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Sep 12, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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

FEATURE:

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Mercer Lexington Chronograph

Mercer is a brand I’ve seen popping up on Instagram for the past year or so, and for a good reason. If you’re unfamiliar, the brand is a rising design house offering an assortment of watches in both vintage and modern styles, as well as a curated selection of leather goods. Even more impressively, Mercer...

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Sep 8, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS:

A Skeleton Statement: Introducing the Oris Big Crown ProPilot X Caliber 115

Prior to the Quartz Crisis that ravaged the Swiss watch industry in the 1970s and ’80s, Oris had an extensive history of in-house movement production. In fact, between the year of its founding and 1981, the year in which the company’s management decided to cease producing its own movements in favor of outsourcing ébauches from...

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Sep 5, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Akrivia AK-06

America’s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25 – 26, 2019. This year’s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Akrivia, which will...

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Sep 3, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Zodiac Olympos

Zodiac has long been one of my favorite brands, and the reasoning is simple: the company produces aesthetically interesting watches, frequently in a neo-vintage style, and almost always at an accessible price point. Nonetheless, we don’t cover this Fossil Group-owned brand very often here at “Vintage Eye,” with the most recent being the Astrographic. Funnily...

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Sep 1, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

FEATURE:

Borrowed Time: A Hands-On Review of the New Nomos Glashütte Club Sport Neomatik Date

Over the past two decades, Nomos has taken a largely incremental approach to building out its various watch families. For a strong majority of that period, no timepiece that left the Glashütte manufactory measured over 40 mm or dared to betray the well-cultivated Bauhaus aesthetic that informed each and every design choice. That has changed...

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Aug 31, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

NEWS

Reduction Construction: Omega Lightens the Load With Seamaster Aqua Terra “Ultra Light”

Omega has already racked up an impressive list of milestones and accomplishments in 2019. Just this week, the brand announced yet another technical breakthrough with the Seamaster Aqua Terra "Ultra Light" — its first watch specially engineered for athletic competition, with innovative solutions to minimize weight while maximizing comfort.

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Aug 28, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph Sedna Gold

America’s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25 – 26, 2019. This year’s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Omega, which will...

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Aug 22, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Maen Skymaster 38

This week we revisit our Dutch friends at Maen Watches and look at their newest announced release, the Skymaster 38, a sporty GMT chronograph channeling 1960s and '70s Heuer and Omega designs.

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Aug 18, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH REVIEW:

Borrowed Time: Hands-On with the Reservoir Airfight Jet

One of the keys to success for any budding watch brand is its hook. That hook has to be something that makes you look up from whatever is currently occupying your prized wrist real estate and say, “Ooh, I like that.” That initial hook varies from person to person and can depend on a watch’s...

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Aug 15, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Antimagnetic or Bust? An In-Depth Look at the Progression of Silicon in Watchmaking

It has been nearly 20 years since Ulysse Nardin introduced the world’s first timepiece using silicon components with the original Freak in 2001. That groundbreaking moment was the proverbial starting gun for a shift in how the watch industry approached movement production. It’s also raised questions on every side of the industry, from the enthusiast...

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Aug 10, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

PORTFOLIO

Record Breakers: 9 Watches That Set World Records

A Rolex Daytona formerly owned by Paul Newman broke a record when it sold at auction for 17.7 million dollars in 2017. But certain other records cannot be measured in money. Here are some spectacular examples from the wristwatch world.

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Aug 9, 2019 by WatchTime

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Borrowed Time: Hands-On with the Grand Seiko SBGV245

Earlier this year, Grand Seiko quietly released two timepieces within its Sport Collection. These two watches, SBGV243 and SBGV245, weren’t as flashy as the releases we saw from the Japanese firm at Baselworld 2019, nor did they utilize a mechanical movement or one of the brand’s Spring Drive calibers. Instead, Grand Seiko equipped both of...

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Aug 7, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Borrowed Time: Montblanc 1858 Automatic Chronograph

Montblanc’s reasoning for entering the watch business and acquiring the erstwhile Minerva manufacture is fairly easy to comprehend. Watchmaking can be a lucrative trade and there’s nothing wrong with the 112-year-old writing instrument and leather goods company wanting to tap into it. As conservative as the Swiss watch industry can be, there’s at least a...

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Aug 6, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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The Ultimate Guide to High-Accuracy Quartz Watches

Walk into any horological meetup with a quartz watch on and you’re likely to get the door slammed in your face. I kid, I kid — but only partly. Ever since the mechanical watch industry made its recovery in the face of a specific doom brought on by Japanese watchmakers, many so-called watch enthusiasts (snobs...

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Aug 2, 2019 by WatchTime

BOOK EXCERPT

When Rolex Went Quartz: A Tale of the 1970s

In this excerpt from the book “Electrifying the Wristwatch,” by WatchTime contributor Lucien Trueb, we explore how mechanical-watch king Rolex dealt with the arrival of quartz in the 1970s.

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Aug 1, 2019 by Roger Ruegger

INTERVIEW

My Favorite Watch: Bernard Werk, Owner of Watching Magazine

In our ongoing series, My Favorite Watch, WatchTime speaks to interesting personalities in the watch industry. The interviews revolve around the subject’s favorite watch model, their experience in the industry, and other topics. Today we speak with Bernard Werk, owner of the Netherlands-based enthusiast magazine, Watching.

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Jul 31, 2019 by Sophia Kuemmerle

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Hamilton Ventura

In my experience, most die-hard watch fans prefer mechanical watches, and this is especially true among vintage-watch enthusiasts. But the Hamilton Ventura is one of those exceptions that proves the rule, and I would argue it is perhaps even more desirable by virtue of its quartz movement. This space-age watch was developed to demonstrate hyper-accuracy...

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Jul 28, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

FEATURES:

The Heuer Stopwatch That Was Behind the Scenes During the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

While Omega’s contribution to the Apollo 11 Moon landing is well documented and justifiably celebrated, there was another timing instrument behind the scenes that many don’t know about. Recently, our editorial colleague at WatchTime Middle East, Nitin Nair, discovered the history behind the Heuer stopwatch used by a flight controller at Nasa’s Mission Control in...

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Jul 27, 2019 by WatchTime

REVIEW:

Borrowed Time: Frederique Constant Hybrid Manufacture

It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the world to the Apple Watch. The new-age wearable promised to revolutionize the way we communicate, provide intimate health tracking, and streamline the way we interact with technology. Its introduction was hailed in Silicon Valley as the vanguard of a new...

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Jul 26, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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