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Welcome to WatchTime’s watch video section. See the latest and most interesting watch videos, videos on watch technology and watch movements, watch event videos, watch industry videos and additional film coverage from WatchTime and watch videos directly from watch brands.

Video: WatchTime Editor-in-Chief Roger Ruegger Drops By WatchBox Studios

Earlier this week, WatchTime Editor-in-Chief Roger Ruegger took a trip down to Philadelphia to visit WatchBox Studios, a popular YouTube channel run by the horological pundit Tim Mosso. Roger joined Tim for an hour-long episode of the daily show where they answered questions from the live audience, discussed the new Breitling Navitimer 8 collection, debated the...

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Mar 2, 2018 by WatchTime

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Baume & Mercier’s new Clifton Baumatic: Lengthened Service Intervals

A mechanical watch movement is a complex mechanism comprising numerous mobile miniature components. Their perpetual interaction results in friction and wear ultimately influencing the smooth running of the movement. This is one of the reasons why watches have to be returned for regular service. The new Clifton Baumatic from Baume & Mercier with the maison’s...

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Oct 15, 2018 by WatchTime

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Video: A Visit to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Tourbillon Workshop

In this exclusive video, WatchTime contributor and event partner Jeff Kingston visits the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture in Switzerland — with a specific focus on the specialty tourbillons that are made in the company's Grand Complications workshop.

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Jan 5, 2017 by WatchTime

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Video: Restoring Breguet’s Historical Timepieces

WatchTime contributor Jeff Kingston visits Breguet in Switzerland, offering the unique opportunity to learn more about the brand's historical timepieces. In this exclusive video, you will see two pieces that date from Abraham-Louis Breguet’s own lifetime and learn more about how they are restored.

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Dec 22, 2016 by WatchTime

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Vote on the Winner of WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest #2

Capping off another successful WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest submission period, here are our top 10 images of the 300-plus wrist shots submitted to us through e-mail and Instagram over the past two weeks. Please vote on what you think is the best image based on composition, creativity, and image quality. The top five finishers will receive...

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Oct 9, 2018 by WatchTime

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Video: How Breguet Makes its Guilloché Dials, Hosted by Jeff Kingston

In this exclusive video, WatchTime contributor and event partner Jeff Kingston visits the guilloché dial workshop at the headquarters of Montres Breguet in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland, and shows us how the company founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet makes its hand-made guilloché dials.

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Dec 13, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: How To Make a Watch Dial, with Jeff Kingston

In this exclusive video, hosted by WatchTime contributor Jeff Kingston, we show you some of the principal steps along the way to achieving a finished watch dial.

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Dec 5, 2016 by WatchTime

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Gucci Presents #TimeToParr: An Uncommon Photographic Journey

Embracing Instagram’s creative landscape over the past three years with dedicated projects in which artists play with House motifs, Gucci has published and promoted these special works with a series of hashtags. Now, for the first time, the House is collaborating with a single artist on an Instagram project. Exploring the nature of time and...

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Oct 9, 2018 by WatchTime

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Video: A Visit to the Patek Philippe Museum with Jeff Kingston

In this exclusive video, noted watch collector and WatchTime event partner Jeff Kingston takes us on a tour of the Patek Philippe Museum, tracing the evolution of timekeeping and finishing with the crown jewel of the collection, Patek Philippe's Caliber 89, the most complicated watch ever made.

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Nov 30, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Philippe Dufour Explains Nearly-Forgotten Watchmaking Techniques

Greubel Forsey is financing renowned watchmaker Philippe Dufour to produce a film that records watchmaking techniques that slowly are being lost and fading from memory. In this exclusive video, we visit Dufour's workshops, where he shares his expertise in these traditional handcrafted methods.

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Nov 27, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Assembling Blancpain’s Carrousel Minute Repeater

In this exclusive video, WatchTime contributor and event partner Jeff Kingston visits the latter atelier to follow the construction and assembly of the Blancpain Carrousel Minute Repeater.

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Nov 15, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Creating a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Watch Case

In this exclusive video, you will learn about the many additional operations required to create the complicated swiveling watch case of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, and how the process differs from one that produces traditionally round watch cases.

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Nov 7, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Inside a Swiss Watchmaking School

What does it take to become a watchmaker? Timepiece expert and WatchTime contributor Jeff Kingston visits the École Technique in Le Sentier, in Switzerland's Vallée de Joux, one of five watchmaking schools in the country, to find the answers.

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Oct 25, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: What Makes Blancpain’s Tourbillon Different?

When it constructed its first tourbillon watch, Blancpain decided to take some risks and bring some innovations into the construction. In this exclusive video, we will explain what those innovations are.

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Oct 17, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Assembling a Breguet La Tradition Tourbillon

Tourbillon watches are a key pillar of Breguet’s patrimony as it was the brand’s founder, Abraham-Louis Breguet, who invented the tourbillon in the late 18th century. In the following video, we observe a talented Breguet watchmaker as he assembles some of the key components of the Breguet La Tradition Tourbillon.

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Oct 12, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Assembling the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grand Complication

In this exclusive video, Kingston shows us the various stages in the assembly of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Grand Complication, which debuted at SIHH 2013 in Geneva.

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Oct 4, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: How Hublot Produces its Carbon Fiber and Texalium Cases

We recently visited Hublot's carbon-case-manufacturing workshop in Gland, Switzerland. In this exclusive video, we explain the various steps in Hublot’s process of making case components for Hublot watches out of carbon fiber and another material, Texalium.

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Sep 28, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: How a Tourbillon Works, From the Blancpain Watch Manufacture

In this exclusive video, hosted by WatchTime contributor Jeff Kingston during his visit to the Blancpain watch manufacture in Switzerland, we explain the core idea that lay behind the invention of the tourbillon, an invention patented by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801 and used by Blancpain and many other watch brands since.

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Sep 12, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Exploring the Breguet Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon

In this exclusive video, we will show you many of the unique features of the Breguet Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon watch and its complicated movement.

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Sep 6, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Hublot’s Finishing Touch – Polishing the Carbon Fiber Cases

In this video, we chronicle the final step Hublot's carbon fiber case making process: since the cutting tool used in the watch case leaves very tiny marks on the edges of the case parts, it is necessary to use a fine abrasive to carefully remove these tiny blemishes from the finished case.

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Aug 29, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Zenith’s Fusee-and-Chain Construction Explained

Zenith developed a special complicated watch, the Academy Georges Favre-Jacot, to celebrate its 150th Anniversary in 2014. In this exclusive video, the head movement designer of Zenith watches explains in detail how a fusee-and-chain functions.

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Aug 8, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: How Blancpain’s Carrousel Was Born

Blancpain is unique in the world of watchmaking, as it is the only house that has mastered the art of placing a carrousel in a wristwatch. How did the idea for this component come about and how does it differ from a similar invention, the tourbillon? Find out in this exclusive video.

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Aug 2, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: A Visit to TAG Heuer’s Swiss Movement-Making Workshop

In this exclusive video, we visit the Swiss town of Chevenez, near the French border, to observe how TAG Heuer watchmakers assemble all of the components of a TAG Heuer chronograph watch movement.

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Jul 27, 2016 by WatchTime

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