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Bathed in Bronze: Oris Updates the Big Crown Pointer Date Bronze with New Bracelets, Dial Colors

Bronze watches are everywhere, and few brands have worked as much to capitalize upon the trend than Hölstein-based Oris. This week, Oris continues its place at the vanguard of the bronze wave while revisiting again one of its classic designs with the introduction of the updated Big Crown Pointer Date Bronze. The new watch –...

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Jan 26, 2022 by Caleb Anderson

HSNY: Grace Fryer Scholarship for Female Watchmaking Students

The Horological Society of New York (HSNY) launches a new financial aid initiative to further its mission of advancing the art and science of horology — the Grace Fryer Scholarship for Female Watchmaking Students.

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Jan 25, 2022 by Roger Ruegger

TAG Heuer Declares “We Outside” with the Launch of the Aquaracer “Outdoor” Professional 200 Series

Last year, TAG Heuer made news when it introduced the most significant refresh to its Aquaracer dive-watch collection since 2014, introducing the fifth generation of the Aquaracer Professional 300. So named for its 300-meter water resistance and professional-grade dive specs, the watch was positioned as the new core design of the Aquaracer collection from which...

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Jan 25, 2022 by Caleb Anderson

Zenith Introduces the Defy Skyline, with Another Variation on the El Primero Caliber

With the recent release of its Defy Revival A3642, Zenith hinted that it would be turning the spotlight on its avant-garde Defy collection, at least in the early part of 2022, after a 2021 filled with interesting variations on its Chronomaster line. The main event occurred at the kickoff of the virtual LVMH Watch Week...

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Jan 24, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Kering sells Ulysse Nardin and Girard-Perregaux

Breaking: UN and GP are being sold to the current management.

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Jan 24, 2022 by Roger Ruegger

Back in Vantablack: H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Small Seconds Total Eclipse Limited Edition

While Schaffhausen-based H. Moser & Cie. is one of the most defiantly individualistic watch brands out there, it is also no stranger to partnerships and the collaborative timepieces that emerge from them, as perhaps best exemplified by 2020’s Moser X MB&F Endeavour Cylindrical Tourbillon. Its latest limited editions, called the Endeavour Small Seconds Total Eclipse,...

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Jan 21, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

TAG Heuer Celebrates 60 Years of the Autavia with Three New Watches

Since its relaunch in 1962 as a wrist-worn chronograph, following its initial introduction in 1933 as a cockpit instrument for automobiles and aircraft, the Autavia has played a crucial role in the success and prominence of the Heuer — now TAG Heuer— brand. While lesser known than the iconic Carrera and likely less recognizable than...

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Jan 19, 2022 by Caleb Anderson

Porsche Design Marks 50 Years with a Modern Re-Issue of its Legendary Chronograph 1

In 1972, Professor Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, the visionary behind the legendary Porsche 911, established his own design studio separate from the family carmaking business founded by his grandfather, intending to apply his signature design language to products beyond automobiles. The first and most iconic product to emerge from that studio was a wristwatch, simply called...

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Jan 18, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Zenith Raids its 1969 “Bank Vault” for New, Vintage-Inspired Defy Revival A3642

The year 1969 was a pivotal one for Swiss watchmaker Zenith, which famously introduced its history-making, high-frequency chronograph caliber, the El Primero, to a worldwide audience in January of that year. The El Primero and the Chronomaster watches in which it was first installed have largely defined Zenith’s identity since then, but another important branch...

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Jan 17, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Inside the Reservoir Kanister Collection, Inspired by a 1950s Automobile Icon

Reservoir is a watch brand with vintage-automobile influence in its DNA. Best known for its retrograde dial configurations, the French-founded watchmaker has built its modern aesthetic around racing, speedometers, and vintage measuring instruments. In late 2021, continuing in this spirit, Reservoir introduced the new Kanister Collection, a family of fresh-faced titanium-cased watches inspired by the...

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Jan 14, 2022 by Caleb Anderson

Bovet Partners with Automobili Pininfarina to Roll Out the Supercar-Inspired Battista Tourbillon

Bovet is not a watchmaker that is known for a flurry of new releases. It’s the nature of the haute horologerie end of the market, which Bovet inhabits, to focus on making timepieces that are ultra-luxurious in their details, design, and finishing as well as more limited in their production. That said, all brands need...

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Jan 12, 2022 by Caleb Anderson

Oris Big Crown X Cervo Volante: Three Pointer Date Editions on Sustainable Deer Leather Straps

As anyone who follows the brand knows, Oris has stepped up its efforts to bring more eco-friendly materials and sustainable practices to watchmaking in recent years, as evidenced by projects like last year’s Aquis Date Upcycle models. The Hölstein-based company’s latest effort in this arena springs from a collaboration with Cervo Volante, a Swiss leather...

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Jan 11, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Highlights from WatchTime’s January-February 2022 Issue, On Sale Now

The January-February 2022 issue of WatchTime is available at retailers now. Among the highlights of the issue are our cover story, a hands-on review of the new Blancpain Air Command Flyback Chronograph in titanium; a comprehensive history of the dive watch and how it has evolved with the times; and in-depth tests of new models,...

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Jan 11, 2022 by WatchTime

Back to the ’80s: Doxa Introduces the Sub 600T (With Hands-On Photo Gallery)

Iconic Swiss dive-watch brand Doxa has become well-known in the modern era for its vintage inspired designs. Last month, Doxa introduced the latest update to its catalog in this stylistic vein, the 1980s-inspired Doxa SUB 600T. Those familiar with Doxa most likely know the brand best for styles derived primarily from the 1960s and ‘70s,...

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Jan 9, 2022 by Caleb Anderson

Hamilton Ventura S Quartz: The Avant-Garde Elvis Presley Watch

Hamilton Watch Company introduced the world’s first electronic wristwatch, the Ventura, in 1957. The idiosyncratic three-sided watch gained worldwide fame a few years later, when Elvis Presley wore it in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii, and its maker has been producing versions of it ever since. Today, on what would have been the King of...

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Jan 8, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

TAG Heuer Earns Chinese New Year Stripes with Carrera Year of the Tiger Limited Edition

TAG Heuer expanded the scope of its Carrera Three Hands family, a subsidiary of its flagship Carrera collection, with more than a dozen new references. The Swiss sports-watch specialist completes the streamlined Three Hands series — which, like all Carrera versions, traces its lineage to the first iconic Carrera chronograph from 1963 — with an...

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Jan 5, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Tradition Meets High Complication in Panerai Luminor Perpetual Calendar Goldtech

Since its revival in the early 1990s as a consumer brand, Officine Panerai has expanded its portfolio of timepieces, all of which spring from the robust, utilitarian models the Florentine company produced for Italian naval divers in the 1940s, to encompass a wide variety of complications, colorways, sizes, and case materials. Missing from Panerai’s regular...

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Jan 4, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Nomos Glashütte Marks 50 Years of Doctors Without Borders, and a Decade’s Partnership, with New Limited-Edition Tangente 38

On December 22, 1971, a group of 13 doctors and journalists founded Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), aka Doctors Without Borders, in Paris, with a goal of providing aid and comfort to people in war zones and those suffering the effects of natural disasters. Fifty years later, the Nobel Prize-winning charitable organization operates in more than...

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Jan 3, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

Chopard Blends Titanium and Ethical Gold in its Latest Alpine Eagle XL Chrono

Chopard launched an “extra-large” chronograph version of its sport-luxury Alpine Eagle model in 2020, consisting of two references with cases and bracelets in Lucent steel and a third in a bi-material execution combining Lucent steel and the maison’s “ethical” rose gold. For the latest iteration of the Alpine Eagle XL Chrono, released at the end...

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Jan 2, 2022 by Mark Bernardo

G-Shock Triples Down on Gen-Z, Digital-Inspired Styles with Virtual World Collection

Earlier this year, G-Shock announced its futurism-inspired Full Metal GMW-B5000TVA-1. At its launch, the model quickly made waves with its “Titanium Virtual Armor” aesthetic, influenced by the world of virtual reality and the animé genre Mecha. Now G-Shock is doubling down on the former of these two themes with the launch of the Virtual World...

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Dec 25, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

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