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Oris Williams F1 Team Day Date

Now in its seventh season as the official watch partner of AT&T Williams, Oris introduces the Williams F1 Team Day Date. The 44mm black DLC stainless steel case surrounds a slotted dial featuring the Williams F1 team blue and white colors. A blue silicon shock absorber has been placed between the bezel and case to...

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Jul 7, 2010 by WatchTime

WatchTime Comes to the iPad!

WatchTime now offers a rich media app developed specifically for the iPad. Now you can enjoy America’s favorite watch magazine anywhere you take your iPad, with these added features: Each issue enhanced with audio, video, photo galleries, links to past content, web links, and more. Search function in each issue Read on and off-line: bonus...

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Jul 6, 2010 by WatchTime

Luminox-Sponsored 911 GT3 Cup Car Sets Pikes Peak Record

Driving the specially prepared Luminox Watch Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car, Jeff Zwart won the 2WD Time Attack class and set a new class record in the 88th running of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb on June 27.

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Jul 5, 2010 by WatchTime

Concord Launches C1 Seafarer and C1 Zest

Concord has announced two new versions of its C1 chronograph. The Seafarer features a “blue waters” rubber-coated alligator strap with contrasting white stitching complimenting white chronograph subdials. The dial finish is described as having a “structured fiberglass look.” The C1 Zest sports a white strap with orange stitching and an orange honeycomb dial with black...

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Jul 5, 2010 by WatchTime

Swatch Group Takes Over Swiss Movement Maker Tanzarella Ltd.

Swatch Group announced today that it will take over Swiss-based watch movement maker Tanzarella Ltd. The takeover, effective July 12, will be achieved by transferring Tanzarella assets to a newly-founded Swatch Group company called Assemti Ltd. The new company will operate from Tanzarella’s present location in Riazzino / Locarno. The Swatch Group Ltd. will acquire...

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Jul 5, 2010 by WatchTime

Girard-Perregaux ww.tc Steel Chronograph

Girard-Perregaux is introducing a new steel version of its popular ww.tc chronograph. Originally launched in 2000, this collection has quickly become one of G-P’s iconic lines. The ww.tc (world wide time control) displays all 24 time zones on its dial. An exclusive coupling mechanism drives the ring displaying 24 cities representing the zones. The hour...

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Jul 5, 2010 by WatchTime

Win a Trip to Shanghai with Rado

Swiss watchmaker Rado is re-launching its website www.rado.com this month. To celebrate in a unique way, Rado has created the micro-site http://hello.rado.com/ where visitors are invited to record their welcome greetings in a photo or a video. Rado is inviting all its fans and those newly acquainted to the brand to demonstrate their design spirit...

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Jul 5, 2010 by WatchTime

Nayla Hayek Named Swatch Group Chairwoman

Nayla Hayek has been named chairwoman of the Swatch Group Ltd., succeeding her father, Nicolas G. Hayek, who died of heart failure at Swatch Group headquarters in Bienne, Switzerland on June 28. She was elected by a unanimous vote of the board of directors on June 30. Previously, she was vice-chairman of the board.

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Jul 2, 2010 by Joe Thompson

Switzerland Mourns Its Watch “Messiah”

Switzerland has responded to the sudden death of Swatch Group Chairman Nicolas G. Hayek on June 28 with a rare outpouring of grief, praise, and appreciation. Hayek, 82, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but grew up in Switzerland and spent his entire professional life there. Hayek has been a prominent public figure in the country...

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Jul 1, 2010 by Joe Thompson

TAG Heuer Launches Monaco LE for Porsche Club of America

TAG Heuer is teaming up with the Porsche Club of America to celebrate the club’s 55th anniversary by offering a 55-piece limited edition Monaco, a watch strongly associated with sports cars and automobile racing. In preparing to shoot Le Mans, Steve McQueen’s primary inspiration was his friend Jo Siffert, the Swiss racing legend who in...

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Jul 1, 2010 by WatchTime

Swatch Group Chairman Nicolas G. Hayek Dies at Age 82

Swatch Group AG founder and chairman Nicolas Hayek died unexpectedly from heart failure at his office earlier today. He was 82. Hayek, a colorful entrepreneur and one of Switzerland’s leading businessmen, was credited with saving the Swiss watch industry.

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Jun 28, 2010 by WatchTime

TIME TEST: It’s Automatic

How much do you know about self-winding watches, past and present? Sharpen your pencil and set that cerebral rotor a’spinning. Answers, as usual, appear at the end.

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Jun 27, 2010 by Norma Buchanan

Paul Picot Announces Online Photo Contest

Famed photographer Helmut Newton first worked with Paul Picot in the early 90s. To celebrate Newton’s legacy, Paul Picot is sponsoring an online photo contest. The brand is issuing a call to art aficionados to celebrate Newton’s work by interpreting one of his famous pieces with a fresh and innovative approach. Read on for full...

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Jun 27, 2010 by WatchTime

Buben & Zörweg Phantom High Fidelity Winder

Founded in 1995, Austrian-based Buben & Zörweg produces some of the finest watch winders, safes and clocks available today. At this year’s JCK, they showed the Phantom High Fidelity, a winder that also houses a fine German sound system. The retro-futuristic unit, which holds up to eight watches, is constructed from race car-inspired materials including...

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Jun 23, 2010 by WatchTime

Schwarzenegger Gala Event Honors Audemars Piguet

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s After-School All-Stars (ASAS) hosted a star-studded gala at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York on June 17th honoring Francois-Henry Bennahmias, President & CEO of Audemars Piguet North America, among others, for his support of the Governor’s organization that provides comprehensive after school and summer programs for at-risk children in thirteen cities...

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Jun 22, 2010 by WatchTime

Ulysse Nardin, Audemars Piguet Raise Eurozone Prices as Sales Rebound

Reuters correspondent Silke Koltrowitz interviewed Ulysee Nardin President and CEO Rolf Schnyder and Audemars Piguet CEO Philippe Merk at the Global Luxury Summit in Paris earlier this month. Both men said their sales are increasing, and each has raised Eurozone prices as the Swiss franc strengthens against the euro. The franc has risen about 4.6...

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Jun 21, 2010 by WatchTime

Patrizzi & Co. New York Auction Generates $2,901,850

Sales in the Patrizzi & Co June 15 auction reached nearly $3 million with 145 of the 233 lots sold. The top lot was a minute repeater by F.P. Journe, featuring Grande et Petite Sonnerie striking chimes, which sold for $400,000. An eight-day Cartier Mystery clock with platinum, rock crystal and diamonds made in the...

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Jun 18, 2010 by WatchTime

Vacheron Constantin Sponsors NYC Power 100 Event

This past weekend, Vacheron Constantin sponsored The New York Observer’s Power 100 party, which recognizes the 100 most influential players in New York City’s real estate industry. The event was held at the 21 Club in midtown Manhattan. Among the hundreds of attendees were Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who dropped from No. 4 in 2009 to...

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Jun 17, 2010 by WatchTime

Louis Vuitton Tambour Spin Time GMT

What is Spin Time? Does it determine whose top wins? Is it from particle physics? Perhaps in some neighborhoods, but not here. Spin Time is an innovate new collection from Louis Vuitton featuring watches with no hour hands. Instead, each of the 12 hour positions is occupied by a rotating cube. At any given hour,...

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Jun 16, 2010 by WatchTime

Ball Watch Explorer Guillaume Néry’s Video Goes Viral

The new video from Ball Watch Explorer Guillaume Néry is called Free Fall – an unlikely title for a film shot underwater. Néry is a world-record holding freediver and the video follows him as he “base jumps” into Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas, one of the the world’s deepest underwater sinkholes. The video was...

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Jun 15, 2010 by WatchTime