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Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: Visconti Crystal Fire W107

We’re just a month away from the start of WatchTime New York, our biggest and most luxurious watch collectors’ event to date, taking place October 23-24 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall and featuring more than a dozen watch brands displaying their latest timepieces. (Click here for event details, including a complete list of sponsoring brands, and...

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Sep 24, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Promotion

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

Stealth Pilots: 5 All-Black Breitling Watches

In this WatchTime article, we take a look at five all-black Breitling watches, including the Breitling Avenger Blackbird and the Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute Blacksteel.

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Sep 24, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: Blancpain Villeret Grande Date

We’re only a month away from the start of America’s Luxury Watch Show, WatchTime New York 2015, taking place October 23-24 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. (Click here for event details, including a complete list of exhibiting brands, and to purchase tickets). More than a dozen luxury brands will exhibit at the event, including Blancpain, which...

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Sep 23, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

POLL:

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

RGM Donates Watch for Auction to Rebuild Playground

Pennsylvania-based watch brand RGM has joined a group of fellow local businesses and community residents in Mount Joy, PA, who have pledged financial assistance in the effort to rebuild “Kid’s Joy Land,” a community-built playground destroyed in an arson fire in 2012. To help raise the more than $100,000 needed for the rebuilding project, RGM...

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Sep 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Up/Down

WatchTime New York, our biggest and most luxurious watch collectors’ event to date, will take place October 23-24 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. (Click here for event details and to purchase tickets). More than a dozen luxury watch brands will display their timepieces at the event, including Germany’s A. Lange & Söhne, whose showcase pieces will...

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Sep 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

PROMOTION:

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

Close-Up: Hublot’s Tonneau-Shaped “Spirit of Big Bang” Collection

We take a look at Hublot's Tonneau-Shaped Spirit of Big Bang watches, the fourth pillar of the Hublot watch brand portfolio, along with the Big Bang, King Power, and Classic Fusion families.

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Sep 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

A World Record: Vacheron Constantin Unveils a Watch with 57 Complications

On September 17, at a press event at its manufacture and headquarters in Plan-les-Ouates on the outskirts of Geneva, Vacheron Constantin unveiled the most complicated watch ever made. The double-dial portable mechanical timepiece has a total of 57 complications, by Vacheron’s count. Several of the complications are world firsts. (All 57 complications are listed at...

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Sep 20, 2015 by Joe Thompson

Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: Carl F. Bucherer Patravi ScubaTec in Gold

WatchTime’s biggest and most luxurious watch collectors’ event to date, WatchTime New York, takes place October 23-24 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. (Click here for event details and to purchase tickets). Among the luxury watch brands displaying their wares at the event will be Lucerne-based Carl F. Bucherer, whose showcase pieces will include the new gold-cased...

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Sep 18, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Highlights from the “Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking” Exhibit

“Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking,” the largest exhibition of antique Breguet timepieces ever presented in the United States, opens tomorrow, September 19, 2015, at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. WatchTime was among a select group of media that got a private tour of the exhibit this week. Here is a look at some of...

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Sep 17, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Preview: 3 Antique Watches from “Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking” Museum Exhibit

Beginning September 19, 2015, the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will host “Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking,” an exhibit comprising the largest collection of antique Breguet timepieces ever shown in the Americas. Here’s a look at three of the historic pieces that will be on display.

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Sep 16, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

On Sale Now: WatchTime September-October 2015 Issue

The September-October 2015 issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also in the WatchTime online shop), featuring our test of the Rolex Cellini Time, a tour through Breguet’s most historic watches, a report on the evolution of Citizen’s Satellite Wave GPS technology, and more. Scroll down for highlights from the issue…

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Sep 15, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Close-Up: TAG Heuer Carrera with GMT and Big Date

We take a look at the TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 8 Grande Date GMT watch, the only non-chronograph version to debut in the model's 50th anniversary year.

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Sep 15, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: Armin Strom Skeleton Pure Water

WatchTime’s biggest and most luxurious watch collectors’ event to date, WatchTime New York, takes place October 23-24 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. (Click here for event details and to purchase tickets). Among the luxury watch brands displaying their wares at the event will be Swiss skeleton specialist Armin Strom, whose headliner will be the new Skeleton...

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Sep 14, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Brand to Watch: Vortic Watches Launches with American Artisan Series

Although its heyday ended a century ago, the passion for watchmaking never really left American soil. Today, entrepreneurial and passionate young watchmakers are finding ways to bring horology home with new designs, new manufacturing techniques, and a thorough allegiance to U.S. industrial history. One such company is Vortic Watches, which first appeared last year. Vortic...

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Sep 10, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: Bell & Ross BR-X1 Carbon Forgé

WatchTime takes Manhattan on October 23 and 24, with its biggest and most luxurious watch collectors’ event to date, WatchTime New York, at Gotham Hall. (Click here for event details and to purchase tickets). Among the luxury watch brands displaying their wares at the event will be Bell & Ross, whose headliner will be the...

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Sep 8, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

The Mechanical Art of Seduction: Richard Mille RM 69 Erotic Tourbillon

When discussing historical figures who shocked and scandalized their era’s societal norms, Swiss watchmakers do not immediately come to most people’s minds. However, the history of horology is rife with “erotic timepieces” — watches that depicted sexually suggestive scenes on their dials, often using mechanical automaton figures to simulate acts of libertine pleasure that would...

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Sep 5, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Close-Up: Rolex Yacht-Master II in Stainless Steel (with Video)

Rolex has launched the Yachtmaster II watch in a 904L stainless steel case with a blue Cerachrom bezel insert. The signature feature of this Rolex watch is its regatta countdown function.

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Sep 4, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Carl F. Bucherer Offers Unique Manero ChronoPerpetual for Only Watch 2015

In November, after the culmination of a global preview tour, the Only Watch auction for the benefit of the Monaco Association Against Muscular Dystrophy (AMM) will take place in Geneva. A total of 44 one-off timepieces will be auctioned off to support this important cause. (Click here to see some of the Only Watch participants...

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Sep 3, 2015 by Jason Pitsch

Graham Partners With Navy SEAL Foundation for Limited-Edition Watch (Updated with Live Photos)

Graham, the Swiss watch brand with British roots, has partnered with a decidedly American institution for its new limited-edition watch. This latest version of the Graham Chronofighter Oversize, which launches tonight at a special ceremony aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, is the product of a collaboration with the Navy...

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Sep 3, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2015: Breguet Tradition Chronographe Indépendant 7077

On October 23 and 24, WatchTime stages its biggest and most luxurious watch collectors’ event to date, WatchTime New York, in Manhattan’s Gotham Hall. (Click here for event details and to purchase tickets). Among the luxury watch brands displaying their wares at WatchTime New York will be Montres Breguet, which will showcase its new Breguet...

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Sep 2, 2015 by Jay Deshpande