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DIVING INTO HISTORY:

7 Milestone IWC Aquatimer Watches

For fans of vintage IWC watches, we highlight here five important IWC Aquatimers from the brand’s history, including IWC's Aquatimer GST Automatic 2000 and Aquatimer Split Minute Chronograph watches.

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Aug 10, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS:

Oak & Oscar Quietly Releases Two Watches in Batch Nº1

Owners of Oak & Oscar timepieces received a surprise email in their inbox last Friday. Chase Fancher, the founder of the Chicago-based microbrand, was writing to his network of collectors to announce a highly-limited collection called Batch Nº1 that would be available to ship starting on Monday, August 6. The name is a reference, no...

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Aug 8, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: The New RGM William Penn Limited Edition

RGM Watch Company, named for the initials of its founder, Roland G. Murphy, is famously based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area with a rich watchmaking history. Murphy chose to honor the state’s founder, William Penn, with an eponymous timepiece in the early years of his company’s founding. The so-called William Penn Model returns this year,...

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Aug 8, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

The Girls of Summer: Girard-Perregaux’s New Laureato Ladies’ Collection

Girard-Perregaux brought back its emblematic 1970s sports watch, the Laureato, in a big way in 2016 and has been expanding it as a core men's collection ever since. This summer, the brand targets the ladies' market with the launch of five new models, in two new sizes, with diamond-set bezels and vibrant colors.

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Aug 7, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: Bovet Récital 22 Grand Récital

WatchTime New York, America’s largest luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October. As we countdown to the big event, taking place at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we’ll be previewing many of the new watches that guests will discover there. Today we’re taking a look at the Bovet Récital 22 Grand...

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Aug 7, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

Introducing the First-Ever WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest

Taking wrist shots has become an integral part of the horological experience. Whether you’re a journalist, collector, retailer, or brand, taking a good image of a watch on the wrist and sharing it through social media is one of the simplest and most accessible ways to reach the watch community at large. To close out...

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Aug 4, 2018 by WatchTime

EVENTS:

WatchTime Teams Up with Vacheron Constantin for a Night of Rare Vintage

It was only last week when we introduced you to the Vacheron Constantin Les Collectionneurs exhibit, a selection of 10 notable vintage timepieces taken from the brand’s 263-year-old history that are currently for sale at the boutique on Madison Avenue in NYC. Last night, we invited WatchTime readers and collectors to join Vacheron Constantin and friends of...

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Aug 1, 2018 by WatchTime

NEWS:

Fever Pitch: TAG Heuer Releases a Manchester United-Inspired Carrera

In recent years, TAG Heuer has ramped up its support of soccer leagues around the world. We’ve seen the LVMH brand enter into relationships and become the Official Timekeeper for soccer associations such as LaLiga in Spain, the German Bundesliga, the English Premier League as a whole, the Chinese Football Association Super League, League 1 (French),...

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Jul 31, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph

WatchTime New York, America’s luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October! As we count down to the big event, taking place at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we continue to showcase many of the new timepieces that guests will discover there. This week, we preview the limited edition, green-dialed version of the Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph.

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Jul 31, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Collector Conversations: Jeff Kingston

There’s a reason the name Jeff Kingston might sound familiar to many of you. Longtime readers of WatchTime should recognize him from our IBG (Inside Basel-Geneva) days when the WatchTime staff and Kingston would tour the country each year leading lectures about the top watches and brands from SIHH and Baselworld. These days you will...

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Jul 29, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

News

Swatch Group to Leave Baselworld

Baselworld is losing its most important exhibitor, according to today’s issue of Swiss newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag (NZZ). This not only means that the 2019 show will have to do without brands like Breguet, Blancpain, Harry Winston, Jaquet Droz, Omega, Glashütte Original, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Mido, Certina, Hamilton, Balmain or Calvin Klein, it...

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Jul 29, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

NEWS

Barrel-Shaped Beachcomber: Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Blue

After launching it to great fanfare, albeit mixed reviews, in 2014, Hublot has rather quietly grown the newest of its four core collections, the tonneau-shaped Spirit of Big Bang, over the subsequent years. However, the latest addition to the collection, designed to evoke the waves of the Mediterranean and the beaches of the Côtes d’Azur,...

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Jul 24, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2018: Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite

WatchTime New York, America’s largest luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October. As we countdown to the big event, taking place at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we’ll be previewing many of the new watches that guests will discover there. Today we’re taking a look at the latest update to Glashütte...

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Jul 17, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

NEWS

Germany Salutes France: Moritz Grossmann’s World Cup 2018 Football Watch

The 2018 World Cup in Russia concluded in dramatic fashion yesterday, with France defeating Croatia 4-2 to win the second World Cup in the country’s history. And in the spirit of international sporting goodwill, it is a German watch brand that has issued the very first special-edition timepiece in congratulation to the victorious French team....

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Jul 16, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

5 Milestone Patek Philippe Watches, from 1868 to Today

Flashing back to one of last year's biggest milestones in the watch-collecting world, Patek Philippe's "Art of Watches" Grand Exhibition in New York, WatchTime offers a look at some of the most notable wristwatches from the company's 178-year history. Read on to discover WatchTime.com's top five.

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Jul 16, 2018 by Gisbert Brunner

NEWS

A. Lange & Söhne Releases Enamel-Dial Special Edition of the 1815 Tourbillon (Updated with Live Photos)

A. Lange & Söhne’s 1815 Tourbillon — introduced into the collection in 2014 and offered in a special Handwerkskunst edition the following year — is notable for combining two patented precision-keeping innovations: the zero-reset mechanism first introduced in 1997’s Langematik model and the stop-seconds function that debuted in 2008’s Cabaret Tourbillon. This week, the Saxon...

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Jul 13, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

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Mühle Glashütte Dips into Bronze with a New Yacht-Timer

In the past five years, bronze has become more prevalent than ever in the watch industry. It’s come to the point where any brand looking to change things up turns to the centuries-old material for inspiration. That’s not a bad thing. Bronze provides an intimate charisma, through the development of patina, that other case materials...

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Jul 11, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

THE WATCHTIME Q&A

An Interview With Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin

Bulgari set a new world record at Baselworld 2018 with the thinnest automatic watch in the world, and also introduced another sensational watch with its Minute Repeater in a carbon case. CEO Jean-Christophe Babin explains how this came about in an interview with Rüdiger Bucher, editor-in-chief of WatchTime's German sister magazine Chronos and International Editorial Director of Ebner Publishing.

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Jul 11, 2018 by Ruediger Bucher

Revisiting the UTS 4000M Dive Watch

One of our favorite things to do at WatchTime is taking a moment to go back and reexamine timepieces that have been in the public eye for a few years but have largely floated under-the-radar for most collectors and enthusiasts. In proper summertime spirit, our object of affection today is one of the more mechanically potent,...

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Jul 10, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

NEWS

Colorful Yet Classical: Corum’s New La Grande Vie Collection

Corum is notable for its very diverse range of watch families but has lacked up until recently in its modern collection a simple, traditional "starter" watch for those whose wristwear tastes are a tad more subtle. The La Chaux-de-Fonds-based manufacturer remedies that oversight this year with the introduction of the new La Grande Vie collection.

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Jul 6, 2018 by Mark Bernardo