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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: MB&F Legacy Machine 2 Red Gold Blue

America’s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, returns for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25 - 26, 2019. This year’s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is MB&F, which will showcase the last-ever Legacy Machine 2 to be crafted in 18K rose gold.

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Sep 29, 2019 by WatchTime

Sponsored: Gerald Charles Introduces Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon

Introducing a new age of technical aestheticism, Gerald Charles debuts its Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon. With a unique design created with the expert oversight of the brand’s creative director, Octavio Garcia, the timepiece is a return to the original Maestro flying tourbillon released in 2005. Taking hints from the brand’s rich history, the new release is...

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Mar 21, 2023 by WatchTime

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Breguet Classique Tourbillon Extra-Plat Squelette 5395

Breguet's Classique Tourbillon Extra-Plat Squelette 5395 is a watch that combines the most emblematic of all Breguet inventions, the tourbillon, with a unique skeletonized dial architecture. The new watch — shown to audiences in the U.S. for the first time at the upcoming WatchTime New York event — takes the extra-thin, tourbillon-equipped Caliber 581 and removes close to 50 percent of its normal material construction.

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Sep 28, 2019 by WatchTime

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A New Team of Avengers: Breitling Relaunches the Avenger Collection at L.A. Summit Event

The third Breitling Summit took place on September 24 in Los Angeles, and the headlining announcement was the relaunch, and revamp, of the sporty, aviation-inspired Avenger collection, a series of models that had been mostly dormant for the past few years of the new Breitling era. Here is a brief rundown of what the new...

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Sep 26, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Ice for the “Iceman:” Introducing the Richard Mille RM 50-04 Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph Kimi Räikkönen

To commemorate this year’s Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix, Richard Mille will be releasing the limited-edition RM 50-04 Tourbillon Split-Seconds Chronograph Kimi Räikkönen released in partnership with the famed F1 world champion it’s named for. This new watch, limited to 30 editions, pays homage both to the legacy of Kimi “Iceman” Räikkönen as the 39-year-old...

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Sep 24, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Dual Time

America’s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 25 – 26, 2019. This year’s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Jaquet Droz, who...

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Sep 24, 2019 by WatchTime

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms in Rose Gold with Blue Ceramic Dial

You missed them in Basel; come see them in New York. Blancpain, which skipped the Baselworld watch fair this year with the rest of the Swatch Group, will again be among the exhibiting watch brands at WatchTime New York on October 25-26. Among its highlight timepieces for 2019 is the new rose-gold cased model of the manufacture's Fifty Fathoms luxury dive watch, featuring an all-new blue ceramic dial.

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Sep 22, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Glashütte Original Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date

Glashütte Original, the Swatch Group-owned firm that emerged from the end of Cold War-era nationalization of Germany’s top watchmaking companies, has had modern success with vintage-styled models like the Sixties and Seventies, which hearken back to the “Spezimatic” watches from those pre-unification decades. This year, the Saxon manufacture adds an entirely new and sporty collection...

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Sep 18, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Double Vision: H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Perpetual Calendar MD Features New Dual-Window Display

H. Moser & Cie. gave the watchmaking world its most elegantly minimalist perpetual calendar in 2005. That award-winning timepiece has been reimagined in several iterations in the years since, most recently in 2016's Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept, with an even starker, more streamlined design. For its most recent evolution, as part of Moser's sport-luxury Pioneer collection, the dial gets slightly more complex in the service of being eminently more legible.

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Sep 17, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Back to the Future: Urwerk Redefines Space-Age Watchmaking with the UR-100

Given the sheer amount of independent watchmaking brands that have emerged in the 21st century, many people fail to realize that a small number of these firms actually date back to the mid-1990s. Among those pioneering companies that are still going strong is Urwerk, a brand that was founded in 1997 through a partnership between...

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Sep 16, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Breitling Continues its Series of Global Airline Partnerships with the New Aviator 8 Etihad Limited Edition

As part of its just-announced relationship with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, Breitling has unveiled the Aviator 8 Etihad Limited Edition in black steel. This is a limited edition of 500 pieces and features stylized Arabic numerals on the dial, as is the norm with most Middle East editions. The limited edition...

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Sep 16, 2019 by WatchTime

PERFORMING A HAKA:

Tudor’s New Black Bay Chrono for the New Zealand All Blacks (with Live Images)

The Rugby World Cup is a men’s rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams. As the official timekeeper of the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan (September 20 to November 2), Tudor will equip all participating referees with a Black Bay Chrono in Steel (see WatchTime’s review from 2018). More importantly: As a...

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Sep 14, 2019 by Roger Ruegger

EVENTS:

Photo Recap: An Evening with Vacheron Constantin and WatchTime in Newport Beach, CA

Earlier this week, Vacheron Constantin and WatchTime hosted a private cocktail party for readers and brand clients at the Lido House hotel in Newport Beach, California. Attending guests were able to explore the full range of Vacheron’s current offerings, from the latest Overseas models, to timepieces within the Patrimony, Traditionelle, and FiftySix families. Leslie Kobrin,...

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Sep 13, 2019 by WatchTime

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Four Wheels: Ulysse Nardin Unveils New Executive Free Wheel Limited Editions

Ulysse Nardin is a watch maison of many talents, on both the technical and artistic side of high horology. The La Chaux-de-Fonds-based brand puts both areas of expertise on display with four new executions of its Executive Free Wheel tourbillon timepiece, each limited to just 18 pieces and featuring an eye-catching artisanal treatment on its...

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Sep 11, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Greubel Forsey Will Present the New Double Tourbillon 30° Technique Ceramic for the First Time at WatchTime New York 2019

The Double Tourbillon 30º is one of the most important timepieces in the Greubel Forsey catalog. As the first timepiece unveiled by the manufacture at Baselworld 2004 — after five years of development by Stephen Forsey and Robert Greubel — it set in motion all of the success and innovations that Greubel Forsey has accomplished in...

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Sep 10, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

Highlights from WatchTime’s 20th Anniversary September-October Issue, On Sale Now

As of this morning, the latest print edition of WatchTime magazine (September-October, 2019) will have arrived on newsstands across the United States. Our print subscribers should have received their issue sometime within the past week or two, and our digital subscribers will have access to the magazine starting today. As you may have noticed in...

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Sep 10, 2019 by WatchTime

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Unveils America-Exclusive Polaris Date Limited Edition (Updated with Live Images)

Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced its sport-luxury collection, the Polaris, at SIHH 2018 and has continued to expand the series since then. The newest member of the family is an 800-piece limited edition, sold exclusively in the U.S., that adds lush blue livery to one of the most period-accurate models, the Polaris Date.

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Sep 10, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

THE WATCHTIME Q&A:

Talking with Pascal Ravessoud, International Development Director and Secretary-General of the FHH Cultural Council

Recently, WatchTime had the opportunity to talk with Pascal Ravessoud, International Development Director and Secretary-General of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie Cultural Council, about the FHH’s mission, his role, and why even the most passionate watch collector could not become a member. In one sentence, what does the FHH do, and who can join?...

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Sep 9, 2019 by Roger Ruegger

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The New Doxa SUB 200 Collection is One of the Best Values of 2019

Doxa has made a spirited comeback in recent years, riding on a wave of vintage-inspired dive watches from its past catalog. Known for its characteristic orange dials, the brand was very popular within the diving community during the late 1960s and ’70s thanks to the rugged, purpose-built divers’ watches it produced. And now with neo-vintage...

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Sep 9, 2019 by WatchTime

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Into the Emerald Depths: TAG Heuer’s New Green-Dialed Aquaracers

TAG Heuer has played with a variety of materials and colors for its Aquaracer collection of sporty divers' watches since the collection's soft revamp in 2016, most recently and perhaps most notably 2018's Aquaracer Carbon models. This year, two new Aquaracers debut — one for men, one for ladies — clad in of-the-moment emerald green dials, inspired, says the brand, "by the mesmerizing blue and green shades of the ocean."

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Sep 7, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Little Lange 1 Moon-Phase Edition Becomes Penultimate Release in A. Lange & Söhne’s 25th Anniversary Collection

A. Lange & Söhne has announced the ninth of 10 limited-edition timepieces commemorating the 25th anniversary of the iconic, original Lange 1, and the third one equipped with the Saxon manufacture’s ultra-precise lunar complication. Here is what you need to know about the Little Lange 1 Moon Phase “25th Anniversary” edition. The Little Lange 1...

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Sep 6, 2019 by Mark Bernardo