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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

Sponsored: CODE41 Unveils Latest NB24 with the Impressive Stratom Case

CODE41 has unveiled its latest iteration of the NB24, a chronograph watch that has become a legendary part of the brand’s history. This third edition of the NB24 brings with it not only a captivating new color, but also introduces a fresh case design known as the Stratom. The NB24 – A Growing Legacy The...

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Sep 20, 2023 by WatchTime

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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

WatchTime Returns to South Coast Plaza on September 22

This September, WatchTime’s next collectors’ event returns to South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California. Taking place on September 22 from 4:30 to 8:30pm, the evening will include featured watchmaking events and opportunities to speak firsthand with brand VIPs. There is a collection of 13 brands participating that will also be showcasing some of the...

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Aug 31, 2023 by WatchTime

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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

WatchTime New York 2023 Tickets on Sale Now

Following what was one of WatchTime New York’s biggest shows to-date in 2022, the esteemed collector’s event returns to Manhattan once again this year from October 20th to 22nd. WatchTime New York 2023 will bring together many of the world’s most impressive watchmakers and timepieces alongside countless enthusiasts, collectors, and industry experts. The multi-day event...

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Jun 16, 2023 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

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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

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Seiko Adds Spring Drive-Powered Models to the Presage Collection for the First Time

Despite the fact that the Presage collection has only been around for three years, it has become an entrenched part of the contemporary Seiko identity due to its strong value proposition. Split into the “Basic” category (home of the flamboyant Cocktail Time) and the more elaborate “Prestige” line, Presage has established itself as one of the...

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Sep 4, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Panerai Luminor Due Collection Expands with Six New Models

While 2019 is undoubtedly the Year of the Submersible at Panerai, as evidenced by the slew of new, revamped models in the military-masculine dive watch series released at SIHH earlier this year (and more recently), the Florentine watch maison has not neglected its more elegant Panerai’s Luminor Due collection. Launched in 2016 as the thinned-down...

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Sep 3, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Limited Time Only: Get Saturday Tickets to WatchTime New York 2019 for Only $37

WatchTime New York 2019 is less than two months away! America’s largest luxury watch show will be returning to Gotham Hall on October 25 – 26, 2019, with a record 37 presenting brands. To celebrate Labor Day and all the exhibiting brands, we’re offering Saturday-only tickets for just $37 using code WT37, for a limited time. Check...

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Sep 2, 2019 by WatchTime

GPHG 2019:

The Shortlisted Watches in This Year’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève

Today, the 2019 edition of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) has announced the shortlisted (pre-selected) watches that will be competing for an award in one of the 14 categories (as well as for the “Aiguille d’Or” award, which recognizes the overall best watch among all the entrants): Pre-Selection GPHG 2019: Ladies’ Ladies’ Complication...

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Sep 2, 2019 by Roger Ruegger

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Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Bovet Récital 26 Brainstorm Chapter One

What does one do for an encore after winning the Aiguille d’Or at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve in 2018? Bovet, whose Grand Récital timepiece took home that prestigious prize, continues shooting for new horological heights, as evidenced by the Récital 26 Brainstorm Chapter One, which will be its showcase timepiece at the 2019...

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Aug 30, 2019 by Mark Bernardo