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Monochrome Monday: Hands-on with the Montblanc Heritage Chronométrie Quantième Complet

This year Montblanc introduced the entirely new Heritage Chronométrie collection, which immediately sparked interest from collectors. The collection features classic looks, classic complications, and even classically sized watches. The Montblanc Heritage Chronométrie Quantième Complet is also part of this new collection, featuring a quantième complet – “complete calendar” in English – in a beautiful 40-mm...

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Jul 20, 2015 by Carina Friedrich

The Eyes Have It: Testing the Maurice Lacroix Pontos S

The Maurice Lacroix Pontos S is a looker. Is the beauty more than skin deep? We find out in this in-depth watch test, with original photography by Robert Atkinson. There’s an old saying in watch retailing that you only have to sell the dial. That may apply more often to novices than to readers of...

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Jul 18, 2015 by WatchTime

Christophe Claret: Playing The Odds

Complications specialist Christophe Claret has been designing movements for more than 25 years, but it wasn’t until 2009 that he created a watch collection bearing his own name. The 65 complicated movements he has designed over the years were mostly commissioned by other brands, including Ulysse Nardin, Harry Winston, Maîtres du Temps, and many others....

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Jul 12, 2015 by Alexander Krupp

For Art’s Sake: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Hybris Artistica Collection

Jaeger-LeCoultre fans are familiar with the brand’s Hybris Mechanica series of high-complication watches. Last year, Jaeger introduced that series’ high-craft counterpart, a collection called Hybris Artistica that showcases decorating skills like engraving, enameling, gem-setting and marquetry. “We believe that aesthetics are as important for a watch as technical mastery,” says Stéphane Belmont, international marketing director....

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Jul 11, 2015 by WatchTime

Rolex Modernizes the Day-Date with a New Size and Caliber

Originally introduced in 1956, the Rolex Day-Date was the last flagship model Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf created, and it is considered to be his ultimate achievement. We give you the details on the modernized version of the "President's watch," the Rolex Day-Date.

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Jul 10, 2015 by Jason Pitsch

Temptation Thursday by Escapement: Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar Retrograde Date Hand, London

I am a Lancastrian. I was born in Blackburn, a locale once synonymous with cotton weaving. In the late 18th Century, the advent of the industrial revolution saw Britain become the world’s biggest producer of cotton. In particular, by 1860, Lancashire’s “dark satanic mills” were responsible for producing half of the world’s cotton supplies. Despite...

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Jul 9, 2015 by Angus Davies

Making the Past Present: Inside the Parmigiani Manufacture

Michel Parmigiani holds up an antique singing-bird snuff box and pushes a slider on its side. The lid of the box lifts and out pops a small, mechanical bird, which stands upright at the center of an oval opening. The bird, covered with iridescent feathers, then turns from side to side, flapping its tail and...

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Jul 4, 2015 by WatchTime

The MB&F HM6 Space Pirate – Six Things to Know

Maximilian Büsser & Friends, better known as MB&F, debuted the Horological Machine 6 (aka “Space Pirate”, or simply HM6) last fall. This new model takes the domed look introduced with the HM3 “Frog” to new heights. MB&F timepieces are always creative on many levels. Here are six things to know about HM6.

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Jul 3, 2015 by WatchTime

Close-Up: The New Bremont America’s Cup Collection

British watch brand Bremont — which already this year began a partnership with Jaguar cars and had prominent placement in the big-budget spy thriller Kingsman — has pulled off perhaps its biggest coup yet, announcing last week that it has been appointed as Official Timing Partner to both the 35th America’s Cup and the defending...

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Jul 2, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Home Grown: Testing the RGM 801 Aircraft

What do you get when you cross a historical, American-made pocketwatch with a clock made for military aircraft? You’re reading about it right now. The 801 Aircraft, from RGM, the Lancaster County-based watch company owned by watchmaker Roland Murphy, is a past-meets-present creation that completes a unique clock-pocketwatch-wristwatch timekeeping trifecta. The dial and hands were...

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Jun 23, 2015 by Roger Ruegger

A Two- Week Tourbillon: Testing the Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Tourbillon 14 Days

The movement of the Patrimony Traditionnelle Tourbillon 14 Days, from Vacheron Constantin, is a beauty: a rich mélange of elegant sunburst, perlage and Geneva stripes; hand-beveled edges; immaculately polished screws; a tourbillon cage adorned with a Maltese cross; and engravings decorated with gold. Given the watch’s eye-popping price of $292,700, you’d expect all this… and...

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Jun 20, 2015 by Jens Koch

Temptation Thursday by Escapement: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Deadbeat

Last year, I spent an evening in the garden of the Orangerie in Versailles watching the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, a partner of haute horlogerie brand Jaquet Droz. I have long been an ardent admirer of this prestigious watch company, based on the outskirts of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. I confess that prior to attending the...

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Jun 18, 2015 by Angus Davies

Under the Hammer: My Favorite Lots from Today’s Christie’s NYC Auction

Today at 10AM Eastern Time Zone (UTC -05:00), Christie’s New York Important Watches Auction will begin. I got to sit with the newly appointed Vice President and Senior Specialist of Watches, Eric Wind, and ask him about a few of my favorite timepieces from this season’s auction. If you’re reading this after 10AM, click here...

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Jun 17, 2015 by Robert Velasquez