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4 New Panerai Radiomir 1940 Watches Launch in Hong Kong

It was a Radiomir 1940 roadshow for Panerai at Watches & Wonders last week in Hong Kong, with four new models introduced. The Panerai Radiomir 1940 embodies the purity and simplicity of the original Panerai design, with its no-frills, highly legible sandwich dial and signature cushion-shaped case.

Pilots’ Watch Review: Zenith Captain Pilot Chronograph

For a comparative review, we selected two three-hand pilots’ watches and seven pilots’ chronographs to accompany a trio of pilots – aerobatics champion Klaus Lenhart and his protégés Axel Schütte and Andreas Langer − while they performed an aerobatic program, specially designed for our review, in the skies above the Swabian Mountains in southern Germany....

Monochrome Monday: The HYT H3 Debuts At Baselworld 2015

Back in 2012, HYT introduced a watch that was a real blast in the world of watchmaking, by integrating a liquid directly into the movement and using it as an instrument to indicate time. One year after this first attempt named HYT H1, the company came back with a new watch, even more exiting and technically...

Watch Test: Nomos Glashütte Lux

Nomos is known for its affordable manufacture watches. With its white-gold Lux model, the Glashütte-based brand entered a higher price range. Writer Jens Koch takes us deep into the timepiece and Nik Schölzel and Nomos provide outstanding photography.

WatchTime’s January-February 2015 Issue is On Sale Now!

The January-February issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also in the WatchTime online shop), featuring our test of the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Flyback Chrono, a feature on Patek Philippe’s 175th anniversary watches, a a comparative review of four three-hand dive watches, and more. Scroll down for highlights from the issue…

Time is Money: The 26 Richest Swiss Watch Barons

Each year the respected Swiss business magazine, Bilan, publishes a list of the 300 richest Swiss with a rough estimate of their fortunes. For this article we examined the list for you to see which members of the watch industry made the ranking. Here they are:

WatchTime’s November-December Issue is On Sale Now!

The November-December issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also in the WatchTime online shop), featuring our test of the Omega Speedmaster Mark II, a showcase of Patek Philippe’s 24 most historic wristwatches, a horological tour of Switzerland’s Vallée de Joux,  and more. Scroll down for highlights from the issue…

WatchTime’s July-August Issue is On Sale Now!

The July-August issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also in the WatchTime online shop), featuring a comparative test of the TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 1887 Jack Heuer Edition and the Tudor Heritage Chrono Blue, more than 75 new watches from Baselworld 2014, and more. Click here for highlights from the issue…

More Unique Pieces From Only Watch 2013

More watch brands are unveiling their unique timepieces to be auctioned at the upcoming Only Watch in Monaco. Below, we take a look at the pieces to be offered by Bell & Ross, Richard Mille, and Jaquet Droz. All proceeds of the auction, held on September 28th 2013, will benefit the Monegasque Association against Muscular...

Seconds City: Exploring La Chaux-de-Fonds

In our March-April issue, on sale now on newsstands and for the iPad, Norma Buchanan visits the Swiss watchmaking town of Le Locle. In this feature story from our June 2009 issue, Buchanan journeys to another cradle of Swiss horology, La Chaux-de-Fonds, a town that is still, as Karl Marx described it a century and...

Pocket Full of Complications: Today’s Haute Horlogerie Pocketwatches

Even though the wristwatch long ago supplanted it in popularity, the classical pocketwatch continues to soldier on as a novelty in the world of timepieces, beloved by some collectors for their old-school appeal and large, decorative movements, and many of today’s watch brands have used the style to express not only their historical cachet but...