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Aquanauts Assemble: Patek Philippe’s New White-Gold Chronographs

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Big & Bold Is Back: Breitling Super Chronomat

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A New Level of Mastery: Tudor Black Bay Ceramic

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Supermoon for the Wrist: MeisterSinger Stratoscope

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Runway Meets Racetrack: IWC Pilot’s Chronograph “Edition AMG”

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Ball Engineer Master II Slide Chronograph

Ball Watch continues to introduce patented technologies to its watches. In addition to the Engineer II Magneto S watch, with its new antimagnetic system, the company last year introduced the Ball Engineer Master II Slide chronograph, which uses a mechanical slide, rather than the traditional pushers, to start, stop and reset the stopwatch.

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Mar 2, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Monday: New Tudor Watches We Hope To See At Baselworld 2015

At Monochrome-Watches, we have a special attraction to Tudor. While we may love Rolex for its serious and high quality creations, Tudor (Rolex’s sister company) has created some interesting, affordable, very well finished and mainly, really cool watches recently – such as the Heritage Black Bay Blue, the Heritage Ranger or the Heritage Chrono. Thus, there is no reason...

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Mar 2, 2015 by Brice Goulard

Escapement Watch Review: The TAG Heuer Formula 1 Caliber 7 GMT

Looking for the perfect gift for a young man who is turning 21? Our WT contributor recently had an opportunity to wear and review the TAG Heuer Formula 1 Caliber 7 GMT watch. Here he discusses the viability of this timepiece as a potential purchase for a gift, in particular, for a young man coming of age.

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Mar 1, 2015 by Angus Davies

Comparative Review: Pilots’ Watches From Bell & Ross, IWC, And Zenith

We reviewed three pilots’ watches from Bell & Ross, Zenith and IWC, each with one conspicuous feature in common: an extremely large case, like those of the earliest watches for aviators. Find out how they fared in this review from Watchtime.

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Mar 1, 2015 by Martina Richter

Diving Duo: A Comparative Test of the IWC Aquatimer and Tudor Pelagos

For this comparative test we dove into the Atlantic off Tenerife with the new IWC Aquatimer and the Tudor Pelagos. How well did they perform during the rigors of several dives? Scroll down to read more, and see great original photos by Frederik Franke and OK-Photography.

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Mar 1, 2015 by Jens Koch

Deep Dive Redux: Testing the Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000

After a six-year hiatus, Rolex resurrected the Sea-Dweller last year in a new, improved version, dubbed the Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000. We give it the WatchTime once-over in this test feature with stunning original photography by Marcus Krüger. The Rolex Sea-Dweller debuted in 1967 as the Sea-Dweller Submariner 2000. It was styled after the Rolex Submariner,...

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Feb 28, 2015 by Jens Koch

The Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Openwork: 5 Things to Know

The Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Openwork combines expertise in several arts to create an amazingly detailed and realistic automaton with minute repeater. This new model also features a clear sapphire dial that reveals the complex mechanism behind the moving parts. Here are five things you need to know about this new timepiece.

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Feb 27, 2015 by WatchTime

Patek Philippe Ref. 5200 Gondolo 8 Days, Day & Date Indication

Amidst the fanfare surrounding Patek Philippe’s 175th anniversary last year and the commemorative watches recently released, we revisit a Patek Philippe timepiece, released in 2013, aimed squarely at aficionados of classical, hand-wound watches: the Ref. 5200 Gondolo 8 Days, Day and Date Indication.

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Feb 27, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Frédérique Constant, Alpina and Mondaine Are First Brands with New MMT Horological Smartwatch Tech

As reported last night on WatchTime’s social media channels, the smartwatch revolution continues to have an impact on traditional Swiss watch brands. The latest evidence came last night at a launch event in San Francisco, where Frédérique Constant CEO Peter Stas announced the debut of the MMT (Manufacture Modules Technologies) smartwatch technology platform, a joint...

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Feb 27, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Fratello Friday’s Top 5 Omega Seamaster Watches

WatchTime contributor offers his personal all-time "Top 5" list of Omega Seamaster watches, which includes the traditional Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT GoodPlanet and the mother of all Omega divers' watches, the Seamaster 300.

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Feb 25, 2015 by Robert-Jan Broer

Close-Up: The Award-Winning, Bauhaus-Inspired Nomos Tangente Watch

Nomos Glashütte, a watch brand very popular in its native Germany and now making a big push in America as well, takes justifiable pride in its flagship timepiece, the starkly designed — and multiple design-award-winning — Tangente watch, which applies Bauhaus design principles to its dial.

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Feb 25, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Press Release: WatchTime March/April Cover Story — Testing the Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000

New York City (NY): America’s best-selling watch magazine, WatchTime, presents an in-depth, exclusive watch test of the Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000, written by WatchTime editor Jens Koch.

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Feb 25, 2015 by Carina Friedrich

A. Lange & Söhne 1815 “200th Anniversary of F.A. Lange”

February 18, 2015 marked what would have been the 200th birthday of Ferdinand Adolph Lange, one of the founding fathers of Saxon watchmaking and namesake of the modern A. Lange & Söhne watch brand, founded by his great-grandson. To commemorate this milestone, the brand has released a limited-edition timepiece, the A. Lange & Söhne 1815...

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Feb 24, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Monday: Introducing The Urwerk UR-210S Full Metal Jacket, Now On Metallic Bracelet

A metallic bracelet on an Urwerk? What a strange idea, one might think, says Brice Goulard of the watch blog Monochrome. However, if you take a look at the previous models that the brand has created, there was already an Urwerk coming on such a bracelet, the UR-202 White Shark. This timepiece was a stunner. Alongside the ultra-cool and off-the-range UR-110 Eastwood,...

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Feb 23, 2015 by Brice Goulard

Watch Spotting at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Because it is one of the five most visited museums in the world, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC hardly needs any further recommendation. But just in case you have not as yet felt the immediate need to see the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world, there’s...

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Feb 22, 2015 by Roger Ruegger

Who Tested Your Watch? A Guide to the Watch Industry’s Quality Marks

People often wonder just how good their watches are. A quality seal can help provide an answer: it shows that the watch has passed a test for its timekeeping ability and, in some instances, the quality of its finishing. COSC and the Geneva Seal are by far the best-known issuers of quality certificates, but there...

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Feb 22, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

The First Annual Watchstars Awards: Here Are the 5 Winning Watches for 2014

Last week, the winners of the 2014 Watchstars Awards were announced, as selected by an international committee of experts. The Watchstars Awards are international watch awards, intended to honor “the best watches of the world” in different categories. This was Watchstars’ inaugural year. There were five categories, each with one winner.

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Feb 21, 2015 by Alexander Linz

Escapement Watch Review: Graham Chronofighter Oversize

Angus Davies reviews the Graham Chronofighter Oversize on his online watch magazine, Escapement, The timepiece is a chronograph with a rather unusual carbon “trigger.” Read why Angus delights in this Graham offering, below.

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Feb 21, 2015 by Angus Davies

Fratello Friday: Explaining the Seiko 6159-7010 “Grandfather Tuna”

We’ve got something different for this week’s Fratello Friday. For a while, we’ve had a Seiko expert on board Fratello Watches by the name of Michael Stockton and one of his personal interests are (vintage) Seiko and Grand Seiko watches. This week, we bring you one of his stories, about the Seiko 6159-7010 also known...

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Feb 20, 2015 by Robert-Jan Broer

6 Things to Know About the Zenith Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage II

Christmas really comes to Geneva in January, when a host of watch brands present their new releases in the city and get a jump on the spring fair in Basel. One of Zenith’s debuts this year was the Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage II: a new, richly decorated take on the Christophe Colomb model...

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Feb 19, 2015 by Jay Deshpande