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Breitling Takes a Spin Down Memory Lane with Top Time Classic Cars

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Longines Spirit Titanium: The Vintage Pilot Goes Modern

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Urban Explorer Goes Global: Bell & Ross BR 05 GMT

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Three Greens for the Red, White and Blue: Grand Seiko U.S. Exclusive Editions

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Oris Aquis Date Upcycle Offers Unique PET Dials

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Video: Grieb & Benzinger’s “Blue Danube”

The German watch firm Grieb & Benzinger is known for its one-of-a-kind skeletonized watches with intricate guilloché embellishments. Two of its notable watches are the Blue Danube and the Blue Whirlwind, the latter a skeletonized tourbillon minute repeater based on a rare Patek Philippe caliber. Click here for photos of the Grieb & Benzinger Blue...

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Jan 4, 2013 by WatchTime

Destination Moon: Introducing Two new Hakuto-R Eco-Drive Chronographs from Citizen (with Live Photos)

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and space start-up Ispace Inc. have recently joined forces. As corporate partner of Ispace’s planned commercial lunar exploration program, the 100-year-old Japanese watchmaker and pioneer in the use of titanium has now released two limited-edition chronographs dedicated to the upcoming missions that should also bring parts made of the brand’s Super...

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Oct 13, 2021 by WatchTime

Breitling for Bentley Supersports Chronograph

Earlier this year, we showed you two new models from Breitling’s Breitling for Bentley collection, developed in cooperation with the British luxury automaker. Also new to the family this year is the Bentley Supersports Chronograph, a limited-edition timepiece made in tribute to the Continental Supersports, the fastest and most powerful Bentley car ever manufactured, and...

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Jan 3, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Omega Introduces Online Video Manuals

Omega is branching out its customer service with a recently launched series of video manuals. Each video features a 3D animation voiced by Omega specialist Julian Lichtsteiner, explaining how to perform tasks like setting the time and date, adjusting the time zone, and operating the chronograph. In addition, the videos go into detail about special...

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Jan 3, 2013 by WatchTime

Sponsored: DWISS Celebrates 10 Years with Swiss-Made M3W Wandering Hours Automatic

DWISS is marking 10 years since its founding, and to celebrate its anniversary it is launching a Swiss-made automatic watch with a wandering hours display: the M3W. The case’s design inspiration came from the previous model M3, which was produced in Switzerland and designed in the world’s first Watch Design Club, where 100 members came...

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Oct 11, 2021 by WatchTime

Blancpain Introduces Saint Valentin Ladies’ Watch

With the 2012 holiday season behind us, Blancpain is already looking ahead to Valentine’s Day, with the debut of its new Saint Valentin 2013 limited-edition watch, a ladies’ model with a mother-of-pearl dial and diamond-bedecked bezel.

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Jan 2, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Video: Van Cleef & Arpels Pierre Arpels

The understated, elegant look that has come back into fashion in men’s watches over the past few years is on display in the men’s dress watch introduced by watch-and-jewelry maison Van Cleef & Arpels at this year’s SIHH watch fair: the Pierre Arpels, named after a son of the brand’s co-founder, is a contemporary version...

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Jan 2, 2013 by WatchTime

Video: Skydiver and His Zenith Watch Break Sound Barrier

The Austrian skydiver and Zenith brand ambassador Felix Baumgartner (not to be confused with the watchmaker Felix Baumgartner of Urwerk fame) became the first man to break the speed of sound in a freefall after jumping from the edge of space, 39,045 meters high (the record will be officially certified at a later date). He...

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Dec 27, 2012 by WatchTime

SIHH Preview: Piaget Unveils its First Minute Repeater

Piaget has announced the launch of its first minute repeater timepiece, set to debut at next month’s SIHH watch fair in Geneva. In the brand’s tradition of historically thin watches and mechanical movements, the new watch sets another record for slenderness in its category: only 4.8 mm thick for the caliber and only 9.4 mm...

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Dec 26, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Ball and BMW Team Up For New Watch Collection

Ball Watch Company, whose history is rooted in the early days of train travel, has taken its watchmaking talents from the rails to the roads, collaborating with German luxury automaker BMW to introduce a new line of watches, called Ball for BMW.

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Dec 24, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Watch Wallpaper: A Cavalcade of Calendars

It’s the holiday season, the time for giving and receiving gifts — and accumulating next year’s calendars for your home and office walls. How about some great horological calendars to decorate your desktop? Click here to download beautiful images of calendar timepieces from some of the top haute horlogerie watch brands.

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Dec 21, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

IWC Official “Festival-Time” Partner of the Tribeca Film Festival

IWC Schaffhausen continues its support of the movie industry in its latest role as “Festival-Time” Partner of the world-famous Tribeca Film Festival, which will be held for the twelfth time in Spring 2013.

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Dec 20, 2012 by WatchTime

Linde Werdelin SpidoLite II Black Gold

Founded in 2006 by Danish partners Morton Linde and Jorn Werdelin, the Geneva-based watch brand Linde Werdelin makes all its watches in small, limited series. This year sees the release of the final model in its SpidoLite II collection of lightweight sports watches for skiers: the SpidoLite II Black Gold. Limited to 75 pieces, the...

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Dec 20, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Angular Momentum & Manu Propria’s Metiers d’Art “Takamaki”

Angular Momentum & Manu Propria are releasing yet another new timepiece with a uniquely decorated dial, the Metiers d’Art “Takamaki,” which incorporates the Japanese art of Takamakie (or “raised maki-e”). Developed in the Muromachi Period (1336–1573), the technique of takamakie involves building up layers of design patterns with a mixture of metal powder, charcoal or...

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Dec 19, 2012 by WatchTime

Cuervo y Sobrinos Introduces 1950s-Inspired Historiador Chronograph

Cuervo y Sobrinos is unique among Swiss watch brands in that it is the only one founded in Cuba, and even recently opened a flagship boutique in Havana. Many of the company’s modern timepieces are based on designs from its pre-embargo heyday, including, most recently, the first chronograph in its Art Deco-inspired Historiador collection.

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Dec 19, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

HYT Introduces WISeAuthentic Service

Watch brand HYT, famous for its hydropowered H1 watch, has introduced yet another technological innovation, the WISeAuthentic Service. With this new service, each HYT watch comes with a digital warranty card containing a unique and non-forgeable digital certificate stored in a crypto chip, as a reader for the card. HYT watch owners can now authenticate...

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Dec 18, 2012 by WatchTime

New for 2013: Richard Mille RM 036 Tourbillon G-Sensor Jean Todt

Auto racing enthusiast Richard Mille has long been inspired by cars and motorsports in the designs for his eponymous watch brand, but the new RM 036 Tourbillon G-Sensor Jean Todt, which makes its official debut at next month’s SIHH watch fair in Geneva, is the first to include a complication dedicated to road safety.

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Dec 18, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Video: David Beckham & Breitling’s Transocean Chronograph Unitime

Breitling has announced David Beckham as the representative for its Transocean Chronograph Unitime worldtimer watch, establishing a long-term partnership between the Swiss brand and the famous athlete. About his involvement with the brand, Beckham says “I’ve always been a long-time admirer of Breitling. As a company, they create not only the highest-performance watches but also...

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Dec 17, 2012 by WatchTime

At Piaget, Thin is Always In

In 2007, Piaget marked the 50th anniversary of its ultra-thin Caliber 9P by reissuing the movement that made it famous and by launching its first in-house mechanical chronograph movement. In this feature from our November-December 2007 issue, contributor and Watch Insider blogger Alexander Linz covers this milestone for WatchTime.

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Dec 17, 2012 by Alexander Linz

Girard-Perregaux’s New Hawk Collection Takes Flight in Miami

One night after its limited edition FOReverglades watch made its debut during the Art Basel Miami Beach festivities, Girard-Perregaux launched its new sports watch line, called Hawk, at a “watchmaking on the beach” event at Miami’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Before the event, WatchTime sat with Michele Sofisti, CEO of the brand, who gave us a...

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Dec 14, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Bremont’s Budget Box Replica Watch Case

British watch brand Bremont has designed a new watch case based on the Budget box, known famously in England as the box traditionally held up during the photo shoot in front of 11 Downing Street before the Chancellor of the Exchequer announces his annual budget plans to Parliament. Bremont’s case is an exact replica of...

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Dec 13, 2012 by WatchTime

F. A. Lange Watchmaking Excellence Award 2012

A few months ago, we reported on A. Lange & Söhne sponsoring the F.A. Lange Excellence Award, which involved eight young watchmakers from around the world competing for a prize of 10,000 euros by creating a date display based on an ETA 6498 movement. On December 6, the winners were finally announced.

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Dec 13, 2012 by WatchTime