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Breitling Top Time Limited Edition

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Audemars Piguet Revives a Rarity

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Breguet Marine Tourbillon Marchante 5587

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MB&F Unleashes the Bulldog

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Bremont Goes Bronze with Project Possible

5/5

PORTFOLIO

Flying High: Five Watches with Altimeters

The function of an altimeter is simple: It measures the altitude of an object above any fixed level, with sea level being the most common point of reference. It is used in a number of activities, from extreme sports like skydiving, to ground-based activities like hiking, climbing, and skiing, but its most prominent usage has...

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Mar 17, 2020 by WatchTime

UPDATED APRIL 3, 2020

COVID-19 and the Wristwatch Industry: A Timeline

We're following the ongoing news of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is affecting the watch industry — from cancellations and postponements of major events, to production shutdowns, to emergency corporate initiatives — in an ongoing effort to keep you, our readers, up to date on the latest developments. Here's a chronological look at the crisis, and its impact on the watch trade, as of March 26, 2020.

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Apr 3, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Formula 1 of the Future: Bell & Ross Releases New R.S.20 Collection

Last week, Bell & Ross unveiled its latest collection produced in partnership with Renault’s Formula 1 team. The new collection, titled R.S.20 (R.S. stands for Renault Sport, the carmaker’s motorsport, performance and special vehicles division), features four new chronographs featuring the team’s black-and-yellow colorway and geared toward fostering the “Formula 1 of the future.” To...

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Mar 16, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Longines Avigation Watch Type A-7 1935

There’s nothing quite as distinctive — and, in some cases, as polarizing — in the arena of vintage-style timepieces as a really period-accurate replica pilot’s watch, and Longines — whose century-plus timepiece archives have yielded an expansive and increasingly popular collection of Heritage models — has taken the style to a new level with the Avigation Watch Type A7 1935, a re-edition of a watch that debuted in that model name's suffix year and which was worn by U.S. Army pilots in the years leading up to World War II.

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Mar 16, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

PORTFOLIO

Stopwatches at the Top: 7 Chronographs with In-House Movements

Looking for a chronograph with a completely in-house-manufactured movement? In this feature from WatchTime's June 2017 issue, we showcase some of the industry’s top picks, from seven power brands, from Breitling to Rolex to Zenith.

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Mar 16, 2020 by Alexander Krupp

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Timor Heritage Field

Field watches are one of my favorite categories of timepieces. Purpose built, utilitarian, and aggressively no-frills, these watches were designed for specific jobs, and have a long and storied history of facing down each. The last time we covered a field watch in this series was over a year ago, when we examined the Weiss...

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Mar 15, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

NEWS

Getting Smarter: TAG Heuer Launches the Next Generation of its Connected Luxury Smartwatch

After pioneering the luxury connected segment back in 2015 and then following through with a slew of connected models like 2019’s Connected Modular Golf Edition, TAG Heuer has released yet another addition to its Connected range – the 2020 (third generation) Connected watch. This timepiece makes a design and technological statement that cements the Swiss...

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Mar 14, 2020 by WatchTime

NEWS

Pulsing with Color: A Limited-Edition Pulsograph Headlines Montblanc’s New Heritage Models

This week, Montblanc becomes the first of Richemont’s major watch brands to unveil new models and collections that were originally set to debut at Watches & Wonders Geneva in late April, since cancelled along with its sister event, Baselworld. Headlining the new releases are a trio of colorful-dialed models from its Heritage collection, with designs...

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Mar 13, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Reviewing the Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon Apollo 8

Most of us can recall what a seismic event it was when Omega released the first Dark Side of the Moon version of its iconic Speedmaster Professional “Moonwatch” back in 2013. But few of us probably could have predicted that this very avant-garde take on one of Omega’s most timeless watch designs would catch fire...

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Mar 13, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Design King: Updating the Rolex Datejust

The new Datejust that Rolex unveiled at Baselworld 2016 scarcely differs from the Rolex Datejust II. The similar design characteristics set Rolex watches apart from other brands. Learn more details in this feature article from WatchTime's Special Design Issue 2017.

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Mar 13, 2020 by Jens Koch

NEWS

The Hi-Beat Goes On: Grand Seiko Unveils New Calibers for its 60th Anniversary

On December 18, 1960, Japanese watchmaking giant Seiko released the first Grand Seiko timepiece, which became legendary for reaching new heights of precision, durability, legibility, and ease of use. This year, the Grand Seiko brand — once Japan’s best-kept horological secret, now a worldwide phenomenon — celebrates 60 years by releasing a host of new...

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Mar 12, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Chronoswiss Grand Regulator Night & Day in Rose Gold

Chronoswiss has built much of its reputation on its ability to conceive and execute numerous clever variations on the classical regulator dial — this year’s ReSec models being possibly the most prominent recent additions to the collection — and one of the most eye-catching spins on this classical arrangement can be found in the Flying...

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Mar 12, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Luxury With Utility: 4 Patek Philippe Watches with “Everyday” Complications

Patek Philippe is not all about high-end chronographs, perpetual calendars, and repeaters; the brand also offers many complicated timepieces that have plenty of everyday utility. We present a few of them here, in this feature from the WatchTime archives.

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Mar 12, 2020 by Alexander Krupp

NEWS

Riding the Vintage Wave: Bulova Expands Archive Series with Chronograph A “Surfboard”

Bulova's recently released Chronograph A “Surfboard” is a modern re-issue that takes its inspiration from a vintage watch from the 1970s. This latest release includes one new, limited-edition mechanical model and three similar quartz editions, each featuring the historical model’s recognizable, horizontally oriented “surfboard” motif that stylistically brings together the watch’s subdials and bestows it its nickname.

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Mar 11, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH TEST

A Hands-On Review of the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 41

When it premiered in 1945, the Rolex Datejust was the first automatic, watertight wristwatch with chronometer-worthy rate quality. It embodied all of the innovations Rolex had developed for wristwatches up to that time, including a date display in a window at 3 o’clock, where the date switched automatically at midnight. To achieve this feat, intermediate...

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Mar 11, 2020 by Martina Richter

FEATURE:

Second Life: Nine Watches Featuring “Upcycled” Materials

More so than any other consumer product, watches are intertwined with history. Whether it’s your grandfather’s Elgin pocket watch or Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona that broke the record for most expensive wristwatch ever sold, it’s these relationships between time and personality that allow watches to retain a sort of indefinable sense of humanity on the...

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Mar 11, 2020 by WatchTime

NEWS

Driving Ahead: Breitling Releases the Premier Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition

After kicking off 2020 with a new gold version of its flyback-chrono-equipped Navitimer, and following it up with another vintage re-edition from its rich aviation-watch history, Breitling continues this year’s rollouts with the new Premier Bentley Mulliner Limited Edition. Based on Breitling’s Premier B01 Chronograph 42, the model was released as part of Breitling’s Bentley...

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Mar 10, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

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Midnight in Villeret: Blancpain Adds Two Blue-Dial Models to its Most Elegant Collection

Blancpain expands its classically styled, historically inspired Villeret collection, named after the Swiss village where the manufacture was founded way back in 1735, with two new rose-gold models with mesmerizing midnight blue dials. Here is what you need to know about the latest iterations of the Villeret Ultraplate and Villeret Quantième Complet. The “simpler” of...

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Mar 10, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Windmill in a Storm: The Turbulent Timekeeping History of Mühle Glashütte

German watchmaker Mühle Glashütte turned 150 years old in 2019, looking back on five generations of family stewardship through turbulent times for both Germany and the watch industry. In this feature from the WatchTime archives, we explore the company's history of time measurement, from instruments to wristwatches.

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Mar 10, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH LIST

Splendid Splitters: 5 Noteworthy Rattrapante Chronograph Watches

Rattrapante chronographs, also referred to as split-seconds chronographs, are a type of chronograph with two seconds hands that allow for the ability to time multiple simultaneous events, such as runners during a race. It can also time a series of events, such as the laps a single person makes on a track. One of the...

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Mar 10, 2020 by Logan R. Baker

HOW IT WORKS:

Timex Group Luxury Division CEO Paolo Marai Explains Teslar’s “Wearable Wellness” Watch Technology

You may have heard of Teslar Watches, and the “wearable wellness” technology that sets them apart from other quartz timepieces, and wondered how exactly a wristwatch can do what this one claims to do — protect its wearer from the harmful effects of “electromagnetic pollution” and counteract stress, anxiety, and low energy. We sat down...

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Mar 9, 2020 by Mark Bernardo