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Breitling: the new Superocean

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Reservoir Partners with Underwater Photographer for Hydrosphere Bronze “Greg Lecoeur” Edition

In 2019, French-founded watchmaking house Reservoir unveiled its first dive watch, the aptly named Hydrosphere, whose unique configuration added a diving bezel to the brand’s signature racing-inspired retrograde time display. One year later, Reservoir introduced the Hydrosphere Bronze, which added intrigue thanks to its use of the uncommon case material. This year, the maker revisits...

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Jul 6, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Sponsored: The ANOMALY-T4— the New Watch That’s 100% in CODE41’s DNA

CODE41’s pioneering, iconoclastic business model has very rapidly succeeded in ranking this project among the most promising in Swiss watchmaking. Other than their watchmaking expertise, the real added value is, above all, each individual who’s part of it. Each member of the CODE41 community – more than 400,000 members strong! – represents an exclusive stakeholder...

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Jul 1, 2022 by WatchTime

Summertime Blue: Hublot Big Bang Unico Summer Shines in Turquoise Aluminum Case

Since its founding, and particularly in recent years, Hublot has been on the cutting edge of both unusual colorways and avant-garde materials. Now, inspired by the promise of a vibrant, post-Covid-19 summer, the Nyon-based manufacture remains true to this calling card with the Big Bang Unico Summer, a festive, monochromatic timepiece featuring a turquoise-blue case...

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Jul 5, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Return of the French Skin Diver: Introducing the New Jacques Bianchi JB 200

Marseille-based master watchmaker Jacques Bianchi began providing models of the JB 200, a distinctively designed, quartz-powered divers’ watch that he developed for his eponymous brand, to the French Navy in the mid-1980s. Now 80 years old, Bianchi has partnered with a small team of French watch-industry players to resurrect the JB200 for a modern audience,...

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Jul 4, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Sponsored: Unlike Any Other, Artem Introduces NATO Style Straps

Since the brand’s launch in mid-2021, Australian-based Artem has been consistently impressing the market with its appealing line of strap offerings. At first, this was in its signature, next-generation of sailcloth straps, but not long after the brand— upon excited and positive feedback from its growing list of fans— expanded its offerings in both appealing...

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Jun 28, 2022 by WatchTime

Continuing a Racing Tradition, Bell & Ross Launches the Alpine F1 A521 Collection

Bell & Ross has unveiled the Alpine F1 Team watch collection, produced in partnership with the Alpine Formula 1 racing team — the first such collaboration since the re-branding of the squad, formerly known as the Renault Formula 1 team, and it’s sixth overall in the co-branded series. Each of the new models — all...

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Jul 3, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Breitling Dives Into Summer Colors with Superocean Heritage ’57 Pastel Paradise Capsule Collection

Ushering in the summer months in colorful fashion, Breitling has unveiled the new Superocean Heritage ’57 Pastel Paradise Capsule Collection. The series consists of five diver-style watches, all executed in bright, trendy pastel colorways and catering to a diverse and likely younger audience of watch buyers. The collection follows on the heels of the original...

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Jul 2, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

It’s Official: WatchTime New York Returns to Gotham Hall in October

With the world, and the watch industry, finally beginning to emerge from a year-plus period of pandemic-driven lockdowns, business closures, and gathering restrictions, WatchTime is proud to announce that its popular autumn collectors’ extravaganza, WatchTime New York, will return this year as a live, in-person event after being removed from the calendar in favor of...

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Jul 1, 2021 by WatchTime

Hermès Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune Melds Double Moon-Phase with Openworked Design

Hermès caught the admiring eye of watch connoisseurs with the launch of its luxurious yet understated Slim d’Hermes collection in 2015 and the maison has been slowly adding to the family ever since. The latest, which follows up the impressive, high-complication Quantième Perpétuel from earlier this year, is the Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune, which enhances...

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Jul 1, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Tudor Introduces Black Bay Fifty-Eight Bronze: New Size, New Bracelet

Tudor returned to watch-industry headlines recently, for good reason, with the unveiling of the latest addition to its popular, “mid-sized” Black Bay 58 collection, the Black Bay Fifty-Eight Bronze, which offers not only the namesake bronze case but also the option to wear it on a solid bronze, Oyster-style bracelet. Featuring the aesthetics of previous...

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Jun 30, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Sponsored: CODE41 Launches Fifth Edition of Avant-Garde X41

Lausanne-based CODE41 started 2021 with a bang. Launching its attention-grabbing NB24 at the start of the year, the brand best known for lifting the curtain on traditional luxury watchmaking since its meteoric rise at the beginning ot 2016, has gone on to build even more excitement around its horological projects. This week, CODE41 launches its...

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Jun 29, 2021 by WatchTime

Bucherer USA President Ira Melnitsky on Re-Opening Plans, New Logo for Re-Branded Time Machine Stores

Switzerland-based Bucherer, Europe’s leading retailer for watches and jewelry, announced the acquisition of Tourneau LLC, the largest luxury watch seller in the United States, back in January 2018. Since then, the watch industry and those who follow and cover it have anxiously awaited what this merger of timepiece titans will mean for both companies and...

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Jun 28, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Vacheron Constantin & WatchTime Pop the Champagne At NYC Flagship Opening Event

Last week, Vacheron Constantin welcomed WatchTime Magazine and its readers to one the first viewings at its new New York City flagship boutique. The event was hosted by Vacheron Constantin President of the Americas Alexander Schmiedt, and included a cocktail hour followed by a presentation and discussion between Schmiedt and WatchTime’s Senior Editor, Mark Bernardo....

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Jun 28, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

New Material, Same Grit: Introducing the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Bronze

Hamilton is not a watch brand you often think of when it comes to using alternative or luxurious case materials. Best known for producing hardy steel sports watches and field watches, Hamilton has garnered a reputation for its utilitarian design codes and manufacturing, usually eschewing gold and even gold tones for its most popular collections....

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Jun 27, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Close-Up: Ulysse Nardin Introduces the Freak X Marquetry

Ulysse Nardin recently launched the Freak X Marquetry, the latest experimental take on the brand’s signature Freak X base design, touting it as the first watch to bring “silicium marquetry” to watchmaking. In effect, Ulysse Nardin has adapted a material used almost exclusively within the industrial electronics manufacturing sector to develop a novel aesthetic for...

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Jun 26, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Raymond Weil Rounds Out its Fab Foursome with Maestro Beatles “Let it Be” Edition

Raymond Weil, a Swiss watch brand founded by a musician and in recent years known for producing timepieces inspired by legendary musical acts, unveiling its first Maestro Beatles Limited Edition in 2016. Two other variations on that original watch have been released since, including an Abbey Road-themed edition in 2017. This year, Raymond Weil concludes...

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Jun 25, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TEST

Diving Titan: Reviewing the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M in Black Ceramic

Omega introduced its newest Seamaster Diver 300M – larger, and in new materials, ceramic and titanium, rendering it more scratch-resistant and lighter in weight. In this feature from the WatchTime archives, we delve into the depths of the new timepiece and its Master Chronometer movement.

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Jun 25, 2021 by Alexander Krupp

Norqain Turns the Calendar from ’20 to ’21 with New Independence 21 Limited Editions

Last year, young Swiss watchmaker Norqain introduced the Independence 20, which was its first timepiece fitted with an exclusive manufacture caliber produced in partnership with Tudor-founded movement maker Kenissi. Now the brand follows it up with the introduction of the Independence 21, the next generation of watches within the original model’s design family. The release...

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Jun 24, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Sponsored: Interview with Lothar Schmidt, Owner of Sinn

In 2021, Sinn Spezialuhren is celebrating its 60th-anniversary. Rüdiger Bucher has met with Sinn’s CEO and owner Lothar Schmidt to talk about the brand’s values, technologies, milestones and Sinn’s hometown Frankfurt am Main. Engineers can be artists too! Lothar Schmidt In the video, produced by WatchTime’s sister publication Watchtime.net, Schmidt also shows novelties like the...

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Jun 24, 2021 by WatchTime

Breguet Flies New Colors With Launch of Type XXI 3815 in Titanium

Breguet’s Type XX collection of pilot-inspired chronographs are a modern testament to the Swiss watchmaker’s familial connections to the world of aviation, forged by the founder’s great-great-grandson Louis-Charles Breguet, a pioneer in the field of manned flight. Following up the most recent addition to that sport-luxury collection, 2016’s vintage-influenced Type XXI 3817, Breguet this year...

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Jun 23, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Sponsored: How Chrono24 Elevated the Status of Online Secondhand Watch Buying

Have you noticed that the watch collecting community is rarely whispering about the so-called “gray market” these days, and has instead become deeply engaged with discovering valuable pre-owned watches, hunting down prized “unicorn” timepieces, and embracing the thrill of side-stepping the impossible wait lists for certain new models? Chrono24 has not only been at the...

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Jun 23, 2021 by WatchTime

Hublot Supports Rhino Conservation with Big Bang Unico SORAI Limited Edition

As many are aware, rhinoceros populations in the animals’ native Africa have long been threatened. The cause for the decline is directly linked to human activity, particularly the ongoing practice of poaching. According to SORAI, (Save Our Rhino Africa/India), two thirds of the rhinos in South Africa’s Kruger Park alone have have been killed over...

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Jun 22, 2021 by Caleb Anderson