Search Results for "SIHH 2016"

FEATURE:

Undercover Wrist: Six Noteworthy Camouflage Watches

Not just intended for outdoor recreation these days, camouflage has emerged as a trendy and bold alternative for your daily wristwear. Found on both watch straps and dials, the military-focused hue isn’t one normally associated with the luxury world of watchmaking but it has evolved into a distinct look for those in search of a...

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Jul 20, 2021 by WatchTime

WATCH REVIEW

Mountain Guide: Reviewing the Montblanc 1858 Geosphere

In January 2018, Montblanc set out to conquer new peaks: the revamped 1858 collection not only celebrates the spirit of mountain exploration, but also the 160th anniversary of Minerva. We take a closer look at one of the collection’s highlights, the 1858 Geosphere with a new world-time complication. Montblanc’s Most Essential Watch Collection The 1906-founded...

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Nov 19, 2020 by Roger Ruegger

FEATURE

Time Flies: 9 Historic IWC Pilot’s Watches

IWC launched a slew of new models from its popular Pilot's collection, which continues the brand's long and storied heritage as a supplier of timepieces for aviators, at this year's SIHH. Here, courtesy of IWC's archives, we present a lineup of vintage and modern IWC pilots' watches that represent milestones for the brand — and for watchmaking history.

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Oct 8, 2020 by WatchTime

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Hello, Newman! 10 Panda-Dial Chronographs That Aren’t the Rolex Paul Newman Daytona

Actual pandas are a rare and vulnerable species, only recently removed from the endangered list, but "panda dial" watches — loosely described as chronographs with black subdials on a predominantly white main dial — are more ubiquitous than ever, especially in the wake of the record-breaking auction sale of the world's most famous panda-dial watch, Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona. Here we round up 10 currently available panda-dial watches.

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Jul 8, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

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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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Jul 1, 2020 by WatchTime

Christophe Claret Unveils New Blue Editions of X-TREM-1 and Poker Watches

Swiss luxury watchmaker Christophe Claret and its eponymous founder have long been known for their playful, avant-garde timepieces, and the tradition continues this year as the brand unveils two new watches, both draped in blue. The first of these is a new iteration of Claret’s X-TREM-1, while the second is an update to its original...

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Jun 16, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

The WatchTime Q&A: Piaget CEO Chabi Nouri

Chabi Nouri has been at the helm of the Swiss watchmaker/jeweler Piaget for two years. In this exclusive interview with WatchTime Senior Editor Mark Bernardo, she discusses the long road to producing and commercializing the current World’s Thinnest Mechanical Watch, standing out in the crowded men’s luxury sports-watch field, and the intersection between watch and...

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May 10, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

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 13, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Double Vision: H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Perpetual Calendar MD Features New Dual-Window Display

H. Moser & Cie. gave the watchmaking world its most elegantly minimalist perpetual calendar in 2005. That award-winning timepiece has been reimagined in several iterations in the years since, most recently in 2016's Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept, with an even starker, more streamlined design. For its most recent evolution, as part of Moser's sport-luxury Pioneer collection, the dial gets slightly more complex in the service of being eminently more legible.

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Sep 17, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Panerai Luminor Due Collection Expands with Six New Models

While 2019 is undoubtedly the Year of the Submersible at Panerai, as evidenced by the slew of new, revamped models in the military-masculine dive watch series released at SIHH earlier this year (and more recently), the Florentine watch maison has not neglected its more elegant Panerai’s Luminor Due collection. Launched in 2016 as the thinned-down...

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Sep 3, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Now Available: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, the World’s Thinnest Automatic Perpetual Calendar

Audemars Piguet made a big splash at SIHH 2018 when it introduced the Royal Oak RD#2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, a concept watch that claimed the title of being the world’s thinnest automatic timepiece featuring a perpetual calendar. When that watch was shown to the press during the annual Geneva showcase, there was no word on...

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Aug 27, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Taking a Look at Romain Gauthier’s Influential Use of Titanium

When Romain Gauthier released his first titanium timepiece, the Prestige HMS Natural Titanium, in 2011, the reaction he received wasn’t quite what he was expecting. “Collectors knew me as an exponent of traditional Vallée de Joux watchmaking, presented in precious metal cases,” he says. “When I unveiled the Prestige HMS Natural Titanium, people said: ‘Why?...

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Jul 25, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Red Hot Summer: A Look at the Ulysse Nardin Skeleton X Magma

With Fourth of July celebrations officially behind us in the United States and a record-setting heat wave spreading across mainland Europe, I think it’s fair to say that we’ve arrived in the dog days of summer. With all the discussion over the hot weather taking place on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s reminded me...

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Jul 8, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Vacheron Constantin Reveals an Overseas Dual Time Prototype Built Exclusively for Alpinist Cory Richards

Last week, Vacheron Constantin held an event in New York City centered around the recent attempt of Cory Richards, a noted professional photographer (you might recognize the name from his work with National Geographic) and long-distance explorer as well as VC ambassador, to trailblaze a fresh route up Mount Everest along  the Tibetan North-East Ridge....

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Jun 25, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE:

Five of the Most Important Watches Produced by Vacheron Constantin’s Les Cabinotiers Department

Although Vacheron Constantin has taken custom timepiece orders throughout its 260+ years of history – James W. Packard and Henry Graves Jr. were both notable patrons of that offer in the early 20th-century – the Geneva-based brand’s elite division of watchmakers known as Les Cabinotiers wasn’t officially established as its own division until 2006. While often operating...

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Jun 12, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

THE WATCHTIME Q&A:

Talking with Serge Michel about the Armin Strom Masterpiece 1 Dual Time

More so than any other brand in contemporary watchmaking, Armin Strom has made the pursuit of resonance a full-fledged part of its identity. The concept of resonance is a noble one that remains out of reach for even the most prestigious of the Swiss marques. Only a few brands are able to bear down and...

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Jun 3, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Girard-Perregaux Laureato in Steel with Rubber Strap

Girard-Perregaux has a long and prestigious history, but the brand over the past decade or so has been, to put it bluntly, a bit hard to pin down as far as its focus and identity. It has produced everything from high-complication masterpieces (the La Esmeralda Tourbillon) to racing-inspired sports watches (Competizione), to vintage-look dress pieces...

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May 15, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

COUTNDOWN TO WTLA:

F.P. Journe Brings the Updated Élégante Collection to WatchTime Los Angeles

Élégante by F.P. Journe was originally intended to be solely the brand’s offering for female enthusiasts. It was first released in 2016 and it uses an in-house quartz movement that took Journe and team eight years of R&D to perfect. Not only does the electromechanical caliber promise at least eight years of running autonomy, it also features...

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Apr 28, 2019 by Logan R. Baker