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Omega Sets a New Depth Record with the Seamaster Ultra Deep

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Breguet Revives the Type 20 Chrono for Only Watch 2019

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The Complicated Story of the Simple Field Watch

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Panerai’s Eco-Friendly Submersible Mike Horn Edition

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Ulysse Nardin Skeleton X Magma Kicks Off a Red Hot Summer

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SIHH 2018:

Modern or Vintage? Speake-Marin Combines Both with the London Chronograph Valjoux 92

After officially leaving back in June 2017, Peter Speake-Marin is no longer associated with the marque that bears his name. However, Speake-Marin the brand still had a strong showing at this week’s SIHH fair. While it had a number of interesting new novelties, there’s one watch that really stood out to us: the London Chronograph...

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Jan 19, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

PROMOTION:

Introducing Benjamin Chee Haute Horlogerie, Global Launch Client of Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier’s Latest Calibers

In the field of contemporary high horology, it takes a lot for a young brand to stand out and distinguish itself. Yet for watchmaking veteran Benjamin Chee, his guiding philosophy has been elegantly simple: “I consider myself a perfectionist and cannot abide anything second-rate in my creations. Therefore, the only logical choice was to search...

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Jul 19, 2019 by WatchTime

SIHH 2018:

Keeping it Simple: Armin Strom Introduces the Pure Resonance

Earlier this month, we got to see horological rock star Kari Voutilainen team up with Armin Strom to release a limited run of the latter’s Mirrored Force Resonance. This week at SIHH, however, Armin Strom was back to announce the Pure Resonance, which the brand describes as being focused entirely on “purity and chronometry.” Here’s...

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Jan 19, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Romain Gauthier Updates the Insight Micro-Rotor for the Ladies

Last year’s major release for Romain Gauthier was the Insight Micro-Rotor, that incorporated a — you guessed it — micro-rotor that offered an 80-hour power reserve. The watch was considered a significant step forward for the independent manufacture with a level of quality and finishing that other brands could only dream of. This year, Romain Gauthier has...

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Jan 19, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Roger Dubuis Revs Up New Pirelli and Lamborghini Limited Editions

Roger Dubuis announced two big motorsports partnerships in 2017, both with iconic Italian brands — one with Pirelli, renowned manufacturer of racecar tires; the other with racing team Lamborghini Squadra Corse. This week at SIHH 2018, the Geneva-based brand revealed the latest new timepieces springing from these automotive alliances: the Excalibur Spider Skeleton Automatic Pirelli and two new executions of the Excalibur Aventador S.

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Jan 19, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

Piaget Introduces Another Record-Breaking Watch

When Piaget announced that it was releasing the world’s thinnest automatic watch at SIHH this year, it didn’t surprise anyone. In the constant struggle over being a horological record holder, Piaget has been a dominant force in the pursuit of ultra-thinness with only Bulgari as a competitor. What no one expected, however, was that Piaget would...

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Jan 18, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Girard-Perregaux Launches a Laureato Chronograph plus a Minute Repeater Tri-Axial Tourbillon

Ever since the Girard-Perregaux Laureato returned at Baselworld 2016, it’s been obvious that this is the model that the brand is investing its future in. Last year was when the Laureato really took off after the GP team unveiled 34 new additions to the rapidly expanding collection. At SIHH this year (which GP returned to...

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Jan 18, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

The New Cartier Santos: The First Men’s Wristwatch Gets a Modern Makeover

It was in 1904, when pocketwatches were still in style for gentlemen, that pioneering aviator and bon vivant Alberto Santos-Dumont approached his friend, Louis Cartier, about fashioning for him a timepiece that he could wear, and check the time, while keeping both hands on the controls of his aircraft. The watch that Cartier made for...

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Jan 18, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

Richard Mille Introduces the Ultimate Polo Watch

Polo is one of the toughest sports to wear a watch during. Not only do you have to worry about your opponent smashing the delicate crystal of your timepiece with an errant mallet, but, if for some reason you fall off your horse, it’s game over for anything that happens to be on your wrist....

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Jan 17, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Discovering L’Astronomo: Panerai’s First Moon-Phase Watch is So Much More

While it is best known for the many variations on its classic Luminor and Radiomir collections, Panerai has dabbled, pretty impressively in some cases, with highly complicated, highly limited timepieces, as witness the brand’s Carillon Tourbillon Minute Repeater GMT from 2016, for example. However, the one complication that the Florentine brand had never produced, amazingly...

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Jan 17, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

Getting Into Shape: New Movements for Parmigiani Fleurier Kalpa Collection

Parmigiani Fleurier is "shaping up" its emblematic Kalpa watch collection at this year's SIHH, launching three new models and outfitting each of them, for the first time since the Kalpa's 2001 debut, exclusively with in-house movements that are shaped to perfectly fit the dimensions of the watches' tonneau cases.

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Jan 17, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

The Ulysse Nardin Freak is Back and Better Than Ever

The Freak has returned. At SIHH this week, Ulysse Nardin updated its most prominent watch with new technology first seen last year inside the Innovision II. While the Innovision II was just a concept watch, its ideas have been fleshed out into what UN is calling the Freak Vision, which is set to become a regular production...

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Jan 16, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Three New Pilot’s Watches from IWC

The big story during IWC‘s 150th-anniversary celebration at SIHH this year has been the Jubilee Collection, which features the buzzworthy Tribute to Pallweber. The most prominent motif for IWC throughout all 27 new models? A classic design that embodies the spirit of the Schaffhausen-based manufacture with a slight shift away from sportier models such as the...

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Jan 16, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

The New Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Collection Revives the Spirit of ’68

To most historians, the year 1968 was defined mostly by tragedies and setbacks — the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the escalation of the war in Vietnam, unrest and protests on college campuses — but to students of horological history, the year offered some bright spots. One of these was undoubtedly Jaeger-LeCoultre’s...

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Jan 16, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

Baume & Mercier Continues Partnership with Indian Motorcycles with Two New Watches

Back in August, Baume & Mercier announced a partnership with Indian Motorcycles. We saw the first result from this partnership back in November with the Clifton Club Burt Munro limited edition and at SIHH this week we got the latest update with two new chronographs, aptly named the Clifton Club Indian Legend Tribute Chief and Scout...

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Jan 16, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Three Highly-Complex Timepieces from Greubel Forsey

As a pre-SIHH teaser, the madmen behind Greubel Forsey revealed a watch with the world’s smallest foudroyante jumping seconds complication. Today in Geneva, the young brand put on a display showcasing the continued progress of three of its most important horological innovations. GMT Earth While the updated GMT Earth may seem identical to previous iterations...

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Jan 15, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Montblanc Unveils Three Different Collections at SIHH 2018

We received a small taste of what was to come from Montblanc back in December, but earlier this morning, we found out the rest of the brand’s novelties during the first day of SIHH. All of Montblanc’s watches this year are concentrated into three lines: the 1858 collection, the TimeWalker collection, and the Star Legacy collection....

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Jan 15, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

SIHH 2018:

Power of Three: Introducing the A. Lange & Söhne Triple Split

The SIHH watch salon always offers some surprises, but also some things that can be counted on like clockwork, including that A. Lange & Söhne will wow the assembled media with at least one breathtakingly complicated timepiece. The Glashütte-based brand delivered again this year with the introduction of the Triple Split, the world's first mechanical split-seconds chronograph that can perform multi-hour comparative time measurements.

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Jan 15, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

Vacheron Constantin Gets Vintage Kicks with New FiftySix Collection

With 263 years (and counting) of watchmaking history to draw from, Vacheron Constantin needed to reach back only a little more than half a century to find the inspiration for its latest all-new timepiece family, unveiled today at SIHH 2018 in Geneva. The Vacheron Constantin FiftySix collection takes as its template a vintage model from 1956, the now-iconic Reference 6073, giving it an elegantly modern twist and offering three distinctive models.

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Jan 15, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Bovet Edouard Bovet Tourbillon: A Triple-Threat Travelers’ Watch

The Bovet watch brand was incorporated in 1822, but its foundations were laid four years earlier, in 1818, when Edouard Bovet introduced his ticking masterworks to a collector in the Chinese city of Ghuangzhou. This year marks 200 years since that fateful journey, and today's Bovet is commemorating it with what it calls a high-end timepiece dedicated to travel: the Edouard Bovet Tourbillon, unveiled today ahead of the 2018 SIHH.

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Jan 14, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2018:

The Official WatchTime Pre-SIHH 2018 Roundup

Well, SIHH 2018 is a day away and our team is on the ground in Geneva ready to bring you the hottest horological news. We’ll be sending out a special edition of our daily newsletter highlighting the top stories you need to know about the latest innovations from the Richemont brands and more. Follow us...

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Jan 14, 2018 by Logan R. Baker