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WatchTime Launches India Edition Amidst VIPs and Bollywood Stars

India is not only one of the world’s most populous nations; it is also one of the world’s fastest growing markets for fine watches. However, until recently, Indian watch lovers have not had a magazine devoted exclusively to their hobby. This month, Ebner Publishing International, parent company of WatchTime, remedies that oversight with the launch...

Neuhaus’ Mono-Hand Watch

German watch brand Neuhaus Inventing Timepieces has announced the Janus DoubleSpeed, a mono-hand watch without a minute or second hand. The watch moves at “double speed” meaning the hand goes around the entire dial in just six hours. The dial displays a 6-hour scale with double-sized segments, with each mark representing two times 6 hours apart. Only...

A Weekend of Watches in Las Vegas

Days Two and Three of the JCK Watch and Jewelry Show in Las Vegas brought some interesting new watches to our attention, including a few that made their debut at the show and some others that impressed us with their price-to-value ratio. Glycine, a Swiss brand known for pilots’ watches, celebrates the 60th anniversary of...

Dominique Loiseau on Girard-Perregaux: The WatchTime Q&A

French-born watchmaker Dominique Loiseau first caught the attention of watch collectors in the 1980s, the great wasteland years of the mechanical watch industry when quartz ruled the watch-world roost. His complex and creative inventions, such the Rose des Temps clock, the Blancpain 1735 wristwatch and the 1f4 models from his own independent atelier, have made...

New F.P. Journe Book and Exhibit Celebrate Historic Gunmetal Watches

Most of the watches that Francois-Paul Journe produces for his independent brand are anything but “proletarian:” most come in gold or platinum cases and have movement parts made of 18k rose gold. However, Journe’s newest publishing project, “Steel Time,” celebrates the classic burnished steel “gunmetal” watches of the mid- to late 19th century and how...

Hublot Chosen as Swiss Watch Partner for World Expo 2012

Hublot has announced that it has been selected by Presence Switzerland in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) to be the watch partner of the Swiss Pavilion at the World Expo 2012, which will take place over 3 months, between 12th May and 12th August 2012, in the South Korean coastal city of...

IWC Pilot’s Watch Worldtimer

For anyone who flies across multiple time zones — whether it’s the pilot coordinating his flightplan or the business traveler scheduling a meeting with an international client — it’s essential to keep track of the time at home, at the destination, and maybe even elsewhere in the world. Hence, the invention of one of the...

Giant of Time: Eli Manning Gets His Own Citizen Watch

New York Giants fans hoping their team goes deep into the NFL playoffs this year can only sit on the sidelines (or couch, or recliner, or high-priced stadium seat) and cheer their star quarterback Eli Manning to victory. However, a lucky few of them can do so while wearing a Citizen watch made specifically for...

2011 Digital IQ Index Finds Luxury Watch Brands Lagging

L2 bills itself as a think tank for digital innovation, and each year the group releases the Digital IQ Index which ranks the “digital competence” of 35 leading luxury watch and jewelry brands. The newest rankings are out, and to the surprise of few, watch brands do not fare well. Find out who is gifted...

EU Probes Watch Manufacturers Over Parts Supply Policies

European Union (EU) antitrust regulators have announced that they will investigate claims that luxury watch manufacturers are refusing to supply spare parts to independent watchmakers and repairers, a breach of EU competition rules. The European Commission did not identify the companies involved in the probe, however Swatch Group has confirmed that it is one of...

Movado Issues “Bold” Watch Commemorating Derek Jeter’s 3000th Hit

Movado has launched a special edition Bold watch to celebrate baseball superstar and Movado brand ambassador Derek Jeter’s 3000th Major League hit on July 9. Jeter is the first Yankee to achieve this feat. The watch features an indigo blue metallic dial customized with Jeter’s number 2 positioned prominently at 2 o’clock.

WatchTime’s August iPad App is Now Available

In this issue we take an in-depth look at one of the most important watches of the year, Patek Philippe’s new reference 5270 perpetual calendar chronograph with in-house movement. We test Zenith’s Captain Grande Date Moonphase and the Cartier Calibre de Cartier with the brand’s first in-house automatic movement. Our Baselworld review presents 40 new...

Watches Submitted for the 2011 International Chronometry Contest

The 18 watches taking part in the 2011 International Chronometry Contest were submitted on Friday May 20 at the Musée d’horlogerie du Locle – Château des Monts. The watches come from the Jura, from Geneva, from France and the United States. The watches will be subjected to a number of tests over the summer, and...

WatchTime’s June App Now Available

In this issue Joe Thompson profiles Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek, who is not happy with the current state of watch retailing in America, and he lets us know it. Our Baselworld roundup looks at new watches from the world’s largest watch show. We enlist a dive instructor to help us test four diver’s watches,...

Richard Mille RM 032 Automatic Chronograph Diver’s Watch

This newest Richard Mille creation is designed to go deep and to offer a range of functions along the way. While exploring the depths, you have at your disposal hours, minutes, seconds, 60-minute countdown, 12-hour totalizer and flyback chronograph, annual calendar with oversized date, and a month indicator. Find pricing and wallpaper inside.

Watch the TAG Heuer “Apollo Project” Live Webcast Here on WatchTime.com

At 1:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday March 23 (press day at Baselworld 2011), TAG Heuer will announce what they are calling a game-changing new concept and a groundbreaking innovation in very high-frequency chronograph technology. The interactive press conference, to be conducted by CEO Jean-Christophe Babin, will stream live here on WatchTime.com, and it will also...