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A Comprehensive Guide to Bremont’s 2019 Novelties

Earlier this week, Bremont hosted its 2019 Bremont Townhouse event in New York City where we received the opportunity to view and handle the British brand’s latest novelties. (We also hosted a collectors’ dinner earlier in the week at Watches of Switzerland with Bremont Co-founder Giles English) The centerpiece of Bremont’s 2019 offerings is the...

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Mar 9, 2019 by WatchTime

PROFILE:

The Arrival of Rexhep Rexhepi

It’s a rare occasion when an independent upstart can captivate an old-fashioned and conservative industry like Swiss watchmaking. It’s even more difficult for that attention to remain unwavering and grow into a swell of expectations rarely seen in horology, something more akin to the cyclical world of haute couture, where flashes of youthful brilliance are...

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Oct 21, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

PROFILE

Kari On: Meet Horological Rockstar Kari Voutilainen

A dozen years ago, Kari Voutilainen was a horological ghostwriter, working anonymously for various high-end watch brands. Except for the few, one-of-a-kind pieces he made under his own label, his work bore the names of others. Now he’s a watchmaking star.

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Aug 1, 2018 by WatchTime

NEWS

Vacheron Constantin Les Collectionneurs: 10 World-Touring Vintage Timepieces Touch Down in NYC

Vacheron Constantin’s Les Collectionneurs Exhibition — a collection of (currently) 10 notable vintage timepieces from the Genevan manufacture’s 260-plus-year history, all impeccably restored and available for sale to consumers — is currently on display in New York, after its first two stops in Singapore and London. The watches, manufactured in a period spanning from 1928...

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Jul 27, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

A Chocolate-Colored Dream: The Urban Jürgensen Ref. 1140L RG Brown

Urban Jürgensen produces some of the most attractive and elaborate time-only watches on the market today. The Reference 1140L RG Brown Limited Edition released at Baselworld is further proof of that. A chocolate brown dial contrasts with the finely-blued hands to create a sumptuous tone. Arabic numerals made of solid rose gold are hand polished...

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Jun 14, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Montblanc 1858 Automatic Chronograph

Since Montblanc’s 1858 collection was first released in 2015, it has served as the host for watches inspired by the erstwhile Minerva marque. Montblanc acquired the Minerva manufacture in 2006 and has done well to use this company’s long design history to enhance its own novel series. This year was no different, with Montblanc expanding...

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Mar 4, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

SIHH 2018:

The F.P. Journe Chronographe Monopoussoir Rattrapante

It’s only been a week since we left Geneva, but there’s still plenty of watches from SIHH 2018 left to chat about. One watch that we’ve been itching to discuss is the F.P. Journe Chronographe Monopoussoir Rattrapante, which represents the latest addition to the brand’s underappreciated LineSport collection. You may remember F.P. Journe’s contribution to the...

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Jan 26, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

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 PREVIEW:

The Shape of Things to Come: Cartier’s New Libre Collection for Ladies

"Stretched, shrunk, and transformed into objects of fantasy with unbridled creative license" is how Cartier describes its new Libre collection for ladies, debuting at SIHH 2018. "Libre" means "free," and with these new additions to its Bagnoire and Crashfamilies, five new watches in all, the watch-and-jewelry giant takes a truly freeform approach to some of its classical case shapes.

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Dec 17, 2017 by Mark Bernardo

THE WATCHTIME Q&A

Talking with Chase Fancher of Oak & Oscar

Chase Fancher isn’t messing around. The founder of Chicago-based Oak & Oscar has just finished showing off the independent watch brand at a series of fairs. I’m sitting next to him and his collaborator, a designer named John Hatherly, in a small coffee shop in the Flatiron district of Manhattan two weeks after the duo...

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Nov 1, 2017 by Logan R. Baker

Taking the Bull by the Horns: A Guide to Vintage Bullhead Chronographs

Since the late 1990s, producing large watches has been an enduring trend, undoubtedly spurred by the success of Panerai. Obviously, watches with larger case sizes were around earlier than that, but the Florentine brand was the first to attain huge, worldwide popularity with its oversized timepieces — with the help of a few Hollywood icons,...

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Sep 4, 2017 by Balazs Ferenczi

A Darker Diver: Introducing the Tudor Heritage Black Bay “Black”

Tudor emerged from the considerable shadow of its big brother Rolex in 2013, when its vintage-inspired divers' watch, the Tudor Heritage Black Bay, won the "Revival" prize at the prestigious Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève. That model, with its black dial and burgundy bezel, begat another version in 2014, with a bezel in Midnight Blue. Now the brand has announced a third variation, in which both the dial and bezel are black.

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Oct 14, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Fratello Friday: 5 Very Unusual Timepieces

Since I started writing my thoughts and ideas about watches on my blog, Fratellowatches, I have been visiting the big watch fairs like Baselworld and the SIHH in Geneva. Sometimes, one comes across some very odd-looking watches at these fairs — watches that perhaps should not be defined as watches, but as mechanical art or...

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Jan 9, 2015 by Robert-Jan Broer

Fratello Classics: Reviewing the Panerai Luminor Marina 8 Days

About 10 years ago, around the time I started my watch blog Fratello Watches, I owned a couple of Panerai watches and wore them with much pleasure. However, being not only a writer of watch articles but also a watch collector, I “traded them up” over the years for watches from other brands. Of course,...

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Dec 30, 2014 by Robert-Jan Broer