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Breitling Takes a Spin Down Memory Lane with Top Time Classic Cars

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Longines Spirit Titanium: The Vintage Pilot Goes Modern

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Urban Explorer Goes Global: Bell & Ross BR 05 GMT

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Three Greens for the Red, White and Blue: Grand Seiko U.S. Exclusive Editions

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Oris Aquis Date Upcycle Offers Unique PET Dials

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COUTURE 2018:

This Year’s Models: Frederique Constant Vintage Rally Healey Chronographs

Frederique Constant has for 14 years partnered with Austin-Healey automobiles and sponsored vintage car rallies worldwide. Each year, the Geneva-based brand has launched a special Vintage Rally timepiece for collectors. The latest was unveiled this week, at the Couture watch and jewelry show in Las Vegas.

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Jun 1, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

Sponsored: The Return of the Legendary Hanhart 417 ES

The reissue of the Hanhart 417 ES marks the return of a legend among wristwatches. More than 60 years ago, the original model served as the first pilot’s chronograph for the German armed forces. Today Hanhart combines the watch’s iconic historical design with the most modern production techniques to produce a robust chronograph suitable for...

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Oct 20, 2021 by WatchTime

FEATURE:

How the Internet Transformed the Secondary Watch Market into a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry, Part 2

This is the second part of an overview on the development of the global pre-owned watch market. You can read part one here. Watch marketplace Chrono24 is one of the most visited timepiece-related sites on the web. One of the reasons for its ubiquity is its promise to review all of its more than 2,000 dealers...

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Jun 1, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

COUTURE 2018:

Longines Rolls Out U.S.A.-Exclusive HydroConquest Collection

The 2018 Couture luxury-watch-and-jewelry show kicked off in Las Vegas today, and WatchTime is on the scene to cover highlights from the array of timepieces being shown there, some being seen in the U.S.A. for the very first time after their launches at Baselworld or SIHH, others all-new releases rolled out since the two Swiss...

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May 31, 2018 by WatchTime

Destination Moon: Introducing Two new Hakuto-R Eco-Drive Chronographs from Citizen (with Live Photos)

Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and space start-up Ispace Inc. have recently joined forces. As corporate partner of Ispace’s planned commercial lunar exploration program, the 100-year-old Japanese watchmaker and pioneer in the use of titanium has now released two limited-edition chronographs dedicated to the upcoming missions that should also bring parts made of the brand’s Super...

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Oct 13, 2021 by WatchTime

PROMOTION

LIV Watches’ “Breakthrough” Campaign Launches Four Limited-Edition Watches

LIV Watches is a direct-to-consumer microbrand founded in 2014, whose stock-in-trade is “crafting durable Swiss timepieces built to suit the modern man.” The first watch the company launched on Kickstarter was the GX1, at the end of 2014, which was fully funded within the first 11 hours. Just over a year later, another Kickstarter campaign...

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May 31, 2018 by WatchTime

WATCHES AND CARS

Need for Speed: 15 Watches Inspired by Auto Racing

Including classic models like the Rolex Daytona, TAG Heuer Carrera, and IWC Ingenieur, we take a look at 15 watches with designs influenced by motorsports.

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May 31, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

COUTURETIME 2018:

Gucci Introduces a New Automatic Timepiece Collection for 2018

Gucci is enriching its men’s offering with five innovative new 40 mm automatic watches. Two of the new Swiss Made timepieces come with a GMT function, with an additional hour hand in the shape of a snake for tracking time in a second time zone. Showing a high level of craftsmanship, one features a yellow...

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May 30, 2018 by WatchTime

FROM FRATELLO WATCHES

Expert Advice: Are You Buying Authentic Watches?

WatchTime.com contributor Robert-Jan Broer of FratelloWatches offers tips on how to avoid buying either a counterfeit watch or a "Frankenwatch" in this feature article.

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May 30, 2018 by Robert-Jan Broer

MICROBRAND MONDAY:

Introducing: Seals Watch Co. Model C Field Explorer

Based out of El Dorado Hills, California, Seals Watch Co. got its start after its owner Michael Seals began sketching at a bar one night. Doodles of armored tanks soon formed the outline of a bezel and case with the glacis plate and tracks forming the lugs and centerpiece underneath. Soon, an idea formed to...

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May 28, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Rolex GMT-Master II, 2018 Edition

Few watches hold as much distinction as the Rolex GMT-Master and GMT-Master II. From the series’ first introduction in 1955 , with the Ref. 6542, to its later transition into the GMT-Master II in 1982 with the Ref. 16760, all the way to today’s modern references, the series in all its adjustments through the years...

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May 27, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

THE WATCHTIME Q&A:

10 Questions with Lothar Schmidt, Owner of Sinn

Lothar Schmidt has owned Sinn since 1994. Since then, he’s led the company through unprecedented growth and technological development that has placed the Frankfurt-based brand in the upper echelon of German manufactories. Read on for our conversation with Schmidt where we discuss how he entered the watch industry, the technology he’s helped pioneer, and the...

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May 26, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

FEATURE:

How the Internet Transformed the Secondary Watch Market into a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry, Part 1

In hindsight, it’s almost impossible to say for certain when the internet actually began to exist, but for Leonard Kleinrock, an American computer scientist and professor at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, it was Oct. 29, 1969 (in other words, shortly after the first watches with automatic chronograph movements had made...

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May 25, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

BASELWORLD 2018 REVISITED

From WWII to the Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll: 5 New Graham Chronofighter Vintage Nose Art Watches

Last year, Graham rolled out the Chronofighter Vintage Nose Art collection, a quartet of military-aviation-inspired, limited-edition timepieces with classical pin-up girl dials that echo the fuselage art on Allied warplanes of World War II. This year, the brand named for pioneering London clockmaker George Graham, and known widely for its cockpit-style chronograph designs, launched another...

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May 25, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

BASELWORLD 2018 REVISITED

Close-Up: Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Volante Heure Sautante Minute Retrograde

Blancpain caught the lion’s share of its Baselworld 2018 buzz for the new complications in its retro-look Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe collection, and rightfully so. However, not to be overlooked is its latest foray into the highest levels of haute horlogerie in its classically elegant Villeret collection — a timepiece which also contains a couple of...

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May 24, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TEST

Those Crazy ’70s: A Test of the Hamilton Pan-Europ Day-Date

The Hamilton Pan-Europ Day-Date brings back the most colorful decade in watch history. How did this vintage-inspired timepiece fare in our test? Read on to find out.

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May 24, 2018 by Alexander Krupp

Feeling Blue: 25 Watches With Blue Dials and Blue Straps

We take a look at 25 stunning blue-on-blue watches, with blue dials and blue straps, released within recent years, from watch brands like Patek Philippe, Rolex, TAG Heuer, Zenith and many others.

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May 23, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

EXPERT ADVICE:

5 Tips For Buying a New Watch

From our friends at Fratello Watches: 5 hints and tips for when you are buying a new watch for the first time.

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May 22, 2018 by Robert-Jan Broer

NEWS:

Six Rare and Exclusive Watches You’ll Find at the New Cellini Jewelers Boutique

A New York institution since it first opened in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria in 1977, Cellini Jewelers recently found a new home at 430 Park Avenue. Forced to relocate after the grand hotel shuttered its doors for renovations in March 2017, founder Leon Adams picked a premium location in the beating heart of...

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May 21, 2018 by Logan R. Baker

BASELWORLD 2018 REVISITED:

Alexander Shorokhoff’s Los Craneos: Two Skulls, Two Time Zones, and a Tribute to Frida Kahlo

Who says the watch industry doesn't bring varied cultures together? With the Los Craneos timepiece from Alexander Shorokhoff, we have a tribute to a Mexican artistic icon, designed by a Russian watchmaker, and made in Germany using two Swiss movements.

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May 21, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

EXPERT ADVICE:

Which Watch Brands Are Most Likely to Increase in Value?

It's a question watch collectors — especially new ones — always want answered: What watches that tend to increase in value over time? FratelloWatches founder and WatchTime contributor Robert-Jan Broer shares his insights and delves into the most collectible watch models from brands like Rolex, Omega, and Audemars Piguet.

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May 21, 2018 by Robert-Jan Broer

PROMOTION

The 80’s: A Legendary Caliber, the Lemania Carrera Chronograph

Heuer Carrera 5100 Lemania Chronograph: Piaget and the movement manufacturer Nouvelle Lémania acquired Heuer in 1983. The Carrera was now equipped with the new co-owner’s automatic Caliber Lémania 5100. Two distinguishing features are the orange, readily legible, centrally axial, aircraft-shaped minute-hand and the 24-hour display at “12 o’clock.” A Legendary Caliber: the Lemania Carrera...

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May 21, 2018 by WatchTime