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Arnold & Son’s HMS Victory Set

With it’s latest watch collection, Arnold & Son is honoring the HMS Victory, a ship famous for participating in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War, and the Napoleonic wars. 

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Mar 29, 2013 by WatchTime

Baselworld Preview: Cuervo y Sobrinos Historiador Flameante

More news and photos of new watches debuting at April’s Baselworld watch fair continue to flow into our in-box. Here’s one of the latest, from Cuervo y Sobrinos, the “Swiss brand with Latin soul,” originally founded in Cuba: the Historiador Flameante, a classical, ultra-thin watch based on a 1950s design.

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Mar 26, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Montblanc Star Quantième Complet

Montblanc added a new calendar watch, called the Quantième Complet, to its Star Collection of luxury timepieces at this year’s SIHH. As its name implies (Quantième is French for “calendar”), the watch functions as a “complete” or “full” calendar, more versatile than a basic one that displays only the date but not as complicated (nor...

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Mar 15, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld Preview: Perrelet Turbine Chrono

Perrelet launched its first Turbine wristwatch, with its dynamic, double-rotor movement that resembles an aircraft’s turbine blades, in 2009. Since then, the company has introduced several variations on it, including dials inspired by the American flag and by erotic Japanese manga. This year, the Turbine gets its first complicated model, the Turbine Chrono.

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Mar 13, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

The Atmos Hermes Clock

Hermes, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Les Cristalleries de St. Louis have combined their watchmaking and glassmaking expertise to produce the Atmos Hermes Clock, a table clock that “lives on air.”

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Mar 12, 2013 by WatchTime

How Bovet Blossomed

In our March-April issue, on sale now, WatchTime’s Jay Deshpande speaks to Bovet owner Pascal Raffy about his plans for the 187-year-old brand. In this feature from our December 2009 issue, writer Lucien F. Trueb explores Bovet’s history and the story of how Raffy fell madly in love with it.

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Mar 8, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Vacheron Constantin Offers New 1972 Prestige for Opening of Paris Boutique

On June 23, 1972, at Paris’s Ritz Hotel, the Comité de France awarded the rare and coveted Prestige de la France award to Swiss watch manufacture Vacheron Constantin. As the first Swiss watch brand to receive this distinction, Vacheron launched a distinctive, asymmetrical timepiece, now referred to as the 1972. Now, to celebrate the opening...

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Feb 20, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

RGM Marks 20 Years With Third In-House Caliber

RGM, the pioneering Pennsylvania-based watch brand founded in 1992 by Roland G. Murphy, turns 20 years old in 2012. Murphy commemorated the anniversary in the manner he knows best: by developing his brand’s third in-house mechanical movement, called Caliber 20, and outfitting it in a new watch that RGM introduced at January’s Geneva Time Exhibition.

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Feb 18, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

F.P. Journe Releases Octa Perpetual Calendar

Independent watchmaker Francois-Paul Journe has added a ninth model to his eponymous brand’s Octa collection, called the F.P. Journe Quantième Perpétuel, a perpetual calendar timepiece with an instantaneous jump function. The watch, which will be limited to 900 pieces, made its debut in Geneva during the SIHH and GTE watch fairs.

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Feb 13, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

88 Rue Du Rhone at the BAFTAs

For its first year as “Official Watch and Timing partner” of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), 88 Rue du Rhone — a young watch brand founded by Raymond Weil heirs Elie and Pierre Bernheim — produced 50 limited-edition timepieces to be given to all presenter of the BAFTA awards. Several of...

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Feb 12, 2013 by WatchTime

Louis Moinet Celebrates Jules Verne’s 185th Birthday

While Winter Storm Nemo is hitting the Northeast, Louis Moinet is celebrating another Nemo — namely, the legendary sea captain of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. To celebrate the author’s 185th birthday, the brand has released a video highlighting the Jules Verne Instrument III, a high-precision chronograph inspired by the fictional Captain...

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Feb 8, 2013 by WatchTime