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EXPERT ADVICE:

How To Buy Vintage Watches

The market for truly "vintage" watches is something quite different from that for relatively young "pre-owned" watches. In this in-depth article, FratelloWatches founder and WatchTime contributor Robert-Jan Broer offers advice to newbies looking to dabble in the vintage watch market.

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Sep 27, 2018 by Robert-Jan Broer

Promotion

Baume & Mercier’s new Clifton Baumatic: Lengthened Service Intervals

A mechanical watch movement is a complex mechanism comprising numerous mobile miniature components. Their perpetual interaction results in friction and wear ultimately influencing the smooth running of the movement. This is one of the reasons why watches have to be returned for regular service. The new Clifton Baumatic from Baume & Mercier with the maison’s...

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Oct 15, 2018 by WatchTime

FEATURE

Tracking the Rolex Daytona: A 55-Year History

In this feature-length article from WatchTime's January-February 2016 issue, we take a look at the 55-year history of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, the brand's iconic chronograph watch.

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Sep 25, 2018 by WatchTime

FEATURE

What Makes a Dive Watch a Dive Watch?

One leading source offers a definitive answer to the question of what determines whether a timepiece can legitimately be called a “dive watch” or “divers’ watch” in this article.

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Jun 29, 2018 by WatchTime

POLL:

Vote on the Winner of WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest #2

Capping off another successful WatchTime Wrist Shot Contest submission period, here are our top 10 images of the 300-plus wrist shots submitted to us through e-mail and Instagram over the past two weeks. Please vote on what you think is the best image based on composition, creativity, and image quality. The top five finishers will receive...

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Oct 9, 2018 by WatchTime

WATCHTIME RECOMMENDS:

The Watch Connoisseur’s Father’s Day Gift Guide

Father’s Day is around the corner, and if your dad (or brother, or son, or best buddy) is a watch guy like you, its likely he also shares other interests — an eye for fashionable accessories; a taste for fine spirits and premium cigars; an appreciation for high-end writing instruments; and a need to store...

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Jun 15, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

EXPERT ADVICE:

How to Buy Pre-Owned Watches

The market for pre-owned items is huge. The success of websites like Craigslist, AutoTrader and so on are a testimonial. And the wristwatch market is no exception. WatchTime contributor Robert-Jan Broer of FratelloWatches offers some guidance on where to look and what to look for when buying a pre-owned wristwatch.

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Jun 14, 2018 by Robert-Jan Broer

PROMOTION:

Gucci Presents #TimeToParr: An Uncommon Photographic Journey

Embracing Instagram’s creative landscape over the past three years with dedicated projects in which artists play with House motifs, Gucci has published and promoted these special works with a series of hashtags. Now, for the first time, the House is collaborating with a single artist on an Instagram project. Exploring the nature of time and...

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Oct 9, 2018 by WatchTime

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

A Holiday Gift Guide for the Watch-Collecting Renaissance Man

While all watch enthusiasts are different, and diverse in their pursuits and interests, there are some traits that we’ve found to be fairly common among the collector community. Among these are an eye for stylish fashion; a taste for fine spirits and, often, premium cigars; an appreciation for art, travel, and high-end writing instruments; and,...

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Dec 15, 2017 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Single-Malt “Watch”: Urwerk Teams Up With The Macallan

We've always known that many aficionados of fine watches are also fans of high-end spirits, particularly single-malt Scotch. Now, thanks to a collaboration between the avant-garde Swiss watch brand Urwerk and the whisky maestros at the Macallan, well-traveled fans of both watches and Scotches can carry their whiskies in a high-tech flask made especially with them in mind.

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Mar 7, 2017 by Mark Bernardo

PROMOTION

Introducing the Lepsi Watch Demagnetizer

Geneva-based Lepsi allows you to remove magnetism from a watch yourself with its latest invention, the Lepsi Watch Demagnetizer. Used together, the Watch Scope and Watch Demagnetizer represent a new and unique way to take care of your watches.

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Nov 28, 2016 by WatchTime

WatchTime New York 2016 Wraps Up With Record Attendance

WatchTime New York, America’s largest luxury watch event devoted to collectors and enthusiasts, wrapped up its two day event in grand fashion at Manhattan's Gotham Hall. Exhibitors included internationally renowned watch brands, such as Omega, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Breguet, Blancpain, A. Lange & Söhne, Carl F. Bucherer, Seiko, Bell & Ross, and more.

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Oct 16, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2016: Wolf Watch Winders

In this WT article, we take a look at Wolf watch winders. Known for their fusion of leather, wood, glass, and steel, these winders from Wolf will keep your automatic watches wound during extended periods when they're not on your wrist.

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Oct 13, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Jean Rousseau to Showcase New Watch Straps at WatchTime New York 2016

For the second year in a row, luxury custom-watch-strap purveyor Jean Rousseau will be among the exhibitors at WatchTime New York, and will be displaying a range of new styles in its collection, from water-resistant leather to carbon fiber and kevlar blends.

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Sep 28, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Fossil Watches Made in Switzerland? Inside Fossil’s Swiss Mission

Find out why the fashion-watch company Fossil, a giant of the Hong Kong watch industry, is making more watches in Switzerland, in this feature article from WatchTime.

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Apr 26, 2016 by Norma Buchanan

GIFT GUIDE

Baselworld Travel Essentials

The watch world’s biggest international event, Baselworld, begins next week in Basel, Switzerland. If you are one of the thousands of eager watch aficonados, media representatives, and watch-and-jewelry professionals attending the show this year, we’ve compiled some of our favorite stylish and useful items that will make both the trip itself, and your travel experience,...

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Mar 7, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

How Precise is Your Watch? Test It with the Lepsi Watch Scope

For everyone who’s ever read a watch test or review in WatchTime and wished they could test their own timepieces for accuracy at home — and without making the major investment of a Witschi timing machine — Geneva-based Lepsi has an ideal stocking stuffer: the Lepsi Watch Scope, essentially a stethoscope to read the “heartbeat”...

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Dec 19, 2015 by WatchTime

Orbita Sempre is Automatic Watch Winder for Manual-Wind Watches

During our annual visits to Orbita at the various watch and jewelry trade shows, we always see an impressive collection of new and existing winders of all sizes, holding anywhere from a single watch to as many as 48. And of course, the vast majority of these Orbita watch winders — and most other watch...

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Oct 30, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

More from Watches & Wonders: New IWC Portofino Models Debut

IWC Schaffhausen introduced three new models in its Portofino collection at the recent Watches & Wonders salon in Hong Kong. They include the Hand-Wound Day & Date (Ref. IW516201 in stainless steel and IW516203 in rose gold), the Automatic Moon Phase 37 (Ref. IW459007) and two new Portofino Automatic 37 models (Ref. IW458111/12) with colored...

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Oct 13, 2015 by Carol Besler

Net Gain: Tissot Becomes First Official Timekeeper of the NBA

Tissot is no stranger to sports sponsorships, having just celebrated 10 years of its partnership NASCAR's Danica Patrick and continuing as timing partner of the MotoGP racing series, but this week the Swiss sports watch brand landed its biggest coup to date, becoming the first-ever official timekeeper of the National Basketball Association.

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Oct 7, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Oris Aquis Depth Gauge

Oris, long known for its professional-grade divers’ watches, achieved a watch-world milestone with its Oris Aquis Depth Gauge, introduced in 2013. It is the first divers’ watch that measures depth by allowing water to enter the timepiece — a feature that would normally be a serious divers’ watch no-no.

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May 1, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Time is Money: The 26 Richest Swiss Watch Barons

Each year the respected Swiss business magazine, Bilan, publishes a list of the 300 richest Swiss with a rough estimate of their fortunes. For this article we examined the list for you to see which members of the watch industry made the ranking. Here they are:

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Dec 3, 2014 by Jay Deshpande

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