Big Face Watches

Big face watches are very popular with watch collectors, mostly because of their unusual big watch dial size and their large bracelets. Recently big face watches have seen success in emerging watch markets and many collectors tend to favor a big face watch over smaller modes.

Oversized watches can be found in the category of big face watches for men, sometimes in flashy versions as big face diamond watches for men. Notable big face watch brands with large watches are Diesel watches, Invicta watches, Fossil and Nixon. In some cases when wrists are too small collectors look for big clocks to put on desks or shelves as a compensation.

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Monochrome Monday: 5 Watches We Hope to See From Rolex at Baselworld 2014

Read our inaugural "Monochrome Monday" article, in which Monochrome founder Frank Geelen and his team hope and speculate on what Rolex might have in store for its fans at the 2014 Baselworld watch fair, such as a renewed Rolex Sea-Dweller II, a Rolex Sky-Dweller in stainless-steel or a Rolex GMT-Master II (blue/red).

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Mar 10, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Sponsored: Gerald Charles Introduces Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon

Introducing a new age of technical aestheticism, Gerald Charles debuts its Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon. With a unique design created with the expert oversight of the brand’s creative director, Octavio Garcia, the timepiece is a return to the original Maestro flying tourbillon released in 2005. Taking hints from the brand’s rich history, the new release is...

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Mar 21, 2023 by WatchTime

Around the Web: Babe Ruth’s Watch, Erotic Timepieces in Demand, CIA Watches, and More

Welcome to this week’s installment of “Around the Web”. As always, WatchTime social media maven Alan Loren updates watch aficionados with what we thought were some of the most interesting watch-related stories and news tidbits of the past weeks, culled from the websites of your favorite brands as well as popular watch blogs and other...

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Feb 2, 2014 by WatchTime

Around the Web: History’s 9 Most Important Watches, Smartwatches at CES, and More

Welcome to this week’s installment of “Around the Web”. As always, WatchTime social media maven Alan Loren updates watch aficionados with what we thought were some of the most interesting watch-related stories and news tidbits of the past weeks, culled from the websites of your favorite brands as well as popular watch blogs and other...

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Jan 12, 2014 by WatchTime

Around the Web: 4 Stories You Should Read This Week

In this first installment of “Around the Web,” WatchTime social media maven Alan Loren updates watch aficionados with what we thought were some of the most interesting watch-related stories and news tidbits of the past two weeks, culled from the websites of your favorite brands as well as some of the most popular watch blogs...

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Dec 15, 2013 by WatchTime

Why Did Patek Philippe Create its Own Quality Seal?

After 123 years, the Swiss watch brand Patek Philippe replaced the Geneva Seal with a higher-standard seal of its own. Find out why in this article from WatchTime.

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Nov 27, 2013 by Joe Thompson

The Big Fix: Behind Girard-Perregaux’s Makeover

The new Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk goes under the microscope in WatchTime’s November-December issue, on sale now. In this feature from the June 2013 issue, we delve into how new Sowind Group CEO Michele Sofisti plans to cure what’s been ailing that Swiss high-horology brand.

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Oct 22, 2013 by Norma Buchanan

3 Standout Complicated Watches from Hong Kong “Watches & Wonders” Fair

Hong Kong’s inaugural “Watches and Wonders” salon, held September 25-28, featured 13 luxury watch brands, several of which launched significant new models at the fair. Here is a look at three of them, a perpetual calendar with tourbillon from A. Lange & Söhne, and minute repeaters from Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet.

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Oct 10, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Watch Insider: 4 New IWC Watches Debut at “Watches and Wonders” in Hong Kong

The inaugural Hong Kong “Watches and Wonders” fair — inspired by the rapid growth of the Asian market and showcasing new watches from 13 luxury watch maisons — was held September 25-28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. In this article from my blog, Watch-Insider.com, I present four new models (actually, line extensions)...

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Oct 2, 2013 by Alexander Linz

Advertisement: Hublot Big Bang Aero Bang Depeche Mode

Hublot and Depeche Mode have come together in a joint fundraising initiative to benefit charity: water, a non-profit organization which brings clean, safe drinking water to the developing world. In honor of the partnership, Hublot designed the limited-edition Big Bang Aero Bang Depeche Mode — with a portion of the proceeds of each watch directly...

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Oct 1, 2013 by Advertising Department

Watch Insider’s Take: Will the New Smartwatches Conquer Our Wrists?

In this article from my blog, Watch-Insider.com, I look at the recent phenomenon of “smartwatches” released by technology companies and weigh in on whether these devices are destined to supplant the mechanical watch and conquer that valuable piece of real estate that is the wrists of watch wearers.

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Sep 9, 2013 by Alexander Linz

3 Standout Tourbillon Watches From Baselworld 2013

After a few challenging economic years for the watch industry, in which some feared big-ticket haute horlogerie timepieces were on the wane, tourbillon watches came roaring back at this year’s Baselworld. Here’s a trio of unusual tourbillons that grabbed our attention.

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Jul 25, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

One-Man Brand: The Story of UTS Divers’ Watches

Munich-based UTS has carved out a niche: German-made professional divers’ watches, all with cases made in-house from single blocks of steel by engineer Nicolaus Spinner. Learn more in this feature from WatchTime’s December 2011 issue. Most of us, when we’re looking for our ideal watch, simply do our homework — visit retailers, read magazines and...

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Jul 23, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Only Watch Auction 2013 Preview: 5 Unique Timepieces

The fifth edition of Only Watch, the charity timepiece auction held biannually in Monaco, takes place on September 28, and news and photos of several of the one-of-a-kind watches to be auctioned off have started to be released, including models from Breguet, Harry Winston, Girard-Perregaux, Laurent Ferrier, and Piaget.

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Jun 26, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Seconds City: Exploring La Chaux-de-Fonds

In our March-April issue, on sale now on newsstands and for the iPad, Norma Buchanan visits the Swiss watchmaking town of Le Locle. In this feature story from our June 2009 issue, Buchanan journeys to another cradle of Swiss horology, La Chaux-de-Fonds, a town that is still, as Karl Marx described it a century and...

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Mar 11, 2013 by Norma Buchanan

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

Gucci Launches New Watch for 2013 Grammy Awards

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will take place this weekend in Los Angeles, and for the third year in a row, Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry will release a new, Grammy-branded wristwatch to coincide with the music industry’s biggest night.

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Feb 5, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

More from Geneva: Christophe Claret, De Bethune, Urwerk, and Moser

The SIHH takes place at the massive Palexpo convention center near the Geneva airport, but during that week in January, the whole city becomes a new-watch paradise. My final day in Geneva took me away from the halls of the SIHH to take a look at a number of other new watches, from brands that...

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Jan 28, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Maîtres du Temps Rounds Out Chapter Two

Last year’s headliner watch from Maîtres du Temps was undeniably the innovative Chapter Three Reveal — but the haute-de-gamme brand, which teams up noted independent watchmakers to produce limited, complicated models, also released a version of its Chapter Two timepiece in a sporty, round case, nicknamed TCR, for Triple Calendar Round.

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Jan 7, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2013 Preview: A. Lange & Söhne Grand Lange 1 “Lumen”

A. Lange & Söhne has revealed the first of its new timepieces to be launched at January’s SIHH watch fair in Geneva: the Grand Lange 1 Lumen. A limited edition of 100 pieces, the watch features two firsts for the German luxury brand: a luminous outsize date and a partially transparent dial.

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Dec 6, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Mountain Climbing: Montblanc’s Journey to Haute Horlogerie

In this profile piece from WatchTime’s January-February 2009 issue, executive editor Norma Buchanan reveals how Montblanc, a brand best known for pens, entered the heady world of haute horlogerie, and explores the brand’s ultra-complicated Grand Tourbillon Heures Mystérieuses. In the fall of 2006 the Richemont Group surprised the watch world when it bought Fabrique d’Horlogere...

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Dec 4, 2012 by Norma Buchanan

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