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    Ceramic watches are on the rise – many luxury watch brands have added ceramic watches to their portfolio.

    Ulysse Nardin Fires Up its Collection with the Blast, a Skeletonized Self-winding Tourbillon (Updated with Live Photos)

    Ulysse Nardin is one of 17 haute horlogerie watch brands participating in this week’s Geneva Watch Days, an exhibition of new timepieces taking place throughout the Swiss city. The Le Locle-based manufacture is taking the opportunity to introduce an entirely new collection, called Blast, whose attributes include a new, self-winding, skeletonized caliber with a flying...

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    Aug 26, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    Sponsored: Independent Swiss Watch Brand NORQAIN Celebrates NHLPA Partnership with Limited-Edition Launch

    NORQAIN's new Adventure Sport Chrono NHLPA Limited Edition is limited to 500 pieces and features unique design details that hint at the speed and thrill of professional ice hockey.

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    Oct 1, 2020 by WatchTime

    Rado True Thinline Anima Debuts in Matte Olive-Green Ceramic Case

    Rado was innovating with high-tech ceramics before much of the rest of the watchmaking world, and the design-oriented brand continues to push boundaries in the use of that material as well as expand its color palette. The latest example is the new True Thinline Anima, a limited edition that features its first ceramic watch case...

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    Aug 8, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    Numbers Up: Audemars Piguet Launches Three Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronographs with Arabic Numerals

    Audemars Piguet has added a full palette of colors to its most sporty and robust model, the Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronograph, over the last few years. This year, the manufacture introduces a trio of new colorful references, in black ceramic cases, whose "Mega Tapisserie" dials feature a subtle variation from previous versions: new Arabic hour numerals in place of the traditional baton indexes.

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    Jun 30, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

    FEATURE

    Off the Track and On the Wrist: IWC Releases “Lewis Hamilton” Edition Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar

    To cap off a year of popular releases in 2019, IWC Schaffhausen released its latest special edition of its Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar this past December. The new “Lewis Hamilton” Edition, released in partnership and collaboration with Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton (pictured below), represents the highest elevation of this perpetual calendar watch...

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    Jan 15, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

    NEWS

    Flying High: IWC Announces Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Edition “Blue Angels”

    Last week, famed pilot watch manufacturer IWC unveiled its latest release, the new Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Edition “Blue Angels.” The blue-clad model is a special edition of the Schaffhausen-based brand’s Pilot’s Watch Chronograph series, released in partnership with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels. The Blue Angels are the United States Navy’s flight demonstration squadron. The...

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    Dec 2, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

    NEWS:

    Greubel Forsey Will Present the New Double Tourbillon 30° Technique Ceramic for the First Time at WatchTime New York 2019

    The Double Tourbillon 30º is one of the most important timepieces in the Greubel Forsey catalog. As the first timepiece unveiled by the manufacture at Baselworld 2004 — after five years of development by Stephen Forsey and Robert Greubel — it set in motion all of the success and innovations that Greubel Forsey has accomplished in...

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    Sep 10, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

    WATCH TO WATCH

    Chrono in Camo: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronograph

    Despite the industry-wide focus on its much-discussed, much-debated new Code 11:59 collection, Audemars Piguet actually did launch several other noteworthy new timepieces in 2019, most of them extensions of the manufacture's Royal Oak and Royal Oak Offshore families. From the latter series hails three new Selfwinding Chronograph models with colorful ceramic case elements and color-coordinated camouflage-motif rubber straps.

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    Aug 8, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

    FEATURE

    11 Watch Brands That Make Their Own Metals

    We take a look at 11 watch brands, including Rolex, A. Lange & Söhne, Hublot and Omega, that have invented their own alloys by combining different metals.

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    Nov 27, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

    WATCH REVIEW

    Borrowed Time: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Skelet-One

    You can do a lot with a figure eight. Over the years, Jaquet Droz has used its iconic Grande Seconde dial configuration — a figure-eight design with a small subdial for the hours and minutes atop a larger subdial for the seconds — as the template for numerous variations. With the new and somewhat oddly named Grande Seconde Skelet-One, introduced this year at Baselworld, the brand has introduced its boldest and most unusual take on the Grande Seconde to date.

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    Nov 13, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

    DIVE WATCH BASICS

    The Basics of the Rotating Divers’ Watch Bezel

    In this article on divers' watches, we take a look at what is probably the most distinctive element of a dive watch: the rotating bezel.

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    Jul 6, 2018 by Roger Ruegger

    Blackout: 17 Black-on-Black Watches

    Black-on-black watches, read our review of 17 "all-black" watches, including the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver, the Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute Blacksteel and the Ulysse Nardin Blacksea.

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    Jun 7, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

    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

    BASELWORLD 2018:

    Out of the Pocket: New Rado HyperChrome Ultra Light Draws Inspiration from the Past

    Avant garde design-oriented Swiss brand Rado, which last year captured the attention of Baselworld with its vintage-inspired Hyperchrome Captain Cook dive watch, is this year leaning again toward the historical in an expansion of its Hyperchrome Ultra Light series. This series, which was noted for having an incredibly light weight, first came to the market...

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    Mar 24, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

    WATCH TO WATCH

    Midnight Flyer: Introducing the Bell & Ross BR03-92 Nightlum

    Bell & Ross adds to its fleet of BR03-92 "professional aviation" watches — which recently welcomed a black camo version as well as a model that evoked the night-lit tarmac of airport runways — with the new Nightlum edition, a timepiece singularly suitable for nighttime navigation.

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    Feb 8, 2018 by Mark Bernardo

    FEATURE

    Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Girard-Perregaux Laureato

    The 1970s was the golden age for unorthodox sports watch designs. Details such as prominent bezels, slim case profiles made of steel, and an integrated bracelet were all the rage after Gérald Genta’s trailblazing Audemars Piguet Royal Oak debuted in 1972. Other design trendsetters of the era included the Patek Philippe Nautilus and the redesigned IWC...

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    Jan 7, 2018 by Caleb Anderson

    WATCH TO WATCH

    Omega Speedmaster Returns to its Racing Roots With “Porsche Club of America” Limited Edition

    Years before it rocketed into space to earn its place in timepiece history as the first watch worn on the moon, the Omega Speedmaster was engineered for more terrestrial pursuits, specifically as an instrument to time automobile races. With the new Speedmaster Porsche Club of America Limited Edition, the Speedy revisits its motor racing history while adding a few distinctly modern elements.

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    Dec 12, 2017 by Mark Bernardo

    WATCH REVIEW

    Borrowed Time: Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Black Ceramic Power Reserve Clous de Paris

    Every good watch brand needs some sort of visual shorthand to make it recognizable, and Jaquet Droz has managed to claim as its own a very old, very traditional style of timekeeping display: the figure-eight dial arrangement of one smaller subdial, usually for the hours and minutes, at the top, overlapping a larger subdial, usually...

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    Oct 2, 2017 by Mark Bernardo

    Dive Watch Test: Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Co-Axial

    Our editors went 11 feet under water to test various divers' watches for legibility, ease of use, and toughness in actual diving conditions. Here are the results of our dive watch test for one of these watches - the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M Co-Axial.

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    Sep 8, 2017 by Alexander Krupp

    WATCH QUIZ

    Material Facts: Test Your Knowledge Of Watch-World Metals (and Silicon, Carbon and Ceramics)

    Over the years, many new materials have found their way into the watch world — whether used on dials, in bracelets, or as case material. Watches made from different metals not only feel differently on the wrist, because of factors such as weight — titanium is lighter than steel, for example — but can even...

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    Aug 6, 2017 by WatchTime

    FROM FRATELLO WATCHES

    Top 3 Rolex GMT-Master Watches

    Historically the watch of Pan-Am pilots and NASA astronauts, the Rolex GMT-Master could even be found on the wrist of Tom Selleck in "Magnum: P.I." Here, our Fratello Friday writer shares with us three of his favorite Rolex GMT-Master models.

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    Jul 21, 2017 by Robert-Jan Broer
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    NORQAIN's new Adventure Sport Chrono NHLPA Limited Edition is limited to 500 pieces and features unique design details that hint at the speed and thrill of professional ice hockey.

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