Perpetual Calendar

2020, The Watch Year in Review: 5 Superlative Perpetual Calendars

It goes without saying: 2020 was far from an ideal year for most of us. Looking back, however, it was also a year that brought many noteworthy watch launches despite the huge obstacles posed by the pandemic and its effects on the world economy. As we look ahead hopefully to 2021, it’s time for our...

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Dec 30, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

Inspired by Ancestry: Exploring the Blancpain Villeret Collection

Blancpain’s Villeret collection channels the haute horlogerie roots of the world’s oldest watchmaking brand and continues to innovate with an array of grand and practical complications. We explore the collection’s origins, as well as its historical and modern highlights, in this feature from our October 2020 issue. The author Thomas Wolfe is often credited with...

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Dec 22, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

PORTFOLIO

Eternal Time: 6 Modern Perpetual Calendar Watches

In modern watchmaking, a perpetual calendar indicates the date, and corrects automatically for months with less than 31 days, as well as leap years. Unless the movement takes into account century years that are not leap years, a perpetual calendar will need manual adjusting in 2100, 2200 and 2300. Usually, a perpetual calendar combines additional complications (a moon-phase, for example). From WatchTime's February 2018 issue, here are six watches that are (almost) ready for eternity.

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Dec 7, 2020 by WatchTime

Strength in Numbers: Five Watches with Big Date Displays

Some watch connoisseurs find date displays of any kind on a watch dial distracting, unnecessary, and disruptive to a harmonious design. Others not only appreciate them, but also want them to be as legible and prominent as possible. For the latter group, we’ve assembled this list.

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Nov 30, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO Brings Zirconium to Watchmaking

MB&F founder Max Büsser is known for being bold and daring in his watch concepts, but the newest “horological machine” might represent the boldest idea yet — making a watch case out of a material that has been known to spontaneously ignite in its powdered form. But the zirconium case is just one notable facet...

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Oct 16, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime Live 2020: Chopard L.U.C Perpetual T Limited Edition

Chopard’s L.U.C collection, named for the initials of founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard, represents what the maison calls its “epitome of fine watchmaking.” Fewer models exemplify that spirit more spectacularly than the L.U.C Perpetual T, which combines two of high horology’s most complex mechanisms: a tourbillon and a perpetual calendar. The latest evolution of this timepiece, garbed...

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Oct 9, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

New Heights: Frederique Constant Re-Introduces the Highlife Collection

Twenty years ago, Frederique Constant introduced its original Highlife collection, which featured an integrated strap built into a distinctive case. Now the Geneva-based brand introduces a modern update to the collection, applying the concept to three new models: the Highlife Perpetual Calendar Manufacture, Highlife Heart Beat, and Highlife Automatic COSC. Each model features a strap-and-bracelet...

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Sep 13, 2020 by Corey Vlahos

Patek Philippe Minute Repeater Tourbillon Leads a Trifecta of High-End Complications

To the relief and delight of many a watch aficionado, Swiss high-complication specialist Patek Philippe has unveiled three new timepieces for 2020, after the maison initially indicated that it would push most or all of its planned releases to 2021 in response to the pandemic and its economic fallout. The first and most noteworthy is...

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Jul 22, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

The Music of Time: Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Astronomical Striking Grand Complication

Vacheron Constantin has given its series of one-of-a-kind chiming watches the poetically evocative name “La Musique du Temps,” and this year’s addition to that ultra-exclusive collection may be the most ambitious yet.

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May 30, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

IWC Portugieser Collection Reaches New Pinnacles with Two Tourbillon-Equipped Complications

The new releases from Schaffhausen-based IWC are highly anticipated each year, and 2020 is no different. Most years, the Swiss brand trains its focus on revitalizing specific collections, and this year the popular Portugieser family is the one in the spotlight. We’ve previously reviewed the new pieces in the Portugieser Yacht Club sub-family; today we...

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May 5, 2020 by Caleb Anderson

Baume & Mercier Builds on the Baumatic with New Day-Date/Moon-Phase Models

Baume & Mercier marked a milestone in its 190-year history with the 2018 launch of the Baumatic, its first in-house-developed movement, inside a three-hand date timepiece of the same name. Last year, the Swiss brand upped the ante by adding a module to the Baumatic base to produce an impressive — and, at just shy...

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Apr 29, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

NEWS

Greubel Forsey QP à Équation Debuts in Rose Gold with Chocolate Dial

Greubel Forsey introduced its seventh "Invention Piece," the QP à Équation, in 2015, adding a rhodium-dialed Millésime edition in 2017. This year, the extraordinarily complex timepiece debuts in a new version with an 18k rose gold case and a chocolate-colored gold dial.

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Mar 21, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

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Golden Legacy: MB&F Unveils Legacy Machine Perpetual in Yellow Gold Limited Edition

Since its introduction in 2015 — and subsequent award for Best Calendar Watch at the 2016 GPHG — MB&F’s Legacy Machine (LM) Perpetual has run the gamut of case materials in its various incarnations, all of them very limited in number — rose gold, white gold, platinum, and titanium. For the latest, founder Max Büsser...

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Feb 8, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH TO WATCH

Serbia Meets Japan: Novak Djokovic’s New Seiko Astron GPS Solar Limited Edition

Japan's Seiko partnered with Serbian tennis champ Novak Djokovic in 2014, two years after the watchmaker's heralded introduction of its technically groundbreaking Astron Solar GPS watch. Seiko has released specially designed "Novak Djokovic" limited editions of the Astron in the years since, and the latest timepiece to emerge from the partnership honors the flags of both Djokovic's and Seiko's home countries on its colorful dial.

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Jan 16, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

2019: THE WATCH YEAR IN REVIEW

Six Perpetual Calendar Timepieces That Stood Apart in 2019

As we approach the end of 2019 and prepare for 2020 — surely destined to be another interesting year in the world of watches — we take a look back at some of the most noteworthy timepieces that came out this year, in various popular categories. Today, we wrap up our 2019 retrospective with six...

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Dec 28, 2019 by WatchTime

FROM WATCHTIME MIDDLE EAST

Parmigiani Unveils its First Wristwatch with Islamic Calendar

In this feature by our colleague Nitin Nair of WatchTime's Middle East edition, we explore the recently launched Parmigiani Hjiri Perpetual Calendar, the first watch that follows the lunar Islamic calendar and displays the months of the year in Arabic.

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Dec 21, 2019 by WatchTime

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Double Vision: H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Perpetual Calendar MD Features New Dual-Window Display

H. Moser & Cie. gave the watchmaking world its most elegantly minimalist perpetual calendar in 2005. That award-winning timepiece has been reimagined in several iterations in the years since, most recently in 2016's Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept, with an even starker, more streamlined design. For its most recent evolution, as part of Moser's sport-luxury Pioneer collection, the dial gets slightly more complex in the service of being eminently more legible.

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Sep 17, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

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Now Available: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, the World’s Thinnest Automatic Perpetual Calendar

Audemars Piguet made a big splash at SIHH 2018 when it introduced the Royal Oak RD#2 Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin, a concept watch that claimed the title of being the world’s thinnest automatic timepiece featuring a perpetual calendar. When that watch was shown to the press during the annual Geneva showcase, there was no word on...

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Aug 27, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

Only Watch 2019: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Perpetual Enamel Chestnut Edition

Introduced in the year 2005, Only Watch is a biannual event which culminates in a charity auction, courtesy of Christie’s, to support the medical research on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The event will kick off in Monaco this year from the 25thto the 28thSeptember, and will come to a close in Geneva from the 7thto the...

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Jul 20, 2019 by Gurvisha Ahuja

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The Perpetual-Doppel is the Most Complicated Habring² Yet

The Austrian watchmaking firm Habring² has introduced a new perpetual calendar monopusher rattrapante chronograph that builds on the brand’s expertise in creating split-second timers. Given the name Perpetual-Doppel, it is the most complicated Habring² watch released to date. Fronted by the husband and wife duo of Richard and Maria Habring, the eponymous watch company has...

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Jul 5, 2019 by WatchTime

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