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    Showing at WatchTime New York 2021: A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar

    WatchTime New York 2021 is now less than two months away, and among the more than 25 brands featured at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 22-24 is A. Lange & Söhne, which is poised to be a major attraction with its widely popular catalogue. Leading the Saxon manufacture’s offerings for this year is the...

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    Sep 8, 2021 by WatchTime

    Sponsored: The ANOMALY-T4— the New Watch That’s 100% in CODE41’s DNA

    CODE41’s pioneering, iconoclastic business model has very rapidly succeeded in ranking this project among the most promising in Swiss watchmaking. Other than their watchmaking expertise, the real added value is, above all, each individual who’s part of it. Each member of the CODE41 community – more than 400,000 members strong! – represents an exclusive stakeholder...

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    Jul 1, 2022 by WatchTime

    H. Moser & Cie. Brings Two of its Icons Together in the New Streamliner Perpetual Calendar

    What happens when H. Moser & Cie. combines one of its flagship products, the Perpetual 1, with its recently launched Streamliner collection? We found out the answer this week at Geneva Watch Days: the contemporary and innovative Streamliner Perpetual Calendar. Read below to find out all about it. The year was 2005 when H. Moser...

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    Sep 1, 2021 by WatchTime

    The Year of the QP? Five Perpetual Calendar Watches Introduced in 2021

    If there has been one most notable complication among the many new watches introduced throughout 2021 thus far, it has clearly been the Perpetual Calendar. First introduced commercially in a wristwatch in 1925 by Patek Philippe, a perpetual calendar movement can display the date, day, month, and year with precise accuracy and even account for...

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    Aug 24, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Sponsored: Unlike Any Other, Artem Introduces NATO Style Straps

    Since the brand’s launch in mid-2021, Australian-based Artem has been consistently impressing the market with its appealing line of strap offerings. At first, this was in its signature, next-generation of sailcloth straps, but not long after the brand— upon excited and positive feedback from its growing list of fans— expanded its offerings in both appealing...

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    Jun 28, 2022 by WatchTime

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    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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    Aug 2, 2021 by WatchTime

    A. Lange & Söhne Langematik Perpetual Marks 20 Years With New Blue-Dial Gold Limited Editions

    In its summer rollout of new timepieces, A. Lange & Söhne has garnered the most admiration, and media coverage, for its Cabaret Tourbillon Handwerkskunst, a revival of a now-discontinued model that celebrated the 10th anniversary of the artisanal Handwerkskunst series. However, that watch, outfitted with the world’s first stop-seconds tourbillon caliber, was not the only...

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    Jul 23, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Four Faces Have I: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 is the Most Complex Reverso Ever

    Back in 2006, Jaeger-LeCoultre created the Reverso Hybris Mechanica a Triptyque, possessed of three faces and a multitude of built-in horological complications. The most complicated evolution yet of the Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoulte’s legendary and enduring two-faced timepiece born in 1931, it prompted many of us who cover the watch industry to wonder if the venerable Swiss...

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    Apr 30, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Perpetual Pilots: IWC Launches Perpetual Calendars in Big Pilot’s Watch and Top Gun “Mojave Desert” Collections

    As it does most years, IWC used its time in the watch trade-fair spotlight in 2021 to refresh one of its six major collections. At the recently concluded Watches & Wonders virtual event, the company expanded its ever-popular Big Pilot’s Watch series with the release of the first 43-mm, blue-dialed Big Pilot models as the...

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    Apr 28, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Patek Philippe Ref. 5236P-001 In-Line Perpetual Calendar Brings a Novel Display to the Calatrava Collection

    Patek Philippe’s most buzz-generating release at its inauguaral Watches & Wonders appearance earlier this month was undoubtedly the green-dialed Nautilus that marked the finish line for the production of that sport-luxury reference. But the manufacture’s most technically significant new model, which made its debut in the wake of that release, came from its venerable, classically...

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    Apr 27, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Vacheron Constantin Embraces Gold and High Complications in Three New Overseas Models

    Alongside its other notable releases at the recently concluded Watches & Wonders exhibition, Vacheron Constantin added to its popular Overseas sport-luxury range two white-gold perpetual calendars and a rose-gold tourbillon. The updates follow-up 2020’s rose-gold Overseas Self-Winding, and rose-gold perpetual calendars, bringing even more higher-tier complications to the expanding Overseas collection. Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin...

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    Apr 26, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Bulgari Sets its Seventh Horological Thinness Record with Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar

    When it comes to ultra-thin watchmaking, few brands have as much claim to the space these days as Bulgari, and in particular its Octo Finissimo collection. The collection launched in its current form in 2014 and has since blazed a trail of world-record-setting thin watches including the Octo Finissimo Automatic, Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic, Octo...

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    Apr 11, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    A. Lange & Söhne Showcases a Classic High Complication in New Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar

    Twenty years ago, A. Lange & Söhne produced its very first wristwatch with a perpetual calendar, the Langematik Perpetual. In the years since, the Saxon manufacture has installed the prestigious complication in seven other models, mostly in combination with a chronograph, tourbillon, or both. Unveiled today at watches & Wonders, in a move many would...

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    Apr 8, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Hermès Turns a New Calendar Page with Slim d’Hermès Quantième Perpétuel in Titanium

    Five years after introducing the first perpetual calendar model to its elegant Slim d’Hermès collection in 2015, La Montre Hermès follows up that rose-gold-cased timepiece with two new models that marry precious-metal bezels — one in 5N rose gold, the other in 950 platinum — to bead-blasted grade 5 titanium cases. Here’s a closer look...

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    Feb 18, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    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

    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
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