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    • Skeleton Watches

    Skeleton watches are among the most interesting watches. Made specifically for watch collectors who want to see the inner workings of a watch, the best skeleton watches boast high visibility and transparency. Among the leading skeleton watch brands are Hublot, Piaget, Roger Dubuis and Tissot with many skeleton watch models.

    Haute Utilité: Spotlighting Richard Mille’s Most “Practical” High Complications

    The difference between Richard Mille and every other watch manufacturer that works with brand “ambassadors” can perhaps best be summed up in a visual from the sporting world of tennis. Picture a Grand Slam final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Federer’s left wrist is bare; his signature Rolex is hastily strapped on only in...

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    May 11, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Piaget Adds Precious Heft to its Polo Skeleton Series With New Rose-Gold and Diamond-Set Timepieces

    Piaget’s 1970s-influenced, male-oriented sport-luxury Polo collection, whose most recent revamp had come in 2016, returned to the spotlight earlier this year with the release of the first Polo Skeleton models in stainless steel cases. Piaget had hinted at a renewed focus on the Polo collection in 2021 and the watch-and-jewelry house has delivered, by following...

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    May 10, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Minty Fresh: Speake-Marin Launches the One&Two Openworked Dual Time Mint

    Bright dial colors are on the rise this year, with many notable brands, including Cartier and Oris, adding their own variations on this springtime trend at the recently wrapped Watches & Wonders exhibition. Speake-Marin, an independent haute horlogerie brand tracing its design DNA to the distinctive vision of its eponymous British founder, also joined the...

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    May 10, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Executive Style Meets Maritime Substance in Ulysse Nardin Diver X Skeleton (with Live Photos)

    Ulysse Nardin (the watch manufacturer, not its eponymous founder) turns 175 years old in 2021 and among the new timepieces it’s rolling out to mark the occasion is one that uniquely merges the two horological worlds it’s best known for in its modern incarnation: nautical design and seaworthy utility inspired by its marine-chronometer history, and...

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    Apr 28, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Black, Blue, and See-Through: Chronoswiss Introduces New SkelTec Azur and Pitch Black Editions

    Lucerne-based Chronoswiss has become well known for not only its distinctive regulator-style designs but also recently for its forays into skeletonization. At Watches & Wonders, Chronoswiss doubled down on the latter, expanding its SkelTec series (introduced in 2020) with two new colorways, SkelTec Azur (blue-and-black) and SkelTec Pitch Black (monochrome black). Both models continue the...

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    Apr 24, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Hublot’s Newest Big Bang Integral Tourbillon is Sapphire from Stem to Stern

    Hublot’s expertise In making watch cases out of sapphire is, at this point, beyond reproach. The Nyon-based manufacture was the first watch manufacturer to produce such cases on an industrial scale, in 2016, and has remained a pioneer in that field during the five years since. “But what,” aficionados of such innovations might ask, “has...

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    Apr 15, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    MB&F Celebrates 10 Years of the Legacy Machine with the New LMX

    Horological innovator Max Büsser and his brand, MB&F, have unveiled their second launch of 2021, the Legacy Machine X. Known in shorthand as the LMX, the new watch celebrates 10 years of the collection first launched in October 2011, and comes on the heels of the captivating HM9 “Sapphire Vision” which the iconoclastic brand introduced...

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    Mar 31, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Girard-Perregaux is Off to the Galaxy (and Hong Kong) with the Unique Quasar Infrared

    Girard-Perregaux this past month began unveiling its 2021 novelties, and leading what will likely be larger group is the Swiss watchmaker’s latest addition to its sapphire-cased Quasar collection. The collection, which originally debuted in 2019 at Watches & Wonders Miami and already includes the original, the Quasar Light, and the Quasar Azure, will now add...

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    Mar 7, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Sponsored: SEVENFRIDAY Rolls Out the New Carbon Collection in Red, White, and Orange

    SEVENFRIDAY is a brand that specializes in making distinctive timepieces that offer an unconventional take on timekeeping. Its latest idiosyncratic offering features the  P3C/04 Red Carbon, a motorsport-inspired watch that has been dressed in black and red to set your heart racing. The Red Carbon is part of of the SEVENFRIDAY carbon collection that also consists of...

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    Mar 5, 2021 by WatchTime

    Taking the Pulse of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Hamilton Ventura Elvis80 Skeleton

    Elvis Presley famously wore a Hamilton Ventura, touted as the world’s first electric watch upon its release in 1957, in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii. The now-iconic watch’s maker has capitalized on its connection to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll ever since, and launched a modern interpretation, called Elvis80, in 2015, the year of...

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    Mar 5, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Jaquet Droz Builds On Its Grande Seconde Skelet-One Collection with Three Colorful Limited Editions

    Jaquet Droz first dipped its toe into skeletonization with the first Grande Seconde Skelet-One models in 2018, which represented at the time the boldest variation on the maison’s flagship Grande Seconde design. The iconoclastic series has slowly grown since then, and this year marks a new chapter, with three 28-piece limited editions that add splashes...

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    Mar 2, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

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    Taking it to the Streets: Inside Bell & Ross’s “Urban” Sport Luxury Line, the BR 05

    For a relatively young company, Bell & Ross with its aviation-inspired aesthetic has steadily climbed into the rarefied air of “brands you recognize at a glance from across the room.” The watchmaker founded in 1992 by longtime friends Bruno (“Bell”) Belamich and Carlos (“Ross”) Rosillo has laid claim to the amalgam of massive, matte-black square...

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    Feb 23, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Overseas Mission: The History and Evolution of the Vacheron Constantin Overseas

    Vacheron Constantin’s sport-luxury Overseas collection, tracing its roots to an anniversary model in the 1970s, has become a versatile and resolutely modern cornerstone of the historical maison’s portfolio. The mid-1970s are widely regarded as a regrettable era for fashion, but one fashion accessory, the wristwatch, was having what is now acknowledged as a renaissance. More...

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    Feb 22, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Bones Bedecked: Ulysse Nardin Revisits the Skeleton X with Diamonds in New “Sparkling” Duo

    Ulysse Nardin unveiled its Skeleton X collection in 2019, and its latest members, added this year, are aptly named the Skeleton X Sparkling, as both new models feature an array of diamonds on both their bezels and openworked dials. The first, in white titanium, has a mother-of-pearl decoration on the barrel and comes on a...

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    Feb 15, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Darker is Lighter: Reviewing the Zenith Defy Classic Carbon

    With the Defy Classic Carbon, Zenith shoots for design boldness, lightweight comfort, and unprecedented price accessibility. We gave the watch a test run and got some insight into its origins from Zenith’s CEO. Zenith celebrated its most historically significant anniversary in years in 2019, marking 50 years of El Primero, the automatic, high frequency chronograph...

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    Feb 9, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Piaget Opens Up its Polo Collection with New Blue and Gray Skeleton Dials

    As a possible sign that it will be putting more of a spotlight on its sport-luxury gents’ collections in 2021, Piaget has unveiled the latest iteration of the emblematic Polo, and the first with a skeletonized dial. The new Polo Skeleton watches, offered in blue and gray executions, bring a new look to the Piaget...

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    Feb 3, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    MB&F HM9 “Sapphire Vision” Reveals the Heart of the Horological Machine

    For all the troubles 2020 presented for many watch brands, a few of them, like Swiss independent MB&F, nevertheless had a landmark year in terms of releases. The fan-favorite maison unveiled an array of new projects and collections, among them new yellow gold and sports-focused Legacy Machine Perpetuals, collaborative watches and clocks with H. Moser...

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    Jan 29, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    LVMH Watch Week: Zenith Embraces Emerald with the Defy 21 Urban Jungle

    LVMH Watch Week kicks off today, and following right on the heels of the attention-grabbing Chronomaster Sport and Revival A385, one of the three presenting maisons, Zenith, has unveiled the latest eye-popping addition to its avant-garde Defy line, the new Defy 21 Urban Jungle. Dressed in dark green tones, the model, as its name implies,...

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    Jan 25, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Two Faces, One Watch: De Bethune Introduces the DB Kind of Two Tourbillon DB29

    Today, Swiss independent luxury watchmaker De Bethune unveils the latest haute horological addition to its very eclectic catalogue, the DB Kind of Two Tourbillon DB29, which it describes as a watch “endowed with two faces, two dials, and two identities.” Like other double-dial models, the most famous of which are produced by Jaeger-LeCoultre, its two...

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    Jan 20, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Skeleton in Ceramic: Introducing the Bell & Ross BR 01 Cyber Skull

    French-founded Bell & Ross is known for its creative designs and unique takes on the aviation-influenced, square-cased style that the company pioneered with the BR 01 collection. The BR 01 Concept Skull series, in particular, has showcased some of Bell & Ross’s most playful offerings in recent years, and its skull-and-crossbones motif has become a...

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    Jan 2, 2021 by Caleb Anderson
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