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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.

    In the Racing Spirit, Roger Dubuis Launches the Excalibur Spider Pirelli

    This month brings the latest innovative timepiece by Geneva-based Roger Dubuis, born from its partnership with Italian tire maker Pirelli. The new Excalibur Spider Pirelli, which the brand describes as a “fully versatile Hyper Horology timepiece,” is notable for its interchangeability, in the tradition of the tires and other parts that Pirelli supplies for motorsports...

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    Jul 20, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    Summertime Blue: Hublot Big Bang Unico Summer Shines in Turquoise Aluminum Case

    Since its founding, and particularly in recent years, Hublot has been on the cutting edge of both unusual colorways and avant-garde materials. Now, inspired by the promise of a vibrant, post-Covid-19 summer, the Nyon-based manufacture remains true to this calling card with the Big Bang Unico Summer, a festive, monochromatic timepiece featuring a turquoise-blue case...

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    Jul 5, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Hermès Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune Melds Double Moon-Phase with Openworked Design

    Hermès caught the admiring eye of watch connoisseurs with the launch of its luxurious yet understated Slim d’Hermes collection in 2015 and the maison has been slowly adding to the family ever since. The latest, which follows up the impressive, high-complication Quantième Perpétuel from earlier this year, is the Slim d’Hermès Squelette Lune, which enhances...

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    Jul 1, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Sponsored: CODE41 Launches Fifth Edition of Avant-Garde X41

    Lausanne-based CODE41 started 2021 with a bang. Launching its attention-grabbing NB24 at the start of the year, the brand best known for lifting the curtain on traditional luxury watchmaking since its meteoric rise at the beginning ot 2016, has gone on to build even more excitement around its horological projects. This week, CODE41 launches its...

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    Jun 29, 2021 by WatchTime

    Raymond Weil Rounds Out its Fab Foursome with Maestro Beatles “Let it Be” Edition

    Raymond Weil, a Swiss watch brand founded by a musician and in recent years known for producing timepieces inspired by legendary musical acts, unveiling its first Maestro Beatles Limited Edition in 2016. Two other variations on that original watch have been released since, including an Abbey Road-themed edition in 2017. This year, Raymond Weil concludes...

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    Jun 25, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Norqain Turns the Calendar from ’20 to ’21 with New Independence 21 Limited Editions

    Last year, young Swiss watchmaker Norqain introduced the Independence 20, which was its first timepiece fitted with an exclusive manufacture caliber produced in partnership with Tudor-founded movement maker Kenissi. Now the brand follows it up with the introduction of the Independence 21, the next generation of watches within the original model’s design family. The release...

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    Jun 24, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

    On Time, Off-Center: Five Watches With Asymmetrical Time Displays

    Most watches, even those equipped with numerous complications, still place the primary timekeeping indications — hours, minutes, and seconds — in the center of their dials and strive for symmetry in their overall design. Here are a handful of timepieces that do it differently. A. LANGE & SÖHNE LANGE 1 No listing of timepieces with...

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    Jun 11, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Roads to Bridges: Girard-Perregaux Rolls Out its First Timepiece in Partnership with Aston Martin

    Earlier this year, Girard-Perregaux joined the ranks of Swiss watchmakers partnering with luxury automobile marques, launching a new collaboration with Britain’s Aston Martin. This week, we discovered the first timepiece to emerge from the partnership, the Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges – Aston Martin Edition, which merges a classical haute horlogerie innovation with avant-garde automotive...

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    Jun 3, 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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    Jun 2, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    Sponsored: The SEVENFRIDAY S2/01 Reimagines the Valve

    The SEVENFRIDAY S2/01 is the Industrial Revolution-inspired offspring of the well-tested  S-Series. The S-Series features the Zurich-based brand’s iconic square shape with rounded edges and the S2/01 is a tribute to early-20th-century Industrial Revolution icons. The S-Series trilogy was unveiled during Spring 2017 and the S2/01 will only be available worldwide, fresh from the press,...

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    May 21, 2021 by WatchTime

    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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    May 21, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    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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    May 12, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

    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
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