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.

Hublot Classic Fusion Classico Ultra-Thin All Black

Not every watch produced by Hublot is a big, sporty, horological hulk suited for sports and adventure. Last year, the brand from Nyon, Switzerland released two extra-thin Classic Fusion Skeleton watches, one each in titanium and “King Gold” cases. This year, during the Geneva watch fairs, it introduced another model in a sleek, black ceramic...

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Apr 12, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Sponsored: Gerald Charles Introduces Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon

Introducing a new age of technical aestheticism, Gerald Charles debuts its Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon. With a unique design created with the expert oversight of the brand’s creative director, Octavio Garcia, the timepiece is a return to the original Maestro flying tourbillon released in 2005. Taking hints from the brand’s rich history, the new release is...

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Mar 21, 2023 by WatchTime

Video: Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin

Piaget is the undisputed master of ultra-thin. The brand holds several world records for thinnest movements, both simple and complicated. At SIHH, the list of records grew by two with the introduction of the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin. Click here to read more about the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin. Click below to start the video…...

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Mar 22, 2013 by WatchTime

Montblanc Star Quantième Complet

Montblanc added a new calendar watch, called the Quantième Complet, to its Star Collection of luxury timepieces at this year’s SIHH. As its name implies (Quantième is French for “calendar”), the watch functions as a “complete” or “full” calendar, more versatile than a basic one that displays only the date but not as complicated (nor...

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Mar 15, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime’s March-April Issue is On Sale Now!

The March-April issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also available for the Nook, Kindle, and iPad), featuring a test of the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT, a look at new watch releases from SIHH, a visit to the Swiss watchmaking village of Le Locle, the untold story of Winston Churchill’s lost watch, a...

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Mar 14, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Tutima Begins Deliveries of Its Hommage Minute Repeater

In summer 2011, Germany-based Tutima, known chiefly for its modestly priced pilots’ watches, unveiled a watch-world first: the first minute repeater wristwatch whose entire mechanism was built entirely in the German watchmaking town of Glashütte. As of the beginning of this year, the company announced, deliveries of the eagerly awaited timepiece have finally begun.

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Feb 25, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Video: Hublot’s King Power Miami Heat Chronograph

With the NBA Finals heating up, it’s the perfect time to take a look at Hublot’s King Power Miami Heat Chronograph. The watch is cased in 18-carat King Gold (a special alloy of gold and 5% platinum) with a black skeleton dial on a black rubber strap, and features a special 28-minute central counter that...

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Feb 22, 2013 by WatchTime

RGM Marks 20 Years With Third In-House Caliber

RGM, the pioneering Pennsylvania-based watch brand founded in 1992 by Roland G. Murphy, turns 20 years old in 2012. Murphy commemorated the anniversary in the manner he knows best: by developing his brand’s third in-house mechanical movement, called Caliber 20, and outfitting it in a new watch that RGM introduced at January’s Geneva Time Exhibition.

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Feb 18, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Eberhard & Co. Chrono 4 Géant Full Injection

Eberhard & Co. has joined the “all-black” watch party with a new, limited-edition version of its well-known Chrono 4 Géant, nicknamed “Full Injection,” released ahead of the 2013 Baselworld watch fair in April. The watch gets its name — and its sleek, dark, “stealth” look — from the special treatment used to harden the 46-mm...

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Feb 7, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH Day Three: Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai

It’s Day Three of the SIHH watch fair in Geneva, and despite a late dinner with our friends from A. Lange & Söhne and the Lange Owners Club, not to mention even later cocktails on the SIHH party boat on Lake Geneva, your intrepid WatchTime reporter is back at it to chronicle more headliners and...

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Jan 23, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH Day Two: Roger Dubuis, Parmigiani, Montblanc

Geneva’s watch fest rolls on, and your WatchTime team is on site to cover it. Day two is a flurry of appointments and meetings with various brands, but in between, here’s a look at some of the people, timepieces and atmosphere that caught my eye late yesterday afternoon and this morning. Parmigiani Fleurier — which...

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Jan 22, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2013, Day One: First Look at Novelties from Cartier and IWC

The 2013 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) — the luxury watch world’s winter festival of new timepieces from more than a dozen top brands — kicks off today, and WatchTime is here to get up close and personal with the slew of new watches, many of which won’t even find their way to...

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Jan 21, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Video: Grieb & Benzinger’s “Blue Danube”

The German watch firm Grieb & Benzinger is known for its one-of-a-kind skeletonized watches with intricate guilloché embellishments. Two of its notable watches are the Blue Danube and the Blue Whirlwind, the latter a skeletonized tourbillon minute repeater based on a rare Patek Philippe caliber. Click here for photos of the Grieb & Benzinger Blue...

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Jan 4, 2013 by WatchTime

Linde Werdelin SpidoLite II Black Gold

Founded in 2006 by Danish partners Morton Linde and Jorn Werdelin, the Geneva-based watch brand Linde Werdelin makes all its watches in small, limited series. This year sees the release of the final model in its SpidoLite II collection of lightweight sports watches for skiers: the SpidoLite II Black Gold. Limited to 75 pieces, the...

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Dec 20, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Blancpain Villeret Squelette 8 Jours

Skeleton watches continue to be hot items for collectors, and Blancpain‘s Squelette 8 Jours (Ref. 6633-1500-55B), from the brand’s elegant Villeret collection, offers one of the most intricately executed openworked movements on the market. The manufacture movement on display through the front and back sapphire crystals is the manual-wind Calibre 1333SQ, which is equipped with...

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Dec 5, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Horology Meets Astronomy: Geo. Graham the Moon

Most watch fans know Graham best for sporty models like the Chronofighter and Silverstone. Now the Swiss brand with British roots establishes its haute horlogerie bona fides with the new Geo. Graham the Moon limited edition, a complicated, astronomical-inspired timepiece with a flying tourbillon and a perpetual moon retrograde function.

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Nov 6, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Richard Mille Tourbillon Flyback Chronograph RM 039 Aviation E6-B

Richard Mille has always been a pioneer in the use of aeronautic materials — such as titanium, carbon nanofiber, ARCAP and tungsten carbide — in watchmaking. This year, the brand displays its love of aviation with a new watch, and caliber, designed specifically for flight navigation, the Tourbillon Flyback Chronograph RM 039 Aviation E6-B. The...

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Oct 18, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Borrowed Time: A Few Weeks With the Dubey & Schaldenbrand Grande Dôme DT

Regular visitors to Watchtime.com may recall our story from a few months ago, which announced the imminent return to the U.S. market of Dubey & Schaldenbrand, an elegant Swiss watch brand that had been absent from our stores here for several years. Recently, I was made the proverbial offer I couldn’t refuse by Dubey’s U.S....

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Oct 17, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Cartier Santos-Dumont Skeleton Rose Gold

Cartier staked its claim in wristwatch history with the first Santos-Dumont watch, presented by brand founder Louis Cartier to his friend, the Brazilian aviator Charles Santos-Dumont, in 1904. Santos-Dumont, who was one of the pioneers of piloting balloons and dirigibles for flight, had lamented to his friend Cartier how difficult it was to keep track...

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Apr 10, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Pre-Basel: Hublot Classic Fusion Extra-Thin Skeleton

For Baselworld, Hublot presents something new for the brand: an extra-thin Classic Fusiuon skeleton watch. The 45mm watch is equipped with a new movement just 2.9mm thick, developed by Hublot. It comes in a fully skeleton-worked version that puts the escapement and balance wheel on display. The dial side features small seconds at 7 o’clock....

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Feb 8, 2012 by WatchTime

Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin

Piaget is the undisputed master of ultra-thin. The brand holds several world records for thinnest movements, both simple and complicated. At SIHH, the list of records grew by two with the introduction of the Piaget Altiplano Skeleton Ultra-Thin. Learn more about the new records, and find wallpaper and pricing information inside.

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Jan 30, 2012 by WatchTime

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