Titanium Watches

Hiding in Plain Sight: Introducing the Ulysse Nardin Freak X Razzle Dazzle

After wowing at Watches & Wonders with statement pieces from its Blast and Diver X collections, Ulysse Nardin has returned its focus to perhaps the most emblematic of its modern product families, the Freak. The new Freak X Razzle Dazzle follows up the most recent Freak X models of nearly a year ago, the Freak...

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May 12, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

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

Travelers by Night: Chopard L.U.C GMT One and Time Traveler One Black Editions

Whether or not you’ll be needing a “vaccine passport” for your next overseas trip, there is one accessory you’ll definitely not want to board your flight without: a really handsome luxury timepiece to keep track of time at your destination and back home. Fortunately, Chopard has at least two new models that will fit the...

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Apr 16, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Hermès Launches the Sports-Focused H08 Collection

With most watches of the Watches & Wonders 2021 highlights now revealed, figuring out the top hits of the year is only a matter of comparison and personal taste. Of course, there are the Rolexes, Tudors, Patek Philippes, and Vacheron Constantins, which are always sure to catch lots of attention, but many intriguing models can...

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Apr 13, 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

Bigger Case, Deeper Dive Rating, and Three New Colorways: This is the Zenith Defy Extreme (with Hands-on Photos)

Today at Watches & Wonders, Zenith unveiled the latest extension of its cutting-edge, “resolutely futuristic” Defy collection, called Defy Extreme. The new collection, which the manufacture describes as “all-terrain 1/100th of a second chronograph[s],” encompasses three models and essentially represents the most supercharged version of the Defy, with a larger and more accentuated silhouette to...

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Apr 9, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

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

One World, Four Whirlwinds: Greubel Forsey Introduces GMT Quadruple Tourbillon in Titanium

Swiss high-luxury master watchmaker Greubel Forsey is always one to impress with its haute horlogerie expertise, and to start off 2021 the brand is revisiting one of its most sophisticated complications, the GMT Quadruple Tourbillon, re-introducing the model in a fresh titanium case material. The original GMT Quadruple Tourbillon was first launched in 2019 (pictured...

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Mar 3, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Eye of Blue: Longines Updates the Avigation BigEye with Titanium Case and Smoked Blue Dial (With Live Pictures)

Longines has, in recent years, been substantially growing its already expansive Heritage Collection. In the past year alone the Swiss brand has unveiled, among many others, the Legend Diver Bronze, Military Marine Nationale, and Classic Tuxedo series. Returning once again to its rich archives, Longines this year adds another version of its historically inspired pilot’s...

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Feb 20, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

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

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

Sponsored: The People’s Avante-Garde – CODE41 Launches the New NB24 Chronograph

Lausanne-based CODE41 had a watershed year in 2020. With the massive excitement first built around its DAY41 watches and then its X41 collections— the former of which we went hands-on with last December — interest in the radically transparent brand has seemed to reach a tipping point from the niche to the larger watch market....

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Feb 5, 2021 by WatchTime

LVMH Watch Week: Bulgari Unveils its Octo Roma Carillon Tourbillon, A New Kind of Repeater

While Bulgari is undoubtedly best known among watch enthusiasts these days for its record-setting ultra-thin timepieces, most notably within the Octo Finissimo collection which we covered earlier this week, the Italian brand is also well regarded for both its high-horology and high-jewelry creations. Today, we showcase a new model within the former category, the “Masterpiece...

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Jan 28, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

LVMH Watch Week: Bulgari Expands Octo Finissimo Collection with Three New Ultra-Thin Timepieces

Since its launch in 2012, Bulgari’s Octo collection of eight-sided luxury watches has grown and become the Italian-based brand’s best-seller in the mechanical timepiece category. Moreover, the pieces within the Octo Finissimo sub-family, launched in 2014, continues to set new standards in watch thinness, counting among its member the thinnest tourbillon, time-only automatic, GMT chronograph,...

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Jan 26, 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