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Video: TAG Heuer Takes Us Inside How a Chronograph Works

What are oscillating pinions and column wheels and how do they work together in a chronograph watch? In this exclusive video, we will find out from one of the movement designers of this year’s TAG Heuer 01 chronograph at TAG Heuer’s headquarters in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

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May 17, 2016 by Roger Ruegger

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

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Video: Sound-Checking the Gongs in a Breguet Minute Repeater

Since 2003, Breguet has instituted four major expansions of its Vallée de Joux workshops. In its newest wing, Breguet has organized its watchmakers into specialty groups, including one dedicated solely to minute repeaters. Our exclusive video reveals how Breguet watchmakers achieve perfect-sounding chimes.

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May 4, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Mastering the Rolex Sky Dweller

Read Watchtime's feature on how the Rolex Sky-Dweller, equipped with a second time zone, an annual calendar and containing the Rolex in-house caliber 9001, works.

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Apr 22, 2016 by Norma Buchanan

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Video: Jeff Kingston Chronicles the Making of a TAG Heuer Chronograph

In this exclusive watchmaking video, we will sit with one of the movement designers of this year’s TAG Heuer 01 chronograph in TAG Heuer’s headquarters in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

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Mar 3, 2016 by Roger Ruegger

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Video: Jeff Kingston Explains the Tuning Process of a Breguet Minute Repeater

In this exclusive video, produced in cooperation with Jeff Kingston and IBG Worldwide, we take our cameras to the Breguet watch manufacture in the Vallee de Joux, where Breguet watchmakers produce the brand's exceptional minute repeater watches.

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Feb 26, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Inside Hublot’s Carbon Watch Case Production

In this exclusive video, we will follow the fabrication of a Hublot Big Bang watch case component from its arrival at the factory in raw form, through its cutting and polishing, and finally to its assembly into the finished case. We'll also examine the special Hublot watch strap changing system.

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Feb 18, 2016 by WatchTime

Close-Up: Blancpain L-evolution Tourbillon Carrousel (Updated with Video)

One of Blancpain’s highlights at this year’s Baselworld is the L-evolution Tourbillon Carrousel, a highly complicated piece with a futuristic dial and case design to match. Tourbillons and carrousels both rotate their cages within a movement, but understanding them can also get your head spinning. So let’s take a moment to break down the differences...

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Feb 18, 2016 by Jay Deshpande

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Zenith Academy Georges Favre-Jacot Celebrates the Brand’s 150th Anniversary

In 1865, 22-year-old Georges Favre-Jacot founded his watch manufacture in Le Locle, giving birth to the watch brand we know today as Zenith. To mark Zenith’s 150th anniversary in 2014, the brand launched the Academy Georges Favre-Jacot, a limited-edition timepiece featuring a rare and ancient complication.

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Feb 16, 2016 by WatchTime

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Video: Zenith’s Assembly of the Academy Georges Favre-Jacot Movement

Zenith developed a special complicated watch, the Academy Georges Favre-Jacot, to celebrate its 150th Anniversary in 2014. This limited-edition Zenith timepiece is equipped with a fusee-and-chain constant force system. In this exclusive video, we explain how it works.

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Feb 11, 2016 by Advertising Department

Close-Up: 5 Rolex Day-Date Watches in 5 Colors (With Video)

We present five recently launched models of the Rolex Day-Date (36-mm) watch that come with dials and straps in a veritable rainbow of colors; all feature 18K gold cases.

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Feb 3, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon: Crown Jewel of the Reverso’s 85th Anniversary (Updated with Live Pictures)

Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates the 85th Anniversary of its iconic Reverso model in 2016, and the Swiss brand has launched a plethora of new Reverso watches at this year’s SIHH watch salon in Geneva to mark the milestone (click here for some of the models that have already been presented). By far the most technically masterful is...

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Jan 19, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Hublot Big Bang Unico “Full Magic Gold” Celebrates 10 Years of Big Bang

It was 10 years ago, in 2005, that Jean-Claude Biver revitalized the Hublot brand with the introduction of the now iconic Hublot Big Bang. The model that the brand introduced to celebrate this anniversary, the Hublot Big Bang Unico Full Magic Gold, made its U.S. debut at a lavish event this week in New York City.

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Nov 20, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Sound and Vision: An Insider’s Look at F.P. Journe, Part 5

Grande Sonnerie [Def]: a watch that strikes the hours and quarters automatically. The Professional Dictionary of Horology is clear about the function of a Grande Sonnerie. But let’s understand what it means by “automatically.” Here it does not refer to an automatic movement, but rather that, without outside help, the watch will strike, on its own, in...

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Nov 16, 2015 by Advertising Department

Speed Dreamin’: Testing the TAG Heuer Carrera 1887 (With Video)

Read the results of our comprehensive watch test of TAG Heuer's racing-inspired Carrera watch - the TAG Heuer Carrera 1887.

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Oct 22, 2015 by Jens Koch

Close-Up: Rolex Yacht-Master II in Stainless Steel (with Video)

Rolex has launched the Yachtmaster II watch in a 904L stainless steel case with a blue Cerachrom bezel insert. The signature feature of this Rolex watch is its regatta countdown function.

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Sep 4, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Close-Up: The New-Look Rolex Submariner (with Video)

In this review, we look at the redesigned Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner watch featuring several new technical innovations exclusive to Rolex.

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Jul 2, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

IWC Connect: The Latest “Smart” Watch Strap for Mechanical Timepieces

IWC Shaffhausen, with the IWC Connect device, becomes the latest Swiss watch brand to offer a high-tech alternative to both traditional mechanical watches and so-called smartwatches such as the recently released Apple Watch.

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May 11, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Omega DeVille Chronograph Co-Axial Calibre 9301

We present here one of Omega's most strikingly elegant recent releases, the Omega De Ville Chronograph powered by manufacture Caliber 9301, with Omega's now-famous co-axial escapement, and outfitted in a rose-gold case and blue dial and strap.

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Apr 2, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Whirlwind Romance: 4 Watches with Multiple Tourbillons

Nowadays, almost any luxury watch brand worthy of the name offers at least one timepiece with a tourbillon. But there are only a handful of brands that have pushed the envelope to create watches with two, three or even four tourbillons. Here we take a look at four such watches that made their debut at...

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Mar 17, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Omega Speedmaster Racing

When Omega introduced the first Speedmaster in 1957 Motorsports and rally drivers praised it for its chronograph capability and for the fact that it was the first chronograph watch that positioned its tachymeter scale on the bezel rather than the dial.

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Mar 16, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

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