Watches

PROMOTION

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

Sponsored: Adding Versatility in Size, Citizen Debuts 37mm Promaster

Citizen has mastered its creation of water-resistant timepieces in the decades since the debut of the Parawater in 1959, followed by the release of the Promaster collection in 1989. Gaining renown over the years, the Promaster collection is a flagship of Citizen’s dive models, balancing complex functionality with streamlined design. In its latest development of...

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Jun 5, 2023 by WatchTime

PRESS RELEASE

WatchTime Announces New Editor-in-Chief; Thompson to Become Editor-at-Large

Beginning March 1, 2016, longstanding WatchTime Editor-in-Chief Joe Thompson will assume his new role as Editor-at-Large. Mr. Thompson steps down as Editor-in-Chief after a successful 16-year run at the magazine’s helm, and he will remain with the publication as a writer and reporter in a part-time capacity. Blending passion for watches and the watch industry...

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Feb 23, 2016 by WatchTime

From Monochrome Watches

Review: IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound 8 Days – 75th Anniversary Edition

IWC chose the 75th anniversary of the Portugieser line in 2015 to introduce a model that takes its style cues directly from the original. In this article from Monochrome-Watches, we take a look at a modern reinterpretation of the Schaffhausen watchmaker’s most venerable lines.

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Feb 23, 2016 by Frank Geelen

TAG Heuer Partners with North American Soccer Organizations

TAG Heuer has announced a landmark, long-term partnership agreement with Major League Soccer (MLS) and the U.S. Soccer Federation. The partnership, which commences on March 6, the first day of the 2016 MLS season, also includes the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), the organization responsible for managing the referee and assistant referee program in professional soccer...

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Feb 22, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

F.P. Journe and WatchTime Host Collector Event and Dinner in Los Angeles

Thursday evening, F.P. Journe and WatchTime magazine joined forces to host an intimate evening of cocktails, dinner and timepieces at the stunning West Hollywood F.P. Journe Boutique. About 20 collectors and the WatchTime crew, including editor in chief Joe Thompson, sipped Dalmore Scotch whisky and Champagne as Pierre Halimi, F.P Journe General Manager Americas, welcomed...

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Feb 22, 2016 by Minda Larsen

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Patek Philippe Aquanaut

We take a look at the Patek Philippe Aquanaut, a series as lovingly controversial as the Nautilus is to Patek purists, but as contemporarily appealing to everybody else since its initial release in 1997. It is a vintage watch conceived with some heavy historical inspirations.

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Feb 21, 2016 by Caleb Anderson

SIHH 2016:

5 Things to Know About the New Panerai PAM 578 “Lo Scienziato”

Panerai's most technically awe-inspiring watch at this year's SIHH watch salon is easily the Panerai Luminor "Lo Scienziato" Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Titanio (Ref. PAM00578), a limited-edition piece combining an ultra-light titanium case, skeletonized movement, GMT complication, and unconventional tourbillon. Here's what you need to know about the Lo Scienziato.

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Feb 19, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2016

Sophisticated Simplicity: Greubel Forsey Signature 1

For its new Greubel Forsey Signature 1 timepiece, introduced in January at SIHH 2016, the haute horlogerie brand founded by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey takes a different route from its complicated tourbillon watches of the past. The Signature 1 (prices included) is the brand's first manual-winding, three-handed watch.

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Feb 18, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

PROMOTION

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

Harry Winston “Countdown to a Cure” Watches Benefit AIDS Research

Jeweler/watchmaker Harry Winston has announced the launch of the Countdown to a Cure Timepiece. Designed exclusively for amfAR’s “Countdown to a Cure” campaign, this limited-edition watch (20 each of the men’s and ladies' models), is the first official product to benefit amfAR’s efforts to develop the scientific basis of a cure for HIV.

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Feb 16, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: IWC Ingenieur Automatic

The modern (post-1976) IWC Ingenieur was a watch meant to rival the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and Patek Philippe Nautilus in style. The modern IWC Ingenieur collection includes a flagship timepiece (Ref. 3239) still recognizable to aficionados of the ‘70s-era Ingenieurs.

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Feb 14, 2016 by Caleb Anderson

SIHH 2016:

Baume & Mercier Capeland Shelby Cobra Limited Editions

Baume & Mercier, which began a partnership with Carroll Shelby, Inc. in 2015, expands its collection of limited-edition chronograph watches inspired by the famed Shelby Cobra race cars this year. The Baume & Mercier Capeland Shelby Cobra 1963 Limited Edition takes design codes from the Shelby Cobra CSX2128, one of the most successful Cobras in history.

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Feb 11, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

PROMOTION

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

BASELWORLD 2016 PREVIEW:

Ulysse Nardin Hourstriker “Horse” Limited Edition

Ulysse Nardin is one of the few high-watchmaking maisons in the modern era to produce watches with jaquemarts — tiny automatons mounted on a watch dial that strike the hours on a bell. The brand's latest, debuting at Baselworld 2016, is the Ulysse Nardin Hourstriker "Horse," a limited edition of 28 pieces.

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Feb 9, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy, Part 25: Zodiac Sea Wolf

Released in 1953, the Zodiac Sea Wolf dive watch inspired a cult following for many years to come.The modern-day Zodiac Sea Wolf watch series consists of two separate lines: the Super Sea Wolf 53 Skin and the Super Sea Wolf 53 Compression.

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Feb 7, 2016 by Caleb Anderson

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

A Classic Revisited

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s New Geophysic Collection (Updated with Live Photos from SIHH)

In 2014, Jaeger-LeCoultre released the limited-edition Geophysic 1958, a tribute to a famous and collectible chronometer that the brand produced in the “International Geophysical Year” of scientific exploration (Click here for more detail on that watch). Now the Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic becomes an actual contemporary collection within the brand, with the release of two new, non-limited...

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Jan 25, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2016:

Piaget Offers Ladies the Moon with Limelight Stella Astronomical Moon Phase

Piaget has become known for its growing stable of complicated calibers and particularly for its ultra-thin watches: the company has created 27 ultra-thin calibers over the years, 15 of which have set world records for being the slimmest in their category. It is surprising, then, that Piaget is only this year introducing its first complicated...

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Jan 22, 2016 by Carol Besler

SIHH 2016:

Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic Acciaio (Updated with Live Photos & Price)

Panerai has announced the first of the new timepieces it will launch at the SIHH 2016 watch salon in Geneva this coming January. Loyal Paneristi will note that the new Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic Acciaio is the first in that collection to feature a white dial — a rarity in the Panerai portfolio overall.

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Jan 21, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2016:

Panerai Luminor 8 Days Set Pays Tribute to Early Stallone Models

Twenty years ago, Hollywood action hero Sylvester Stallone commissioned a pair of watches from then-obscure watch brand Officine Panerai, and neither the brand, nor the watch world at large, has been the same since. Panerai marks this milestone at SIHH 2016 with a special, limited-edition set of two new watches inspired by the ones made...

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Jan 20, 2016 by Mark Bernardo

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