World-Time Watches

2021, The Watch Year in Review: Eight Wordly Travel Watches

By almost any standard, the luxury watch world enjoyed a successful year in 2021 despite the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its worldwide economic consequences — with high-profile retailers reopening and expanding, new auction records set, some large-scale industry events (like our own WatchTime New York) returning, and of course, a host of...

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Dec 29, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

The Long and Winding Road: How Porsche Design Became a Watchmaking Manufacture

Porsche Design has been uniting the worlds of automotive design and horological innovation for nearly half a century, and its recent rebirth as an independent watchmaker takes the synergy to the next level. Scroll down for the full story. “If you analyze the function of an object,” Professor Ferdinand A. “Butzi” Porsche famously uttered, “its...

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Dec 14, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Circles of Time: Reviewing the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Time Zone

Fifteen years after its introduction, the Lange 1 Time Zone from A. Lange & Söhne was equipped with a new manufacture caliber. The time in two different time zones can be read intuitively from the dial. But this watch offers much more, as we can confirm after scrutinizing one we were able to preview before...

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Dec 7, 2021 by Martina Richter

PORTFOLIO

Transitional Solutions: Six Watches with Gradient Dials

All of a sudden, they’re everywhere — watches with colorful gradient dials that transition from a pale hue in the center to a dark one at the periphery. In this excerpt from our upcoming WatchTime Design Issue 2020, on sale October 29, we offer you some highlights.

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Nov 8, 2021 by Alexander Krupp

WATCH REVIEW

Change of Course: Reviewing the IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph

IWC’s Pilot's Watch Timezoner Chronograph was developed to be an ideal travel companion. A quick spin of the bezel suffices to show a new time zone, and a built-in flyback chronograph makes this an exceptional timepiece at a reasonable price. We give it a closer look in this feature from the WatchTime archives.

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Nov 8, 2021 by Martina Richter

IWC Launches Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Top Gun and Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun in New Ceratanium Editions

IWC famously pioneered the use of both titanium and ceramics as watchmaking materials as early as the 1980s. In 2017, the Schaffhausen-based watchmaker melded the most desirable attributes of both materials in a new, proprietary substance called Ceratanium, debuting it on a model from its Aquatimer dive watch family. Since then, IWC has expanded the...

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Oct 27, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Luxury With Utility: 4 Patek Philippe Watches with “Everyday” Complications

Patek Philippe is not all about high-end chronographs, perpetual calendars, and repeaters; the brand also offers many complicated timepieces that have plenty of everyday utility. We present a few of them here, in this feature from the WatchTime archives.

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Oct 22, 2021 by Alexander Krupp

Chrono Combos: Patek Philippe Unveils Three New Chronographs with Additional Complications

After a fairly quiet summer, following a stretch in which it soaked up substantial watch-media attention for the swan song of one of its popular Nautilus models, Patek Philippe returns to the spotlight this week with the unexpected and undoubtedly welcome launch of three new chronograph-equipped timepieces, each of them boasting an additional high complication....

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Oct 15, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2021: Greubel Forsey GMT Sport

Positioned to be the most significant North American luxury watch event of the year, WatchTime New York 2021 is only weeks away, and anticipation is growing. Among more than 25 participating brands showcasing rare and new-to-market timepieces is Greubel Forsey, returning to Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 22-24 and set to showcase the updated...

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Oct 10, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Global Integration: Frederique Constant Adds WorldTimer Manufacture to its Highlife Collection

In 2020, Frederique Constant resurrected and substantially revamped its Highlife collection, which it first rolled out at the turn of the millennium. This year, the Genevan maison known for its embrace of affordable luxury adds to the contemporary family, equipping its newest member with the in-house world-time caliber that it launched back in 2014. Here’s...

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Sep 22, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Bulgari Octo Roma Worldtimer Puts a Luxurious Spin on the Classic Global Travelers’ Watch

It’s not too difficult to detect a “world travel” theme running through many of Italian watchmaker-jeweler Bulgari’s recent additions to its men’s collection, starting with the sporty Aluminium GMT, rolled out just last week, and continuing with the first world-time watch to join its luxurious Octa Roma collection, a headliner of Bulgari’s lineup at this...

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Aug 31, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Nighttime Traveler: Porsche Design 1919 Globetimer UTC All Black

Porsche Design broke away from its primary mission of producing motorsports-inspired chronograph watches — while still remaining true to its automotive design DNA — with its 2019 launch of the 1919 Globetimer UTC, a cleverly engineered traveler’s watch offered in a handful of colorways and either a titanium or rose gold case. For the latest...

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Aug 1, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Arnold & Son Brings the World to the Wrist Again with Globetrotter Gold

Swiss watchmaker Arnold & Son has become well known for its “three-dimensional” approach to timepieces. This week, the brand named for British watchmaking pioneer John Arnold once again channels that legacy, unveiling the latest and most precious addition to its well-regarded Globetrotter collection of eye-catching world-timers, the Globetrotter Gold. The new model adopts the “globe...

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Jul 22, 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

Prince of the Skies: IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Edition “Le Petit Prince”

IWC welcomed the Timezoner Chronograph, distinguished by its integration of a flyback chronograph with a patented, easy-to-use world time function, into its Pilot’s Watch collection in 2016. Since then, a version without the stopwatch has joined the vintage-inspired Pilot’s Watch Spitfire sub-family. Now the latest version of that streamlined complication makes its debut in a...

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Jan 25, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Citizen Steps into Luxury Materials with Limited-Edition Super Titanium Satellite Wave GPS F950

Japanese watchmaker Citizen has been growing its catalog of luxury-focused timepieces of late, the most recent addition being the new Super Titanium Satellite Wave GPS F950, a new tech-heavy watch that combines titanium and rose gold. The new model is being released in commemoration of Citizen’s first titanium watch 50 years ago — which, according...

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Jan 23, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

TIMEPIECE TIMELINE

The History of Seiko Through 12 Milestone Seiko Watches

Discover the history of Seiko watchmaking, stretching all the way back to the late 19th century, which includes several watch-world firsts, from the Seiko Marvel (1956) to the watch-world game changer: the Seiko Astron GPS Solar.

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Jan 20, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH REVIEW:

Borrowed Time: Reviewing the Arnold & Son Globetrotter

There are timepieces built to serve a useful function and there are timepieces intended to dazzle the eye and draw attention to one’s wrist from across the room, and it is rare when the twain meet. But Arnold & Son has accomplished it with the Globetrotter, a visually arresting world-time watch released in 2018.

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Nov 27, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

WATCH REVIEW

Mountain Guide: Reviewing the Montblanc 1858 Geosphere

In January 2018, Montblanc set out to conquer new peaks: the revamped 1858 collection not only celebrates the spirit of mountain exploration, but also the 160th anniversary of Minerva. We take a closer look at one of the collection’s highlights, the 1858 Geosphere with a new world-time complication. Montblanc’s Most Essential Watch Collection The 1906-founded...

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Nov 19, 2020 by Roger Ruegger

Montblanc Partners with Mountaineer Reinhold Messner for New 1858 Geosphere Limited Edition

Montblanc’s 1858 timepieces, which take inspiration from early pocketwatches made by legendary Swiss chronograph maker Minerva, are conceived as luxurious tool watches for mountain exploration. (Montblanc, which absorbed Minerva back in 2009, does take its name from a famous mountain, after all.) For its latest limited edition, the company teamed with one of the world’s...

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Oct 23, 2020 by Mark Bernardo

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