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Spotted: Hublot Big Bang Unico Sapphire

This Hublot Big Bang UNICO Sapphire is one of only 500 pieces made.  This watch was Hublot’s first full sapphire case, and inside it has Hublo ...

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Richard Mille?s new $725,000 Rafael Nadal watch pushes the b

" />With the 2017 French Open under way, Rafael Nadal has opened his campaign to capture the 10th men?s… Continue Reading Richard Mille?s n ...

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Six of the best Regatta timing sailing chronographs, from Ro

With the 35th America’s Cup underway in Bermuda – and Britain’s own Ben Ainslie gunning for the title – we take a look at the ...

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3 New TAG Heuer Limited Editions Pay Tribute to Racing Legen

Thirty years ago, in 1987, Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver Ayrton Senna won his first Monaco Grand Prix. Afterward, he would go on to become one o ...

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Buying a Chronograph" Here Are 10 Things You Should Kno

Sometimes, the analysis of which watch to buy proceeds little further than, ?Wow, that one looks cool.? Chronographs, however, are often thought of as ...

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Watch Review: Bell & Ross BR123 Aeronavale

From our friends at WatchTime Middle East ? who recently launched their own English-language website ? comes this review of the recently released Bell ...

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Caliber Spec: the ETA 2824 – Automatic for the People

Movements (otherwise known as calibers–or calibre, depending on who you ask) are undeniably the heart and soul of a watch. They’re the ...

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Buyer Beware: The Rise of Counterfeit Luxury Watches on the

Looking for cheap watches on the internet" Better think twice before making that purchase. In this in-depth feature from the WatchTime archives, ...

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Nomos Ahoi Atlantik Datum – A Hands-on Review

Germans love Nomos. They love it better than any other brand from their homecountry in the same price range. Whether it?s due to the Bauhaus design ...

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Hermès Slim d?Hermès Perpetual Calendar Watch Hands-On

A well-known luxury house, Hermès is now aiming to increase its presence in the world of haute horologerie. Despite being a non-traditional watch bra ...

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Citizen Tourbillon Y01 Watch With Brand’s First Tourbi

Citizen has unveiled a new watch featuring the brand's first tourbillon that will be available in June 2017. Called the Citizen Tourbillon Y01 and pri ...

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The Collins Automatic Field Watch

Inspired by the clean, functional design of analog audio recording equipment, the Collins Automatic Field watch presents a brand new take on the class ...

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MB&F HM6 Alien Nation Watch

The MB&F HM6 Alien Nation watch takes the MB&F HM6 SV and puts small, hand-carved-from-gold extraterrestrial aliens on the movement, which a ...

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Annual Check-up: Reviewing the Montblanc Heritage Chronomét

The Heritage Chronométrie Chronograph Quantième Annuel from Montblanc features a rare combination of complications: a chronograph and an annual cale ...

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IWC – Pilot’s Watches in Saint Exupéry Design

New additions to the very distinctive pilot’s collection by IWC. They are featured with a stylish tobacco brown dial.   Following the launc ...

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From the Archives: a Guide to Military Timepieces

I think it’s safe to say that the entire worn&wound crew loves a good military watch. There’s just something about the utilitarian ...

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Love the Skin You’re In: the Lightweight Skin Diver

Part of the appeal of dive watches is the idea of sheer functionality?the sense that the hunk of metal strapped to your wrist could, at any given t ...

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Need for Speed: 15 Watches Inspired by Auto Racing

The worlds of watchmaking and automobile racing have shared a strong connection for decades, with racing and high-performance cars often serving as a ...

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Speedy Tuesday – Recap of the Speedmaster GTG in Vienn

It’s not everyday we get invited to special collectors meeting but from time to time it happens. So when our friend @vintagewatchzilla asked us ...

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Watch Strap Review Part 28. – Porsche 928 strap by GL

Do you remember the first time you sat in an old sports car either as a passenger or better yet, as a driver" We all know the feeling. The smell ...

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver ‘Funky Colour

At SIHH 2017, Swiss Audemars Piguet celebrated color - which is clearly the focus for these versions of the popular Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore ...

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Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Berluti Scritto Watch

After last year?s successful collaboration, Hublot is teaming up with Berluti again to give us the Classic Fusion Chronograph Berluti Scritto watch. T ...

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Montegrappa Pirates watch is just ideal for Captain Jack Spa

" />Italian luxury brand Montegrappa is known for making writing instruments and wristwatches with polarizing and unique designs. After… Co ...

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Reminder: the w&w x Modern Anthology Pop-Up Watch Shop

Hello, w&w readers. Just a friendly reminder that the worn&wound x Modern Anthology Father?s Day Pop-Up Watch Shop opens this Thursday, Jun ...

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Longines Launches The Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch 90th Annive

This year, Longines is celebrating the 90th anniversary of the first ever non-stop solo transatlantic flight, which was flown by Charles Lindbergh an ...

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Watches & Pencils #27 ? Why are there so little new des

Last years a lot of people are complaining about the lack of new watch designs. Brands are having a hard time and seem to ?grab? from old designs or r ...

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Farer novelties: the new GMT Automatic

Meet Farer ? British watch brand, whose name is born out of passion for travel and exploration. Their timepieces reflect the true spirit of Farer: dar ...

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Seiko Marinemaster Professional 300 ? 52Mondayz, week #22

The weather has been extremely nice to us in The Netherlands lately, and it seems not much is going to change within short. One way or the other I ten ...

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Panerai Luminor Due 3 Days Automatic PAM674 Watch Review

Exactly one year ago, when Panerai launched the Luminor Due, it was well-documented that I wasn't convinced about this new, second chapter for the muc ...

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Bulova Moon Watch

I think what attracts many to the world of watches, nearly as much as the watches themselves, is the history behind them. In many ways, watch history ...

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The best luxury watches to wear in summer

When the summer comes and the temperatures are increasing, it is the perfect time to start taking the life less seriously and enjoy it. As it is the ...

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Product Highlight: Model 2 Classic Straps

The Model 2 Classic was designed to be a simple, stylish go-to strap for all seasons. It?s a 2-piece design made out of unlined, super-tough, veget ...

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5 Reasons Collectors Like Watches From Micro Brands

Micro brands are companies that make watches which are even smaller than boutique brands. These hobby-style watch brands typically include one person ...

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LAST CHANCE: Orion Field Standard Automatic Watch Giveaway

There's still time left this month to enter to win an Orion Field Standard Automatic in our May watch giveaway. The article LAST CHANCE: Orion Field ...

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Romain Jerome Tourbillon Pokémon Watch Costs $200,000

It might be hard to imagine the target audience for a high-end Pokémon watch with a tourbillon and a six-figure price tag, but as only one Romain Jer ...

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Breitling Launches New Boutique-Exclusive Chronoliner and Ch

Breitling has released a pair of new timepieces in its Chronoliner and Chronomat 44 collections, each limited to 100 pieces and available exclusively ...

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Six Questions for Glashütte Original CEO Thomas Meier

?We are building on Senator Excellence,? says Thomas Meier, CEO of Glashütte Original, referring to his brand’s high-precision, efficient Calib ...

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w&w Instagram Round-Up with a “Bullhead” Se

It’s Saturday. That means we?re back with another Instagram round-up featuring our 10 favorite watch snaps. But before we get to the watches, ...

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Rado Captain Cook 37mm & 45mm Watches For 2017 Hands-On

Rado is pretty straightforward in how they describe the 2017 Captain Cook models as "vintage replicas." The Swiss brand under the Swatch Gro ...

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HYT Skull Vida Watch

Super exclusive, highly technical, and decidedly provocative, the new HYT Skull Vida could just be the brand?s most seductive Skull watch yet. The art ...

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Introducing: Richard Mille x Rafael Nadal RM 27-03 Tourbillo

As the 2017 French Open kicks off, Richard Mille has unveiled the fourth iteration in his headline-grabbing, jaw-dropping “Rafael Nadal” ...

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WatchTime and The RealReal Host “Night of Experts̶

Political discourse took a back seat to talk of fine watches and rare whiskies in our nation’s capital last night as WatchTime joined the online ...

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Military Time: 10 Watches With NATO Straps

In recent years I’ve taken to “pimping out” my new and old watches, some of them military watches, by replacing their original strap ...

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Hands-On with the Stowa Prodiver Blue Limited

Stowa?s hardcore dive watch, the Prodiver, has been around for a little over a decade now, and in its 10th year Stowa released a new blue dial vers ...

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Watches With Diamonds" Here Are 5 That Men Can Actually

Yes, we’re talking men?s watches with diamonds. No, don?t click away from this post just yet.  I am aware that this is a bit of a tricky subjec ...

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Hands-On With The New Breitling Navitimer Rattrapante Watche

Breitling’s Navitimer is one of those models that is being regarded as an iconic watch. Like Rolex’ Daytona or Omega’s Speedmaster, ...

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Gavox Avidiver Watch Review

Having cemented their place in the micro-brand field, Gavox have stepped up their game by producing their first automatic watch, the Gavox Avidiver, w ...

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Montegrappa Pirates Watch

I really want to meet the people who buy and wear Montegrappa's flamboyant watches such as the Montegrappa Pirates watch. This is the third and so far ...

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Piaget debuts three new Polo S models

A year on from its New York re-launch of its 1979 Polo, Piaget has released three new models Piaget has just launched three new Polo S models, ...

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Up Close Review: The Oris Aquis Regulator, a dive watch with

Oris has topped its family of extremely no-nonsense dive watches with a regulator complication. It’s an unusual – but potentially inspired ...

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The Farer GMT: a colourful complication at a sensible price

Young British brand Farer has added to its range of mechanical watches with a set of colourful GMT models By Chris Hall Farer, for those of you who ...

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Mille Miglia 2017 Chopard hits the road for the 90th anniver

The 35th edition of “la corsa la più bella del mondo? started under a sunny sky. The 440 crews took off from Viale Venezia in Brescia on Thurs ...

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Introducing the Werenbach Earth Collection, Featuring Dials

I am generally not one to be pulled in by gimmicks. But there are times when a gimmick?be it some sort of ambassadorship, or a highfalutin narrativ ...

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Farer Introduces 3 New Mechanical GMTs

It?s hard to deny the appeal of a mechanical GMT or dual time watch. A classic complication, the GMT adds obvious functionality. Though most typica ...

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Blackout: 17 Black-on-Black Watches

Blue-on-blue isn’t the only popular watch-color trend of recent years. “All-black” watches, with ebony-colored cases, dials, and str ...

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The Rolex Deepsea and 6 Other Extreme Dive Watches

All divers’ watches share certain characteristics that make them divers’ watches: unidirectional rotating bezels, secure screw-down crowns ...

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#TBT on #TBT – The Top 10 Best Read #TBT Articles

Fratello Watches has a strong focus on vintage watches. Ever since 2004 we’ve been covering vintage watches once in a while, but since 2015 we h ...

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Victorinox Swiss Army INOX Titanium Sky High Limited Edition

The 2017 Victorinox Swiss Army INOX Titanium Sky High Limited Edition is a direct celebration of the fact that Swiss Army knives are an official part ...

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Richard Mille RM 27-03 Rafael Nadal Watch With A Tourbillon

Having been a die-hard, full-time watch nerd for a good while now, I find that even upon first seeing a complicated watch, I can identify its featu ...

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Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional Chronograph Starmus

For a newly announced partnership with the Starmus Science Festival and in support of its Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication award, Omega ...

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Panerai Mare Nostrum Chronograph PAM716 Watch Returns

The 42mm-wide Panerai Mare Nostrum Chronograph PAM716 is here to help you re-live long-gone days of the brand. The article Panerai Mare Nostrum Chrono ...

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Open now: Cartier In Motion at the Design Museum

The Norman Foster curation throws new light on Cartier’s 20th Century Modernism By James Gurney Cartier gives good exhibition and the latest, C ...

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Behind the scenes at Panerai: mixing high-end watchmaking wi

Timothy Barber goes behind the scenes at Panerai’s new factory to witness how ultra-luxe is wed with technical brilliance Seated at mahogan ...

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Three Designers, Three Limited-Edition Rado Watches

Rado is known to most knowledgeable watch enthusiasts as a brand that pioneered the use of ceramics in watchmaking. However, Rado also prides itself o ...

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Watch Winders 101: The Ultimate Watch Winder Guide

Watch winders are machines with a simple but vital task to perform for watch owners: ensuring that automatic (or self-winding) watches have sufficient ...

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Photo Gallery: Enameling at Ulysse Nardin’s Swiss Dial

Recently, our friends at WatchTime India visited the Ulysse Nardin enameling unit, Donzé Cadrans, in Le Locle, Switzerland. The team at this Swiss di ...

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Prix de Diane Longines: The new program of the most elegant

The famous equestrian rendezvous of the Prix de Diane Longines will be taking up the Chantilly racetrack, an exceptional setting located one hour fro ...

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The worn&wound Podcast Ep. 12: a Conversation with R.T.

Welcome to Episode 12 of The worn&wound Podcast. In this episode, we sit down with R.T. Custer of Vortic Watch Company to discuss his brand and ...

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How Far Below Can They Go" Four Deep-Sea Dive Watches

From the WatchTime archives: These four extreme divers? watches ? listed in ascending order of their water-resistance level ? are reliable companions ...

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Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8-Day Power Reserve SBGD201 –

Last year, Seiko introduced the Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8-Day Power Reserve SBGD001 during BaselWorld, but did not show it to everyone. It was on dis ...

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Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Edition Historique Wat

The newly introduced Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Edition Historique will be the last edition of the Tourbillon 24 Secondes Asymétrique coll ...

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Buying Patek Philippe Watches With Barnebys

Barnebys is the leading search engine for art, antiques, and collectibles with over half a million items from more than 1,800 auction houses around th ...

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Tudor Heritage Black Bay ‘Orologi & Passioni̵

Fresh on the heels of Tudor?s release of the Bucherer-exclusive Black Bay, "Lo stivale" is getting its own exclusive Black Bay, and one that ...

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Meet the Manufactuer: DeWitt (video)

Join along for a fun look inside the Dewitt manufacture.  Our friends at Montredo recently spoke with Montres DeWitt CEO Viviane Jutheau De Witt and ...

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Harry Winston unveils a horological masterpiece with two bi-

" />Harry Winston has followed up its incredible ?Histoire de Tourbillon 7? timepiece released last year with another mind-blowing… Continu ...

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Design King: Updating the Rolex Datejust

The modern Datejust that Rolex unveiled at Baselworld 2016 scarcely differs from the Rolex Datejust II. The similar design characteristics set Rolex w ...

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Affordable Vintage: Head-to-Head With the Omega Seamaster re

One of the most difficult things about watch reviewing is that it often exists in a vacuum. While you can easily get a sense of the quality of a pi ...

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The 10 Best Dive Watch Brands You Don’t Know About

To someone who’s not all that interested in dive watches, many of them may look alike. But if you are into collecting dive watches, you’re ...

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Speedy Tuesday – Sedna Gold Speedmaster Racing Master

In the last few days, I?ve been posting a couple of gold watches on my private Instagram account (@rjbroer). Not to test or try something, but because ...

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Apple Watch Nike+ Sport Bands ‘Day To Night’ Col

Nike has just announced four new Nike Sports Bands for the Apple Watch Nike+ in colors inspired by Nike?s Air VaporMax Flyknit ?Day to Night? sneakers ...

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Frederique Constant Flyback Chronograph Manufacture Watch Ha

The Frederique Constant Flyback Chronograph Manufacture represents the brand's recent efforts to develop high quality in-house movements with complica ...

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Anura Rafael Write Time Tourbillon Watch That Becomes A Pen

The Anura Rafael Write Time is one of the most unusual watches we have ever seen because it is a tourbillon wristwatch and fountain pen combined into ...

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10 Things to Know About TAG Heuer

TAG Heuer is one of the world?s leading luxury watch brands, offering a strong history of innovation, deep connections with sports timing and automobi ...

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Patek Philippe Calatrava “Squelette” Marks 40 Ye

The 20th anniversary of the Aquanaut is not the only milestone that Patek Philippe is celebrating in 2017. The company’s self-winding, micro-rot ...

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Time Off the Wrist: Stonehenge

We here at worn&wound are used to constantly thinking about time?after all, timekeeping is our business. However, the way in which most of us u ...

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My 7 Most Iconic Chronograph Watches; What are Yours"

From my blog, Fratellowatches.com, I offer up my personal list of Seven Iconic Chronograph Watches. If you don?t count the date feature, the chronogra ...

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UNION GLASHÜTTE ? Belisar Chronograph Sport

Incredibly sporty, truly authentic and extremely versatile. The Belisar Chronograph Sport makes a striking impression in many ways, from its carbon be ...

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Omega Seamaster Professional 300 Chronometer Mid-Size ? 52Mo

52Mondayz week #21 is not about the watch I’ll be wearing this week. It’s a tribute to the watch my wife is wearing. Not only this week, n ...

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Hublot Big Bang Unico Magic Gold Watch Review ? Just How Mag

Do you remember when Hublot was all about "the art of fusion"" To this day, I can easily recall one of the many characteristic instance ...

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Cale

Few brands can so consistently and eloquently execute a timeless watch design quite like Jaeger-LeCoultre. And a piece that has recently put this expe ...

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Product Highlight: American-made Watch Accessories

In 2012, when we first started discussing making our own watch accessories, one concept was at the core of what we were trying to do: manufacture o ...

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De Tournemire Watches Set Really Large Diamonds In The Cryst

What makes me happy about attending Baselworld each year is that despite the utter insanity of the watch industry, there is still room for new watch b ...

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Three Questions for the Swatch Group’s Marc A. Hayek

?The smartwatch subject is an excuse,? claims Marc A. Hayek, head of the Swatch Group’s luxury brands Breguet, Blancpain and Jaquet Droz. In thi ...

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The Longines Ladies Awards Presented to Four Leading Women i

At the impressive Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., the spotlight was on Reed Kessler, Georgina Bloomberg, M ...

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w&w Instagram Round-Up with a Smiths W10, a California-

We?re back with another Instagram round-up featuring our 10 favorite watch snaps. But before we get to the watches, we?d like to thank everyone who ...

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WATCH WINNER REVIEW: Damasko Timeless DB1

The Damasko Timeless DB1 is a German pilot watch that combines classic German styling, proven Swiss reliability, and some innovative materials. The ar ...

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Seiko Presage SSA & SRPB ‘Cocktail Time’ Wa

To bolster its now international Presage collection, Seiko has introduced no fewer than eight new ?Cocktail Time? watches for 2017. Check out these ne ...

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1997: Junghans Max Bill

Nomos Glashütte isn?t the only German watchmaker to be making bafflingly affordable Bauhaus beauties ? in fact, Junghans of Schramberg started in 196 ...

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7 Must-Visit Swiss Watch Museums

There are ? of course! ? many reasons to visit Switzerland, but if you are into watches, a Swiss trip should feel a bit like Heaven on Earth (for you, ...

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Chopard Celebrates 90 Years of Mille Miglia with Limited-Edi

In 2017, Italy’s Mille Miglia, today a rally race for vintage and classic sports cars, celebrates 90 years since its inception in 1927 as an op ...