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Celine Yap / Revolution Chanel Creates a Magnificent Collection for Watches & Wonders 2024
Chanel’s Watches & Wonders 2024 novelties can be appreciated in two main aspects. The first is its headlining Couture O’Clock capsule collection, and the next are its haute horlogerie and classic collections.Over the past few years the maison has b…
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Roger Ruegger / WatchTime Touchdown in Le Locle: An Interview With Aaron Rodgers and Zenith
This article was originally published in the September/October 2022 Issue of the WatchTime print magazine, before Aaron Rodgers’ 2023 move to the Jets.Aaron Charles Rodgers (born Dec. 2, 1983) is a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the Natio…
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JX Su / SJX Watches Highlights: Independent Watchmaking at Phillips Geneva
With the current popularity of independent watchmaking, the proportion of auction catalogues dedicated to the genre has grown. At the same time, the obvious slowdown in the market means prices have moderated. The result is a more diverse offering o…
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Pietro Pilla / Time+Tide New releases from TAG Heuer, Tudor, Naoya Hida and more
TAG Heuer bringing back the Formula 1 with Kith was the biggest news item this week, but in this week’s selection, you’ll also find some iconic collections from established brands such as Bulgari and Tissot getting an expansion; a funky new automot…
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Chester Lau / Deployant New: TAG Heuer Formula 1 Kith
TAG Heuer releases a new collection which is a blast from the past of the Formula 1 launched in 1986. Introducing the new TAG Heuer Formula 1 Kith. Press Release information with commentary in italics.The TAG Heuer Formula 1, first launched in 1986…
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Ripley Sellers / aBlogToWatch New Release: Marathon X Jeep Watches
For its latest release of 2024, Marathon has partnered with the American automotive brand Jeep to create a capsule collection of four watches that combine two of Marathon’s most popular collections with design details from famous Jeep vehicles. Whi…
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Tom Roth / aBlogToWatch BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch And Friends April 2024
The watch world gathered in Geneva last month for the Coachella of watches (or Woodstock, if you prefer): the Watches And Wonders industry tradeshow. In recent years, it has become the center of gravity for the horological community, with brands in…
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Celine Simon / aBlogToWatch New Release: Junghans Max Bill Regulator Bauhaus Watch
Bauhaus design has long been a favorite style in the watch space, cherished for its focus on clean lines, minimalism, and above all else, form following function. It’s a philosophy that seems simple, yet like most things centered around simplicity,…
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Łukasz Doskocz / Quill & Pad Why I Bought It: Tudor Pelagos
The year 2010 was quite a special one for me: CH24.pl kicked off in May 2009, so the following year marked our team’s first Baselworld – you know, that now pretty much dead watch fair in the picturesque city on the Swiss border to Germany.We drove…
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Henry Black / Fratello Watches Introducing: The Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono Tudor Pro Cycling Team Edition
Tudor releases a new FXD chronograph with a cycling twistTudor has announced the release of a special FXD chronograph. The Pelagos FXD Chrono Tudor Pro Cycling Team Edition commemorates the brand’s relationship with the Tudor Pro Cycling Team (a Sw…
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Buffy Acacia / Time+Tide The story of John Jacob Astor’s £1.17 million Titanic watch
What would you pay for an antique pocket watch? If it’s from around the turn of the 20th century and it’s made from solid 14k gold, then it’s definitely worth something. If it’s a Waltham, then that’s worth even more: American pocket watches are va…
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Mike Razak / aBlogToWatch Watch Review: The Utterly Unique Kollokium Projekt 01
There are so few watches that can be described as unique or new or novel. Rarer still are the watches that legitimately garner those words and manage not to price out 95% of the population. Most jaw-dropping innovation and design comes with commens…
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Henry Black / Fratello Watches Breathing New Life Into A Vintage King Seiko 44-9990
Giving it some much-needed love and attentionVintage King Seiko presents a fantastic opportunity for affordable options that reflect excellent watchmaking. The King Seiko 44-9990, also known as the 44KS, is one such example.Recently, I had the oppo…
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GaryG / Quill & Pad Long-Term Keepers: Three Watches I Can’t Bear to Sell
I don’t know about you, but for me these days if I want to buy a watch of any significance it requires that I sell one or more other pieces.The bad news is that all of the watches I don’t really love were sold off a long time ago! As a result, the…
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Roberta Naas / ATimelyPerspective H. Moser Boldly Goes Pink For 2024 Miami Grand Prix, BTW Alpine F1 Team
H. Moser Streamliner Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Alpine Limited Edition Pink Livery watchWith the 2024 Miami F1 Grand Prix this weekend, H. Moser & Cie., partnering with Alpine Motor Sports and the BTW Alpine Team, unveils the new  Streamliner…
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Peter Chong / Deployant TGIFriday: a quick take on the Sony ZV-1 II
Sony announced the Sony ZV-1 II Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Vlogging camera in May of 2023. We got a loaner for use during the recent Watches & Wonders Geneva 24. Here is our impressions on the tiny camera.The camera was first released in May 2023, and h…
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Sponsored / Worn & Wound Lookbook: Harkening to Yesteryear with the Brew Metric Retro Dial
Latest Review Inspired by the 1930s telephone timers, where dial markings at three-minute intervals would remind wearers to add coins to continue their call, the Brew Metric displays a range between 25 and 35 seconds to time the optimal espresso sh…
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Martin Green / WatchTime The Fun Factor of the Ferragamo Secret
In all honesty, I usually am not one to quickly review a watch born from fashion and fitted with a quartz movement, but the Ferragamo Secret watch is the exception to this rule. The uncommon timepiece reminds me of the 1980s, when subtle and creati…
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Time+Tide Only Watch 2024: the Time+Tide team shares their favourite lots
Editor’s note: There has been plenty to say about this (or last) year’s instalment of the Only Watch auction. While the biannual charity sale always brings a lot of heat in terms of the one-off special edition models that are launched, this time ho…
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Frank Geelen / Monochrome Watches Event – Taste of Time – Indie Watch Event in the Netherlands
Watches & Wonder is just behind us… and that means a huge number of new watches for us to cover in articles and videos, and for you to discover. And now, we are planning an event where you can get some hands-on time with some of these new timepiece…
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Balazs Ferenczi / Fratello Watches The Almighty Amida Digitrend Is Back
And it's better than ever!The ’70s were an extraordinary era in the watch industry. That decade gave us some of the most fantastic designs and timepieces that are still sought after among vintage collectors. Just think of watches like the Omega Fli…
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Katherine Arteche / Revolution A Full List of All 47 Unique Lots for Only Watch 2024
The 10th iteration of Only Watch is scheduled for May 10, 2024, at Palexpo in Geneva, where Christie’s will auction off 47 exceptionally unique pieces.The biannual charity auction was initially slated to be held on November 5 2023, until an investi…
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JX Su / SJX Watches Tudor Debuts Black Bay Ceramic “Chameleon” for Miami GP
Days before the Miami Grand Prix, Tudor announced a pair of special watches specifically for the event: the Black Bay Ceramic “Chameleon” issued to Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda of the Visa Cash App RB Formula 1 Team (VCARB). With a rainbow-hue…
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David Bredan / aBlogToWatch Hands-On: Hublot Spirit Of Big Bang Sang Bleu Sapphire Watch
The Sang Bleu series created in a collaboration between Hublot and Maxime Plescia-Buchi is among the most refreshing, creative, and least legible watches of the new millennium. Frankly, it is epic, and although everyone would be late from everywher…
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Mike Razak / aBlogToWatch Watch Review: The Third Generation Monta Oceanking
Two years ago, American brand Monta got on the mic and announced, seemingly out of the blue, that it would be retiring the existing designs of the Oceanking and Skyquest, its flagship models. Rumors swirled, fans fretted, people who didn’t know abo…
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Celine Yap / Revolution Chanel Creates a Magnificent Collection for Watches & Wonders 2024
Chanel’s Watches & Wonders 2024 novelties can be appreciated in two main aspects. The first is its headlining Couture O’Clock capsule collection, and the next are its haute horlogerie and classic collections.Over the past few years the maison has b…
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Thomas Van Straaten / Fratello Watches Going For Coffee With My Ex — The Seiko SRPE05 “King Turtle”
A former owner’s perspective upon getting reacquaintedIt is not often that I get to review a watch I’ve owned in the past. When Nacho put the Seiko SRPE05″King Turtle” on my desk, it was like unexpectedly running into an ex-girlfriend. So this revi…
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