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WatchTime Eternal Time: 6 Modern Perpetual Calendar Watches
In modern watchmaking, a perpetual calendar indicates the date, and corrects automatically for months with less than 31 days, as well as leap years. Unless the movement takes into account century years that are not leap years, a watch with a perpet…
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Buffy Acacia / Time+Tide How Borgel and Taubert revolutionised water resistance
As with pretty much all human technology, watches developed slowly at first, and then seemingly all at once. Protecting a watch mechanism from both dust and moisture is really just common sense, otherwise nobody would have built cases for clocks. W…
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Tim Mosso / Quill & Pad De Bethune DB Kind of Two Jumping GMT Reviewed by Tim Mosso
Watches like the De Bethune DB Kind of Two Jumping GMT aren’t exactly the backbone of the luxury watch hobby. Finding one is hard; buying one is harder. The annual output of De Bethune is less than 400 watches, and it’s safe to bet that no more tha…
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Borna Bošnjak / Time+Tide 17 of the best French watch brands keeping the historic craft alive
While Switzerland is regarded as the high-end watchmaking epicentre, it wasn’t always so. Along with many English watchmakers, it was France that led the way in making strides in chronometric invention. In the late 18th century, Paris was home to…
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Worn & Wound Our Favorite Releases of the Year (So Far…)
Well, we’re a little more than halfway through 2024, so we thought it would be a good time to ask our contributors about their favorite watches of the year to this point. It’s been, to put it mildly, a strange year. Coming off 2023, a watch release…
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Brice Goulard / Monochrome Watches Retrospective – What are The World’s Thinnest Watches Per Category?
Ultra-thin watchmaking is a fascinating topic, one of our favourite areas of expertise here, at MONOCHROME. Ultra-thin watchmaking is horology at its purest, a no-compromise search for the slenderest movement that has to be considered a true compli…
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Mark Kauzlarich / HODINKEE Hands-On: Three New Dials Of Hamilton's Khaki Field Mechanical 38
New dial colors prove more options aren't a bad thing. July 26, 2024 Photos by Mark Kauzlarich Certain watches are just nearly perfect. These watches are perfect enough that when a friend inevitably asks for my recommendation for a "first good watc…
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Roberta Naas / ATimelyPerspective Closer Look: Four Top Watches That Need A Second Glance
A. Lange & Sohne Datograph Up/DownWith so many great watches being unveiled this year, it is difficult to keep up. Sometimes, though, a few stand out. Here we take share four complicated watches that warrant a second, or even third, look.A Lange &…
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Buffy Acacia / Time+Tide The evolution of the Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece collection
The story of the Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece collection is a curious one. While the company was born out the most turbulent period watchmaking has ever seen, the transformation of this one line has reflected the way the brand itself has evolved ove…
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Peter Chong / Deployant New: Arca Swiss Pico compact view camera
Independent camera maker, Arca Swiss releases a new compact view camera for high resolution digital photography. Press Release information and commentary in italics. The new Arca Swiss Pico is an entire ecosystem built on a camera set comprising of…
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Martina Richter / WatchTime Citizen of the World: Bulgari Octo Roma WorldTimer Steel DLC
This article was originally published in the September/October 2022 Issue of the WatchTime print magazine.Like a second time-zone complication, but better, a world timer provides a more complete function that is useful, and even essential, for trav…
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Jens Koch / WatchTime Turned to the Left: The Rolex GMT-Master II Destro
This article is from the WatchTime Archives and was originally published in the January / February 2023 Issue. One thing is clear: Left-handed people have it harder than the rest of us. Although they are no longer forced to write with their weaker…
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Celine Simon / aBlogToWatch New Release: Omega Paris 2024 Bronze Gold Edition Watch
With the Paris 2024 Summer Games underway, it comes as no surprise that Omega is leaning hard into its Olympics partnership, as the Swiss watchmaker has served as the official timekeeper of the Olympic Games since 1932. Aside from all the on-the-gr…
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Balazs Ferenczi / Fratello Watches Hands-On With The Excelsior Park EP 884-SI
A time-only watch from the "chronograph brand"Handling a time-only watch that bears the name Excelsior Park is odd. We are used to seeing that elongated bottom “E” stroke on chronographs almost exclusively. Yes, Excelsior Park had some time-only pi…
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Matt Reudink / aBlogToWatch Watch Review: DOXA SUB 300 Carbon Searambler Dive Watch
There are watches that define a brand, and for DOXA, it’s undoubtedly the SUB 300. Sure, there are plenty of other models in the brand’s lineup (and a veritable treasury if you go through the archives), but for most of us, when we hear DOXA, it’s t…
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Jason Lee / SJX Watches G-Shock Introduces the “CasiOak”Colour Dial GBM-2100
Casio’s popular G-Shock with an octagonal bezel gets a new palette with the G-Shock G-Steel Color-Dial Series GBM-2100. The GBM-2100 rocks the same steel octagonal bezel as its Full Metal counterpart – hence the unofficial “CasiOak” nickname – and…
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Thomas Van Straaten / Fratello Watches Parallel Passions: Comparing Our Beloved Watch Hobby To The Guitar World
Sometimes when we write articles at Fratello, we know exactly how they will land with our readers. Other times, we try something to see whether it strikes a chord. This is an example of the latter type of article. I consider myself lucky to have fa…
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Marc Levesque / Worn & Wound Laco Introduces Green Dialed Versions of their Classic Flieger
Lacher & Co. (Laco) is widely considered one of the pioneers of the German pilot watch genre. They have been crafting Flieger style timepieces in Pforzheim since 1925 and have truly mastered the art. They are experts at blending almost a century’s…
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Griffin Bartsch / Worn & Wound Four of the Biggest Surprises from Chicago’s Windup Watch Fair
If you’ve never had the pleasure of attending a Windup Watch Fair in person, it’s hard to express the energy in the room or the unavoidable concentration of enthusiasm that greets you when you step through the doors. From the moment the show opens…
- a 9 minute read
WatchTime Eternal Time: 6 Modern Perpetual Calendar Watches
In modern watchmaking, a perpetual calendar indicates the date, and corrects automatically for months with less than 31 days, as well as leap years. Unless the movement takes into account century years that are not leap years, a watch with a perpet…
- a 3 minute read
Michael Penate / Two Broke Watch Snobs Christopher Ward Announces the New C60 Trident Pro 300 GMT
For some time, I’ve been wondering when Christopher Ward would refresh its line of Trident GMT watches. The brand has been on a roll lately with some incredible new sports watches in a range of sizes and colorways that could work for just about any…
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Malaika Crawford / HODINKEE Introducing: MoonSwatch Mission To The Super Blue Moonphase
MoonSwatch enters its blue (Da Ba Dee) period. Yesterday, Swatch released Mission To The Super Blue Moonphase. This very blue watch features the usual chronograph function, this time with a silver-blue opaline dial, and a UV ink moonphase positione…
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Buffy Acacia / Time+Tide The best ways to modify your Seiko to make it unique
The relationship between wristwatches and the DIY spirit is usually limited, because even a simple quartz watch is pretty complicated. Anything more than changing a battery or a strap usually requires the help of a watchmaker, or at least spending…
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Zach Kazan / Worn & Wound Bulova is Seeing Red with their Latest Lunar Pilot
It’s officially Space Watch Season. We just saw G-SHOCK release their latest collaborative release with NASA, and now Bulova returns with a new version of their popular Lunar Pilot, this one in a “blood moon” colorway. While the Lunar Pilot doesn’t…
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Stanley Leung / Deployant Review: the new Cartier Santos Dumont Rewind
“Dear, do you notice anything different about me?” That’s what the Cartier Santos Dumont Rewind would’ve asked its imaginary husband. Introduced at this year’s Watches & Wonders Geneva, here is our view on what is unique, different and appealing of…
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Brett Braley / Worn & Wound A New Dial Color for the Nomos Ahoi
German watchmaker NOMOS Glashütte has just released their latest Ahoi Neomatik 38 collection. Alongside Sky and Sand, we now have the Atlantic colorway. Inspired by the outdoor culture of seaside and island life, the Ahoi Neomatik 38 series combine…
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Sabine Zwettler / WatchTime Four New Colorways Enrich Accutron DNA Collection
Accutron introduces the Accutron DNA collection, renowned for its futuristic aesthetic and unmistakable style, with four striking new strap colorways previously seen only in the Casino collection: green, blue, orange, and red. These new additions h…
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JX Su / SJX Watches Editorial: LVMH and Rolex Vying for Formula 1
Rumours started earlier this month that Rolex had “lost” its prime status as official timekeeper for Formula 1 to TAG Heuer. That, as it turns out, is not true – yet.According to a senior LVMH executive speaking off the record, a deal between F1 an…
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Borna Bošnjak / Time+Tide These are the watches you should be wearing with black tie
Whether it’s an impact of the COVID pandemic or just a general relaxation of expectations of formality, events with strict dress codes have become less and less common. While I don’t condone attending casual Fridays in your pyjama bottoms or, erm……
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Rebecca Doulton / Monochrome Watches First Look – The New Nomos Ahoi Neomatik 38 Date Atlantic
Launched in 2013 as the German brand’s sportiest model, the Ahoi collection has always been something of a black sheep at Nomos. Loosely defined as an old-rounder sports watch, the Ahoi watch marries its robust 200m water-resistant case to the unde…
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JX Su / SJX Watches Omega’s CK 859 in Bronze Gold for the Paris 2024 Olympics
A timepiece that pays tribute to the medals of the Olympic Games, the Omega Paris 2024 Bronze Gold Edition is a riff on the vintage-inspired CK 859. It retains the same dimensions and design, but manages to incorporate all three medal materials – g…
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