WatchTime Blog

Welcome to WatchTime’s blog – the watch collector’s daily resource for the latest news on watches and the watch industry. Here, the WatchTime editorial team and other contributors from top watch blogs and online watch magazines post reviews of new watch models, news from the watch industry, reports from watch collector events, and much more.

Escapement Watches Review: Breitling Transocean Unitime Pilot

The Manufacture Breitling Caliber B05 housed within the Breitling Transocean Unitime Pilot allows the wearer to adjust the time, turning the crown in either direction, without any detriment to the movement. We write about it on our Escapement watch blog.

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Jan 24, 2015 by Angus Davies

It’s Time – WatchTime New York 2024 Tickets On Sale Now!

After an incredible show in 2023, WatchTime New York, the premier collector’s event in North America, is set to return to Manhattan from October 18th to 20th, 2024. WatchTime New York 2024 promises to be even more spectacular, with the show marking the 25th anniversary of WatchTime and bringing together the world’s finest watchmakers, timepieces,...

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Jun 20, 2024 by WatchTime

Audio: 12 Watch Executive Interviews from SIHH 2015

At SIHH 2015 in Geneva, I had the chance to chat with 12 watch industry executives, from 11 luxury watch brands, about the timepieces introduced at the show and what lies ahead in 2015. Follow the links below to hear the audio from these interviews, all conducted for my blog, Watch-Insider.com.

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Jan 24, 2015 by Alexander Linz

SIHH 2015: Ralph Lauren Automotive Chronograph (Updated with Live Photo and Price)

Among the new offerings from Ralph Lauren at this year’s SIHH is the new Ralph Lauren Automotive Chronograph. Inspired by the instrument panel of Lauren’s legendary 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, this piece evokes the exotic yet purposeful aesthetic found in the cockpit of a car many regard as the finest gentleman’s sport coupe of...

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Jan 23, 2015 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: Here Are 19 Of The New Watches We’ve Seen So Far

Get a glimpse of WatchTime's SIHH coverage in this review of 19 luxury watches from Baume & Mercier, Montblanc, Audemars Piguet, Cartier, IWC and many other watch brands.

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Jan 23, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: The Greubel Forsey QP à Equation with “Mechanical Computer”

Well-heeled collectors of ultra-complicated mechanical watches, and the haute retailers who supply them, should be in Seventh Heaven over Greubel Forsey’s seventh “Invention Piece,” the Greubel Forsey QP à Equation, unveiled to the watch intelligentsia today at SIHH 2015 in Geneva.

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Jan 23, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: IWC Portugieser Annual Calendar (Updated with Live Photos and Prices)

The new IWC Portugieser Annual Calendar, part of the brand’s “Year of the Portugieser” at SIHH 2015, is a timepiece that marks two IWC firsts: its in-house movement is equipped with an innovative annual calendar mechanism and also boasts a two-barrel, seven-day power reserve.

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Jan 23, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Mécaniques Gravées Collection

At SIHH in Geneva, Vacheron Constantin brought out two new additions to its Métiers d’Art family. Known as the Mécaniques Gravées collection, these watches apply meticulous hand-engraving procedures to in-house Vacheron calibers. There is a basic two-hand version and a tourbillon caliber, each with its own ornate designs.

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Jan 23, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

Escapement Watch Review: Tudor Style

Angus Davies, on his Escapement blog, reviews the Tudor Style, a watch which references the past and yet delivers a timeless quality with its accomplished design. He has recently returned from a short sojourn in Cannes on the glorious Côte d’Azur. As he ambled along the Promenade de la Croisette, Angus gazed in many shop...

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Jan 23, 2015 by Angus Davies

Monochrome Watches at SIHH 2015: Parmigiani and Bugatti Celebrate A Decade Together

All too often we see relationships between watch manufactures and automobile companies come and then go. Seemingly, the faster the car the more tempestuous the relationship with their time-keeping partner. Not so with Bugatti and Parmigiani. For ten years (2004-2014) they have celebrated a hand-to-glove relationship that sees the world’s fastest car paired-off with one...

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Jan 23, 2015 by Frank Geelen

SIHH 2015: Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication

Cartier’s headliner at SIHH 2015 was a new ultra-thin grand complication that showcases the brand’s technical watchmaking prowess. The Rotonde de Cartier Grande Complication has an automatic movement measuring just 5.49 mm in height. Its three major complications are visible on the skeletonized dial: a flying tourbillon, perpetual calendar, and minute repeater. These functions, coupled...

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Jan 22, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

Reader List: Your Personal Top Affordable Watches For Men

WatchTime is now on List.ly, a social channel that allows our readers to add their own selections to our frequent “top-10 lists”. To start things off we have created a list of “10 Affordable Watches for Men.” We encourage you to comment and add to the list by clicking on the “Add to List” button...

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Jan 22, 2015 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Ceramica (Updated with Live Photo and Price)

At SIHH 2015 this week, Panerai Panerai debuted the Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Ceramica – 44 mm. This new model surrounds the P.9100 manufacture chronograph movement with a high-tech matte-black case fashioned from synthetic ceramic based on zirconium oxide.

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Jan 22, 2015 by WatchTime

SIHH 2015: New Dial Designs for A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia (Updated with Live Photos)

At the SIHH 2015 watch fair, German luxury watch brand A. Lange & Sohne unveiled three new models in its elegant, understated Saxonia collection. The new-generation versions of the Saxonia, Saxonia Automatic, and Saxonia Dual Time all feature subtly redesigned dials, with two models also sporting new case dimensions.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Carbotech

Panerai has launched several new versions of the Submersible, its hyper-masculine, professional-grade divers’ watch. The most unusual is the Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Carbotech 3 Days Automatic.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Watches: The Arnold & Son Instrument Collection – Golden Wheel

Arnold & Son is a highly productive manufacture. Each time the brand comes out with another novelty, we can’t help but emphasize this point. Just look at all the watches they created last year, each and every one with a unique movement, and you’ll understand that only a few manufactures are able to develop so...

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Jan 22, 2015 by Brice Goulard

SIHH 2015: New Baume & Mercier Watches (Updated with Live Photos and Prices)

Among its new releases at SIHH 2015, Baume & Mercier has launched two new models in its rectangular-cased Hamptons collection and a new complication in the recently launched Baume & Mercier Clifton family.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Watches Review: Porsche Design Timepiece No.1 & Chronograph Titanium Limited Edition

Porsche Design is not only making leather goods and sunglasses. That’s not our material here at Monochrome-Watches. The word “Watches” appears in our blog name, and if we have to talk about Porsche Design, it’s for their undoubtedly interesting timepieces. Black theme and chronographs had always been part of Porsche’s DNA. In order to keep the...

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Jan 22, 2015 by Frank Geelen

SIHH 2015: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater

One of A. Lange & Söhne’s introductions at SIHH 2015 was an all-new minute repeater. The Zeitwerk Minute Repeater combines a chiming mechanism with jumping displays for the hours and minutes. The simple, legible dial belies the complexities of its movement. This is the first Lange watch to combine a jumping time display with a...

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Jan 21, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

SIHH 2015: Greubel Forsey GMT Black (Updated with Live Photos and Price)

Greubel Forsey, a brand known for its ambitious, innovative multi-tourbillon watches, introduced its own singular take on the classic world-time watch in 2011. A new execution of the succinctly named Greubel Forsey GMT, with a blackened titanium case, debuted this week at SIHH 2015.

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Jan 21, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Dive Watch Wednesday: Private-Label Dive Watches Aren’t as New as You Think

It seems like the dive watch category has inspired more “micro-brands” and “boutique brands” over the last few years to start a watch business than has any other watch category in the industry. Of course, while some of these recent start-ups have attempted to produce their very own ideal of “the perfect diver,” many others...

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Jan 21, 2015 by Roger Ruegger

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