Watch Features

Welcome to WatchTime’s watch features section. Here you will find watch feature stories, watch reports, interesting watch technology coverage, interviews with watch brands, background articles about watches, watch brands and technical stories.

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Grand Seiko Celebrates 20 Years of Spring Drive at WatchTime LA

Grand Seiko is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Spring Drive movement this year with three freshly designed sports models. For those unfamiliar, Spring Drive is a groundbreaking movement originally produced by Seiko in 1999, which maintains extremely precise timing by seamlessly combining a traditional mechanical mainspring with a quartz regulator and an electromagnetic rotor break....

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Apr 26, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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

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California Revival: WatchTime LA Welcomes the Expanded Montblanc Heritage Collection

The West Coast’s largest watch-related event of the year is just over a week away. The inaugural WatchTime Los Angeles show will be held on May 3-4 at Downtown L.A.’s Hudson Loft, with 27 watch brands exhibiting their latest releases — including multiples Richemont firms like A. Lange & Söhne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and, today’s focus brand,...

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Apr 25, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

THE WATCHTIME Q&A

Max Büsser of MB&F: “The Watch is My Canvas”

Year after year, MB&F surprises connoisseurs with watches that look and function totally unlike all other familiar timepieces. In this wide-ranging Q&A, Max Büsser, the founder and creative mastermind of this Geneva-based brand, talks about his concept, which sees a watch as a work of art.

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Apr 25, 2019 by Maria-Bettina Eich

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Showing at WatchTime LA: Chronoswiss Sirius Chronograph Moon Phase

As part of Chronoswiss’ showing at the upcoming WatchTime Los Angeles event on May 3-4, the Swiss brand will be showcasing the new Sirius Chronograph Moon Phase. The watch, a navy dial chronograph with a moon phase and analog date indicator, joins the previous steel and gold white dial options from the independent Lucerne-based watchmaker....

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Apr 24, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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The World’s Largest Tourbillon Gets Updated in the Kerbedanz Maximus Royal

Kerbedanz made waves in 2017 with the announcement of the Maximus that contained what the brand claimed was the world’s largest tourbillon housed in a wristwatch. This year, the timepiece returned for a victory lap with the newly christened Maximus Royal Tourbillon that taunts standard sized tourbillons with its 27-mm diameter titanium tourbillon cage placed within...

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Apr 23, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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Glashütte Mean Time: Moritz Grossmann Adds a GMT to the ATUM Collection

Moritz Grossmann decided to take a slightly different approach than usual to unveil its 2019 novelties. Like a fairly significant number of fellow midsize brands (Corum, Raymond Weil, Maurice Lacroix, Anonimo, to name a few), the Glashütte-based company skipped out on exhibiting at Baselworld and instead has embarked on a global roadshow to a few...

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Apr 22, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

EXPERT ADVICE

Watch Winders 101: The Ultimate Watch Winder Guide

For collectors and dealers of self-winding watches, we present in this WatchTime feature a guide to the watch winder, covering a selection of models, sizes, designs and functions of available watch winders.

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Apr 22, 2019 by WatchTime

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Breaking Down Five of De Bethune’s Latest Releases

I wouldn’t be lying if I said I thought De Bethune was one of the most consistently interesting brands in independent watchmaking these days. Ever since Pierre Jacques returned to his role as CEO in October of 2017, the brand has never come close to a misfire. While the pinnacle achievement for De Bethune during...

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Apr 21, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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An In-Depth Look at Czapek’s 2019 Releases

This past March at Baselworld 2019, Czapek & Cie. released a number new watches, and, soon on May 3 and 4, the updated collections will be shown for the first time in the U.S. at WatchTime Los Angeles. In the seven years since the brand made its modern debut, Czapek has steadily expanded its collections in the...

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Apr 19, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Back in Black: The New HYT H1.0 Black Fluid Will Be Shown at WatchTime Los Angeles

HYT will be showcasing its updated H1.0 watches at WatchTime Los Angeles on May 3-4 of this year, and leading the collection will be its latest Black Fluid model. The watch was released in February 2019 after the brand first revealed the Blue, Green, and Red Liquid editions a month earlier at SIHH. Together, the watches have...

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Apr 18, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Reservoir Watches Introduces its First Dive Watch with the Hydrosphere Collection

Although Reservoir Watches has been around since 2015, my first experience with the brand was at Baselworld 2018 where I was struck by the brand’s all-or-nothing approach to watchmaking. Every single timepiece produced by Reservoir is focused on a dueling complication setup for the time display. The hours are indicated via a digital aperture in the...

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Apr 17, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

REVIEW:

Borrowed Time: Glashütte Original Senator Cosmopolite in Stainless Steel

Many high-class individuals fetishize the concept of exclusivity. That’s why many of the same people that hoard sought-after timepieces can be found savoring a tumbler of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve 23, or might be spotted on the decade-long waitlist for a bottle of Syrah from the cult winery Sine Qua Non. The idea of exclusivity...

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Apr 16, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: RGM Model 222-RR

In the United states, where railroads, trains and the people who ran them are so intricately linked to the country’s national history, the locomotive profession and the watches purpose-built for them have long been romanticized. This is a common trend among many other jobs, and the watches associated with them, from the past hundred years...

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Apr 7, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

EVENTS:

WatchTime Los Angeles 2019: Introducing the Brands, Part 5

As we previously announced, WatchTime is bringing the WatchTime New York event concept to the West Coast on May 3 – 4, 2019. We’ll be taking over the Hudson Loft space in Downtown Los Angeles — just minutes from Staples Center — for two days to bring you the best in luxury timepieces. For those who...

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Apr 5, 2019 by WatchTime

FEATURE

Pioneers of Style: 7 Watches Inspired by Architecture

The buildings we inhabit and the watches we wear are everyday facts of life. We usually take them for granted and scarcely even notice them – until a creation crosses our path that captures our undivided attention. Here we look at seven timepieces that call to mind — and, in some cases, are inspired by...

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Apr 1, 2019 by WatchTime

FEATURE

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day Date 70s

After writing on the Baltic Aquascaphe a few weeks ago, I started thinking back to the original watch that inspired it: the Blancpain Bathyscaphe. Historically, the Bathyscaphe was something of the younger brother to the famed Fifty Fathoms series, the original model designed in 1952 for the French Navy— an industry -changing dive watch known...

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Mar 31, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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WatchTime Los Angeles 2019: Introducing the Brands, Part 4

As we previously announced, WatchTime is bringing the WatchTime New York event concept to the West Coast on May 3 – 4, 2019. We’ll be taking over the Hudson Loft space in Downtown Los Angeles — just minutes from Staples Center — for two days to bring you the best in luxury timepieces. For those who...

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Mar 29, 2019 by WatchTime

BASELWORLD 2019:

Chopard Unveils Its First Flying Tourbillon in the L.U.C Flying T Twin

While it consistently wows jewelry mavens with its ladies’ pieces and reliably satisfies racing enthusiasts with its annual Mille Miglia releases, Chopard saves its biggest feats of horological derring-do for exclusive models in its L.U.C collection, named for the initials of founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard. The high-complication headliner that the watch and jewelry purveyor launched at...

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Mar 28, 2019 by Mark Bernardo

BASELWORLD 2019:

Introducing the Bulova Computron LED

I’m writing this article with the Bulova Lunar Pilot Chronograph strapped to my left wrist. It was released in late 2015 to signify the start of the American-born brand’s Archive Series. As many red-blooded, flag-touting watch enthusiasts are aware, Bulova has a long history of being America’s premier watchmaker with a production history that goes...

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Mar 25, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

NEWS:

Introducing the Monta Atlas GMT

Based out of St. Louis, Missouri, Monta Watches is one of the most recognized names in the burgeoning scene of independent American watchmaking. Along with a few other small-scale firms, such as Oak & Oscar and Autodromo, Monta has a well-earned reputation of producing no-nonsense sports watches at a reasonable price point. Joining Monta’s catalog...

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Mar 25, 2019 by Logan R. Baker

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