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3 New Omega Seamaster and Speedmaster Watches

Recently, new watches have been added to Omega's Seamaster, Speedmaster and Constellation collections including the Omega Speedmaster Mark II, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Orange Ceramic, and for the ladies, the Omega Constellation Pluma. We review them in this feature article from WatchTime.

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Jan 22, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

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

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

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

SIHH 2015: New Roger Dubuis Excalibur Skeleton Watches (Updated with Live Photos and Prices)

Roger Dubuis has declared 2015 to be “The Year of the Skeleton,” unveiling a slew of new skeletonized watches from its flagship Excalibur collection at SIHH 2015. Here’s more on two of them, the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton and Excalibur Spider Flying Tourbillon.

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Jan 21, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astrotourbillon Skeleton (Updated with Live Photo)

At its SIHH 2015 presentation, Cartier introduced a new version of its Astrotourbillon concept: the Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astrotourbillon Skeleton. The watch lays bare the workings of its unusual rotating tourbillon mechanism, suspending it in in the skeletonized movement.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

Camo and Chrono: 7 Interesting Casio G-Shock Watches

For fans and collectors of Casio G-Shock watches, WatchTime reveals why there are seven more reasons to make room on their shelves and wrists. These military-style, camouflage-pattern Casio G-Shock watches are available in a total of seven new color schemes.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Reversed Tourbillon (Updated with Live Photos and Price)

Cartier has introduced more than 100 new watch references at SIHH 2015. One of the most interesting is the Rotonde de Cartier Reversed Tourbillon, a watch whose unconventional flying tourbillon is displayed on a minimalist, sunburst-guilloché dial with an off-center hours and minutes display.

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Jan 20, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept RD#1 (Updated with Live Photo)

As it did last year, Audemars Piguet presented a new Royal Oak Concept watch at the 2015 SIHH watch fair. This year’s model is truly a milestone: The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept RD#1 (formerly nicknamed “Acoustic Research”) — which I saw, and heard, in person today — is a unique prototype piece that is...

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Jan 20, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Piaget Presents the World’s Thinnest Hand-Wound Chronograph (Updated with Live Photo and Price)

Piaget watches have long been renowned for their elegant thinness, and the brand has set numerous watch-world thinness records with its releases of recent years. The new Piaget Altiplano Chronograph, which debuted this week at SIHH 2015 — sets another one, for world’s thinnest hand-wound flyback chronograph.

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Jan 19, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

SIHH 2015: Montblanc Heritage Spirit Orbis Terrarum (Updated with Live Photos and Prices)

Montblanc has launched a number of new travel-oriented watches at SIHH 2015 in Geneva. One of them, the Montblanc Heritage Spirit Orbis Terrarum is a new take on the world timer, showing the hour in 24 time zones at once.

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Jan 19, 2015 by Jay Deshpande

Looking Time in the Eye: Two New HYT Skull Watches

Skulls are a popular motif in luxury watches lately — check out our list of some of the most notable ones — and now HYT, one of the most unconventional watchmakers out there, gets in on the act in its own unique “hydromechanical horology” style with the release of the HYT Skull, available in two...

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Jan 15, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime’s January-February 2015 Issue is On Sale Now!

The January-February issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also in the WatchTime online shop), featuring our test of the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Flyback Chrono, a feature on Patek Philippe’s 175th anniversary watches, a a comparative review of four three-hand dive watches, and more. Scroll down for highlights from the issue…

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Jan 13, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Tissot’s Luxury Automatics Offer 80-Hour Power Reserve

We present a close-up look at the new Tissot Luxury Automatic COSC collection, which contain the new caliber nicknamed Powermatic 80, an automatic movement with COSC chronometer certification and an 80-hour power reserve.

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Jan 12, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

TAG Heuer Focuses on Caliber 1887, Delays Launch of Carrera CH80

If you’re anticipating the release of the announced release of the new TAG Heuer Carrera CH80 chronograph, you will need to wait a bit longer. TAG Heuer has announced today it has decided to focus on the production of a single chronograph movement, Caliber CH1887, launched in 2010.

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Jan 10, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime’s Top 5 Most Popular Watches on Instagram

Did you know that WatchTime has an Instagram page, in which we regularly post a plethora of watch images, from “soldier’ shots provided by the brands to original photography by WatchTime’s own expert photojournalists to live “wristies” snapped at watch fairs and events? Here are, currently, the top five most “liked” Instagram photos on our...

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Jan 10, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

6 Panerai Watches That Recently Debuted in Hong Kong

Panerai has announced six new watches last year in Hong Kong, two of which are part of an exciting Special Edition set. The new models, introduced at the Hong Kong “Watches and Wonders” fair, range from a simple automatic with a new movement to a tourbillion GMT. We have all the prices. Let’s take a...

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Jan 7, 2015 by WatchTime

Watch Insider: Tissot Offers Automatic 80-Hour Movements at Affordable Prices

Watch-Insider takes a look at Tissot's Powermatic 80, and much like Swatch's new Sistem 51 caliber, Tissot's automatic 80-Hour movement represents another quiet watchmaking revolution.

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Jan 6, 2015 by Alexander Linz

Close-Up: Rolex’s 50th Anniversary Daytona (with Video)

In this feature article, we take a close look at the special anniversary edition of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, the chronograph watch made famous by actor and motor racing enthusiast Paul Newman.

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Jan 6, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Watches at Wimbledon: Who Wears What

As many watch aficionados and tennis fans know, some of the Wimbledon tournament’s biggest stars are also “brand ambassadors” for some watch brand or other. So which watch will we see on the wrist of the eventual men’s and ladies’ Wimbledon champs at the trophy presentation this year? We don’t know yet, but here’s a...

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Jan 5, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Hublot King Power Ayrton Senna

November 3, 2014, would have been Ayrton Senna’s 54th birthday. On that date in 2010, on the occasion of the Interlagos Grand Prix in Brazil, Senna’s sister Viviane, along with the Instituto Ayrton Senna and Hublot, united the Formula 1 family along with Senna’s friends and loved ones to commemorate his 50th birthday, which featured...

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Jan 5, 2015 by WatchTime