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Omega Unveils Seamaster 15,000 Gauss, the World’s Most Antimagnetic Watch

Omega, which pioneered the use of innovative new materials and technologies in watchmaking, has introduced perhaps its most impressive technological accomplishment in recent years, the development of a wristwatch that is resistant to magnetic fields greater than 15,000 gauss, a level far exceeding that of any other watch.

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Mar 18, 2013 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

WatchTime’s March-April Issue is On Sale Now!

The March-April issue of WatchTime is on newsstands now (and also available for the Nook, Kindle, and iPad), featuring a test of the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra GMT, a look at new watch releases from SIHH, a visit to the Swiss watchmaking village of Le Locle, the untold story of Winston Churchill’s lost watch, a...

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Mar 14, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Watch Wallpaper: Seiko Astron

In WatchTime’s March-April issue, on sale now, technical editor Mike Disher examines the new Seiko Astron, a watch that tells time by receiving GPS signals from anywhere on Earth, and we debut the work of our newest ace watch photographer, Robert Atkinson. Click here to download wallpaper images of Robert’s photos of the Seiko Astron.

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Mar 11, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

IWC Joins WatchTime for Ingenieur Launch Event at New York Boutique

Last year, IWC Schaffhausen opened its flagship boutique on New York’s Madison Avenue with a celebrity-filled gala. On Tuesday night, the boutique played host to the United States launch of the brand’s re-tooled Ingenieur line of sports watches, co-hosted by IWC and WatchTime.

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Mar 7, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Former Rolex CEO Heiniger Dies

Rolex SA has announced that Patrick Heiniger, the company’s managing director and chief executive officer from 1992 to 2008, has died. Click the link to read the official statement from Rolex.

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Mar 6, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Rolex to Launch Tudor in the U.S. this Summer

Rolex has confirmed to WatchTime that it will be launching its sister brand, Tudor, in the United States in the late summer. It has set up a new company, Tudor Watch USA LLC, in New York City.

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Mar 5, 2013 by Norma Buchanan

Tutima Begins Deliveries of Its Hommage Minute Repeater

In summer 2011, Germany-based Tutima, known chiefly for its modestly priced pilots’ watches, unveiled a watch-world first: the first minute repeater wristwatch whose entire mechanism was built entirely in the German watchmaking town of Glashütte. As of the beginning of this year, the company announced, deliveries of the eagerly awaited timepiece have finally begun.

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Feb 25, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Fossil Goes Upscale With New Swiss-Made Watches

Texas-based Fossil, Inc., known for its range of low-priced, mass market wristwatches and accessories, has launched a new collection of Swiss-made timepieces, the first from the brand to include Swiss movements, including some mechanicals, with prices ranging from $695 to $995.

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Feb 21, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Vacheron Constantin Offers New 1972 Prestige for Opening of Paris Boutique

On June 23, 1972, at Paris’s Ritz Hotel, the Comité de France awarded the rare and coveted Prestige de la France award to Swiss watch manufacture Vacheron Constantin. As the first Swiss watch brand to receive this distinction, Vacheron launched a distinctive, asymmetrical timepiece, now referred to as the 1972. Now, to celebrate the opening...

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Feb 20, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

RGM Marks 20 Years With Third In-House Caliber

RGM, the pioneering Pennsylvania-based watch brand founded in 1992 by Roland G. Murphy, turns 20 years old in 2012. Murphy commemorated the anniversary in the manner he knows best: by developing his brand’s third in-house mechanical movement, called Caliber 20, and outfitting it in a new watch that RGM introduced at January’s Geneva Time Exhibition.

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Feb 18, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Bruce Willis Wears Hamilton Jazzmaster Watch in “A Good Day to Die Hard”

Action star Bruce Willis returns to the role of everyman hero John McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard, which opened in theaters this week. Keen-eyed watch buffs will note the timepiece that Willis wears in the film, which has been identified as a Hamilton Jazzmaster Viewmatic. Actor Jai Courtney, who plays McClane’s estranged...

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Feb 15, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

F.P. Journe Releases Octa Perpetual Calendar

Independent watchmaker Francois-Paul Journe has added a ninth model to his eponymous brand’s Octa collection, called the F.P. Journe Quantième Perpétuel, a perpetual calendar timepiece with an instantaneous jump function. The watch, which will be limited to 900 pieces, made its debut in Geneva during the SIHH and GTE watch fairs.

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Feb 13, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Richard Mille’s New RM 011 Brings Another F1 Material to Watchmaking

Richard Mille has long been at the forefront of introducing new materials into watchmaking, particularly those used in the world of Formula One auto racing. At this year’s SIHH, the brand introduced yet another first in that area: the new RM 011 Flyback Chronograph, the first watch with a case made of brown silicon nitride.

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Feb 12, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Video: WatchTime Talks Racecars and Watches with Lamborghini’s CEO

Last week, WatchTime attended the “global dynamic launch” of the Lamborghini LP 700-4 Aventador Roadster in Miami as a guest of Blancpain, which partnered with Lamborghini in 2009 to establish the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo single-make race series. While there, we had the opportunity to speak with Lamborghini CEO Stephen Winkelmann, who answered questions about...

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Feb 6, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Gucci Launches New Watch for 2013 Grammy Awards

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will take place this weekend in Los Angeles, and for the third year in a row, Gucci Timepieces & Jewelry will release a new, Grammy-branded wristwatch to coincide with the music industry’s biggest night.

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Feb 5, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Carnival of Venice: Ulysse Nardin’s New Minute Repeater

Ulysse Nardin’s San Marco minute repeater, introduced in the late 1980s, was a bold rebuke to the so-called “quartz crisis,” which at the time seemed to herald the obsolescence of the complicated mechanical wristwatch. This year, in advance of this spring’s Baselworld watch fair, Ulysse Nardin again struts its stuff as a producer of ornately...

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Feb 4, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Photo Slideshow: Inside SIHH 2013

The 2013 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) was held last week in Geneva. And unlike its larger counterpart in Basel, this watch fair is mostly closed to the public. To give our WatchTime fans a glimpse of what goes on in those hallowed halls of horology, we’ve compiled a slideshow of photos, taken...

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Jan 31, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

A. Lange & Söhne Unveils its Grand Complication at SIHH

Avid fans and collectors of A. Lange & Söhne are now one step closer to their Holy Grail: the German watch brand announced at the SIHH in Geneva that it will release its long-anticipated Grand Complication wristwatch this year — and, from the standpoint of complications, it looks to be even more than many expected.

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Jan 29, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Swatch Group Acquires Harry Winston Watch & Jewelry

The Swatch Group has added another jewel — or, more precisely, jeweler — to its crown. The Bienne, Switzerland-based company, which owns watch brands ranging from Swatch to Hamilton to Omega to Breguet, announced Monday that it is acquiring world-renowned jewelry brand Harry Winston, which in recent years has also become a bastion of high...

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Jan 16, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime’s January-February Issue Is On Sale Now!

The January-February issue of WatchTime is in stores now, featuring a test of Breitling’s Transocean Chronograph Unitime, an inside look at Rolex’s new movement manufacture in Bienne, an in-depth profile of Piaget, an investigation of the counterfeit watch epidemic, and more. Click here for highlights from the issue…

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Jan 15, 2013 by Mark Bernardo