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Dive Watches

Dive watches are very popular watches with sports fans, divers and aquatic collectors. Made specifically for diving, the best dive watches boast high water-resistance and ultra-resistant cases, sometimes with highly illuminated dials and features specifically made for ambitious divers. Among the leading divers watch models are the Rolex Submariner, Omega Seamaster, Kobold dive watches, UTS diving watch and many other models.

Tudor Goes Diving with the French Navy: Introducing the Pelagos FXD

Few brands generate as much buzz as does Tudor these days with new releases from its vintage-inspired dive watch collections — as witness the excitement over this year’s launches of the Black Bay Chronograph and Black Bay Ceramic. The latest, hailing from the Rolex-owned watchmaker’s Pelagos family, is an unusual, military-grade watch purpose-built for the...

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Nov 15, 2021 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

Mission Timers: Five Modern Watches with MIL-SPEC Origins

Like Jeeps, GPS, and the Internet, some of today’s popular wristwatch models started out as military projects. Here are five modern timepieces whose ancestors were made-to-order for soldiers, sailors, and airmen.

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Nov 5, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Black, Blue, and Wet All Over: Panerai Submersible Chrono Flyback Mike Horn Edition

Panerai’s relationship with professional adventurer and explorer Mike Horn spans nearly two decades and encompasses several special-edition watches, most recently 2019’s Submersible Mike Horn Limited Edition – 47mm, which ushered in the relaunch of the Submersible collection as a new pillar of the Panerai brand. The latest Panerai timepiece paying tribute to Horn, which dropped...

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Oct 28, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime New York 2021: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms in Rose Gold with Blue Ceramic Dial

America’s premier watch collectors’ event, WatchTime New York, is now less than a week away from making its triumphant return to Gotham Hall after a year’s hiatus. Once again, we are delighted to welcome Blancpain, among the exhibiting watch brands, which will have among its highlight timepieces the rose-gold cased model of its Fifty Fathoms...

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Oct 18, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

Il Dolce Orologio: Exploring the Eclectic Watch Families of Eberhard & Co.

While Italian watch enthusiasts have embraced the timepieces of Eberhard & Co. for well over a century, only a relative handful of American collectors are aware of the brand’s rich history and diverse offerings. Now, buoyed by a surprise Geneva Grand Prix win for its most historically significant model, Eberhard is making the U.S. sit up and take notice.

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Oct 11, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

A New Shark in Town: Introducing the Ulysse Nardin Diver Chronograph 44mm Limited Edition “Great White”

Ulysse Nardin has been quite busy in its 175th-anniversary year in terms of new releases, and that trend continues with the recent launch of the Diver Chronograph 44mm Limited Edition “Great White,” a creative take on a divers’ chronograph, executed in titanium and featuring an unusual white-and-gray colorway. The watch celebrates the Swiss brand’s latest...

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Oct 5, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Blue Swimming in Black: Introducing the Panerai Luminor Marina Carbotech Blu Notte

Panerai has been recognized in recent years for its forays into both avant-garde, high-tech case materials and bolder dial colorways. The Luminor Marina Carbotech Blu Notte, an online-exclusive limited edition unveiled this week, is the Florentine-rooted brand’s latest example of both those mission statements. It is the first model in the Panerai portfolio to combine...

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Sep 17, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Gray and Gradient: Oris Launches a Fresh-Faced Divers Sixty-Five

Oris has had a watershed year since last October, introducing its first in-house movement, Caliber 400, following it up with the launch of Caliber 401, and unveiling a steady stream of interesting models like the Aquis Date Upcycle and Aquis Date Caliber 400 41.5 mm, the latter of which will be showcased at this year’s...

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Sep 15, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

How Low Can You Glow? TAG Heuer Dives Deeper with Aquaracer Professional 300 Night Diver

Back in April, during Watches & Wonders, TAG Heuer announced the latest revamp of its well-established Aquaracer family of dive watches. The re-engineered Aquaracer Professional 300 kicked off with eight models, all featuring redesigned bezels with ceramic inserts, slimmer profiles, and several other upgrades. Now TAG Heuer expands the collection to 11 total references with...

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Sep 7, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Introducing the Newest Seiko U.S. Exclusives: the Prospex SLA053 and SLA059 “Seigaiha” Editions

Following on the heels of sister brand Grand Seiko’s own U.S.-exclusive announcement, Seiko has launched two new timepieces of its own that will be sold exclusively in the American market. Both hail from Seiko’s popular Prospex line of dive watches and feature a “Seigaiha” (or “blue ocean waves”) pattern on their dials, in either a...

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Sep 5, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Oris Aquis Date Upcycle Offers Unique Dials in Recycled PET Plastic

Oris has demonstrated its organizational commitment to environmental initiatives, particularly those devoted to the world’s oceans, in various ways throughout its product line. (The Dat Watt and Okavango Limited Editions, both released in the past few months, are just the most recent examples.) The Swiss brand has dabbled in using recycled PET plastic from the...

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Aug 30, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Showing at WatchTime Live 2021: Oris Aquis Date Caliber 400 41.5 mm

WatchTime New York, America’s largest luxury watch event, is returning for its sixth year at Midtown Manhattan’s Gotham Hall on October 22-24, with more than 25 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Oris, which is showcasing the new Aquis Date Caliber 400 41.5 mm, the latest model to contain the brand’s...

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Aug 23, 2021 by WatchTime

Carl F. Bucherer Patravi ScubaTec Maldives Extends Partnership with Manta Trust

Carl F. Bucherer kicked off its partnership with the Manta Trust, a charitable organization devoted to preserving endangered Manta Rays and their ecosystems, in 2017 and the collaboration has produced its fourth specially dedicated timepiece this year. The Patravi ScubaTec Maldives, which was unveiled at Watches & Wonders back in April, is noteworthy for its...

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Aug 15, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Born to be Wound: Alsta Teams with Beyond the Dial for the Motoscaphe 120, A Purpose-Built Watch for Motorcyclists

Watches and motorcycles. It’s a pairing that has long been regarded as a natural one, between two machines that both exemplify traditional pinnacles of coolness and masculinity — a relationship that lends a spark to countless advertisements, photos, and conversations. And yet, despite their long association in the collective mindset, very rarely have watches been...

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Aug 9, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

WATCH REVIEW

Borrowed Time: Oris Aquis Chronograph

Oris’s Aquis collection of professional-grade divers’ watches has grown to encompass a variety of limited editions devoted to marine conservation and preservation causes (i.e., 2017’s Hammerhead), a handful of small complications like big dates and small seconds, and notably, an innovative mechanical depth gauge. In 2018, the Holstein-based brand added a chronograph to the lineup....

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Jul 30, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Back to the Sea: Introducing the Tutima M2 Seven Seas Titanium

Germany’s Tutima has added a splash of summer color to its sportiest collection, while also upgrading its lightness-to-toughness ratio, with the recently released M2 Seven Seas Titanium. The new model offers two colorways sharing the same overall design, one predominantly yellow, the other in orange, both geared toward warm-weather wear. Notably, the two watches represent...

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Jul 28, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

A Pair of Adventurers: Panerai Submersible Chrono Flyback Jimmy Chin Editions

Panerai’s Submersible collection, which spun off from the larger Luminor family in 2019, has been defined largely by its association with rugged adventure and its forays into sustainable materials. With the release of two new timepieces in collaboration with alpinist, environmentalist and National Geographic photographer Jimmy Chin — both limited editions, one that comes with...

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Jul 8, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

FEATURE

The New Breed: How Bremont, Christopher Ward and Farer are Redefining British Watchmaking

The British won the war but lost their watchmaking. Though watchmaking had existed in Switzerland as a cottage industry since the Age of Enlightenment, the Swiss did not truly dominate commercial watchmaking until World War II when the neutral country freely used resources – from metals to skilled labor to capital – that other countries...

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Jul 7, 2021 by Allen Farmelo

Reservoir Partners with Underwater Photographer for Hydrosphere Bronze “Greg Lecoeur” Edition

In 2019, French-founded watchmaking house Reservoir unveiled its first dive watch, the aptly named Hydrosphere, whose unique configuration added a diving bezel to the brand’s signature racing-inspired retrograde time display. One year later, Reservoir introduced the Hydrosphere Bronze, which added intrigue thanks to its use of the uncommon case material. This year, the maker revisits...

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Jul 6, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Return of the French Skin Diver: Introducing the New Jacques Bianchi JB 200

Marseille-based master watchmaker Jacques Bianchi began providing models of the JB 200, a distinctively designed, quartz-powered divers’ watch that he developed for his eponymous brand, to the French Navy in the mid-1980s. Now 80 years old, Bianchi has partnered with a small team of French watch-industry players to resurrect the JB200 for a modern audience,...

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Jul 4, 2021 by Mark Bernardo
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