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These five vintage watches are great examples of the less travelled world of offbeat and idiosyncratic timepieces.The post 5 vintage watches that are so uncool, they’re actually amazing appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

In 2019 we ran an interesting four-part series by Tim Mosso of Watchbox fame detailing the history, present, and future of Rolex movements. Tim put hours and hours’ worth of research into this oeuvre, and now we thought it well worth drawing your attention to this series again in case you missed it first time around. Enjoy!

The 44GS case has been a staple in Grand Seiko’s line-up for a long time, with the Japanese luxury giant paying tribute to its 55th anniversary with multiple new releases over the past 12 months. This newest duo, the Grand Seiko SBGW291 and SBGW293, also fall into that category, being placed in Grand Seiko’s Heritage … ContinuedThe post The Grand Seiko SBGW291 and SBGW293 condense dazzling dials into 36.5mm cases appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

Our Café Racer correspondent reviews the just-announced Bulgari Aluminium Ducati Special Edition.

In which bridges go blue and some numerals disappear completely.

For the company's 190th anniversary, Longines looks to the past for inspiration.

A Panerai for the Stallone and Schwarzenegger in all of us.

Anton Dayrit, a Manila-born chef who runs a Filipino restaurant in New York City, recently came to a tough realization. He loves his 1956 Datejust. "But I'm a Submariner guy." What's a collector to do?

In early photo renderings from the brand, it looked kind of like a toy. In real life, it's all grown up.

Better the diver you know than the diver you don't.

In what's become a HODINKEE tradition, we traveled to England camera in hand to capture the best in the automotive and horological.

Seiko's Presage Cocktail series has been a great success. Now, two new models join the STAR BAR series - each limited to 5000 pieces.

The days are shorter so go ahead and make the most of them.

Here’s a great example of finding a story in the last place you’d expect. Turns out country superstar Luke Combs isn’t just a down-to-earth singer/songwriter, he also happens to be an unlikely watch nut. Flying in the face of his unpretentious everyman image, the country hitmaker has amassed a rather stellar collection in a relatively … ContinuedThe post Luke Combs: Down-home country star, high-end watch aficionado appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

A hallmark of Greubel Forsey’s unique brand of watchmaking is its inclined, high-speed tourbillon that completes two and a half revolutions per minute. In fact, it was the first tourbillon by Greubel Forsey (GF) when the brand made its debut in 2004. Almost two decades on, the brand’s quintessential regulator has been installed in something entirely different with the Tourbillon 24 Secondes Architecture. While the inclined tourbillon remains, the Architecture is almost entirely new as a watch, comprising a brand-new case design containing a reconstructed movement – that is a tangible realisation of architecture – which together form a cohesive whole. Initial thoughts The Architecture may seem like just another GF sports watch at first sight, so one might dismiss it as being merely a repurposed movement modified to fit into the brand’s bestselling sports watch case. But it is more than that. The inclined tourbillon has been transformed into something refreshingly novel where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. And it manages to be novel despite high-end sports watches being increasingly common. In short, it’s one of the most notable watches in the GF line-up. Despite the familiar mechanics of the tourbillon, the details of the movement have been comprehensively reimagined to emphasise the brand’s distinctive approach to movement construction, one that prizes three-dimensionality in design matched with impeccable finishing. This incremental improv...

Joshua Munchow became somewhat informed about gemstones and related techniques in studying for the jewelry-heavy Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève categories we discuss annually. This new information has sparked a significant amount of passion for the topic, leaving him wanting to share some of what he’s learned about one of the most beautiful sides of haute horology: gems and their settings.

With the world inching back towards the finish line of normality, travelling abroad has re-entered into the mix of our hectic lives. In a digital age where we are bombarded with notifications, a casual timecheck on your phone, can all of a sudden drag you back into your device and the hundred notification bubbles on … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: The Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT II is colourful, robust and competitively priced appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

A couple of years ago I wrote a few articles under the name The Modifier’s Series, providing an overview of the few brands capable of customising luxury watches to give them even more hype value. Outfits like MAD Paris, for example, managed to totally overhaul watches while catering to the modification requests of their clients, … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: Le Régulateur Louis Erard travels to the darkside with Label Noir appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

These clips are everywhere online right now. Almost unavoidable. And the questions they raise are thornier than you might expect.

Our watch-related movie of the week takes a familiar digital watch into the 22nd century.

When it was first announced that Jean-Claude Biver was joining Norqain as an advisor to the board, many wondered whether the position was merely ceremonial or if he’d make a genuine impact. During my conversation with Norqain CEO Ben Küffer on the matter back in June, he insisted that JCB was not simply lending his … ContinuedThe post The new Norqain Wild One has Jean-Claude Biver’s fingerprints all over it appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

We caught up with Deployant friend and collector Jack Wong. Jack has a prodigious collection but in this episode, we focus on his independent watches.

Sometimes you need to cut through the clutter. That’s the reason we assemble Time+Tide’s NOW magazine, a watch buying guide that curates the top watch releases of the year so far (207 of the blighters to be precise).  But that’s not all. We’ve also assembled a wildly entertaining assortment of some of the best watch writing … ContinuedThe post Five reasons to buy the new issue of NOW, the Time+Tide watch buying guide appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

Just three months after it announced Jean-Claude Biver joining its board,  Norqain has unveiled its first product conceived in conjunction with the industry veteran best known for having created Hublot as we know it today, the Wild One. The Wild One is a lightweight sports watch with a case of a carbon composite known as Norteq and a laser-cut, patterned dial. It’s the culmination of a two-year project involving Norqain, synthetic rubber specialist Biwi, and more recently Mr Biver, who “[challenged] the team to innovate; to create a lightweight and shock-resistant timepiece that reflects the brand’s active DNA”. Initial thoughts Often found in expensive and exotic sports watches – although not an expensive material in itself – carbon composite cases are uncommon at the US$5,000 price point, thought they are becoming more common. Alongside models from Oris and Bell & Ross, this is amongst the few offerings in this price segment. And the Wild One has all the features of a bona fide sports watch, including water resistance of 200 m and of course a robust Kenissi movement. That said, the Wild One will also have the downside that is intrinsic to carbon composite – it is essentially a type of plastic and looks the part, resulting in a look that you either like or not. Notably, the liberal use of modern synthetic materials like carbon composite and rubber certainly evokes other products Mr Biver had a hand in creating. And so do the aesthetics; the patterned di...

This week, both Luke and I made the journey to Switzerland to get hands-on with some exciting, new releases. With a case shaped like a flying saucer, the Rado DiaStar Original always wore its 1960s heritage very conspicuously indeed. Made from tungsten carbide, the DiaStar ushered in a new era of material experimentation in the … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Going wild with Norqain and reimagining a ’60s classic with Rado… appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.