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We love that the popular chronograph gets an upgrade to an in-house chronograph caliber. This is very important for IWC to stay competitive especially with Georges Kern's Breitling B01 chronograph caliber. At around the same price but with a stock movement, the older model Portugieser Chronograph would become a party joke without the much needed upgrade.

A titanium flying tourbillon in two sizes.

Baumatic is back again in the complication game.

An entirely useful complication set with a dash of deco flair.

Watchbox’s energetic Tim Mosso chats with Elizabeth Doerr about the watch industry in the time of crisis, and the two share views on canceled trade shows, the increased importance of the internet, how brands might weather the storm, and much more.

With last year’s limited editions packaged with extreme adventures having sold well commercially, Panerai is once again offering a watch packaged with a once-in-a-lifetime experience, except that the timepiece is no longer merely a basic dive watch. Limited to just five pieces, the Submersible EcoPangaea Tourbillon GMT PAM01108 is equipped with a skeletonised movement featuring a second time zone and tourbillon. More unusually, the massive, 50 mm case of the PAM 1108 is fabricated from recycled steel. The EcoPangaea tourbillon has an unusual bezel milled to have its markings in relief Named EcoPangaea steel, the material is recycled from the discarded drive shaft of Pangaea, the 35 m sailboat owned by South African conservationist and explorer Mike Horn. The vessel has accompanied Mr Horn on various expeditions around the world, from Antarctica to the Amazon. Fittingly, the watch includes an Arctic adventure supervised by Mike Horn, which Panerai describes as “an opportunity to test your physical limits and witness the imperiled state of our ecosystem.” The perpendicular tourbillon The PAM 1108 is powered by the P.2005/T, a movement Panerai has used on several other skeleton-tourbillon watches. Hand-wound with a six-day power reserve, the P.2005/T incorporates a second time zone function with a central GMT hand, as well as the novel tourbillon at 10 o’clock. Unlike conventional tourbillons that rotate on the same plane as the dial, with the balance wheel oscilla...

Chabi Nouri, CEO at Piaget brings Revolution through all of the maison’s 2020 novelties.

I’m really excited to see a more classic silhouette behind the handset and pricing that isn’t entirely absurd; when you consider some of the previous Spring Drive and high-end automatic variants.

Lionel Favre, Product Design Director at Jaeger-LeCoultre brings Revolution through all of the maison’s 2020 novelties.

HYT’s modernist rendition of ancient water clocks adds two new models, an H0 and H5 in colours of day and night.

The modern Slim d’Hermès adds a GMT function, while keeping its ultra-thin profile.

These watches all tie in with Hermès’ theme for the year, “Innovation in Time”.

Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen brings Revolution through the maison’s complete Portugieser collection of 2020

IWC adds a great new clean execution of the perpetual calendar, a new Moon & Tide Yacht Club for the 2020 Portugieser Collection

Marking 190 years since its founding, Baume & Mercier presents two new in-house developments as well as a refreshed Hampton collection.

The caliber 945 in a new case and dial layout celebrates 10 years of the Master Grande Tradition Grande Complication, celebrating The Art of Sound by Jaeger-LeCoultre.

Vacheron Constantin are a member of the horological holy trinity for very good reason. When it comes to technical innovation and craftsmanship, they are close to peerless in their capacity to not only create some of the most complex and interesting movements ever, but execute the design in an extremely well-thought-out wristwatch. They won the … ContinuedThe post 7 highlights from the Vacheron Constantin 2020 collection appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

With the introduction of a white gold variant of the Odysseus, A. Lange & Söhne clearly confirms its intention to make the line a true “sixth family” within the Lange universe, not a narrow collection limited strictly to novel stainless steel watches.

The DW5600NASA20 is a new release from G-Shock that “pays homage to NASA” (National Aeronautics and Space Agency). Mostly pure white, the DW5600NASA20 is as clean as the Columbia Laboratory on the ISS. It features the old red NASA logo prominently above the display. There are some other interesting unique features as well...

Elevated designs and updated movements make the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Calendar and Master Control Date models stand out.

Wilhelm Schmid, CEO of A. Lange & Söhne brings Revolution through the maison’s complete collection of 2020 novelties.

The Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, a true A. Lange & Söhne Tour de Force, now comes cased in white gold.

Vacheron Constantin creates a pair of exceptional, highly complicated, and romantic wristwatches conceived by the master watchmakers of Les Cabinotiers.

Vacheron Constantin finds musical inspiration from the heavens above.