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Omega Speedmaster ’57 Rides Back in Time
The Omega Speedmaster ’57 Co-Axial Chronograph gets aboard a pair of retro-styled Royal Enfields for a trip along the open roads of California.
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The Omega Speedmaster ’57 Co-Axial Chronograph gets aboard a pair of retro-styled Royal Enfields for a trip along the open roads of California.
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I don’t want to sound too hyperbolic, but Baselworld 2019 will be make or break. The once grand fair has been navigating turbulent waters for a while now, and last year’s mass exodus by Swatch Group brands ripped a hole in the hull that almost sunk it. This year’s fair will be smaller again, and … ContinuedThe post LIST: 6 things I want (and hope) to see at Baselworld 2019 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Swatch Watches unveils the Swatch Flymagic featuring the Swatch Group’s latest innovation in watchmaking: the titanium-based Nivachron hairspring.
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We go inside Glashütte Original's in-house dial facility in Pforzhiem to show you how the vintage dials on the Sixties edition are made.
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In the last few years, skeletonised watches have undergone a renaissance. Once overly designed and overwrought, at some point this distinctive genre segued from niche to very nice indeed. And Jaquet Droz’s Skelet-One is a great example of this new breed. Clean and simple, rather than ornate, is the name of the game for this … ContinuedThe post INTRODUCING: Jaquet Droz’s Grande Seconde Skelet-One Ceramic appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Romain Gauthier’s first series watch in stainless steel brims with distinctive detail, not least a unique crown configuration and rare meteorite dial.
Two Broke Watch Snobs
On Bill's wrist, we caught a glance of a watch that seems to be making the rounds with one of our favorite billionaires - the Casio Duro Marlin MDV106-1A.
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If one needs a reason to go watch shopping, Valentine’s Day provides! Here’s a quick gift guide for showering some love on the man of your life.
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Marie-Laure Cérède, creative director of watchmaking at Cartier, is our eloquent tour guide for the 2019 Cartier collection, with a focus on the new faces and physiques of the Santos family. The 2019 Santos-Dumont T+T: What is the logic behind the new quartz movement-powered and smaller-sized Santos-Dumont? MLC: Since we relaunched the Santos last year … ContinuedThe post LIST: 3 Santos models from the new Cartier collection explained by Cartier appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Romain Gautier Prestige HMS Stainless Steel featuring a dial from ultra rare Henbury meteorite, and the first from the maison in stainless steel.
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If one needs a reason to go watch shopping, Valentine’s Day provides! Here’s a quick gift guide for showering some love on the woman of your life.
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To celebrate its Year of Cinema, Hamilton is introducing the Khaki Field Murph.
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When it comes to Vacheron Constantin’s SIHH releases, there’s no doubt the pieces that were the talk of the town (and rightfully so) were the epic Twin Beat and the slightly less epic but epically attractive Overseas Tourbillon. And I get it, they’re both great watches. The Twin Beat is a triumph of clever engineering … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin – now on a fully gold bracelet appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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When the Swiss watchmaking industry found itself in the pits, it took a visionary man and a most improbable Swatch to lift it to new heights.
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Frederique Constant adds two new dials to their Hybrid Manufacture series. The series is a clever hybrid of mechanical watchmaking and smart technology.
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One of the world’s most prolific and knowledgeable collectors, Ahmed Rahman - better known to his friends as “Shary” or @Time_Mechanic - tells Wei Koh about his fascination with Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Richard Mille and, finally, Omega.
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If the increasingly frantic targeted ads in my Instagram feed for fancy underwear and/or chocolate are anything to go by, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Well, if you’re reading this and have left your extravagant-show-of-affection-giftstravaganza run a little late, don’t worry. We - or rather Blancpain - have your back. Say hello to … ContinuedThe post INTRODUCING: Love is in the air – Blancpain’s Villeret Women Quantième Phases de Lune appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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We bring you the details and our thoughts on the new A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds in white gold with black dial.
Revolution
The 1960s saw Piaget’s ornamental stone watches become the choice of the bold and the beautiful, from Jackie Kennedy to Elizabeth Taylor and beyond.
Two Broke Watch Snobs
This week we return to our bread and butter - the Affordable Vintage Watch series! This week's episode is Part 7 of the installment and it's all freestyle. Mike and Kaz check out eBay in real time on air and explore fun affordable vintage pieces that you may never have considered. Check out this week's show and let us know what you think!
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As far as complications go, perpetual calendars are typically classically styled, verging on the stuffy, depending on how well they’re done. Not that there’s anything fundamentally wrong with this – after all, fine watchmaking thrives on tradition. But I can understand the desire to shake things up a little, and throw down some contemporary styles, … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: Glashütte Original go all out with their contemporary Senator Excellence Perpetual Calendar appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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If you had any doubts about Panerai’s position as kings of the deep, their SIHH 2019 release catalogue would have dispelled them. Panerai’s hero watch is, of course, the Submersible. It’s one of the brand’s most interesting designs, as it honours their historically important case shape (cushiony, with a fairly famous crown guard), while adding … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: 3 standout Submersibles from Panerai’s SIHH 2019 collection appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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In this week's Throwback Sunday, Deployant's Robin takes a look back at some of his favourite watches that he had reviewed over the last five years.
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The Pilot’s Watch Chronograph TOP GUN Edition "Mojave Desert" (Ref. IW389103) is the first watch by the brand with a case made from sand-coloured ceramic. This reference is limited to 500 pieces.
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Revolution goes in search of the Tudor Oysters that were tested to their limits during a perilous expedition to Greenland in the 1950s.
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Grand Seiko's new slim design in the Elegance Collection. Four new watches in a new case design with a new manual-winding caliber, 2 with urushi dials.
Get ready, American watch lovers, Watches & Wonders is coming to Miami again.
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