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Auctions: Jean-Claude Biver To Sell Four Masterpiece Pateks From His Personal Collection At Phillips This May
A quartet of legendary watches from a modern legend in watchmaking.
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Diameter is the number every product page leads with. lug-to-lug is the number that decides whether the watch stays on your wrist. a tour through the WristBuzz watch dimensions database.
The single most important wristwatch fit dimension, more practical than case diameter. Comfort thresholds and reference numbers.
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A quartet of legendary watches from a modern legend in watchmaking.
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Two locations, two different experiences of watchmaking.
Quill & Pad
For the Michel Perchin Model #1, designer and brand owner Patrick Pinkston works with a well-versed goldsmith workshop in the United Kingdom that he describes as “literally fabricating one case at a time.” There, each 36 x 55 mm white gold case is hand-finished and engraved. What else makes this independently crafted timepiece notable? Nancy Olson has the full story.
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Hosted by The Hour Glass and Passion Fine Jewelry.
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Instagram has done a lot of good for the watch collecting hobby. But holy hell, it has its problems. Today, Kaz and Mike talk through some of their biggest issues with Instagram, trends that are taking the hobby by storm, and ways that the platform is harming growth overall.
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Once the humble reserve of the airline pilot, the GMT-Master has been iced more times than an Aeroflot jumbo’s wings
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Continuing the search for the owners of watches worn by The Greatest Generation.
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For its first European Boutique, the Japanese watchmaker has chosen an address synonymous with Parisian luxury.
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Bulgari pushes watchmaking boundaries again with the smallest tourbillon on the market, housed now in the fantastic Serpenti Seduttori Tourbillon
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Bulgari knocks it out of the park, at LVHM Watch Week 2020 with their new Octo Finissimo in stain-polished stainless steel.
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A fitful glance back at the peaks and dips of the year preceded, as we’re flung headlong without favour or mercy into the unknowns of 2020.
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Some people are just collectors through and through.
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Forget the hype and celebrate the top of the top.
Science fiction meets spacecraft technology with a clockwork rover on the surface of Venus.
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A legendary pilot's watch comes back as a re-issue. Here, we bring you the details and our thoughts on the Blancpain Air Command Chronograph.
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Few people have seen these watches beyond the soldiers, sailors, and airmen that received them.
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LVMH buys iconic jewelry brand Tiffany for more than $16 billion.
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A few of the most interesting lots from this season's Hong Kong sales.
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Your weekly dose of watches from around the Web.
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It'll be out of this world.
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Long before the Odysseus “sport-elegant” watch, A. Lange & Söhne already had a serially produced timepiece in stainless steel. In the late 1990s, just as the brand was rapidly gaining traction as the preeminent German watchmaker – remember that it had only unveiled its wristwatch collection in 1994 – the company rolled out the fabled 1815 service watch. (NB: Sotheby’s has withdrawn the watch from the sale.) The rationale behind the watch was simple: a loaner for clients who had sent in their Lange wristwatch for servicing. Staying true to the exceptionally high standards the start-up brand had established for itself, the loaner was not a disposable or cut-rate watch. It was a time-only 1815 that was almost identical to the standard model – with the same highly finished movement and solid silver dial – except the case was steel while the dial was black with white markings, a colour not available on the regular production watch. Note the case back engraving. Photo – Sotheby’s Reputedly around 80-120 of these service watches were made. They were produced in small batches over a period, perhaps over a handful of years from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The number might not seem like much, but with the company being relatively new at the time, the number of watches returned for servicing was presumably quite small. The movement in the service watch is finished to exactly the same level as that on a standard watch. Photo – Sotheby’s The 1815 serv...
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The famous clockmaker will discuss the world of independent horology.
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Rolliefest 2019 was truly something special.
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There are only a handful of brands who specialise in such items, one of which is Rapport, founded in 1898 by an ambitious 20-year-old watchmaker by the name of Maurice A. Rapport.
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It might be time for some new records. Or maybe not. Who really knows?
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A horological commemoration of a French flying boat's first transatlantic passage.
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And today we're talking long balls.
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A new tower will replace the brand's long-standing Midtown home.
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