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Breaking News: Rolex Closes Swiss Factories Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Facilities will close March 17 through March 27.
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Facilities will close March 17 through March 27.
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Place Vendôme has always held an extraordinary attraction for Martin Green: he cannot visit the French capital without going there. The square is occupied by hôtel particuliers, or historical city townhouses, which served as homes and offices to some of the richest and most influential families in France. And while their façades are homogeneous, what's behind them is not: one of the magical places there is the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique at 7 Place Vendôme.
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De Bethune is one of the most avant-garde watch brands on the planet. Knowing that, did you ever wonder what its factory looks like? Is it much different from other watch factories? What do this brand’s technicians do differently than others? How do they get the watches to look like that? And the most burning question: does the factory look like a spaceship? These questions and more get answered here.
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Few get to check out Breguet’s factory from the inside, and those who do generally don’t get to take photographs of what they see. This modernized factory in the heart of the remote Vallée de Joux with its many annexed hallways, secretive doors, and interesting manufacturing capabilities has long been a jealously guarded secret. Elizabeth Doerr reveals what's behind the doors at Breguet.
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The team at London's A Collected Man just sold a genuine piece of horological history.
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News last weekend that Switzerland’s competition regulator, COMCO, also widely known by its German acronym Weko, was weighing a ban on ETA movement sales to third-party brands caused a major stir in the watch industry – and a terse, lengthy response from Swatch Group, ETA’s parent and Switzerland’s biggest watchmaking conglomerate. The move was ostensibly to allow alternatives to ETA – once Switzerland’s dominant supplier of mechanical movements – to develop. According to the Swatch Group, the ban was entirely without merit, especially given the fact that ETA was no longer the biggest supplier of movements to the industry. That title now belongs to Sellita, which supplied a million movements in 2019, compared to half the number for ETA. Now COMCO has formalised the year-long ban in an announcement that puts in place a “temporary suspension of the supply of [ETA] mechanical movements to customers”. The ban will be in force until COMCO makes its final decision by the summer of 2020. The ban, however, allows ETA to sell its movements to existing clients that are small- and medium-sized watch brands, defined as having less than 250 employees, which will probably be of little consolation to ETA. According to a Swatch Group spokesman quoted by Reuters, the majority of ETA’s movement sales are to companies with more than 250 employees, and as a result, ETA foresees it won’t be able to sell any movements next year. According to the statement, the ban is foun...
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We bring you the details and our thoughts on the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 'Meteorite'.
Revolution
The once prominent French watchmaking industry is currently witnessing a revival; Revolution looks at some interesting brands making a splash.
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Closed caseback, honey gold, stainless steel. Need I say more?
Two Broke Watch Snobs
This new iteration of the LIMES Endurance GMT features the same updates that the flagship Endurance II dive model received. You can think of it as the Endurance II with a GMT hand. Differences that I've noted...
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Another Friday, another selection of great watches from around the web.
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We take a look at the Tutima Hommage Minute Repeater, the first minute repeater wristwatch to be designed and manufactured in Germany.
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Global exports through June rose just 1.4% in value versus the first six months of 2018.
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The war for our wrists is far from over.
Revolution
The story of the 1960s Tornek Rayville TR-900 and the Force Recon Battalion soldiers who wore it to war.
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Revolution
Patek Philippe’s Thierry Stern-designed 5970 represents generational change for the company and good investment value for the collector.
Deployant
A new brand, Ultramarine introduces their first watch - the Morse UTC, with a few surprises: Fair Trade prices, and completely transparent vendor policy.
On an adventure in Germany’s Black Forest region, Revolution’s Sophie Furley discovers a rich horological heritage that spans everything from the cuckoo clock to the mighty Junghans Manufacture.
Two Broke Watch Snobs
Mike and Kaz are reunited after a brief recording hiatus and it's time to catch up. This week, the guys talk about some of the biggest mistakes watch collectors make. Kaz is also finding it harder to part with the Nodus Trieste. Special thanks to everyone who has entered the giveaway so far!
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Deployant
VAULT watches launched their V1 prototypes at Schmohl AG, Zurich. In a nice ambiance surrounded by luxurious cars, Mark Schwarz presented the VAULT V1.
Deployant
This is Part 3 of our series on Movas Watches, where we follow Sean Wai on the process of designing a watch from scratch.
In the first Big Bang GMT watch, Hublot has simplified the operation of a complex complication, enabling the second time zone to be updated instantly by a push of a button.
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The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 differs from other smartwatches in two key areas: execution and actually delivering what it promises.
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