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Vintage Watches: A 1951 Audemars Piguet, A 1972 Movado El Primero 'Pilot,' And A 1960s Universal Genève Polerouter Date
Led by a stunning time-only Audemars Piguet, this week's drop is our best in December by far.
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Led by a stunning time-only Audemars Piguet, this week's drop is our best in December by far.
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Oren Hartov, watch writer and fourth-generation veteran, has a question. Can a solid-gold dress watch also be a military watch?
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Black dials galore this week in a tightly curated selection of vintage watches in the H Shop.
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Before I was an ambassador, I was a fan of the brand. And here's the watch I love right now.
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The forgotten gems inside Breguet's Type XX collection.
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Finding the right color for these cases required more than looking at a paint swatch.
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How a watch company is pushing to increase diversity and inclusion within motorsport.
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And Sandra Bullock wears George Clooney's timepiece in our watch-related movie of the week.
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And Jessica Chastain wears the Murph in our special Father's Day watch-related movie of the week.
Revolution
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Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
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A legendary car, a top-of-the-line team, and a new watch to celebrate.
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The WWII-era fighter will stop in 30 countries, and cover 27,000 miles on a round-the-world flight.
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Feast your eyes on 36mm of horological history.
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The company's enlistment of Pantone enables different parts to be manufactured to monochromatic spec.
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For an important anniversary we get a purist's take on a true classic.
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The less you do, the more you do.
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The Ingenieur ref. 3521 is a Genta-designed contemporary of the Nautilus and Royal Oak. So why are they going for a song?
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With a still-ongoing pandemic, some might think it quite fitting that the Pantone Color Institute chose Ultimate Gray 17-5104 as one of its two Colors of the Year for 2021. Check out these five elegant timepieces with gray dials that are available now and decide for yourself if gray brightens your day as much as that of Sabine Zwettler.
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"We have met the enemy and he is us." -Walt Kelly, Pogo
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The Swiss-German watchmaker partners with California-Based Collective Horology
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Air, land, or sea – these watchmakers have you covered.
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Watches we love, the second time around.
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Five stars all around.
SJX Watches
Gunshots ring out with an unnerving cadence, and the chants of angry crowds ring across the city. It is Sunday, February 11, 1979. Come Monday morning, the country’s biggest newspaper hits newsstands with the front page proclaiming: “The Regime Has Disintegrated”. The provisional government collapsed the day before, with the military having returned to its barracks – leaving the Islamic Revolution triumphant. All day long that Monday, a young man ignores the revolutionary chaos as best he can, dedicating himself to picking up the phone every hour and dialling his father’s office at air force headquarters within Doshan Tappeh Air Base in Tehran. Each time his father answers and calmly reassures the son all is well. For a few months now, the son has tried to talk his father into leaving the country. The Shah had already fled and tensions were rising. But each time his old man responded in the same manner, “I am a soldier of this land and my duty calls me to stay.” Not only did the father remain in the country, he dutifully turned up to work every day. Nader Jahanbani (right) with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, in the early 1970s; Nader has his GMT-Master on his wrist On that fateful Monday, the son calls at six in the evening and hears his father’s voice. He calls again at seven and his father picks up the phone. An hour later, he dials the number once again and listens to the phone ringing. No one answers. He tries again a few minutes later ...
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Captain Herman Griffin's unique Rolex with a high-flying backstory is up for sale.
And how a 30,000-G force affects a watch – or doesn't.
A golden watch from the golden age of commercial aviation.
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Plus, more on a recent thought-provoking column that got the watch internet talking.
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A sterling case to complement the El Primero's sterling reputation.
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