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Mike and Kaz then breakdown the pros and cons of purchasing via grey market vs authorized dealers and boutiques. They both have some positive experiences to share and even some bad ones. But at the end of the day a discussion about what to look for in a reputable grey market dealer is had.
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We all have friends who wear watches made by brands like Daniel Wellington and The Horse. We also all know that these watches are, essentially, identical. Yet somehow these simple quartz dress watch look-a-likes seem to net their savvy owners massive piles of dosh. Some of us may have even wondered about starting our own minimalist … ContinuedThe post HOW TO: Start your own ‘minimalist’ watch brand appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Following on from their somewhat controversial releases at SIHH, Girard-Perregaux has surprised us with not one but two new pieces to add to their already brimming Laureato collection. Originally launched back in 1975, the then cutting-edge, quartz-powered Laureato was designed by an Italian architect who, the story goes, drew his inspiration from the dome of … ContinuedThe post INTRODUCING: When less is more – the Girard-Perregaux Laureato Skeleton appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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A unique piece from Glashütte brand Moritz Grossmann showcases its mechanical legitimacy and the artistry of a pure skeletonized movement.
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HYT H0 - Back to basics Baselworld 2017, HYT does a retrograde and jumps from its latest H4 back to H0. The latest of its mechanical liquid watches at the m
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This week the Two Broke Watch Snobs sit down and tuck in on discussing the past and potential future of the Swiss Watch Industries archaic marketing practices. Plus, market over-saturation, layoffs, the quartz crisis and a lot more. MIke also shares his experience field testing the Orion Field Standard - plus Kaz feels the need to bring up his dying, puking bird for some reason. Plus, you know - roaches wearing Rolexes... (#roacheswearingrolexes).
Two Broke Watch Snobs
Normally you think you'd have to spend some serious cash on a mechanical chronograph. But this week's show proves that's not the case. The guys each talk about two chronographs: one modern and one vintage. A notable part of the discussion is dedicated to Kaz's Vintage Poljot 3133.
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We don’t talk much about quartz here at Time+Tide, and that’s usually for a good reason. Most quartz watches are pretty boring. There are, however, some exceptional quartz technologies out there, and the just-announced Longines Conquest VHP is a great example of this. VHP stands for Very High Precision and it is, believe it or … ContinuedThe post INTRODUCING: The Longines Conquest VHP – very precise, very cool appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Our recent obsession with smart watches has rather overshadowed the merits of quartz, but Longines has brought our attention back with a brand new perpetual calendar movement that will not only keep the correct time and date to the year 2,400, it can also do it with a flat battery!
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Piaget‘s pioneering Altiplano has been impressing since 1957, and given that watch brands love nothing more than an anniversary, we were expecting plenty of that barely-there silhouette in the collection at SIHH. And that’s fair enough, when you consider that, 60 years on, mechanical watches still don’t come any slimmer than the Altiplano. Even so, we weren’t quite prepared for just … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Piaget 2017 collection overview proves thin is still in appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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If you’ve ever looked down at your smart watch and thought, ‘If only I could change that case out for a real mechanical watch by a recognisable Swiss luxury watch brand,’ boy are you in luck because that’s exactly what TAG Heuer‘s new Connected Modular 45 allows you to do. Going one step further than … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Halda watches believe in a future of interchangeable digital/mechanical watches. We believe they're a evolution rather than revolution of the genre.
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Don't tar watchmaker Van Cleef & Arpels with the brush of bejewelled Quartz watches when they're making movements smarter than most calibres out there
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The cool and elegant Vacheron Constantin booth at SIHH was packed with highly complicated pieces (including the most complicated piece), and their top-line SIHH releases were a mass of brain-bending masterpieces, heavy on the sonneries, sidereal time and celestial maps. But amid all this mechanical splendour I found myself coming back to a simpler – … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: What a difference a dial makes – the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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We grow up surrounded by myths and misconceptions but, believe it or not, bulls are not angered by red, bats are not blind and you can swallow chewing gum without it strangling your internal organs. Watchmaking has its own stories, one of the most enduring being that women do not buy high-end mechanical wristwatches for themselves. Who better to bust the myth than Richard Mille himself?
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Nothing beats first-hand experience and a first-person narrative for recounting and understanding the past. Master watchmaker Kurt Klaus recalls IWC in the decades before the quartz crisis, and working with another legend, Albert Pellaton.
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Created in the 1920s, the perpetual calendar is the least dramatic of complications but beneath its placid facade lies some grand mechanical wizardry.
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At their packed Baselworld press conference Seiko announced that 2016 was to be the year of their middle-tier Presage collection. The lion’s share of attention has been on the truly excellent limited edition Presage Chronograph, but there’s a lot to love in the rest of the collection too. Presage honours the spirit of fine mechanical watchmaking … ContinuedThe post GONE IN 60 SECONDS: Automatic for the people – the Seiko Presage SPB039J1 video review appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The future of women’s mechanical watches may sound like an unknown land that’s open to speculation and theorizing, but we’ve had plenty of clues about what the next frontiers could be, and it’s time we put these clues together.
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To celebrate 20 years of mechanical and aesthetic excellence, Chopard welcomes a GMT and a worldtime complication into the L.U.C collection.
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Patek Philippe minute repeaters are representative of the Genevan watchmaker's prowess in micro-mechanical engineering and art, this is how it happened.
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Story in a second No risk of second-album syndrome here – this slightly larger take on the Divers Sixty-Five is a worthy, if slightly more mainstream, follow-up to the original release. There must be something good in the water at Hölstein, because Oris has been on fire lately. The 100% mechanical brand has always had … ContinuedThe post IN-DEPTH: Is this the best heritage watch of 2016? The Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Just a year ago, we reviewed the Girard Perregaux Vintage 1945 Tourbillon with Three Golden Bridges. We were amazed by the design and quality of the watch. Not to be disappointed, Girard Perregaux's latest release at Baselworld 2016, the Girard Perregaux Esmeralda Tourbillon has once again impressed us with its high quality craftsmanship and mechanical expertise.
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The Ulysse Nardin Freak arrived at the beginning of the 21st century and was by far the most radical reinterpretation of the wristwatch since wristwatches had first started to be worn over a century before. The mechanical renaissance had at that point been well underway for over a decade, but wristwatch design, with very few […]
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With the TimeWalker Urban Speed UTC e- Strap watch, Montblanc explores the latest wearable technology by pairing a watchstrap that connects to the owner’s smartphone, with a fine timepiece driven by an automatic calibre. The result is a mechanical timepiece enhanced with digital functionalities.
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For a long time now, Grand Seiko has represented some of the finest value in mechanical horology today – but we’re here basically to, rewrite that old wives tale. Just earlier in the week, at a rather cozy meeting with Seiko at their office here in Singapore, we found ourselves in the company of this […]
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Famously worn on the wrist of Rafael Nadal, the Richard Mille RM27 is truly the epitome of sports watches as of this moment. Anyone who knows mechanical watches or watches in general can certainly comprehend that shock to a watch is like an earthquake to a wooden hut. Destructive and when at certain magnitudes, tantamount to utter destruction.
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Hands on review and analysis of the Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic True Second. Traditional, classical, but with a mechanical twist. Deadbeat seconds, seconde morte.
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Romantic, feminine and beautifully complicated, Christophe Claret’s new Marguerite for ladies delivers everything a women’s mechanical watch should be. Last year Christophe Claret unveiled his very first women’s watch-the Margot. This women’s complication was by far the belle of Baselworld 2014 with its movement designed exclusively for women, its feminine yet bold design, its playful […]
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This year marks MB&F;’s 10th anniversary, and to commemorate the milestone, the brand will present a series of anniversary pieces throughout the year with the theme ”A creative adult is a child who survived”. The first piece is an impressive mechanical table clock called Melchior. Why a robot named Melchior? MB&F; founder Max Büsser explains: […]
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