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Ep. #16 - The Swiss Watch Industry’s Archaic Marketing Practices, Roaches Wearing Rolexes, & More!

Two Broke Watch Snobs

Rolex es & More! Apr 1, 2017

Ep. #16 - The Swiss Watch Industry’s Archaic Marketing Practices, Roaches Wearing Rolexes, & More!

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).

Ep. #11 - The Poljot 3133 and Other Affordable Chronographs (Vintage and Modern)!

Two Broke Watch Snobs

Ep. #11 - The Poljot 3133 and Other Affordable Chronographs (Vintage and Modern)!

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.

INTRODUCING: The Longines Conquest VHP - very precise, very cool

Longines Conquest VHP – very Mar 17, 2017

INTRODUCING: The Longines Conquest VHP - very precise, very cool

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.

Longines Unveils the Conquest VHP - For Very High Precision

Longines Unveils Mar 16, 2017

Longines Unveils the Conquest VHP - For Very High Precision

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!

VIDEO: Piaget 2017 collection overview proves thin is still in

Piaget 2017 collection overview proves Mar 15, 2017

VIDEO: Piaget 2017 collection overview proves thin is still in

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.

HANDS-ON: The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45

TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 If Mar 14, 2017

HANDS-ON: The TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45

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.

Halda Watches: Is the Future really about Interchangeable Digi-Mech Watches?

Halda Watches: Is the Future really about Interchangeable Digi-Mech Watches?

Halda watches believe in a future of interchangeable digital/mechanical watches. We believe they're a evolution rather than revolution of the genre.

Beyond Time, Expressing Tales: The Curiously Intelligent Watches of Van Cleef & Arpels

Piaget are often [...] Feb 22, 2017

Beyond Time, Expressing Tales: The Curiously Intelligent Watches of Van Cleef & Arpels

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

HANDS-ON: What a difference a dial makes - the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar

Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar Jan 24, 2017

HANDS-ON: What a difference a dial makes - the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar

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.

Richard Mille - God’s Gift to Womankind

Richard Mille God’s Gift Jan 11, 2017

Richard Mille - God’s Gift to Womankind

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?

In Conversation with IWC Legend, Kurt Klaus

IWC Legend Kurt Klaus Nothing Jan 9, 2017

In Conversation with IWC Legend, Kurt Klaus

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.

Move aside Doc Strange, the Real Magic is in the Perpetual Calendar

Move aside Doc Strange, the Real Magic is in the Perpetual Calendar

Created in the 1920s, the perpetual calendar is the least dramatic of complications but beneath its placid facade lies some grand mechanical wizardry.

GONE IN 60 SECONDS: Automatic for the people - the Seiko Presage SPB039J1 video review

Seiko Presage SPB039J1 video review Oct 30, 2016

GONE IN 60 SECONDS: Automatic for the people - the Seiko Presage SPB039J1 video review

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.

Time’s Up

Time’s Up

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.

Exclusive: The Traveller’s Gift - Two New Watches From L.U.C

Chopard welcomes Oct 11, 2016

Exclusive: The Traveller’s Gift - Two New Watches From L.U.C

To celebrate 20 years of mechanical and aesthetic excellence, Chopard welcomes a GMT and a worldtime complication into the L.U.C collection.

Sound Investments: The Genius of Patek Philippe Minute Repeaters 1.

Patek Philippe Minute Repeaters 1 DEPLOYANT Aug 19, 2016

Sound Investments: The Genius of Patek Philippe Minute Repeaters 1.

Patek Philippe minute repeaters are representative of the Genevan watchmaker's prowess in micro-mechanical engineering and art, this is how it happened.

IN-DEPTH: Is this the best heritage watch of 2016? The Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm

Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm Story Aug 16, 2016

IN-DEPTH: Is this the best heritage watch of 2016? The Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm

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.

Review: Girard Perregaux Esmeralda Tourbillon

Girard-Perregaux Jun 4, 2016

Review: Girard Perregaux Esmeralda Tourbillon

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.

Dossier: The Freak by Ulysse Nardin

Ulysse Nardin Feb 15, 2016

Dossier: The Freak by Ulysse Nardin

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 […]

SIHH 2016: Montblanc TimeWalker Urban Speed UTC e-Strap

Montblanc TimeWalker Urban Speed UTC Jan 23, 2016

SIHH 2016: Montblanc TimeWalker Urban Speed UTC e-Strap

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.

Grand Seiko’s Proposition Adjustment in Singapore

Grand Seiko s Proposition Adjustment Oct 16, 2015

Grand Seiko’s Proposition Adjustment in Singapore

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 […]

Review: Richard Mille RM 27-02 Rafael Nadal

Richard Mille RM 27-02 Rafael Nadal Oct 14, 2015

Review: Richard Mille RM 27-02 Rafael Nadal

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.

Review: Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic True Second

Jaeger-LeCoultre Oct 12, 2015

Review: Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic True Second

Hands on review and analysis of the Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic True Second. Traditional, classical, but with a mechanical twist. Deadbeat seconds, seconde morte.

Christophe Claret’s Marguerite delights the ladies once again

Christophe Claret Jun 29, 2015

Christophe Claret’s Marguerite delights the ladies once again

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 […]

MB&F; Melchior: Meet the Ultimate Table Clock

MB&F; Mar 30, 2015

MB&F; Melchior: Meet the Ultimate Table Clock

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: […]

Baselworld 2015: Tudor Pelagos with Manufacture Movement

Tudor Pelagos Mar 18, 2015

Baselworld 2015: Tudor Pelagos with Manufacture Movement

The Tudor Pelagos is already one of the most complete traditional mechanical divers’ watches on the market. This year it is updated with an all-new Tudor manufacture movement, and much more. Find live images by Adi Soon, pricing and the release date below. The Pelagos was already a very complete package. Forced to list a […]

Pre-Basel 2015: MCT Frequential One F110

Pre-Basel 2015: MCT Frequential One F110

The Frequential One F110 from Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps (MCT) incorporates a new movement that embodies both masterful creativity and, some might say, the key to happiness. MCT has established itself as the author of singular mechanical movements that represent time with depth and perception beyond the realm of traditional watchmaking. Some watch manufacturers appear […]

HYT’s Sneak Peek Of The Third Generation H3

HYT Feb 6, 2015

HYT’s Sneak Peek Of The Third Generation H3

This is one of the pictures (above) that HYT released to us yesterday showing us the third generation of the brand’s ground-breaking Hydro-Mechanical watches. As most will know, HYT watches are utterly unique in the watch industry for being the only brand to incorporate liquid in their watches for telling time. Following the more traditionally shaped […]

SIHH 2015: Richard Mille Tourbillon Fleur and Diamond Twister

Richard Mille Tourbillon Fleur Jan 21, 2015

SIHH 2015: Richard Mille Tourbillon Fleur and Diamond Twister

Complex and beautiful mechanical art is not limited to horology. The Age of Reason gave rise to myriad efforts to understand nature’s inner workings, and this in turn motivated the mechanically and artistically inclined to devise and create miniature automata in the form of animals, insects and flowers. Richard Mille’s new RM 1902 Tourbillon Fleur continues these traditions […]

Win A Raymond Weil Freelancer (Revolution Australia)

Raymond Weil Freelancer Revolution Australia Celebrate Jan 16, 2015

Win A Raymond Weil Freelancer (Revolution Australia)

Celebrate the art of chronographs and win yourself a Raymond Weil Freelancer 7730. Centered on freedom of artistic interpretation, elegance and an urban personality, the Freelancer collection is made for those with a “free spirit.” The Freelancer clearly displays a Valjoux 7750 movement – a popular and reliable movement used in majority of mechanical chronograph […]