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Guns & Poseurs: Meet Jeff Parke, Specialist Engraver
Jeff Parke is a specialist engraver who cut his teeth on pocket knives, guns & now, he literally cuts Rolex watches. Is an engraved Rolex a thing of beauty?
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Corum Bubble invites You to Ask: Are Watches your Expression or the Makers?
Calabrese is Corum's most identifiable watchmaker but the Corum Bubble asks whether watches supposed to be your personal expression or the watchmaker's?
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HANDS-ON: the Girard-Perregaux Cat’s Eye Power Reserve - what a difference a grey makes
In the spectrum of colour, grey is quite the double agent. There it goes, trudging along amid notions of overcast skies, mind-numbing office cubicles, uncertainty. But just as we’re all stifling a yawn at its inherent dowdiness, what’s this we see? There goes grey playing its other hand in a realm populated by wolves and … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: the Girard-Perregaux Cat’s Eye Power Reserve – what a difference a grey makes appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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EXCLUSIVE: Get excited, Longines to work with Time+Tide on year-long access-all-areas video project called The Longines Time Machine!
Dust off your fedora Indiana, we’re going into the archives… Longines is a brand whose history the Time+Tide team has delved into before – pretty much every time they release an often best-in-show heritage reissue – and frankly, we haven’t been able to get enough. That’s because, while Longines has one of the most impressive … ContinuedThe post EXCLUSIVE: Get excited, Longines to work with Time+Tide on year-long access-all-areas video project called The Longines Time Machine! appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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VIDEO: Baume & Mercier 2017 collection overview and their athletic new shape
Anyone who’s followed the SIHH 2017 releases will have noticed a few clear trends emerging – more entry level options, more yellow gold, that sort of thing. One trend that wasn’t as remarked upon in all the excitement of the fair was the way several brands made significant changes to their marketing and identity. Baume & Mercier is … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Baume & Mercier 2017 collection overview and their athletic new shape appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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VIDEO: Want Omega’s CEO to give you a private tour of their biggest boutique, featuring Cindy Crawford? Of course you do
Omega’s Sydney flagship is their biggest boutique in the world, and it’s in a prominent position, at 20 Martin Place, right in the heart of town. When Chief Executive Raynald Aeschlimann travelled to Australia to officially open it earlier this month, he brought a friend of the brand who, a decade earlier, also opened the Castlereagh Street … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Want Omega’s CEO to give you a private tour of their biggest boutique, featuring Cindy Crawford? Of course you do appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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VIDEO: The Bulgari CEO brought $750k of watches into our office and for a day we had two bodyguards
‘Like a boss’ is a phrase we’re attempting to permanently retire at Time+Tide. It’s done. But there’s no other way to describe the way the CEO of Bulgari visited our offices. He did it breezily – the leadup was one or two emails, a request to book a place for lunch – but completely like the boss of … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: The Bulgari CEO brought $750k of watches into our office and for a day we had two bodyguards appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Inside Bulgari’s Grand Complication Home in Le Sentier Part 1.
In Bulgari's Le Sentier home, the future and watchmaking legitimacy of the Italian brand is assured in the primacy of their extra-thin, and chiming watches.
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Hands-On: Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical
As far as watches with astronomic complications go,Vacheron Constantin's Les Cabinotiers Celestia is the ever graceful Belle to Hublot Antikythera's Gaston.
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Are Non-Purist Brands Beginning to Express Purist Watchmaking Approaches? Part 2.
Acquisitions are corporate reality, the idea that linear history of brand is the be all and end all has to change what it means to be purist or non-purist
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HANDS-ON: Retro Rado - the funkadelic HyperChrome 1616
When our good friend Justin Mastine-Frost was assembling his lists of last year’s best watches at various budgets, one entry in the 3-4k category sprung out – the Hyperchrome 1616. And no, not just because of how huge it is. The reason it stood out is because it challenges many of the stereotypes and preconceptions about Rado watches. … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: Retro Rado – the funkadelic HyperChrome 1616 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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SPOTTED! BY AG: Dispatch 5, February 2017 - New Year’s edition
The beginning of the year is always a great time here in Australia, as the weather starts to warm up and most of us get a few weeks off work. It’s also a time when 95 per cent of the population joins a new gym, and we make a bunch of other ridiculous new year’s resolutions, … ContinuedThe post SPOTTED! BY AG: Dispatch 5, February 2017 – New Year’s edition appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 17th February, 2017
Some weeks, the Wind Down is full of momentous news and calamitous happenings. Brands being sold, records broken – that sort of thing. This is not one of those weeks. We’re in the eye of the SIHH/Baselworld storm, and, on the surface at least, everything is calm. At this point we’re going to get all … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 17th February, 2017 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The History of the World as told by World Time Watches
Provenance is important to collectors & what better way to be a part of history then to have world events reflected in the dials of these world time watches
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VIDEO: Apples to Apples episode 3, Breitling vs IWC - a dogfight in the sky!
Of all the Apples to Apples battles so far, this is pound for pound the closest fight. Today our airborne aces are the Breitling Navitimer 01 (46mm) and the IWC Pilot’s Chronograph. Both watches have histories – and credibility – written in the skies, both are priced at about the same price point, and both are worn with … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Apples to Apples episode 3, Breitling vs IWC – a dogfight in the sky! appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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EDITOR’S PICK: One of Australia’s most successful sailors ever talks timing, Rolex and making your own luck
This is a video we keep coming back to. It’s one of our most cinematic and visually beautiful videos to date, and it captures the skipper of Wild Oats XI, Mark Richards, in the lead up to the 2016 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. It finds him in a reflective, but taut frame of mind – this was … ContinuedThe post EDITOR’S PICK: One of Australia’s most successful sailors ever talks timing, Rolex and making your own luck appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Seiko Presage: Collection of Affordable Enamel Dial Watches
Basel 2017 Seiko Presage collection of affordable enamel dial watches is pound for pound, the best value for money way to get your hands on Grand Feu enamel
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FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 10th February, 2017 - the money edition
For those of our readers who don’t live in Australia, have a quick look at the below heat map. Bet you didn’t know heat maps went up to purple did you? Well, they do, and what that means is that we’re currently sheltering in the cooling AC of the office, and dreading the blisteringly hot commute … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 10th February, 2017 – the money edition appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The Height of Success
Known to his many clients as a successful management consultant, out of office hours Jake Meyer is a real life Action Man – a mountain climber, an intrepid adventurer and a British Army reservist. Since 2005, Meyer has been accompanied in his pursuits by a Bremont wristwatch.
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Review: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Date
Jaeger-LeCoultre turned heads with its latest affordable price range timepieces at the SIHH 2017. Adopting a Tudor, Longines type business strategy, the Maison is set to reel in the ideal buyer persona with their highly attractive yet affordable Master Control models.
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FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 3rd February, 2017
Well, we’ve definitely come down from the post-SIHH high. The lights seem somehow less dazzling (probably because it’s not being refracted through thousands of diamonds) and the mood is less giddy (probably because we’re no longer consuming a magnum of Champagne a day). Whatever the reasons, reality is well and truly back, and we’re not … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 3rd February, 2017 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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WHO TO FOLLOW: @discommon
Insta feed in need of some fresh inspiration? Step right this way, as we chat to one half of industrial designers Discommon, who’ve been making waves in just about every industry of late, with their collaborations and creations. Their promise: “work with us and we will make exactly what is in your head.” NAME: Neil … ContinuedThe post WHO TO FOLLOW: @discommon appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 27th January 2017 - the celebration edition
Australia Day yesterday, Chinese New Year tomorrow – so much partying to be had. But you know what we’re celebrating here in the T+T office? Overcoming jet lag. Seriously, today is the first day this week we’ve managed to maintain concisousness at four in the afternoon. Not sure if it’s wise, but we think that’s … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 27th January 2017 – the celebration edition appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Tudor on the Block
Featuring the first automatic chronograph movement in the Wilsdorf family of watches, the Tudor Big Block is a chunky gem of a timepiece waiting for its time in the spotlight.
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SIHH 2017: Parmigiani Fleurier Overview: Basics Revisted
The Maison of Parmigiani Fleurier, in this year’s SIHH, decides to look back at their current line-up to improve their watches. It is indeed difficult to improve something that is already perfect. But Parmigiani had different ideas. In SIHH 2017, the Fleurier-based watchmaker had introduced new models for six different collections – each covering aRead More
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HANDS-ON: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Date offers the complete package
For many consumers and manufacturers, now is not the time for extravagant, outlandish watches. That’s not to say SIHH doesn’t have its fair share of outlandish, extravagant and (it must be said) amazing timepieces – but they’re very much a niche proposition. The vast majority of real-world buyers are after something simpler and in a soft … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Date offers the complete package appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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HANDS-ON: 6 decades on and still going strong - the Piaget Altiplano 60th anniversary
Though Piaget has made a lot of noise in the past 12 months with the sporty steel Polo S, the undeniable heart of the collection is the ultra-slim and ultra-sexy Altiplano. Born in 1957 and named for the flat South American high plains, the Altiplano and the legendary caliber 9P that powered it, have become … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: 6 decades on and still going strong – the Piaget Altiplano 60th anniversary appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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House of Burlesque - After Hours
Sophisticated and exotic, when the lights are low in the House of Burlesque the watches taking centre stage show that variety really is the spice of life.
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HANDS ON: Chanel vs Chanel - 2 Boy.Friends fight it out for a place in your heart
Tune in to any period drama and at some point there’ll be a plot line where two eligible young bachelors vie for the attentions of a damsel; a situation which typically ends in fisticuffs, name-calling (“You blasted cad!”) and the woman not having a say in anything. Happily, our version of events – in which … ContinuedThe post HANDS ON: Chanel vs Chanel – 2 Boy.Friends fight it out for a place in your heart appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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TEAM PICK: Andy Green’s favourite stories of 2016
Continuing with our series of Team Picks, it’s Andy Green who has the reins today, wrangling the three gems he enjoyed reading most on T+T in 2016. HANDS-ON: Size does matter, the 2016 IWC Big Pilot Edition “Le Petit Prince” BY: Felix Scholz PUBLISHED: May “The title alone had me. Also, Felix pretending to know cars is … ContinuedThe post TEAM PICK: Andy Green’s favourite stories of 2016 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.