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Review: Oris Force Recon GMT Diver

Full review with hands-on and live photographs of the Oris Force Recon GMT a collaboration with the USMC.

Only Watch 2015: Tudor Black Bay One Reference 7923/001

The Tudor Black Bay One Reference 7923/001 is a piece unique from Tudor who are participating in their first Only Watch Auction.

Editor’s Pick: Top 5 watches from BaselWorld 2015

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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: Gucci’s Big Surprise

Dive watches are probably the most popular type of watch among enthusiasts today, yet relatively few aficionados know of ISO 6425. It sets out the requirements that must be met before a watch can officially be called a diver. The guidelines cover water resistance, underwater legibility, shock and magnetic resistance, air and water pressure, thermal […]

Audemars Piguet Diver comparison

Audemars Piguet’s offshore series have been a huge marketing success for the brand. While some condemn its watches as gimmicky and merely fashionable, a massive fan base and following of the offshore series have catapulted Audemars Piguet from a once classic brand to near cult status. Following the success of Gerald Genta’s A-series Jumbo, the Royal OakRead More

Pre Baselworld 2015: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Limited Edition James Bond

Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Limited Edition Bond

moVas Oceaner 1: “In-depth” Review

The history of dive watches date back to 1950s, when Blancpain and Rolex came up with the Fifty Fathoms and the Submariner respectively. These are not just mere devices that tell time; they are tool watches that provide information to assist people in carrying out their work. They were also immensely popular, due to their robustnessRead More

Blancpain Debuts New Fifty Fathoms Watch Alongside Environmental Initiative

The story of the Fifty Fathoms and Blancpain’s love affair with the oceans begins in 1953. Unlike a great number of contemporary dive watches, which are sea-worthy only in name, the Fifty Fathoms was forged in the crucible of actual dive experience. In 1952, war hero Capt. Robert “Bob” Maloubier was in the process of […]

Bottom Time: Tudor Pelagos

Motoring slowly along the line of buoys, five of us leaned over the starboard gunwale, scanning the clear water through polarized lenses. It had been a quiet day with no sharks in sight - unless you count the lazy nurse sharks begging for bait scraps in the marina. We’d spent languid hours between line checks […]

BaselWorld2014: Belles of the Fair: Return of the Classics- Omega Seamaster 300

In Baselworld 2014, Omega has resurrected its classic Omega Seamaster 300. Take a look at this article to see how Omega has tried to recreate this classic.

Bottom Time - Exploring the Wreck Of The Madeira with the Rolex Submariner

Comparative Review: JLC Tribute to Deep Sea Alarm and Vulcain Nautical Seventies Part 2 of 2

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Comparative Review: JLC Tribute to Deep Sea and Vulcain Nautical Seventies Part 1 of 2

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Baselworld 2014: The Rolex Sea Dweller Returns With Water Resistance to 4000ft (1220 metres)

The Depths of Understanding - History of the Rolex Sea-Dweller

There’s something about a dive watch that emanates an unassailable image of unabashed cool. We’re talking Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane jamming in ice underpants cool. Maybe it has to do with the rakish élan perpetuated by 007 pairing his white dinner jacket with the Rolex Submariner ref. 6538 on a Nato strap. You could easily imagine him shucking shantung and diving into the sea to demolish the assembled forces of SMERSCH with nothing more than a sharpened clamshell, a bevy of torpedo-chested lady friends and his trusty dive watch. But it also has to do with the total veracity and slavish devotion to function embodied by these timepieces. After all, these were tools that soldiers and civilians alike literally depended on with their very lives.

BaselWorld 2014: Tudor Debuts The New “Ice Blue” Heritage Black Bay

IWC Aquatimer for SIHH 2014 Explained (Video)

Georges Kern, CEO of IWC, talks us through the featured family of watches this year: the Aquatimer range, telling us about the highlight pieces, as well as the rational behind the all new functionality of the two part Bezel, with inner and outer mechanisms. As interviewed by Wei Koh Read Revolution International Digital Editon on […]

Cartier CEO, Stanilas de Quercize on the 2014 Novelties at SIHH (Video)

Cartier showed an abundant choice of timepieces this year, ranging from their first every Diver watch, their relaunched Tortue Collection, the new Ballon Bleu and Ballon Blanc, innovative Haute Horlogerie pieces as well as their Metier d’art pieces. Certainly a wide range with something for everyone. Listen to Cartier CEO Stanislas de Quercize as he […]

In Conversation with Adriana Lima for IWC

Revolution’s Sophie Furley and Adi Soon leave the SIHH and all its top models to meet a real life top model, Adriana Lima, who was in Geneva to celebrate the launch of IWC’s new Aquatimer collection…and yes, she is as gorgeous in real life!    Revolution: IWC’s slogan “Engineered for Men” rather excludes women from wearing […]

SIHH 2014: The Rebirth of the IWC Aquatimer

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SIHH 2014: IWC Celebrates The Aquatimer Collection With New Deep 3, Perpetual Calendar, And Aquatimer 2000

IWC has in recent years has taken the SIHH as an opportunity to focus on each of its core collections, and this year, it’s the Aquatimer collection’s turn.  We gave you a first look at some of the new pieces via Revolution Switzerland Editor in Chief Sophie Furley here, and today we’re pleased to bring […]

Steel Bracelet For Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk; So What?!

The Rolex Submariner, the Omega Seamaster Professional and the Cartier Santos Galbee are classics that are more often than not worn on a bracelet. You’d wonder sometimes if these watches would have been the successes they are now if they had only been offered on a strap. Even more so for watches like the Audemars […]

The Seamaster Aqua Terra > 15’000 gauss

One of the most dramatic technological innovations in recent memory is the OMEGA Co-Axial caliber 8508. It is resistant to magnetic fields greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss), far exceeding the levels of magnetic resistance achieved by any previous watch movement and solving a problem that has challenged watchmakers for many decades. The mechanical movement […]