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A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

Refreshes, Reboots and Disruptions from Rolex Watches and Wonders 2023 is the last remaining instance of a kind of event that used to d...

The Patek Philippe 4947 Annual Calendar Moonphase

The Patek Philippe 4947 Annual Calendar Moonphase

A very elevated take on a daily driver. Patek Philippe, it is probably safe to say, does not make any boring watches. It may make watch...

The Journe x Francis Ford Coppola “FFC” Joins The Regular Collection

The Journe x Francis Ford Coppola “FFC” Joins The Regular ...

An extremely exotic prototype becomes an extremely exotic production watch. Back in 2021, one of the most unusual watches F. P. Journe ...

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

High notes from the biggest industry event of the year. One thing that makes watch collecting an absolute joy is diversity of opinion. ...

Introducing The Latest From De Bethune: The DB Eight

Introducing The Latest From De Bethune: The DB Eight

The latest release from De Bethune features its 31st new caliber. De Bethune has just announced the latest new member of its small family...

Patek Leads From The Front At Watches And Wonders 2023 With 17 New Models

Patek Leads From The Front At Watches And Wonders 2023 With 17 New Mod...

The Grande Dame of fine watchmaking shows that tradition is just a starting point. The interesting thing about Patek Philippe is that of ...

The Inauguration and Evolution of the Datograph

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The Inauguration and Evolution of the Datograph

A comprehensive look at the history of A. Lange & Söhne’s signature chronograph Around 2008-2009, at the start of my teenage ye...

The Roger Dubuis Sympathie Bi-Retrograde Perpetual Calendar

The Roger Dubuis Sympathie Bi-Retrograde Perpetual Calendar

A revolution that became a classic of modern independent horology. I feel as if I start out a lot of stories these days with misty-eyed r...

Collecting with a Cultured Perspective

Collecting with a Cultured Perspective

CP Time Celebrates Launch of New York Chapter One of the best parts about collecting watches is getting to nerd out with a community of f...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution

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Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution

How the tourbillon earned its reputation as one of the pinnacles of watchmaking. During his lifetime, Breguet produced only a small numbe...

The Tourbillon “Souscription,” The First New Watch From Daniel Roth Reborn

The Tourbillon “Souscription,” The First New Watch From Da...

From out of the past, an all-but-forgotten master returns. My earliest experience of interactions with other watch enthusiasts goes back ...

The Blancpain Léman Automatic Minute Repeater

The Blancpain Léman Automatic Minute Repeater

A jewel of a watch with a golden voice. Of all the complications in all the world, I don’t think there are any as charming as the m...

Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch

Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch

How would you spend half a million dollars? What about a million? This new column will offer our community of enthusiasts a forum to answ...

Report From BCG Says, “Luxury Pre-Owned Watches, Your Time Has Come”

Report From BCG Says, “Luxury Pre-Owned Watches, Your Time Has C...

Correction notwithstanding, pre-owned watches continue show impressive performance as investments. This won’t be news to anyone who...

The Tourbillon Chronicles: <br>Birth Of The Tourbillon

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The Tourbillon Chronicles:
Birth Of The Tourbillon

How a watchmaking legend created one of watchmaking’s legendary complications. Welcome to The Tourbillon Chronicles, a four part se...

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

Let’s face it, acquiring a watch that only a select few others will own is always an appealing proposition. We live in an industry satura...

8 Things to Know About IWC

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8 Things to Know About IWC

There’s a lot we all know about the beloved International Watch Company. Famed for their iconic pilot’s watch collection, the longstandin...

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

When it comes to dive watches, depth rating is always a talking point. Though recreational divers never breach the 100m mark, every dive ...

The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

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The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

As the world remains at home, we are forced to come together—remotely, of course—to find a new way to work and solve novel problems. The ...