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Summertime Blues: The Grand Seiko SBGJ249 GMT “Shōsho”

Summertime Blues: The Grand Seiko SBGJ249 GMT “Shōsho”

Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents Ascendant

Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents Ascendant

Questions to Ask Before Buying a Watch

Questions to Ask Before Buying a Watch

The De Bethune DB28xs Starry Seas

The De Bethune DB28xs Starry Seas

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A Watch A Week

Summertime Blues: The Grand Seiko SBGJ249 GMT “Shōsho”

Summertime Blues: The Grand Seiko SBGJ249 GMT “Shōsho”

Turns out there is a cure for the summertime blues. Are you stuck, in the immortal words of Eddy Cochrane, working all summer just to try...

The Rolex Cellini Dual Time

The Rolex Cellini Dual Time

A masterpiece from a Rolex renaissance. The discontinuation of the Rolex Milgauss line generated a lot of buzz and a lot of interest in c...

The Moser Streamliner Flyback Chronograph Funky Blue

The Moser Streamliner Flyback Chronograph Funky Blue

“We need the funk.” – George Clinton Under ordinary circumstances I wouldn’t necessarily rush to quote Parliament-Funka...

The Bulgari Gérald Genta Gefica Bi-Retro

The Bulgari Gérald Genta Gefica Bi-Retro

Memories of the Bronze Age. It is next to impossible to think of the late Gérald Genta without thinking, almost simultaneously, of a hand...

The Van Cleef & Arpels Heure d’Ici & Heure d’Ailleurs

The Van Cleef & Arpels Heure d’Ici & Heure d’Ail...

An elegant travel time watch, with a hidden masterpiece of a movement. Van Cleef & Arpels may not the be the name first in watch enth...

The Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In Platinum, Ref. 25829PT

The Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In Platinum, Ref. 25829PT

A high-horology heavyweight. While there may be some room for debate over whether or not a tourbillon is a complication (as well as how t...

The Ulysse Nardin Freak Blue Cruiser

The Ulysse Nardin Freak Blue Cruiser

A high-tech take on the model that gave birth to the hyperwatch. The Ulysse Nardin Freak has been around, in one form or another, since 2...

The Jules Audemars Chronometer “ChronAP”

The Jules Audemars Chronometer “ChronAP”

“An interest in escapements is a sign of horological maturity.” – Me. The Swiss lever escapement has enjoyed an industrial ...

Buying Guides

Questions to Ask Before Buying a Watch

Questions to Ask Before Buying a Watch

Advice from our global team of watch experts. Buying a new watch can be, without a doubt, a daunting proposition. Between YouTube, Instag...

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...

Variations On The Moonphase

Variations On The Moonphase

One of watchmaking’s oldest complications is still evolving. The moonphase complication is as old as watchmaking itself. In fact, i...

Complete Guide To The Code 11.59 Audemars Piguet Collection

Complete Guide To The Code 11.59 Audemars Piguet Collection

The Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 collection was launched in 2019 and sent a tidal wave through the watch industry. This collection was the ...

The WatchBox Guide to Independent Watchmakers

The WatchBox Guide to Independent Watchmakers

Venture into the world of independent watchmaking, and you’ll discover an abundance of smaller, boutique-style brands driven by a voracio...

10 Sports Watches You Won’t Want to Miss

10 Sports Watches You Won’t Want to Miss

Whether you have a need for speed or just a penchant for really cool luxury sports watches, there’s something for every collector on this...

Hands-On Expert Review: The Rolex Rainbow Daytona

Hands-On Expert Review: The Rolex Rainbow Daytona

A bold and colorful statement in luxury timepieces, the Rolex Rainbow Cosmograph Daytona is a highly sought after wristwatch for a few ex...

Patek Philippe: Highlights, Trends, and Predictions in 2022

Patek Philippe: Highlights, Trends, and Predictions in 2022

For the first time, Patek Philippe unveiled its new watches in Geneva at Watches & Wonders in 2022 — the home city of the brand and t...

Collector Conversations

Collecting Together <br> with Alex Assouline

Collecting Together
with Alex Assouline

Crafting a watch collection can be a lot like making a coffee table book. Both weave a narrative not by including everything but through ...

Collecting Together with Josh Wright

Collecting Together with Josh Wright

For those with a passion for well-made things, the obsession lies not only in how an object is made but why it came to be made that way. ...

Collecting Together with Gauthier Borsarello

Collecting Together with Gauthier Borsarello

Put ten collectors in a room and ask them why they collect and you’ll get ten very different answers. Some spend their lives searching fo...

Collecting Together with Shahendra Ohneswere

Collecting Together with Shahendra Ohneswere

If you don’t yet know Shahendra Ohneswere, you certainly know his work. As Senior Vice President of Content Development & Co-Head of ...

Collector Conversation: Michael Strahan & Marc Lasry

Collector Conversation: Michael Strahan & Marc Lasry

Maybe you collected Matchbox cars, comic books, action figures or baseball cards when you were a kid. Maybe you displayed them in your ro...

Collecting Together with <br>Rob Miller

Collecting Together with
Rob Miller

We’re all familiar with the utilitarian tool watch. Rugged, versatile, and built to withstand the forces of nature. But rarely has a mode...

Collecting Together With Mark Cho

Collecting Together With Mark Cho

At the helm of his global retail outfit, the Armoury, Mark Cho is redefining the world of bespoke men’s tailoring, ushering tailored mens...

A Conversation with Fratello Watches

A Conversation with Fratello Watches

One of the first blogs to enter the watch media ecosystem, Fratello Watches today, is one of the leading online watch magazines – still g...

Featured

Taking Sides: The Tourbillon is Not a Complication

Taking Sides: The Tourbillon is Not a Complication

Why one of today’s most popular complications is anything but. In this first installment of Taking Sides, Jack Forster and Griffin ...

Taking Sides: The Tourbillon Is A Complication

Taking Sides: The Tourbillon Is A Complication

“When I use a word, it means exactly what I tell it to mean.” Humpty Dumpty, Alice In Wonderland In this first installment of...

Get to know C’Quon Gottlieb

The WatchBox Client Advisor and CP Time Co-Founder shares his approach to collection and community building. Collecting is a deeply perso...

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...

World Tour Recap: Tim Mosso reports from Singapore and Hong Kong

World Tour Recap: Tim Mosso reports from Singapore and Hong Kong

WatchBox opened its 2023 “World Tour” in grand style with an exclusive luxury watch experience for collectors in Singapore and Hong Kong....

Highlights From LVMH Watch Week

Highlights From LVMH Watch Week

Open dials, brilliant colors, glittering gems and surprising classics. The trade show calendar was at one point the defining feature of t...

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of De Bethune, and in that time, the company has evolved at an unprecedented pace. ...

December Auction Report

December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

History of Time

The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tourbillon evolution, fast forward. The tourbillon, as we’ve seen, was for the most part a device used quite rarely in watchmaking ...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch

Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch

The last word in pocket watch accuracy becomes the first name in wristwatch complications. In the late 1970s, as we (probably) all know, ...

The Inauguration and Evolution of the Datograph

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...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution

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 Chronicles: <br>Birth Of The Tourbillon

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...

Lange 1 and the 25th Anniversary Editions

Lange 1 and the 25th Anniversary Editions

Watch enthusiasts are picky. Whenever a new watch comes out, there is always a festival of critique (which is very much healthy) on the c...

Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

Of all the crafts associated with fine watchmaking, there’s none more fundamental, none which really defines what fine watchmaking ...

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

Every watch enthusiast with any time in the game has seen them — heat-blued hands, screws, and other steel and titanium components, add i...

Industry News

The De Bethune DB28xs Starry Seas

The De Bethune DB28xs Starry Seas

A company with big ideas makes a small miracle. De Bethune’s DB28 collection is not, of course, the only family of watches that De ...

H. Moser & Cie. Serves Up Tantalum With a Side of Stone

H. Moser & Cie. Serves Up Tantalum With a Side of Stone

H. Moser & Cie. takes tantalum to a new level with Jade and Lapis. The history of watchmaking is, in part, an exercise in material sc...

The Lion in Winter: The Carillon Tourbillon Biver

The Lion in Winter: The Carillon Tourbillon Biver

“I will be the master of my cheese until the last piece.” — Jean-Claude Biver, 2009 I have a lot of memories of Jean-Claude B...

Roger Smith “Masterpiece” Pocket Watch No. 2 Up for Auction at Phillips

Roger Smith “Masterpiece” Pocket Watch No. 2 Up for Auction at Phillip...

The watch that earned the blessing of one of watchmaking’s toughest critics: George Daniels. In every professional life, if you are...

A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023

A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023

Variety is the spice of life. This year’s Watches and Wonders Geneva was the biggest version of the show so far — there were over...

Why the Relaunch of Gérald Genta Matters

Why the Relaunch of Gérald Genta Matters

The first name in watch design’s time has come (again). Gérald Genta was, as they say, the hero watchmaking deserved but not the ...

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 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 ...

Auction News

Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents Ascendant

Phillips Hong Kong Auction XVI: An Imperial Patek, And Independents As...

Condition is everything – except when it isn’t. Phillips: The Hong Kong Watch Auction XVI, took place over the 24th and 25th of May...

Geneva Auction Week: Indies Shine, Classics Climb, And That Million Dollar Milgauss

Geneva Auction Week: Indies Shine, Classics Climb, And That Million Do...

Or should I say, two million dollar Milgauss? The dust is settling from this spring’s Geneva Auction Week 2023, and while it may be...

Recap: Christie’s The Art of F.P. Journe

Recap: Christie’s The Art of F.P. Journe

In a white glove sale, F.P. Journe cemented his position as one of the most collectible watchmakers alive today. It was hard to deny the ...

Hot Lots and Hidden Treasures at Geneva Auction Week

Hot Lots and Hidden Treasures at Geneva Auction Week

Not the usual suspects. Although the news out of Geneva this week has been, for understandable reasons, dominated by the thematic Christi...

Christie’s “The Art of F. P. Journe” Is A First For The Auction World

Christie’s “The Art of F. P. Journe” Is A First For ...

The auction is the very first thematic auction dedicated to a single independent watchmaker. In 1989, an auction took place which redefin...

Auction Alert: Philippe Dufour for Audemars Piguet Pocket Watch No.1

Auction Alert: Philippe Dufour for Audemars Piguet Pocket Watch No.1

The triple-signed Grande et Petite Sonnerie is set to hit the block during The Geneva Watch Auction: XVII, May 13-14 The term “history” i...

Auction Innocence Foundation to Auction Unique F.P. Journe and Richard Mille Watches

Auction Innocence Foundation to Auction Unique F.P. Journe and Richard...

Gstaad, Switzerland is set to host some of the world’s top watch collectors next week on February 16, as the Action Innocence Found...

December Auction Report

December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

Watch 101

We may not want to admit it, but quartz is here to stay — and that’s a good thing. When we talk about watch enthusiasts, what we usually ...

How to Spot a Fake Rolex

How to Spot a Fake Rolex

Rolex is one of the most recognizable watch manufacturers, producing approximately one million timepieces per year. Rolex models have bee...

Enamel – The Inside Track

Enamel – The Inside Track

While it hasn’t exactly become widespread, it’s no surprise to find that enamel is a thing in contemporary watchmaking. Over and above th...

What’s Behind Black?

What’s Behind Black?

Being seen without us knowing where it comes from: such is the dark destiny of black, watchmaking’s lucky color. Let’s find out more by t...

Starry Skies: How Aventurine Dials are Reshaping the Blue Dial

Starry Skies: How Aventurine Dials are Reshaping the Blue Dial

Also known as goldstone, aventurine has had a resurgence as a dial material in the watch industry over the last two decades. Its unique c...

Bicompax – the Panda, Zorro, and co.

Bicompax – the Panda, Zorro, and co.

Do good things always come in threes? Not always. For the majority of chronographs, counting minutes and seconds is enough. In which case...

Watch Hands – Pointing the Way

Watch Hands – Pointing the Way

They’re the first thing you look at and the last thing in which you take an interest: such is the cruel destiny of watch hands. They requ...

How to Read a Watch Bezel

How to Read a Watch Bezel

A watch bezel may be graduated, feature a tachymeter scale, calculation or diving functions, or GMT. Bezels form a major part of a watch’...

Watch Reviews

In Focus: F.P. Journe CT2RG Centigraphe

In Focus: F.P. Journe CT2RG Centigraphe

An unwritten rule of the watch world is that a chronograph requires some motorsport heritage to be a bona fide “racing chronograph.” The ...

In Focus: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar

In Focus: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar

When Audemars Piguet teamed up with Gerald Genta to design Royal Oak in 1971 and 1972, they could not forecast the commercial success the...

In Focus: Patek Philippe Calatrava Skeleton; Ref. 5180/1G

In Focus: Patek Philippe Calatrava Skeleton; Ref. 5180/1G

Patek Philippe is known for its range of complications, grand complications, and rare handcrafts. Among those horological heavy hitters l...

Rolex Daytona vs. Submariner Comparison

Rolex Daytona vs. Submariner Comparison

The Daytona and Submariner are two sporty watches from Rolex with very different styles. The Daytona is a chronograph, designed for timin...

In Conversation: The Art of Collecting Rolex, Richard Mille, Porsche and More

In Conversation: The Art of Collecting Rolex, Richard Mille, Porsche a...

Join Watch Specialist and Media Director, Tim Mosso, as he sits down with collector, entrepreneur and race car driver, Drew Coblitz. This...

On The Wrist: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin

On The Wrist: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin

Founded in the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland more than 140 years ago, Audemars Piguet has been shaking-up the world of Haute Horlogerie for...

Wrap Around Styles: Baume & Mercier

Wrap Around Styles: Baume & Mercier

Baume & mercier’s focus on the art of living is evident in each of its watch collections, offering relaxed style and dependable timek...

Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) Watch Show

Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) Watch Show

Interview Transcript Tim: Hi, I’m Tim, welcome to WatchBox and thanks for logging on. Well, it is this week in watches, and it...

Press Room

WatchBox Presents: A Traveling Exhibition

WatchBox Presents: A Traveling Exhibition

Experience Two Decades of Complexity & Beauty: A Global Event Series Celebrating the Pivotal Collections by F.P. Journe and De Bethun...

Andy Zhang Appointed CEO of WatchBox China

Andy Zhang Appointed CEO of WatchBox China

Collector turned watch industry executive to lead WatchBox expansion in mainland China. WatchBox is pleased to announce the appointment o...

Jack Forster Named Global Editorial Director at WatchBox

Jack Forster Named Global Editorial Director at WatchBox

WatchBox strengthens mission to educate and entertain collectors with arrival of renowned watch journalist PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 18, ...

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