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Imperial Hue: De Bethune Introduces The DB28XS Purple Rain

Imperial Hue: De Bethune Introduces The DB28XS Purple Rain

The latest De Bethune celebrates a color with a royal heritage. If you are of a certain age and background, and I am, when you hear the w...

Introducing The De Bethune DB Kind Of Grande Complication

Introducing The De Bethune DB Kind Of Grande Complication

Being two-faced has never looked so good. There are many examples over the years of De Bethune’s ability to think outside the box, ...

Design Revolution: The De Bethune DBSPS5 Moonphase

Design Revolution: The De Bethune DBSPS5 Moonphase

A radical rethinking of the wristwatch is now a modern classic. It is I suppose the fate of all revolutions in art to become, if theyR...

Classic Meets Cutting Edge In The De Bethune DB25 Perpetual Calendar

Classic Meets Cutting Edge In The De Bethune DB25 Perpetual Calendar

A De Bethune Perpetual Calendar that offers the best of traditional design and next-generation watchmaking. The perpetual calendar has of...

2023 Collector Conversations: A Year in Review

Collector Conversations

2023 Collector Conversations: A Year in Review

Collecting is exciting, but our community of collectors makes it even better. Working at The 1916 Company exposes you to some of the most...

Introducing The De Bethune DBD Evergreen For Dubai Watch Week

Introducing The De Bethune DBD Evergreen For Dubai Watch Week

The latest version of the DBD Digitale goes green. Dubai Watch Week brings people together, but it’s also primarily an opportunity ...

The Greubel Forsey Tourbillon Cardan Revives The Super-Tourbillon

The Greubel Forsey Tourbillon Cardan Revives The Super-Tourbillon

There’s a new Lord Of The Rings. The tourbillon may have been more or less declared obsolete as a regulating device, but if it̵...

The De Bethune DB25 Starry Varius Aérolite Tourbillon, With Meteorite Dial

The De Bethune DB25 Starry Varius Aérolite Tourbillon, With Meteorite ...

The dial of this masterpiece from De Bethune has been on a billion year journey to your wrist. Every watch dial tells a story, but some t...

Wrist Check: The De Bethune DB28XP ‘Kind Of Blue’

Wrist Check: The De Bethune DB28XP ‘Kind Of Blue’

Nobody plays the blues like De Bethune. The classic playbook for ultra-thin watches design is simple: round, two hands, generally no smal...

Stop Wearing Stainless Steel

Stop Wearing Stainless Steel

As the end of summer approaches, allow me to offer some belated advice. This summer has been, in a word, hot. Very, very hot. In fact, it...

Rediscovering A Revolution: Unconventional Watch Design

Rediscovering A Revolution: Unconventional Watch Design

Is the pendulum ready to swing back to watches that are anything but ordinary? Tastes in watches currently heavily favor conservative, an...

Please, Wear Your Watch

Please, Wear Your Watch

From the kitchen to the mountain, your watch can take it. Last week, on July 27, 2023, Kristin Harila summited K2 and, in doing so, stamp...

Who Says A Summer Watch Has To Be A Sports Watch?

Who Says A Summer Watch Has To Be A Sports Watch?

Because life’s not always a beach. The minute that Memorial Day rolls around (at least here in the United States) watch writers imm...

The Many Watches of Wimbledon 2023

The Many Watches of Wimbledon 2023

What would you wear to win the world’s most famous tennis tournament? As I sit and finish writing this story, I am struck by an abiding s...

Why Only Watch 2023 Is The Craziest Only Watch Ever

Why Only Watch 2023 Is The Craziest Only Watch Ever

And why this is one of the most colorful years yet. If there is a single event that brings together just about everyone in the world of f...

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

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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 ...