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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 sim...

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Recommended Reading: Ming Thein On Lume

Recommended Reading: Ming Thein On Lume

The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Automatic

The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Automatic

Wrist Check: The Louis Vuitton Tambour, Steel On Steel

Wrist Check: The Louis Vuitton Tambour, Steel On Steel

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin Skeleton

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin Skeleton

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The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Automatic

The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Automa...

A pioneering modern classic of complicated watchmaking. The perpetual calendar was first placed into a wristwatch, as far as we know, by ...

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin Skeleton

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra Thin Skeleto...

A perpetual calendar that’s an aristocrat among its peers. Innovation can be a wonderful thing. It can bring us untold practical an...

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...

The F. P. Journe Vagabondage II

The F. P. Journe Vagabondage II

A rare jumping time display in an even rarer watch. When you think of F. P. Journe, you probably think of a watch with a round case and w...

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In Titanium

The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar In Titanium

Certain complications become identified with particular brands for a reason. Of the great classic watch brands in Switzerland, probably t...

The A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Lumen Honeygold

The A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Lumen Honeygold

A lovely luminous take on digital timekeeping. The Lange Zeitwerk is one of a still-small group of watches that show the time digitally, ...

The Reverso Grande Complication à Triptyque

The Reverso Grande Complication à Triptyque

“My God – it’s full of stars!” – 2001, A Space Odyssey The Reverso is a watch with one of those universally known origi...

The Kross X Studio Death Star Ultimate Collector Set Tourbillon

The Kross X Studio Death Star Ultimate Collector Set Tourbillon

“Fear will keep the local systems in line – fear of this battle station.” – Grand Moff Tarkin, A New Hope Here at A Watch A W...

Buying Guides

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...

The Rolex Yacht-Master II: No Yacht Required

The Rolex Yacht-Master II: No Yacht Required

Secrets of the second most complicated Rolex. Rolex as a rule, does not make complicated watches, or at least it doesn’t make any w...

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...

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...

Collector Conversations

Collecting with Shawn Stockman

Collecting with Shawn Stockman

Grammy Award Winner and entrepreneur, Shawn Stockman on watches, guitars and collecting ideologies. One universal truth about collecting ...

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...

Featured

Recommended Reading: Ming Thein On Lume

Recommended Reading: Ming Thein On Lume

And a quick look back at the problem of telling the time at night. One of the best of simple pleasures in reading about watches (and, I g...

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...

The Inbox: Rolex Service Intervals, Innovation In Watchmaking, And The Cost Of Craftsmanship

The Inbox: Rolex Service Intervals, Innovation In Watchmaking, And The...

Welcome to the WatchBox Inbox, where we answer questions sent to us by the WatchBox community. This week, we’re looking at how to store w...

Recommended Reading: Watches And Industrial Espionage

Recommended Reading: Watches And Industrial Espionage

Turns out crime does pay. I don’t know a whole heck of a lot about the gentleman who runs Watches Of Espionage, and that’s ju...

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...

WatchBox Inbox: Getting Started, Too Many Rolex, And More On Water Resistance

WatchBox Inbox: Getting Started, Too Many Rolex, And More On Water Res...

Welcome to the WatchBox Inbox, where we answer questions sent to us by the WatchBox community. This week, we’re looking at how to start o...

Recommended Reading: ‘Hands Of Time: A Watchmaker’s History Of Time’ By Rebecca Struthers

Recommended Reading: ‘Hands Of Time: A Watchmaker’s Histor...

“Close your eyes and think of a watch.” – Rebecca Struthers, Hands Of Time The process of building a horological library is o...

The Bombshell Vs. the Bomb: Barbie and Oppenheimer

The Bombshell Vs. the Bomb: Barbie and Oppenheimer

When worlds collide and atoms split, there’s only one thing to do — talk watches. There are moments in history that are clear dividing li...

History of Time

I Love the 90s, Part II

I Love the 90s, Part II

A unique design language takes hold. This is the second in a multi-part series on the lasting impact of the 1990s on the watch industry a...

I Love the 90s, and You Should Too

I Love the 90s, and You Should Too

An Underappreciated Era Revisited: Part I This is the first in a multi-part series on the lasting impact of the 1990s on the watch indust...

The Art Of Invention: How De Bethune Builds The Future Of Watchmaking

The Art Of Invention: How De Bethune Builds The Future Of Watchmaking

At De Bethune, technical innovation and horological art go hand-in-hand. There is a natural tendency when you look at watches, to think o...

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...

Industry News

Geneva Watch Days: Is Bigger Better?

Geneva Watch Days: Is Bigger Better?

The biggest ever edition of Geneva Watch Days may be the shape of things to come. It was not all that long ago that the tradition of mult...

The Louis Vuitton Tambour, In Steel

The Louis Vuitton Tambour, In Steel

A steel drum serenade for the wrist. For every major fine watchmaking brand, there is a design which is so strongly identified with it th...

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 ...

Auction News

Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko Hits £15k at Auction

Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko Hits £15k at Auction

And there’s still 48 hours to go… If reports are to be believed, Apple — who, as much as we may not like to recognize or admi...

Rexhep Rexhepi for Only Watch 2023

Rexhep Rexhepi for Only Watch 2023

The Akrivia founder unveils his third Only Watch submission. Few watchmakers have garnered as much attention in recent years as Rexhep Re...

How Much Would You Pay For Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko?

How Much Would You Pay For Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko?

A prime example of a niche Seiko with unmatched provenance is blowing its estimate out of the water. It’s been a bit of a quiet summer in...

The New York Auctions — One Week Later

The New York Auctions — One Week Later

I like New York in June, How About You? Last week saw the auction world swing back to New York City with collectors and enthusiasts desce...

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...

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

Wrist Check: The Louis Vuitton Tambour, Steel On Steel

Wrist Check: The Louis Vuitton Tambour, Steel On Steel

Sleek, steel, and stealthily sophisticated. When Louis Vuitton launched the latest Tambour watch earlier this year, it represented a majo...

Introducing The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar In Platinum

Introducing The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar In Platinum

The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar’s movement is one of the most ingenious Lange has ever made. The Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar is not t...

Why Audemars Piguet’s New Jumbo Extra-Thin Has A Glass Bezel

Why Audemars Piguet’s New Jumbo Extra-Thin Has A Glass Bezel

Metallic glass may be the ideal material for one of the biggest scratch magnets in watchmaking. If you have ever owned, or know anyone wh...

Hands On With The 41 Day Haute Rive Honoris I

Hands On With The 41 Day Haute Rive Honoris I

A thousand hours of power in a surprisingly wearable case. One of the watches I was most excited to see at Geneva Watch Days was the firs...

Geneva Watch Days: The URWERK Space Time Blade

Geneva Watch Days: The URWERK Space Time Blade

A Nixie tube-lit cutting edge spacetime clock. If you bet on there being some unusual and even outlandish watches at Only Watch you are a...

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...

Introducing The 1000 Hour Honoris I, From Haute Rive

Introducing The 1000 Hour Honoris I, From Haute Rive

Ulysse Nardin’s former Research and Innovation Director launches his first (amazing) watch. Stéphane von Gunten’s name is not...

Introducing The Grand Seiko ‘Katana’ US Exclusive Spring Drives

Introducing The Grand Seiko ‘Katana’ US Exclusive Spring D...

An ode to the alchemy of steel. The first time I visited Japan, it was on a trip organized by Grand Seiko for press just after the brand ...

Press Room

WatchBox China Inaugurates Shanghai Collector’s Lounge and Salon

WatchBox China Inaugurates Shanghai Collector’s Lounge and Salon

Collectors unite to celebrate WatchBox’s official opening in mainland China alongside first public viewing of the De Bethune DB28xs Starr...

Milestone: WatchBox Crosses 150 Million Views on YouTube

Milestone: WatchBox Crosses 150 Million Views on YouTube

Tim Mosso, architect of the ultimate watch review video library, tops 100 million views on WatchBox Reviews channel WatchBox, the world’s...

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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