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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 ...

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...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch

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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, ...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Lange 1 and the 25th Anniversary Editions

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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...

The A. Lange & Söhne <br>Zeitwerk Minute Repeater

The A. Lange & Söhne
Zeitwerk Minute Repeater

All the bells and whistles. The Lange Zeitwerk Minute repeater is not the most complicated watch that A. Lange & Söhne has ever made ...

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...

Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

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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 ...

The Lange 1815: A Complete History

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The Lange 1815: A Complete History

Tradition: A cliché word for the watches perhaps, and sometimes, even an overused alibi to cover up a lack of creativity. Yet it is unden...

Jack’s Picks: Classically Sized Watches

Jack’s Picks: Classically Sized Watches

The so-called dress watch has been under attack as a category of watchmaking at least since the early 1970s, when the first stainless ste...

The Lange Cabaret And The Lost Art Of The Rectangular Watch

The Lange Cabaret And The Lost Art Of The Rectangular Watch

Are shaped watches on the comeback trail? Right now, every single watch A. Lange & Söhne makes, is round. The same is true at Vachero...

Langepedia & WatchBox: The Zeitwerk Renaissance

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Langepedia & WatchBox: The Zeitwerk Renaissance

Since the 1980s, the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) has championed the cause of independent watchmaking. While some...

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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 ...