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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...

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 Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Complete Calendar With Moonphase

The Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Complete Calendar With Moonphas...

The complete calendar is a complication that offers a lot of visual razzle-dazzle for not (usually) a whole heck of a lot more money than...

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...

In The Details: The Case for Tonneau Cases

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In The Details: The Case for Tonneau Cases

The vast majority of watches are round—quite simply because that’s the shape of their main component, the wheel. In addition to this prac...

Understanding Watch Jewels

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Understanding Watch Jewels

In a watch movement, there are many different features such as a balance spring, movement plate and bridges. Jewels are an important part...

The Stainless Steel Sports Watch—What Comes Next?

The Stainless Steel Sports Watch—What Comes Next?

Following the recent discontinuation of Patek Philippe’s Nautilus 5711 and the iterating of Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak 15202—both iconic...

In Focus: Vacheron Constantin Historiques Cornes de Vache 1955

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In Focus: Vacheron Constantin Historiques Cornes de Vache 1955

Collectors have a certain wanderlust for Switzerland. There is a romance about visiting the artisans, dial factories, and workshops nestl...

Sector Dials: The Past has a Bright Future

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Sector Dials: The Past has a Bright Future

The revival in vintage fashion has led to a minor style detail making a discreet comeback of its own: the sector dial. This segmented min...

For The Ritualist: Manually Wound Watches

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For The Ritualist: Manually Wound Watches

Open your eyes. Turn off your alarm. Sit up in bed. Grab your watch from the nightstand. Wind it. If there is a purer daily ritual for th...

In Focus: Vacheron Constantin Historiques Triple Calendar 1942

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In Focus: Vacheron Constantin Historiques Triple Calendar 1942

I am a sucker for vintage triple calendars. I have always and will always love them. But there are days where you just need a reliable, d...

WatchBox Rewound: Unique Displays of Time Video Round-Up

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WatchBox Rewound: Unique Displays of Time Video Round-Up

Watches are the Rube Goldberg machines of timekeeping. Energy starts in the mainspring, rushes to the escapement, teeters back-and-forth ...

WatchBox Rewound: Beach to Tux Video Round-Up

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WatchBox Rewound: Beach to Tux Video Round-Up

It’s Friday morning and you’re buttoning your cufflinks when you begin to answer an almost-insoluble question: Which watch will you wear ...

Traditional or Modern? The Two Faces of the Tourbillon

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Traditional or Modern? The Two Faces of the Tourbillon

The tourbillon’s patent was filed exactly 220 years ago, in 1801. Nowadays, the tourbillon has two faces – its purest, traditional form, ...

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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 ...