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What Is A Dive Watch: Where Practicality Meets Style

What Is A Dive Watch: Where Practicality Meets Style

Best Luxury Watches Under $5,000

Best Luxury Watches Under $5,000

Women’s Style In Luxury Watches

Women’s Style In Luxury Watches

Rare and Revered Rolex Models

Rare and Revered Rolex Models

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What Is A Dive Watch: Where Practicality Meets Style

What Is A Dive Watch: Where Practicality Meets Style

While most watches feature a minimum of 30m water resistance, not all watches are dive watches. There are specific characteristics that a...

Rare and Revered Rolex Models

Rare and Revered Rolex Models

Discover two of the most sought after Rolex sport models: the Submariner 16610LV and the Daytona 116520. The Submariner offers a high wat...

The Life of LineSport–A Deep Dive Into The Casual Side of F.P. Journe

The Life of LineSport–A Deep Dive Into The Casual Side of F.P. Journe

When people start talking about F.P. Journe, you’re destined to hear about the usual suspects–the Résonance, the Tourbillon Souverain, th...

The Art of Time Travel: GMT Complications

The Art of Time Travel: GMT Complications

The GMT Complication As a watch collector, the GMT is an indispensable watch in my collection. Any GMT watch evokes the spirit of travel ...

Material Science: Watch Materials Explained

Material Science: Watch Materials Explained

While steel, titanium, platinum, and all the shades of gold are par for the course in modern watchmaking, alternative metals, alloys, com...

Proprietary Rolex Materials: What Do They All Mean?

Proprietary Rolex Materials: What Do They All Mean?

As with many brands, Rolex has its own distinct nomenclature for near every material they produce and use in the manufacture of their wat...

Patek Philippe, IWC, & Complicated Watches For Watch Buyers: From The Vault

Patek Philippe, IWC, & Complicated Watches For Watch Buyers: From...

Watch Here Tim Mosso and Brian Govberg return from a coronavirus-induced sabbatical for a socially distanced comeback episode of “From ...

A Chronograph History Lesson: A Matter of Timing

A Chronograph History Lesson: A Matter of Timing

Turn to a watch enthusiast one day, hopefully catching them off guard, and ask them to name a complication. I’d put money on the fact tha...

Buying Guides

Best Luxury Watches Under $5,000

Best Luxury Watches Under $5,000

Watches can come in at all different price points, from a $10 quartz to a $1,000,000+ Grand Complications. Luxury watches under $5,000 is...

Women’s Style In Luxury Watches

Women’s Style In Luxury Watches

Watches can be another way for women to express fashion choices outside of what we may see as “traditional jewelry.” They can be a statem...

Iconic Celebrity Watches From Hollywood to Politicians

Iconic Celebrity Watches From Hollywood to Politicians

Being a celebrity doesn’t just mean you’re in Hollywood, you can be a famous sports figure, political figure, musician or even a tech con...

Best Of Chronographs: Timing The Last of 2020

Best Of Chronographs: Timing The Last of 2020

Regardless of how your day-to-day life has evolved through the weirdness of 2020, the practical appeal of a chronograph remains constant....

Rise of The Indies: Independent Watches

Rise of The Indies: Independent Watches

Listen to a conversation about the “big boys” of modern watchmaking, and you hear a lot of the same—conversations about specific hi...

Best Watches Under $8,000: A Gift, a Reward, an Upgrade

Best Watches Under $8,000: A Gift, a Reward, an Upgrade

These days, there is no standard. There is no normal. Some are struggling, and some are thriving. How we look at the collecting hobby wil...

Pandemic-Era Dress Watches: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

Pandemic-Era Dress Watches: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

There are certain categories of watches that many of us grew accustomed to connecting with particular social or professional activities, ...

Collecting Together: Celebrate the Holidays with WatchBox

Collecting Together: Celebrate the Holidays with WatchBox

This holiday season, we’re celebrating the community that surrounds every collector; the bonds shared across generations, between friends...

WatchBox Studios

WatchBox Studios deliver an energizing lineup of original programming

The Complicated Watch World, Simplified | The Classroom Season 02

Welcome to the premiere of "The Classroom Season 2". You asked for certain improvements and we're going to deliver. Jon, C'q, and Mike will all be back with the addition of Josh Thanos. Not to give up too much, but there will be a...

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 14790BA.OO.0789BA.07 Audemars Piguet Watch Review

A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Thin Copper Blue 205.086 A. Lange & Sohne Watch Review

Breitling Chronomat B01 Chronograph 44 AB0115101F1A1 Breitling Watch Review

History of Time

Time Around The World: A History of Patek Philippe World Timers

Time Around The World: A History of Patek Philippe World Timers

As with many complications on the market, the world timer is anything but a modern creation. First invented by Louis Cottier in 1931, it ...

Rolex Deepsea: The Most Extreme Rolex Dive Watch Offered to the Public

Rolex Deepsea: The Most Extreme Rolex Dive Watch Offered to the Public

Titanium isn’t a thing at Rolex. For the most part, the brand from Geneva leaves ceramic, titanium, and steel-titanium hybrids to its sis...

Tales of Lume Watches: Where it all Began

Tales of Lume Watches: Where it all Began

To the vast majority of watch collectors and enthusiasts, luminous material is a wonderful thing. On one hand immensely practical for tel...

The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

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 ...

Anniversary Watches and Why We Love Them

Anniversary Watches and Why We Love Them

An anniversary is a wonderful thing—the celebration of a moment in time, the creation of something special. Collectors use watches ...

History of the Rolex GMT-Master Collection and it’s Evolution to Today’s Modern Sports Watch

History of the Rolex GMT-Master Collection and it’s Evolution to...

Few Rolex watches out there have maintained such long-standing desirability as the GMT-Master (now GMT-Master II). It’s one of the few wa...

Rolex Dive Watches: Robust Tool Watches For Any Activity

Rolex Dive Watches: Robust Tool Watches For Any Activity

Rolex and water have long gone hand in hand, going all the way back to the original Oyster case that was first unveiled in 1926. A pionee...

Omega Speedmaster X-33: The Other Space Watch

Omega Speedmaster X-33: The Other Space Watch

Anyone who knows a bit–and really even just a minuscule bit–is at least familiar with the connection between Omega, NASA, and...

Industry News

Breitling’s Rebound and Growth: A Closer Look

Breitling’s Rebound and Growth: A Closer Look

Breitling – the entire brand – deserves more respect from watch collectors. Despite a few years in the wilderness, the brand from Grenche...

Featured Video: Behind the Scenes with Grand Seiko’s Extraordinary Dials

Featured Video: Behind the Scenes with Grand Seiko’s Extraordinary Dia...

Featured Video: Behind the Scenes with Grand Seiko’s Extraordinary Dials On Wednesday, July 29, we celebrated the captivating dials of Gr...

In Conversation: Audemars Piguet CEO François-Henry Bennahmias on the Era of COVID-19, Watch Consumers, and Reactions to the Code 11.59

In Conversation: Audemars Piguet CEO François-Henry Bennahmias on the ...

Audemars Piguet’s CEO, François-Henry Bennahmias, is among the watch industry’s most dynamic executives, charged with steering one of the...

YOU’RE INVITED! Dialed In: Grand Seiko x WatchBox Collector’s Event

YOU’RE INVITED! Dialed In: Grand Seiko x WatchBox Collector’s Event

WatchBox and Grand Seiko invite you to join us for a discussion on the inspiration and techniques featured on Grand Seiko’s most celebrat...

WatchBox After Hours: Controversial Innovations in Watchmaking

WatchBox After Hours: Controversial Innovations in Watchmaking

The WatchBox crew gets together for another After Hours episode talking about innovation within the industry and the affects it has on bu...

Try Before you Buy with the Try On Tool

Try Before you Buy with the Try On Tool

WatchBox is excited to introduce the TRY ON tool to those browsing products and wanting to see exactly how the watch would fit and look i...

WatchBox After Hours: Unpopular Watch Opinions

WatchBox After Hours: Unpopular Watch Opinions

Welcome to the latest edition of WatchBox After Hours via Zoom. Before we dive in, it is important to note that this conversation does no...

Haute Time Presents: Talking Time with Mitchell Schwartz and George Mayer

Haute Time Presents: Talking Time with Mitchell Schwartz and George Ma...

WatchBox and Mitch Schwartz came together to support the ALL IN Challenge with a weekend experience for every football fan, foodie, and w...

Watch Reviews

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...

Graham Silverston RS Endurance 24HR

Graham Silverston RS Endurance 24HR

The new Silverstone Endurance 24HR features a mono-pusher movement with a double chronograph function that measures up to the requirement...

Chopard L.U.C 1963 Chronograph

Chopard L.U.C 1963 Chronograph

Nineteen sixty-three was notable for the Scheufele family, as it was the year they acquired the Maison Chopard. Thus the L.U.C 1963 colle...

The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon & L’Ammiraglio del Tempo

The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon & L’Ammiraglio del Tempo

With a movement thinner than a Swiss five-franc coin, Bulgari’s Finissimo models mark the Italo-Swiss brand’s dramatic entrance into the ...

Breitling Jet Team Chronomat 44s

Breitling Jet Team Chronomat 44s

With the Breitling Jet Team starting its first United States tour this month in Lakeland, Florida, followed by eighteen shows coast to co...

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