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Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of De Bethune, and in that time, the compan...

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Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

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Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

The Patek Philippe 5102 Sky Moon Celestial

The Patek Philippe 5102 Sky Moon Celestial

The De Bethune DB28YT Yellow Tones

The De Bethune DB28YT Yellow Tones

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

History of Time

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

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The Patek Philippe 5102 Sky Moon Celestial

The Patek Philippe 5102 Sky Moon Celestial

There are a lot of superlatives thrown around rather loosely in the world of luxury watchmaking, but every now and then a watch comes alo...

The De Bethune DB28YT Yellow Tones

The De Bethune DB28YT Yellow Tones

Gold, for much of the history of watchmaking, has been an essential element in watch cases (and even, occasionally, in movements — in the...

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...

The F. P. Journe Vagabondage III

The F. P. Journe Vagabondage III

Even in the seemingly simple world of time-only watches, there is an enormous amount of variety in design, materials, mechanisms, and jus...

The Cartier Tortue Monopoussoir, Collection Privée Cartier Paris

The Cartier Tortue Monopoussoir, Collection Privée Cartier Paris

Although the Collection Privée Cartier Paris (CPCP) watches were produced for a relatively short period of time, from 1998 to 2008, the w...

The Rolex Turn-O-Graph, Ref. 116264

The Rolex Turn-O-Graph, Ref. 116264

The Rolex Turn-O-Graph is one of those Rolex models which exists slightly in the shadow of the more mainstream and widely known sports mo...

The De Bethune DBS DBSWS1

The De Bethune DBS DBSWS1

The De Bethune DBS came along fairly early in the history of the company — it was introduced in 2005, just three years after Denis Flageo...

The IWC Grande Complication, Chronograph, Minute Repeater, And Perpetual Calendar, Ref. IW9270-45

The IWC Grande Complication, Chronograph, Minute Repeater, And Perpetu...

The IWC Grande Complication was one of the first of a new generation of grande complication and highly complicated watches to emerge from...

Buying Guides

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...

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...

Hands-On Expert Review: The Rolex Rainbow Daytona

Hands-On Expert Review: The Rolex Rainbow Daytona

A bold and colorful statement in luxury timepieces, the Rolex Rainbow Cosmograph Daytona is a highly sought after wristwatch for a few ex...

Patek Philippe: Highlights, Trends, and Predictions in 2022

Patek Philippe: Highlights, Trends, and Predictions in 2022

For the first time, Patek Philippe unveiled its new watches in Geneva at Watches & Wonders in 2022 — the home city of the brand and t...

The Many Forms of the Moon Phase Complication

The Many Forms of the Moon Phase Complication

Moon complications can be poetic, technical, or both. The Moon itself may never change, but it hasn’t stopped captivating watchmakers—and...

The Complete Rolex Buyer’s Guide

The Complete Rolex Buyer’s Guide

If there is only one luxury watch brand that almost everyone knows, it’s Rolex. From Mad Men’s Don Draper’s Rolex Explorer to former Pres...

F1 is Back: 5 Watches for The Paddock

F1 is Back: 5 Watches for The Paddock

In life and in sport, time determines who wins and who loses. And time is the great arbiter of one of my favorite things: racing. When I ...

Collector Conversations

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...

A Conversation with Fratello Watches

A Conversation with Fratello Watches

One of the first blogs to enter the watch media ecosystem, Fratello Watches today, is one of the leading online watch magazines – still g...

Featured

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of De Bethune, and in that time, the company has evolved at an unprecedented pace. ...

December Auction Report

December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

Jack’s Picks: High Design Timepieces

Jack’s Picks: High Design Timepieces

There is something archetypally satisfying about a round wristwatch. Time, it has been intuited for as long as humans have measured it, o...

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...

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

There is among watch enthusiasts a tendency to dismiss gem-set watches as purely decorative objects whose primary function is to act as a...

Classically Sized, Gem-Set and High Design—three distinct visions of watchmaking, three distinct worlds of horology full of hidden treasu...

Greubel Forsey: <br>The Masters of Invention

Greubel Forsey:
The Masters of Invention

Symphonies in the key of the tourbillon. Even by the rarefied standards of high end independent watchmaking, where obsessive attention to...

De Bethune Introduces The Sensorial Chronometry Project

De Bethune Introduces The Sensorial Chronometry Project

A sensor-loaded “lab watch” is the first step to customized mechanical chronometry. One of the great classic problems in watc...

History of Time

Movement Finishing in Modern High Grade Fine Watchmaking

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 ...

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

Every watch enthusiast with any time in the game has seen them — heat-blued hands, screws, and other steel and titanium components, add i...

The Lange 1815: A Complete History

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...

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of De Bethune, and in that time, the company has evolved at an unprecedented pace. ...

Astronomy and Watchmaking

Astronomy and Watchmaking

Astronomical displays are rare, technical complications, and in recent years they’ve become part of the core expertise of independent bra...

Langepedia & WatchBox: The Zeitwerk Renaissance

Langepedia & WatchBox: The Zeitwerk Renaissance

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

Reference Refresh: The Modern Calatrava

Reference Refresh: The Modern Calatrava

With Patek Philippe’s Calatrava turning 90 in 2022, the time is ripe to look back on an icon of classic Fine Watchmaking that’s been almo...

The History of Time: The Return of Czapek

The History of Time: The Return of Czapek

Many legacy watchmaking brands attempt to make a comeback, but few manage to pull it off. Czapek has become one of the most resounding su...

Industry News

Our Retrospective Exhibition is Coming to Dubai in February

Our Retrospective Exhibition is Coming to Dubai in February

Coming Soon: Two Decades Of F. P. Journe & De Bethune One of the most remarkable events WatchBox has ever produced, happened last N...

December Auction Report

December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

Report From Geneva: ReLuxury, Auction Highlights, Best Of GPHG

Report From Geneva: ReLuxury, Auction Highlights, Best Of GPHG

A packed week in Geneva shone a spotlight on every facet of fine watchmaking. The first couple of weeks of November were already a pretty...

Stream the GPHG 2022 Award Ceremony November 10th<br> At 6:30 pm CET/ 12:30 EST

Stream the GPHG 2022 Award Ceremony November 10th
At 6:30 pm CET/ ...

Live stream not working? Watch it here instead. What, you might be asking, is the GPHG and why should I watch it? The GPHG is the Grand...

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...

What Is a Client Advisor?

What Is a Client Advisor?

Collecting watches is a deeply personal pursuit, working with a watch retailer should feel that way, too. That’s why our Client Advisors ...

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, ...

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...

Watch 101

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’...

What Is a GMT Function?

What Is a GMT Function?

A GMT is a useful complication for travelers, international businesses, and those with family abroad. The complication is extremely popul...

Watch Reviews

In Focus: F.P. Journe CT2RG Centigraphe

In Focus: F.P. Journe CT2RG Centigraphe

An unwritten rule of the watch world is that a chronograph requires some motorsport heritage to be a bona fide “racing chronograph.” The ...

In Focus: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar

In Focus: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar

When Audemars Piguet teamed up with Gerald Genta to design Royal Oak in 1971 and 1972, they could not forecast the commercial success the...

In Focus: Patek Philippe Calatrava Skeleton; Ref. 5180/1G

In Focus: Patek Philippe Calatrava Skeleton; Ref. 5180/1G

Patek Philippe is known for its range of complications, grand complications, and rare handcrafts. Among those horological heavy hitters l...

Rolex Daytona vs. Submariner Comparison

Rolex Daytona vs. Submariner Comparison

The Daytona and Submariner are two sporty watches from Rolex with very different styles. The Daytona is a chronograph, designed for timin...

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...

Press Room

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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Jack Forster

Emily Smith

Adriana Imhof

Justin Mastine-Frost

Joe Cuce

Caroline Kallman Joffe

Tim Mosso

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