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World Tour Recap: Jack Forster Reports From Dubai

World Tour Recap: Jack Forster Reports From Dubai

The WatchBox “World Tour” has a more formal name, which is the Retrospective Exhibition: Two Decades Of De Bethune And F. P. ...

WatchBox World Tour Continues In US

WatchBox World Tour Continues In US

Next up, New York, Miami and Los Angeles Our traveling Retrospective Exhibition is underway, and we’re heading to New York, Miami and Los...

Coming To Our Retrospective Exhibition In Dubai: Three New Masterpieces From De Bethune

Coming To Our Retrospective Exhibition In Dubai: Three New Masterpiece...

Perpetual in green, A Starry Varius for travel, and a new Kind Of Two. In the years since De Bethune was founded in 2002, the company has...

World Tour Recap: Tim Mosso reports from Singapore and Hong Kong

World Tour Recap: Tim Mosso reports from Singapore and Hong Kong

WatchBox opened its 2023 “World Tour” in grand style with an exclusive luxury watch experience for collectors in Singapore and Hong Kong....

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 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...

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

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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...

Design At DeBethune: Two Decades Of Evolution And Revolution

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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 company has evolved at an unprecedented pace. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Astronomy and Watchmaking

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Astronomy and Watchmaking

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

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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 ...