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Liberté! Égalité! Temporalité!
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Liberté! Égalité! Temporalité!
In the smartphone age, it's often said, nobody needs a watch anymore. This avant-garde design challenges us to consider all the reasons we might want one anyway.
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Not zero, comrades, not zero.
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Both sneakers and watches happily break the rules when it comes to monotony in color and hue.
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The Florentine watchmaker offers its signature Blu Notte dial paired with the unmistakeable Luminor formfactor in of Panerai’s own propriety composite carbon fibre material, Carbotech.
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To this day, when most people think about luxury watches they picture a wizened, white-haired man in a white lab coat bent over a workbench against the backdrop of snowy Alps busily filing away at watch parts. It’s a lovely picture, but not very representative of the modern – or even necessarily traditional – watch industry as Elizabeth Doerr explains here.
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Trilobe, in collaboration with French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, created a clock with an aesthetic designed to jar you awake for the Only Watch 2021 charity auction. And Trilobe's Nuit Fantastique, currently competing in the Petite Aiguille category of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, represents the next step in aesthetic direction for Trilobe. Joshua Munchow takes a closer look at both.
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And it's not a limited edition, thank god.
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He's an explorer, and he also plays one on TV.
I needed a watch that could help me do the impossible. My Casio 'Easy to Read' did just that.
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How the first modern tank inspired the last word in elegance.
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A huge result, but peak Crash is likely yet to be seen.
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Piaget is the king of ultra-thin watches and for its 140th birthday is treating us to something special.
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The brand ventures in a totally new direction with a different take on a classic design.
For now.
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With a "gunmetal" finish.
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If you don't like Shohei Ohtani, you don't like MLB baseball.
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Watch collectors are turning to vintage markets for rare and valuable timepieces, buying luxury watches with services like Authenticity Guarantee from eBay are making it easier than ever to invest with confidence.
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Everything you need to know about vintage Rolex Subs.
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The watch is classic and modern.
The show must go on.
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Character watches pop up in the most surprising places. Here, the photographer who took this picture retells the story of a gangsta-rap giant wearing a kiddie watch.
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Revolution gets up-close with the finer points of the Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph Origins Limited Edition 100, launched at Watches & Wonders 2021
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Gotta catch 'em all!
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In honor of Le Mans, we salute some legends of the podium – and the watches that got them there.
… With some surprising connections to watch collecting.
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With the Chopard L.U.C 1860 Flying T, Special Revolution in hand, Wei gives the rundown of a great revelation that the already impressive COSC & Geneva Seal watch has, an enigmatic stop-seconds function, making it one of only six tourbillons in existence from major watchmakers that feature.
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Inaugurated in 1976 by André J. Heiniger, the chief of Rolex who succeeded founder Hans Wilsdorf, the Rolex Awards for Enterprise was originally conceived as a one-off event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the watchmaker’s trademark waterproof Oyster case. Comprising a grant of CHF200,000 (about US$215,000), the awards recognised entrepreneurs working on solving pressing social and environmental issues. But the brand has since transformed the awards into a biennial tradition, bestowing grants to over 150 individuals in the last four decades. According to Rolex, the grants gave birth to over 50 unique inventions, over 20 million trees planted, and dozens of endangered species protected – and, of course, numerous scientific expeditions completed. This year’s Laureates of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise have just been announced – five individuals from different continents, each leading an ongoing, growing projects. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Rolex awards are given out based on current instead of past works, making it a scholarships of sorts that fuels a wider impact for the prize winner. Bling for good Healthy diets A perfect example of an effective, ongoing project is Sanku, a non-profit organisation that tackles malnutrition with a simple but scalable solution to the age-old problem. By retrofitting flour mills in Tanzania with its patented “Dosifier”, Sanku ensures the population is provided with a complement of basic nutrients such as vitamins and met...
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The Chopard L.U.C 1860 Flying T, Special Revolution is the thinnest COSC & Geneva Seal stop-seconds tourbillon available today. Here’s why this matters.
A look at the Antikythera Mechanism.
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