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The Paradox of Watchmaking: Shouldn’t Watches get Cheaper with Efficiency?
In all industries, prices of objects have dropped as production improves; Except watches - this paradox of watchmaking: why aren't watches getting cheaper?
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HANDS-ON: Return of a legend - the Halios Puck II
Over the years, I’ve worn many (many) watches for review purposes, and to be honest it’s rare that I’m still thinking about that watch months or years after the fact. The Puck, from Canadian micro-brand Halios, is one of the rare exceptions. I wrote up the DLC version of the original Puck over on Hodinkee, way … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: Return of a legend – the Halios Puck II appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The Collector’s View: a review of the Orient Bambino ER24003W
A collector reader and friend writes a review of his Orient Bambino ER24003W, and why this modestly priced automatic watch from Japan ticks all the bozes.
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Complete List of Movies Featured in EPIC Rolex Oscar Commercial
A list of all 19 movies featured in Rolex’s minute long Oscar 2017 advertisement along with iTunes links to all 19 movies!
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LIST: 5 of the best watches from the 2017 Oscars, including an incredible $1.7 million Greubel Forsey
This, friends, is the big one. Sure, we’ve kept half an eye on the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the BAFTAs and the rest. But really, honestly, this is the only one we care about: the 89th Academy Awards, which took place tonight/yesterday/some time in the past few hours. (Seriously, we’re in Australia – Monday’s nearly … ContinuedThe post LIST: 5 of the best watches from the 2017 Oscars, including an incredible $1.7 million Greubel Forsey appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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VIDEO: Want Omega’s CEO to give you a private tour of their biggest boutique, featuring Cindy Crawford? Of course you do
Omega’s Sydney flagship is their biggest boutique in the world, and it’s in a prominent position, at 20 Martin Place, right in the heart of town. When Chief Executive Raynald Aeschlimann travelled to Australia to officially open it earlier this month, he brought a friend of the brand who, a decade earlier, also opened the Castlereagh Street … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: Want Omega’s CEO to give you a private tour of their biggest boutique, featuring Cindy Crawford? Of course you do appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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VIDEO: The Bulgari CEO brought $750k of watches into our office and for a day we had two bodyguards
‘Like a boss’ is a phrase we’re attempting to permanently retire at Time+Tide. It’s done. But there’s no other way to describe the way the CEO of Bulgari visited our offices. He did it breezily – the leadup was one or two emails, a request to book a place for lunch – but completely like the boss of … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: The Bulgari CEO brought $750k of watches into our office and for a day we had two bodyguards appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Collector’s World: David Brailsford of Garrick Watches
David Brailsford of Garrick Watches speaks with MrWatchMaster about watch collecting and his love for small independent watchmakers. David’s a successful watch consultant who works with leading watchmakers and independent watch brands from around the world.
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Rolex: The Spoils Of War
During the 1940s, a gesture – as commercially expedient as it was generous – by German émigré and founder of Rolex Hans Wilsdorf, saw the brand become a huge part of the Second World War, and, indeed, cinematic folklore.
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A Mare Nostrum Story From Before The Days Of The Vendôme Group
When thinking of Panerai, one’s mind immediately turns to the familiar Luminor and Radiomir, but cast your line just a bit further into the murky waters of the past and you may come across a model a little more unexpected.
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Beyond Time, Expressing Tales: The Curiously Intelligent Watches of Van Cleef & Arpels
Don't tar watchmaker Van Cleef & Arpels with the brush of bejewelled Quartz watches when they're making movements smarter than most calibres out there
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Where Few Dare to Tweed: Hublot Fuses Sartorial Tailoring with the World of Horology
Hublot partners up for the third time with Lapo Elkann to create a timepiece, which effortlessly fuses the worlds of horology and sartorial tailoring with a little help of one immensely gifted, Luca Rubinacci. Introducing the Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Italia Independent, realized in six executions using the most iconic tweed fabrics from the archives of house Rubinacci.
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VIDEO: A chef, his watch (a Hublot Big Bang) and his love of stir fry
It gets boring waiting in lines, especially when you’re hungry. So if by chance this finds you outside Chin Chin (Australia’s top-ranked restaurant, located in Flinders Lane, Melbourne which has a wait-time of around the average romantic comedy in length), you’re in luck, because we’re going to help you kill at least two minutes. And … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: A chef, his watch (a Hublot Big Bang) and his love of stir fry appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The Curious Legacy of Audemars Piguet Calendar Watches Part 2.
Today, the legacy of Audemars Piguet Calendars lives on in the black version, made of hand-finished black ceramic: the 2017 Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar
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The Importance of TAG Heuer’s New Face: Bella Hadid
Jean-Claude Biver adds super model, Bella Hadid to the ranks of TAG Heuer ambassadors to further the brand’s cultural influence in reaching a younger, dynamic audience.
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The Curious Legacy of Audemars Piguet Calendar Watches Part 1.
The legacy of Audemars Piguet Calendar Watches will prove without doubt that the Le Brassus manufacture indeed mastered the rules before breaking them
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SIHH 2017: The Return of the Panthère
Cartier brings back the Panthère, a stylish timepiece born in the 80s and the choice of many a pop-icon of the time.
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The History of the World as told by World Time Watches
Provenance is important to collectors & what better way to be a part of history then to have world events reflected in the dials of these world time watches
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EDITOR’S PICK: One of Australia’s most successful sailors ever talks timing, Rolex and making your own luck
This is a video we keep coming back to. It’s one of our most cinematic and visually beautiful videos to date, and it captures the skipper of Wild Oats XI, Mark Richards, in the lead up to the 2016 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. It finds him in a reflective, but taut frame of mind – this was … ContinuedThe post EDITOR’S PICK: One of Australia’s most successful sailors ever talks timing, Rolex and making your own luck appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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In Conversation with the Incoming CEO of IWC, Christoph Grainger-Herr
IWC’s incoming CEO gives Revolution a powerfully honest analysis of shifting trends among watch consumers that makes continuous adaptability a must-have.
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Quartz is the future of the Industry (But not in the way you think)
From turning a generation of watch agnostic young professionals into watch wearers to augmented quartz hybrid tech, Quartz is the future of the industry.
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HANDS-ON: The appeal of Hublot’s Big Bang Unico Magic Sapphire is crystal clear
When Hublot released two takes on sapphire Big Bangs last year – the Unico Sapphire and the All Black version – we suspected that wouldn’t be the last we’d see of the clear case material. Lo and behold, our hunch has proved correct with the release of the Big Bang Unico Magic Sapphire. Compared to 2016’s … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The appeal of Hublot’s Big Bang Unico Magic Sapphire is crystal clear appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Are We Celebrating the Watchmaker to the Point of Ignoring the Designer?
Watchmakers are veritable rockstars but how many can actually name the designer of their watch? Can you name another designer beyond Gerald Genta?
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EDITOR’S PICK: 6 of Tudor’s most important technical achievements (and a couple of Basel 2017 predictions for good measure)
Editor’s Note: Baselworld 2017 is just around the corner, which means our overactive imaginations have kicked into hyperdrive, imagining what new forms of wrist candy the brands will be dropping on us. At the forefront of our speculations are Tudor, who always play their cards close to their chest when it comes to new releases – which only makes … ContinuedThe post EDITOR’S PICK: 6 of Tudor’s most important technical achievements (and a couple of Basel 2017 predictions for good measure) appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Watch Recommendations for the “God of Gamblers”, from Our Archives
In this week's Throwback Sunday, we feature six watch recommendations for the "God of Gamblers", featuring brands like Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Breguet.
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The Height of Success
Known to his many clients as a successful management consultant, out of office hours Jake Meyer is a real life Action Man – a mountain climber, an intrepid adventurer and a British Army reservist. Since 2005, Meyer has been accompanied in his pursuits by a Bremont wristwatch.
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VIDEO: 9 of the watches the CEO of Ferrari Australasia wears the most, including AP, Richard Mille and Bell & Ross…
Gentlemen, start your envy… Spoiler alert, but it’s comforting that the CEO of Ferrari Australasia, Herbert Appleroth, has a watch collection befitting his station in life. And let me just say, his ‘watch box’ was the best we’ve ever seen. We’d discussed him coming in to share some of his more notable timepieces, but we … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: 9 of the watches the CEO of Ferrari Australasia wears the most, including AP, Richard Mille and Bell & Ross… appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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The Battle of the Power Reserves Commences
Like the quest to make the thinnest watch, a number of makers have taken up another challenge: to see whose watch can run the longest.
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BREAKING NEWS: ROLEX Now Official Broadcast Sponsor of Oscars 2017
Rolex is now the official sponsor of the 89th Academy Awards® live broadcast - Sunday, 26 February 2017 on the ABC Television Network.
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Ace of Bass - Adam Clayton
This year is Adam Clayton’s 25th anniversary as a watch enthusiast and, thanks to an award-winning album, he’s able to place the time watches caught his eye and caused one of the world’s most successful rock musicians to become a watch enthusiast.