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Bell and Ross unveils the new BR-X1 Military. Signature square case in high resistance titanium and a skeletonized sapphire glass dial. Hands-on review.
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Watchscapes Photo Essay with in-depth and hands on review of Armin Strom Pure Resonance Water and Fire. With full specifications and price.
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So what's the deal with brightly colored dive watches and the design manufacturers pursue for the sake of legibility under water? Are these models more desirable or functional than others? Why are some brightly colored Seikos so difficult to find?
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Magical cylindrical tunnels of water. Riding inside a barrelling wave is considered by some to be the be-all and end-all of surfing. And while Hublot’s latest addition to the Spirit of Big Bang collection doesn’t exactly call for a rashie or a coating of wax, it does capture the essence of the sea, with an … ContinuedThe post INTRODUCING: Ocean blue barrels – the Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Blue appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Nomos greets the Northern summer with two new, water resistant watches from their Ahoi and Club range, with a clean signal white design.
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While Bell & Ross are well known for their aviation-inspired designs, there’s another side to the French watch brand that takes them from the flight deck to the boat deck. A side that saw them introduce their first ever dive watch in 1997. The oil-filled, and more round than square, Hydromax - with an unbelievable water … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver Bronze appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Kaz and Mike take time out of their weekend to talk watches, share their frustrations, and kick back after a difficult week. How far can Mike take his #BaselBeard and is it really recycling if you chug water out of a used soda can? The Snobs are eco-conscious dudes after all... maybe.
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The new Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Memovox comes on a brand-new rubber strap with a new folding buckle and is water resistant to 200 meters.
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While we all know that Van Cleef & Arpels love a bit of poetry, I get the feeling that they also have a major thing for swans. Huh, what? You know, the way swans glide across the water, all elegance and beauty, no visible effort – while paddling furiously beneath the surface. Well, that’s how … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: The Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Planétarium appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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This meant the watch would be putting up with long work days in therapy clinics (often times without air conditioning), 90 (F) degree average temperatures with high levels of humidity, and a great deal of sand, sweat, salt water, sunscreen, and bug repellent.
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On a typical water-logged British summer day, two teams took to the field in a battle of the fittest to decide the winners of the 2017 Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup.
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Rado is synonymous with ceramic. The brand pioneered the use of the material, creating its very own niche along the way. With its combination of incredible scratch resistance and lightness, it’s easy to see why it’s such a good material for watch cases. Perhaps the most iconic of all ceramic watches is the aptly named … ContinuedThe post INTRODUCING: Evergreen design – the Rado Ceramica appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Richard Mille introduces the seventh Rafael Nadal watch, the RM 27-03, weighing in at 34 grams and boasting shock resistance of up to 10,000 g’s.
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The first Bell & Ross I ever laid my hands on, back in 2008, was the Marine, an uncommon and somewhat unusual beast that took the brand’s trademark dial and transplanted it into a large, 1000m water resistant, tonneau-shaped case that looked like it could handle anything short of being run over by a main … ContinuedThe post HANDS-ON: A square peg in a round hole – the Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Felix and I are taking deep breaths. We’re getting plenty of exercise. Plenty of sun. And we’re changing our coffee order from latté to long-black, and – at least psychologically – replacing the contents of the water cooler with Cristal. Yes, Baselworld is only weeks away. For those that don’t know, the old B-W is the … ContinuedThe post VIDEO: What’s Baselworld really like? Drink three coffees, watch this, you are there dude… appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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MB&F; announces the HM7 Aquapod, and takes their adventure from space, sky and road to the water. Full specs and retail price.
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Two revelations and one realization about the Horological Machine No. 7 ‘Aquapod’, MB&F;’s first foray into a water themed kinetic sculpture.
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Story in a second No risk of second-album syndrome here – this slightly larger take on the Divers Sixty-Five is a worthy, if slightly more mainstream, follow-up to the original release. There must be something good in the water at Hölstein, because Oris has been on fire lately. The 100% mechanical brand has always had … ContinuedThe post IN-DEPTH: Is this the best heritage watch of 2016? The Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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“Coast Guard, this is motor-vessel Bonsai, we have a missing diver in the water. Repeat, missing diver.” I scanned the choppy water as we motored in increasing arcs, realising the near-impossibility of spotting a person in the 7ft (2m) swells. I’d rehearsed this scenario in my head a hundred times, but nothing could prepare me […]
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Ever since the invention of the earliest water clocks, physics and gravity have affected our efforts to measure time precisely. Liquid-filled clocks ran faster when full, because higher pressure at the bottom of the vessel caused the water to drain more quickly. Springs provided a technological step forward, but not a complete solution, because they […]
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Motoring slowly along the line of buoys, five of us leaned over the starboard gunwale, scanning the clear water through polarized lenses. It had been a quiet day with no sharks in sight - unless you count the lazy nurse sharks begging for bait scraps in the marina. We’d spent languid hours between line checks […]
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Some say that one of the reasons of Geneva’s success as one of the watchmaking capitals in the world is thanks to the mythical powers of Lake Geneva. Those who have every seen it in real life must admit that looking over this vast body of deep blue water surrounded by the high peaks for […]
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The prototypical Panerai is easily recognised from a distance, thanks in part to the iconic crown guard flanking the case. This feature was added as a revision to the earlier “Radomir”, with the intention of adding a crown protecting bridge that would prevent water from entering the case. This shape that these two elements formed […]
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Even manufacturers of die-hard, professional military watches like Marathon and Stocker & Yale don’t do it: camouflage the dial of their watches. This is for good reason since legibility is key when entering a war zone. But like many divers watches that never see water apart from the occasional pool, many military inspired watches will […]
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One of the most dramatic technological innovations in recent memory is the OMEGA Co-Axial caliber 8508. It is resistant to magnetic fields greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss), far exceeding the levels of magnetic resistance achieved by any previous watch movement and solving a problem that has challenged watchmakers for many decades. The mechanical movement […]
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One of the watches that proofed that we are truly living in the Renaissance of the mechanical watch was Experiment ZR012 from C3H5N3O9. This joint-venture of Urwerk and MB&F; took high end watchmaking even a step further than we are accustomed of these already revolutionary brands. Main focal point in this piece de resistance is […]
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Pollution, overfishing, oil spills, climate change and acidification are all familiar terms, especially to those who are environmentally conscious. And yet because many don’t see what is happening under the water’s surface, perhaps most people tend not to be too overly concerned with oceanic issues. A new documentary entitled Plant Ocean aims to change all that. With support […]
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The HYT watch broke new ground when it was introduced in Basel in 2012. Interesting because the concept of showing time in a continuous fashion using water has existed since the begining of civilizations…both the Chinese and the ancient Egyptians. And yet, with the HYT, a most advanced methodology is used to allow liquids toRead More
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Coast Guard, this is motor-vessel Bonsai, we have a missing diver in the water. Repeat, missing diver.” I scanned the choppy water as we motored in increasing arcs, realizing the near-impossibility of spotting a person in the 7ft (2m) swells. I’d rehearsed this scenario in my head a hundred times, but nothing could prepare me […]
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It’s an old story: boy meets dive watch, boy gets dive watch, boy gets a lot of snarky flak from people who ask him why he wears a dive watch when the deepest body of water he ever gets into comes in a porcelain tub, with spigots marked “Hot” and “Cold”. Oh, ye of little […]
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