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A Stitch in Time – Phillips Perpetual x The Armoury

Phillips Perpetual partners with The Armoury to produce the City Hunter 2 jacket (25 pieces) to be sold to support WHO’s COVID-Solidarity Response Fund

Just Because: HODINKEE Editors Weigh In On Loving Or Hating Daylight Saving Time

Let the hate/love flow through you.

Swatch Group Cancels Time to Move 2020

Interview: Engineering Time At Porsche Design

Porsche Design, with manufacturing under its own roof, is building a new future for its timepiece collections.

The Omani Gift of Time

The late Sultan of Oman was one of the most important watch collectors in the world, especially for vintage Rolex, Patek Philippe and IWC.

Delamain Cognac: Compelling Evidence For The Benefits Of Time

Delamain cognac concentrates, first and foremost, on quality. Ken Gargett finds it hard not to love that. This ancient cognac house might not get the fanfare of some, but its cognacs are very special and a must for anyone who enjoys quality spirits. Find out why here.

Icon of Time: The Heuer Monaco

Beyond its distinctive appearance and one of our favorite sports chronographs, why is the Heuer Monaco such an important and iconic watch?

In-Depth: Commissioning the Voutilainen GMT-Villes Custom Time Zone Watch

Voutilainen watches are well loved for their dials, which are made in-house and offered with a myriad of finishes – primarily guilloché or enamel – as well as numerous colours and appliques. But unconstrained freedom leads to hesitation, and too many choices make a decision difficult. American psychologist Barry Schwartz, writing in The Paradox of Choice, notes that consumers are often happier having to choose from fewer options, rather than more. The author’s custom GMT-Villes But in my own collecting, perhaps the opposite is true. When I work with an independent watchmaker on a custom or bespoke watch, exploring the abundance of possibilities is the main attraction, particularly when I can specify the details face to face with the watchmaker himself. Investing sufficient time to figure out my goal makes the process of choosing not a task to be feared, but an enjoyable journey leading to the unique piece. This is my story of commissioning the GMT-Villes from Kari Voutilainen (which happened slightly before I embarked on a similar project with Andreas Strehler). Kari Voutilainen in his showroom. Image – FHH The beginning of custom work After setting up his own workshop in 2002, Kari, then 40 years old, made his debut as an independent watchmaker with the Masterpiece series of wristwatches, starting with Masterpiece 6 unveiled at Baselworld in 2005. The Masterpiece watches were all one-off minute repeaters relying on rebuilt and finely decorated vintage ebauches ma...

TAG Heuer’s Monaco March Through Time Culminates in a Monaco for 2009-2019

The final of five limited editions to mark 50 years of the TAG Heuer Monaco was recently unveiled in Shanghai.

Bring a Loupe: An Enicar Sherpa Graph, A Breitling Top Time, And A Rolex Sub Ref. 5513

Your weekly drop of watches from around the web.

Introducing: The Patek Philippe World Time Chronograph Ref. 5930G For The Singapore Grand Exhibition

The contemporary complication gets a twist for the Patek Philippe Grand Exhibition in Singapore.

Watches That Got The Most Wrist Time This Summer

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Time to Move: Glashütte Original’s New SeaQ, a Dive Watch Inspired by the Manufacture’s Own History

The SeaQ, Glashütte Original’s new watch for 2019, revives an old icon from 1969 and expands it into a full collection.

Live from Time to Move: Harry Winston Novelties with quick impressions and live pics

We begin with the high complications Histories de Tourbillon 10. This is the Final Edition with a unique four tourbillons each making one revolution every 36 seconds. Three versions. A piece unique in plat and 10 each in WG and RG. Three differentials are used in the movement. Size 54mmx40mm. And a new Project Z,Read More

Live from Time to Move: Glashütte Original Novelties with quick impressions and live pics.

Highlights from Glashütte Original’s novelties list this year. A completely new collection called the Spezialist with two new diver watches. And a new flying tourbillon from the Vintage Collection with some interesting features. But first the divers. Called the SeaQ, the collection is kicked off with two series. The first is a recreation of theRead More

Live from Time to Move: Jaquet Droz Novelties with quick impressions and live pics

Jaquet Droz starts strong with a new variant to the Grande Seconde collection by adding a chronograph. The movement is supplied by Manufacture Blancpain, and two versions are offered. The chronograph is a monopusher via a coaxial pusher at the crown. Versions are offered: One in a red gold case with the counters aligned, andRead More

Live from Time to Move: Blancpain Novelties with quick impressions and live pics.

We start with the Novelties. We were presented with the ladies Villaret Collection 33mm case. With a new font for the date. In SS and RG with and without diamonds. A mille maille metal bracelet is also available in SS and RG produced by Simon Menbrez who makes Blancpain cases and bracelet. Prices range fromRead More

Live from Time to Move: Breguet Novelties with quick impressions and live pics

Breguet’s big novelty this year is the new Classique Tourbillon Squelette 5935. Ultra thin caliber 581 automatic movement with peripheral rotor has about 50% of the mass removed in the skeletonising process. The case in RG, 41mm. Next the range of the Reine de Naples is extended with two new additions. One with a blueRead More

Time to Move: Blancpain Reissues the Mythical Air Command Flyback Chronograph

Blancpain reissues the mythical Air Command in a limited run of 500 pieces that remains true to the original.

Live from Time to Move: Glashütte Original

As we are in Switzerland, and not in Glashütte, GO is not able to show us the manufacture. But they did the next best thing – they brought part of the manufacture to Geneva. We were welcomed by the CEO. We started looking at the Sixties Annual Edition 2019. The manufacture of the orange dialRead More

Live from Time to Move: Harry Winston Manufacture

We visited the manufacture at Plans-Le-Ouates. All watch production are made here, including jewelry watches. 180 people work at the Manufacture. Movements are made by ETA and Blancpain. No photography in the manufacture. We began in the Joaillerie Department. This is where the jewelers work with microscopes. Each station is equipped with a torch andRead More

Live from Time to Move: Jaquet Droz Manufacture

We started the visit with a viewing of the vintage automata pieces made by Pierre Jaquet Droz. Jaquet Droz is famous for automata. On entering the room we were startled by this figurine which looked amazingly realistic. First a Singing Bird Clock. 3 day power reserve with automata having the same power reserve. The birdsRead More

Time to Move: Omega Manufacture

The building is an environmental friendly optimized for production, and constructed in concrete and wood. The visit began with the automated central stock warehouse. The warehouse is built in the center of the factory for optimal operations. Totally automated with robots, only two employees operate the entire system and it runs 24/7. The operations continueRead More

Live from Time to Move: Manufacture Breguet

The second brand we visited is Breguet in Le Brassus. Breguet now comprise of five buildings totaling 21,000 sm about 800 employees. We started at the machining room. Full of multi axis CNC machines making the movement blanks and plates. We next went to the beveling specialist. The raw piece is filed to beveled eachRead More

Live from Time to Move: Blancpain T0 and T1 production

We started at the manufacture which formerly housed the F. Piguet movement manufacture. The Swatch Group does not allow photography inside the manufacture, so no live photographs of the machines. We started at the beginning with the raw materials storage. Brass, maillechort are stored as rolls. Blancpain makes 100% of all components and tools in-house.Read More

Magical Time: Cartier’s Mystery Clocks and Timepieces

The story of Cartier’s famous “mystery clocks” has been envisioned in a number of limited-edition wristwatches with modern complications.

Omega  Speedmaster ’57 Rides  Back  in  Time

The Omega Speedmaster ’57 Co-Axial Chronograph gets aboard a pair of retro-styled Royal Enfields for a trip along the open roads of California.

Time for Action

Resident keyboard combatant and revolution Editor-at-Large Ken Kessler explains why anyone can enjoy a watch fit for heroes.

Pre-SIHH 2019: HYT’s H20 “Time Is Fluid”

Contemporary brand HYT continues its story with the next chapter in its H20 collection.

Boodles Marks Time with Patek Philippe