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How The Royal Oak Offshore Combined Luxury With Culture For The First Time

Philipp Riehr — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000

In this article, we delve into the world of the Royal Oak Offshore – a watch that caused heated discussions when it was launched, and simultaneously set a bold new trend at Audemars Piguet: that of larger sized watches. Hardly…

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Diver’s Watches Made In Germany: An Overview Of The Glashütte Original SeaQ-Series

Emilia Hoth — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:06:28 +0000

Timepieces promising the highest level of precision and craftsmanship are known to come from Switzerland. But horological precision can also be ‘made in Germany’, just as Glashütte Original proves in the diver’s watch category. Although diver’s watches do not centre…

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Zenith Defy Skyline Chronograph: Shaping the Future of Luxury Chronographs

Catherine Bishop — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:37:39 +0000

Founded in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot, Zenith has long held its own unique place in the world of Swiss watchmaking. Increasingly favoured by collectors and regarded as a brand that has long blended innovation with technical skill, it is above all…

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The Rise of the Chopard Alpine Eagle – How a Fledgling Watch Quickly Became a Cult Classic

Catherine Bishop — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:00:00 +0000

When I began my professional entry into the watch industry five years ago, there was no Alpine Eagle. Rather, my first direct contact with Chopard was, as my editor put it at the time, by baptism of fire, as I…

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The Ultimate Guide to Breguet’s Type XX Pilot’s Watches

Nico Bandl — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0000

To mark the 70th anniversary of Breguet’s Type XX pilot’s watches, Emmanuel Breguet, the last descendant of company founder Abraham-Louis Breguet, took a good long look at the manufacture’s pioneering work in aviation. His findings soon revealed the important horological…

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Ahead of its Time: The Tale of Timekeeping at Löbner

Nico Bandl — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Löbner. Never heard of it? Neither had we. Yet this new German luxury watch brand has the potential to shake up the field of coveted steel sports chronographs – thanks, in part, to its unique history. When the news reached…

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Bucherer Masterworks: A New Retail Experience For Watch Enthusiasts

Joern Frederic Kengelbach — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000

What is watch collecting really about? For me, it’s primarily about discovering the myriad of ways in which humanity measures time. Time is not a physical but rather an abstract sequence, that we can neither change nor reverse. The way…

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Made of Steel: Wempe Glashütte I/SA Iron Walker

Nico Bandl — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0000

When Wempe introduced its new watch line Iron Walker two years ago, it aroused our curiosity. Until then, our main interest had steadfastly been in precision mechanics from Swiss manufactures, but with the steel Iron Walker and its integrated straps,…

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Louis Vuitton’s Ascension From High Fashion to Horological Heaven

Catherine Bishop — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000

In order to understand this article as a watch enthusiast or a collector: forget the Louis Vuitton stereotype. Forget the queues going round the corner and burly bouncers at the door. Forget the logo. We are here to understand the…

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Bucherer BLUE – Exceptional timepieces from Lucerne

Nico Bandl — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:58:00 +0000

One would think that the world’s largest watch and jewellery retailer would already have, well, more than enough to do with its business model. With more than 100 boutiques worldwide, 13 of them in Germany, Lucerne-based jeweller Bucherer ensures that…

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Year Of The Tourbillon: The Story Of Abraham-Louis Breguet, The Man Who Defied Gravity

Catherine Bishop — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:00:42 +0000

Once upon a time, in the mid-eighteenth century, there lived a watchmaker named Abraham-Louis Breguet. Born in the quiet, misty medieval lakeside Swiss town of Neuchâtel (then a Prussian municipality), he grew up beneath the shadow of an ancient 12th century…

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The History of The Patek Philippe World Time Watches

Alexander Stilcken — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:00:59 +0000

A function on its own is never everything. This is not exclusive to watchmaking, but it is particularly true here. Take a watch, for example, with which you can dive thousands of meters deep (at least if you wanted to,…

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