Watches

BaselWorld is around the corner but until the big news breaks, we’ve got you covered with new watches from Jaeger-LeCoultre, Breitling, Hublot and Swiss Army, plus a video from Down Under.

For the fifteenth installment of our Timekeeping Selects series with analog/shift, we’re presenting a piece of motorsports history: the Heuer Autavia 1163V ($4,900).

At a desk in the corner of his childhood bedroom, 25-year-old Nick Harris is at work turning a Seiko 5 watch into something entirely different.

While most of us won’t time anything beyond a boring meeting or boiling eggs, a chronograph is all about readiness, potential and the human interaction with a micro-engineering marvel — not to mention the rare opportunity to stop time.

A new diver, a one-button chronograph, a re-imagined Journe, a British invasion and more.

In the spirit of exploration, we’re bringing back our popular (and completely sold out) series, Timekeeping Selects — a partnership with Analog/Shift, the New York-based purveyor of vintage watches. As before, we’ve sourced unique old watches with impeccable authenticity — all serviced and ready to wear.

Filson’s release of watches in 25 styles for pre-sale yesterday shouldn’t be a surprise: its partnership with Shinola, a sister company, was announced at Baselworld last year.

Despite the economic clouds that blew into Geneva the week before, there were still some spectacular new watches at the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. This year, the exclusive exhibition of high watchmaking lived up to its name.

A timepiece crafted from meteorite, Bell & Ross’s WWII-inspired Vintage BR, Victorinox Swiss Army reimagines its Maverick and more.

It’s more for divers than coffee shop dwellers — but the new Anstead Oceanis 001 still has character.

This Week in Watches: commemorating Raymond Weil, Hublot’s tribute to Cricket, Bulova puts out a 24 karat timepiece and more.

This Week in Watches: Panerai’s new Luminor chronograph, G-P’s Large Date Moonphase Mechanics of Art Deco, Parmigiani’s upcoming SIHH 2015 and more.

The most complicated watch Patek Philippe has ever made without the aid of a computer is going on the auction block again at Sotheby’s in Geneva, Switzerland this November 11.

This year Walter Lange turned 90, and the company his grandfather built celebrates 20 years since its post-Cold War rebirth.