Watches
The IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36mm Returns to RAF Authenticity
The new IWC Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36mm may have been overshadowed by its bigger brethren, but it might be the most authentic pilot’s watch IWC builds.
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A Smaller IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph Still Looms Large
IWC tweaked the size of its sporty Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph — and now it’s even better than before.
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WatchesThe Best Watches of SIHH 2015
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.
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WatchesBuilding the Hypothetical “Perfect” Watch
The term “Frankenwatch” is pejorative, suggesting an impure timepiece cobbled together from parts of questionable origin and vintage. But ask watch collectors to name the best parts from any watch, and they’ll eventually dream up an imaginary watch that only a mad doctor could love.
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Watches10 Soaring Pilot’s Watches
New or old, a pilot’s watch must be legible, tough, accurate and reliable, with extra points awarded if it looks good riding the sleeve of a flight jacket.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: IWC Aquatimer Deep Three or ORIS Aquis Depth Gauge
Comparing two great depth gauge dive watches: the top shelf IWC Aquatimer Deep Three and an ingenious alternative from ORIS that works without any moving parts.
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WatchesProving Evolutionary Theory with IWC’s Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “Galapagos Islands”
The Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “Galapagos Islands” ($11,100) shares more with theCharles Darwin Foundation than donations. It’s a prime example of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — in Aquatimers.
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WatchesA Civilian’s Guide to Military Watches, Part One: The West
As it goes for just about anything “military”, issued timepieces are some of the most collectible in the watch world. Between enthusiasts looking for a rugged watch to go on adventures with, fashionable folks pulling off military-inspired looks, and history buffs bolstering their military regalia collection, the military watch market faces the perfect storm of demand.
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WatchesFace Value: The New IWC Aquatimer Family
Since some press photos leaked from across the pond a couple of weeks ago, the online watch community has been buzzing about the next generation of IWC Schaffhausen’s Aquatimer dive watch family, which will be formally introduced in a couple of weeks at the Salon Internationale Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: IWC Aquatimer or Steinhart Ocean Two
If you’re like us, you have a long list of watches you’d love to own. But reality (almost) always steps in, and your desires remain unfulfilled.
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WatchesOpinion: Has IWC Lost Its Way?
You wouldn’t think there’d be a lot to get hot and bothered about when it comes to antiquated and genteel timepieces. But just visit any of the countless web forums dedicated to this crazy hobby and you’ll see debates raging that would make even Presidential hopefuls blush.
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WatchesTo Protect and Serve: 6 Great Anti-Magnetic Watches
In recent years, watchmaking materials have improved to the point where many Swiss-made mechanical watches meet minimum anti-magnetic standards. But that’s not good enough for us; we’re bringing you six of the most badass anti-magnetic watches on the market.
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WatchesRebirth of a Legend
The Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil is a direct homage to the famous Mercedes-Benz W25 Silver Arrow that dominated motorsports between the World Wars. These cars were monsters, with oversized spoked rims and massive straight-cylinder engines barely sheathed in metal.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: IWC Ingenieur Automatic or Christopher Ward C20 Lido
What’s a nearly broke watch collector in love with the IWC Ingenieur Automatic to do?
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WatchesWant This, Get This: IWC Pilot Chronograph or Alpina Startimer Chronograph
If you’re like us, you have a long list of watches you’d love to own. The watch companies maintain a continuous flow of tantalizing images of their new creations, the Web is rife with chronic watch flippers offering good deals on minty timepieces, and suddenly that watch you’re wearing is starting to look a little rough around the edges.
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WatchesBest New Watches at SIHH 2013
Nothing helps shake off the doldrums of mid-winter like a visit to Geneva for the annual Salon International Haute Horlogerie. For the uninformed, SIHH is the watch trade show put on by the watch brands under the Richemont Group umbrella and some of their friends.
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WatchesFive Watches for the End of the World
Clearly Mayan watchmakers hadn’t cracked the horology of the perpetual calendar complication before their ateliers closed for good. Whether December 21st, 2012 portends an ominous implosion of this rock on which we live, a collapse of civilization or just severe disappointment for the crazies no one knows for sure.
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