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Wound for Success: Watches for the Budding Collector
When building anything, one must begin with strong foundation. A watch collection is no different.
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WatchesFace Value: Tutima M2 Chronograph
If you need a rugged, no-nonsense chronograph as part of your next mission kit, the new Tutima M2 (~$8000), to be released in early 2014, is it. The M2 is an update of Tutima’s venerable NATO Military Chronograph; the previous generation watch, called the NATO because it was standard issue for all NATO pilots, was outfitted with Lémania’s legendary but discontinued Caliber 5100.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: NOMOS Tangente or Stowa Antea KS
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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WatchesModding Your Seiko 5: Secrets of the Subculture
In our series Want This, Get This, we profile one wildly desirable, largely unattainable item and one similar item that costs far less. In fact, that’s exactly what watch modification, or “watch modding”, is all about.
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WatchesFace Value: OMEGA Seamaster Bullhead Chronograph
In 1969 Omega released a handwound chrono in a strange shield-shaped case that had the pushers and crown on top of the watch. This so-called “bullhead” style was originally developed earlier for race car drivers, who wanted easier activation of the chronograph and minimal pusher interference.
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WatchesFace Value: Hamilton Jazzmaster Face 2 Face
Just in case your budget is a bit thin for a pair of new timepieces or your multiple personalities can’t agree on which watch to wear, Hamilton has just the answer.
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WatchesTime on Our Hands: Bell & Ross BR 126 Sport
The BR 126 Sport ($4,500) is one of the most recent versions of Bell & Ross’s Vintage chronograph family.
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WatchesFace Value: Pinion Axis
The British are coming — again. It seems that the new frontier for the Empire is in watchmaking, given the renaissance of timepieces from the island nation.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: Heuer Bundeswehr or Guinand Series 40
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: The Swatch Sistem51 is a Horological Model T
Just over 30 years after saving the Swiss Watch industry, Swatch has once again broken trail into uncharted territory.
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WatchesFace Value: Bell & Ross BR 126 Blackbird
The SR-71 “Blackbird” reigns supreme as the highest and fastest-flying plane ever built. And we mean reigns: 32 of these pitch black wonders have patrolled the skies above hot spots for over 40 years.
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WatchesGerd-Rüdiger Lang, Chronoswiss, and the Resurrection of Mechanical Watchmaking
It’s 1981. The Quartz crisis is in full swing.
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WatchesFace Value: Mondaine EVO Alarm
Switzerland is known for many things, chief among them its fine watches, its excellent railway system and its picturesque mountains.
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WatchesOpinion: Is Swiss Watch Movement Maker ETA Cutting Off the Competition or Improving the Breed?
Swiss watch movement maker ETA supplies much of the horological world with movements and ébauches (partial movements in need of finishing). Then in 2002 Nicholas Hayek, then chairman of The Swatch Group (ETA’s parent company), announced that ETA would soon begin tapering back the supply of ébauches to the world of Swiss watchmaking beyond their sister brands.
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WatchesTime on Our Hands: MkII Paradive
A few weeks ago we ran an opinion article about so-called “homage” watches. Amid some attention from readers and experts alike, we heard from MKII, a watch company we had discussed in the article.
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WatchesTimekeeping: The America’s Cup with TAG Heuer
Back in June, we went out to San Francisco for a glimpse inside preparations for the 34th America’s Cup from the perspective of challenger Emirates Team New Zealand and its timekeeping partner, OMEGA. We were out in the city by the bay again recently, this time as a guest of TAG Heuer, a sponsor of the reigning America’s Cup Defender, Team Oracle USA.
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WatchesTime on Our Hands: Michelsen Arctic Explorer
In a bit of ironic timing, the Michelsen Arctic Explorer ($$1,960) arrived on our doorstep on one of the hottest days of summer. Fresh off the plane from Iceland, the watch still seemed to bear the chill of its origins, lending a cooling effect to the dog days of August.
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WatchesTimekeeping Icon: Rolex Sea Dweller
As men were pioneering ways to explore and live in outer space in the 1960s, another groundbreaking initiative was taking place closer to home, in an equally hostile environment: the ocean. Parallel efforts by the U.S.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: URWERK UR-210 or SEVENFRIDAY P1
If you’re like us, you have a long list of gear you’d love to own. But reality (almost) always steps in, and your gadget desires remain unfulfilled.
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WatchesIcon: Breitling Navitimer
When he was asked about the prominent bit of bling (or “B’ling”) on his wrist, a former test pilot for the U.S. Air Force replied, “I need a Navitimer so I can do my calculations!” That brief anecdote may tell you something about how the Breitling Navitimer is viewed by the guys who fly jets for a living.