A newly announced addition to the Bell Ross Vintage collection is the Bell Ross?BR V1-92 Racing Bird, a distinctly aeronautical-style piece designed in tandem with its chronograph counterpart. The Racing Bird itself is a concept aircraft designed in-house by Bell and Ross design team, while the plane itself remains an idea potentially destined for raceways i [...]

Until July 23rd, 2017 in New York City, you can attend a rare and interesting luxury watch-world event at the Patek Philippe The Art of Watches Grand Exhibition. For 10 days (July 13-23, 2017) Patek Philippe invites (without any admission price) timepiece collectors as well as the general public to enter their curated world. I visited it personally, and [...]

I have a soft spot for meticulously hand-engraved watch dials. For me, it is the epitome of being able to wear traditional hand-made art on your wrist. Of course, it is true that watch movements when produced properly are highly artistic, but I am talking about more traditional representative art which is meant to depict the real (a [...]

Unless you know Italian, the word Tonda might not mean anything to you. Tonda is actually Italian for round, and the Tonda 1950 specifically is home to Parmigianis collection of ultra-thin round watches. As one of the participants of the first-ever Watches Wonder in Miami, Parmigiani is announcing its new Tonda 1950 Annual Calendar watch. Available in r [...]

In 1972, luxury Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet released a new watch collection called the Royal Oak. The watch was designed for Audemars Piguet by a young jewelry and watch designer named Gerald Genta, who had been making rounds designing watches for a few other similarly positioned timepiece brands - and who would later go on to design the Patek Philippe Nautilus and several mo [...]

One of the last things I was expecting from Cartier for 2014 was a dive watch, and now that we have one I can barely imagine not wanting it. That is how the peculiar desire engine of the watch industry works. As mixed up and backwards as the industry may be, it still has the power to create items that I suddenly desire which I would have neve [...]

One of Omegas many sponsorships and partnerships is as Official Timekeeper of the Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) sailing team. For the 35th Americas Cup yacht race taking place this month, June 2017, the Swiss watch maker has announced a couple of limited edition watches including this Omega Speedmaster X-33 Regatta ETNZ that the team members wear while actually racing. Compared to other c [...]

Today, I got hands-on with a member of the freshly reintroduced Citizen Series 8 watch collection, the platform where Citizen has launched a series of existing new automatic mechanical movements. Citizen originally debuted the latest generation Series 8 watches back in March 2021 on to much fanfare because it has been about a decade since Citizen introduced a [...]

Until recently, it was widely believed that 2020 would come and go without the release of new Rolex wristwatches. The watch-loving community certainly has respect for the incredible challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, but like clockwork (pun sort of intended), new Rolex watches have been debuted annually in or around March at the (now retired) Baselworld watch trade sh [...]

This Spring?- precisely when depended on the market - Hublot debuted not only a new watch, but a new kind of watch, the Hublot Classic Fusion Berluti, in two versions: the All Black and the Scritto. The fashion world received it with great fanfare. To those in the world of fine timepieces, it was seemingly a softer launch, but the watch crowd should have taken more notice - becaus [...]

BullToro! The name of a terrible looking watch brand and our new favorite word to say. BullToro! We also discuss the new version of the Cartier Crash watches, wearing the MBF HM5, and more on watch winders (exciting!).Listen to the HourTime show watch podcast episode 126 here. Download the MP3. [...]

The world of Cartier has a range of timepiece levels. This includes the brands Classics, which represent their more mainstream watches with relatively simple movements, the Fine Watchmaking arena of much higher-end complications and haute horology, and finally, the middle area of Small Complications. This is [...]

As a special bonus giveaway this month, we are pleased to offer one lucky winner a Hamilton Khaki X-Wind Auto Chrono watch, the same model as the timepiece worn by actor Liam Hemsworth (who plays the character Jake Morrison) in the new movie Independence Day: Resurgence. Hamilton has a few watches in the new T [...]

Welcome to My First Grail Watch, a new interview series on that explores the first major timepiece lusted after by important people in the watch industry. (ABTW): Who are you and what is your relationship to the watch industry? Jean-Claude Biver (JCB): My passion is watches. And I am the lucky man who can work every day in his passion. Which means I dont want to disconnec [...]

When it comes to iconic designs, I would posit that the Bell Ross BR03 series is certainly up there. ?I mean, if you see a square-cased aviator, who do you think produced it? ?Bell Ross, thats who. ?So, when it came time to release some new stuff for Baselworld 2016, the brand came up with a new iteration (three of them, actually) the Bell Ross BR-03 Desert Type, which t [...]

On December 7th, 2016, invited guests in Miami, Florida, for a holiday party with Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier. Other than it being an excuse for watch lovers to gather and converse, it was a chance for Parmigiani to show off their exhibition of 20 movements to celebrate 20 years of the brand. We also headed to the Miami Super Car Rooms to check out some automobiles and have dinner.I [...]

Bell Ross had a strong collection of new watches for 2013 at Baselworld this year. My personal favorite model is the BR 126 Blackbird (UPDATE: Bell Ross has officially changed the name of the watch to the Bell Ross BR 126 Flyback), a limited edition model with a personality that is meant to honor the origin of Bell Ross as a brand. At first [...]

Geneva-based Patek Philippe - one of the worlds most respected and demanded luxury watchmakers - has just announced plans to cease retail watch sales, at least temporarily. The company will not stop producing watches, but it will no longer sell them in a retail store environment. Patek Philippe appears to be responding to current volatile luxury market conditi [...]

Prior to the Geneva watch trade show SIHH 2015, watch and luxury goods maker Montblanc has announced it is stepping into the smartwatch market-well, at least the smart wearables market. The upcoming Montblanc Timewalker Urban Speed collection of timepieces will have an optional strap called the e-Strap (p [...]

For 2022, Breitling has redesigned its iconic Navitimer Chronograph watch, which for decades has been a staple of high-end tool timepieces originally designed for commercial airline pilots in the early 1950s. The Navitimer has seen countless iterations over the years and is one of the worlds most recognized luxury sports watches. It has not [...]