Vintage is one of the biggest trends these days… Really, what a piece of news! We all know that brands have been widely surfing on the vintage / heritage / reissue trend for over 10 years now. However, in the middle of the dozens of vintage-inspired watches launched every year, there are…
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Sprung to life: who manufactures Hairsprings? An industry perspective on this key component whose production is still shrouded in secrecy – Barely one centimeter in diameter, the hairspring is the beating heart of a watch movement. It is a strategic component in several respects. Manufacturing hairsprings is a complex process…
share tweet share The world’s biggest watch fair, Baselworld, started on Wednesday, March 22nd, and WatchTime has been on the scene, reporting live on the new timepieces introduced there. As our editors conclude their visit to Baselworld 2017, we offer this photo gallery of live shots taken of many beautiful…
share tweet share In this feature-length article from the WatchTime archives, we take a look at the 53-year history of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, the brand’s iconic chronograph watch. The Daytona International Speedway has been in operation since 1959. For most of Rolex’s history, chronographs took a back seat to three-handed…
No Baselworld watch trade show is complete without an in-depth aBlogtoWatch team discussion about what timepieces should make our list of the top 10 watches. Last year, in 2016, we actually had so many good options that we made two lists, one being the top 10 totally new watches of…
In 2014, we wrote a “hands-on” sponsored post of the then new Glashütte Original Senator Chronometer Regulator released at Basel 2013. It was the first new Chronometer model to come out since the original debuted in 2009. At Baselworld this year, Glashütte Original came out with a new variant of…
Here I offer up my personal list of Seven Iconic Chronograph Watches. If you don’t count the date feature, the chronograph is probably the most popular complication for wristwatches, as well as one of the most useful: one can find many uses for a chrono during his or her everyday…
Acquisitions are rarely a surprise in this day and age, and especially in this industry, but we’d be lying if we said we weren’t at least a bit surprised to learn that the majority stake of Glycine Watch S.A. has just been sold to the Invicta Watch Group. As pioneers…
The brand Hautlence Vortex Bronze that makes a point of ‘crossing the line’ now comes with their most complex timepiece in a bronze case, and it looks just brilliant! Hautlence Vortex Bronze Over the last five years the use of bronze as material for watches has become quite a popular thing,…
We survey Seiko’s half-century-plus of mechanical chronographs in this comprehensive historical feature . Scroll down to discover the Japanese brand’s contributions to the world of chronograph wristwatches. CALIBER SERIES 6S: THE CHRONOGRAPH REBORN Like its forebears, Caliber 6S74 had a column wheel. In 1998, Seiko began making mechanical chronographs once…