Freelancing with Raymond Weil
Raymond Weil’s Freelancer collection has been this Geneva watchmaker’s home for its classically styled watches for several years. Stocked with moderately sized automatic three-hand and chronographs...
View ArticleThe Super-Accurate Junghans Meister MEGA
There’s a lot of Swiss watchmaking history that backs this watch—over 150 years of experience—as well as over three decades of experience in radio-controlled movements.This stainless steel variation of...
View ArticleOcean Crawler Ocean Navigator
Ocean Crawler, based in Rochester, New York, specializes in automatic dive watches. Shown here with a black dial, blue dial and with a meteorite dial, is the Ocean Crawler Ocean Navigator, which...
View ArticleGirard-Perregaux Laureato Summer Edition
Summer isn’t over quite yet, and to make the remaining weeks brighter Girard-Perregaux adds new colors to its 38mm and 34mm Laureato collection. You may recall that the Laureato made a significant...
View ArticleNomos Tangente Marks a Century of Bauhaus
To help mark the 100th anniversary of the famed German-based minimalist design movement known as Bauhaus, Nomos Glashütte has created a nine-part special edition Tangente, with each model limited to...
View ArticleInside Bulgari
A look at how Bulgari makes its high-end watches, from assembly through testing to final casing. With about 400 employees, Bulgari’s Swiss production facilities include sites in Le Sentier,...
View ArticleThree Macro Micro Brands
The idea of watch micro brands is one that can often spark strong feelings. Some watch fans love the idea of a small operation, getting a unique and more affordable watch and enjoying a somewhat...
View ArticleIWC Opens New Manufacturing Facility
IWC today opened a new manufacturing facility near its Schaffhausen, Switzerland, headquarters that for the first time in the company’s history combines movement and case production into one facility....
View ArticleMB&F & L’Epee 1839 Team Up Again for Grant
MB&F’s co-creations with L’Epee 1839 have consistently extracted smiles from even the most serious watch enthusiasts. You may recall the too-cute, dual-tread robotic Sherman, from 2016, which...
View ArticleBulgari’s New Bronze Beauties
With its name emblazoned twice on its broad bezel –not on the dial – the Bvlgari Bvlgari watch was a sensation when Bulgari debuted it in 1975. Just two years later Bulgari created its first complete...
View ArticleBell & Ross BR-X2 Skeleton Tourbillon Micro-Rotor
After launching the BR-X2 Tourbillon Micro Rotor last year, Bell & Ross this week offers a skeletonized version of the watch, where, once again, the case and the movement are one in the same. Now,...
View ArticleGrand Seiko Adds GMT to Caliber 9F
The super-precise quartz Caliber 9F, made in 1993 by Seiko for its Grand Seiko collection (years prior to the Grand Seiko spinoff) is widely considered one of the most precise quartz calibers...
View ArticleTAG Heuer Launches Three Carbon Aquaracers
While TAG Heuer’s Aquaracer doesn’t get the same level of horological accolades directed at this brand’s storied Carrera and Monaco collections, the series nonetheless offers serious specs for sportier...
View ArticleBackstories: A Trio of Notable Rear Views
Regular readers of International Watch know to find the “Backstory” page appropriately located on the final pages of each print issue. There we feature one particularly awe-inspiring caseback image of...
View ArticleUlysse Nardin Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel
Never shy about highlighting its many technical advances, Ulysse Nardin has placed many of them directly onto a wide-open, 44mm stage with its newest Executive Tourbillon Free Wheel. With one glance at...
View ArticleJaquet Droz Lady 8 Flower
Jaquet Droz unveiled the first Lady 8 Flower three years ago, marking the brand’s first-ever automaton collection dedicated to women. This week Jaquet Droz expands this collection with two new watches,...
View ArticleVacheron Constantin Adds a Tourbillon to FiftySix
Vacheron Constantin this week adds a complication to the FiftySix collection. And in concert with the collection’s retro-inspired design (first seen this past January), the new Vacheron Constantin...
View ArticleInside Bovet 1822
The Bovet Recital 22 Grand Recital, which debuted in May, was the third astronomically themed Bovet 1822 complication in as many years. The watch re-introduced many of Bovet’s technical achievements...
View ArticleInside Bovet 1822, Part II
In this second installment of our two-part look at Bovet 1822, Bovet owner and CEO Pascal Raffy tells iW why he loves perpetual calendars, Bovet’s reasons for making a series of complicated...
View ArticleH. Moser Dials Up a Very Dark Moon Phase
H. Moser & Cie. this week debuts an ultra-precise moonphase complication within two beautifully refined Concept cases. The new Endeavour Perpetual Moon Concept is H. Moser’s latest, most minimal,...
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