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Old school new wave watchmaking. One of the most fascinating watches De Bethune has eve...
The Blancpain 50 Fathoms Automatique, In The Goldilocks Zone
Can Your Watch Be Damaged By Airport Security Scanners?
The Tudor Pelagos FXD Alinghi Red Bull Racing Chronograph
The Evolution of Annual Calendars in the World of High Complication Watches
Millions of watches go through airport security every year. Just how safe are mechanical watches going through checkpoints? Going through...
Exploring the artistry and innovation behind annual calendars, and why they deserve more recognition in the realm of haute horlogerie. “T...
After decades of dangerous and partial solutions, the future of lume has never been brighter. Luminous materials on watch dials are so ub...
Magnetic fields can stop a watch dead in its tracks. Here’s how the watch industry fought back – and won. The effects of magnetic f...
If this doesn’t make you feel grateful for modern flight instruments nothing will. There are complications that make life easier, a...
There are several well known international standards in watchmaking, but METAS Master Chronometer standards might be the most strict ever...
How Yellow Gold Watches Made A Comeback At the end of 2023, the New York Times ran a story by veteran watch journalist Roberta Naas on th...
The dress watch will always be with us – but will we always think of it as a dress watch? One of the things about writing about watches (...
At 42mm, the latest Fifty Fathoms watches from Blancpain are on the right side of history. Somewhere buried in Blancpain’s archives...
The second watch from Jean-Claude Biver’s eponymous company is an exercise in opulent simplicity. In 2023, Jean-Claude Biver launch...
Show your loyalty with Breitling’s latest limited editions. Today’s the start of the fall football season, and just in time f...
“What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.” – Thomas Wilson, 1916 The life of a watch enthusiast can be a psy...
The relaunch of the brand features contemporary models, as well as heritage inspired timepieces. If you’re a student of vintage wat...
Breitling’s celebrating its 140th Anniversary, and at Geneva Watch Days, it’s just announced its very first in-house perpetua...
For one of its Geneva Watch Days debuts, De Bethune presents a watch with a dramatically different meteorite dial. Meteorite dials, for a...
The latest Ressence oil-filled orbital timepiece has just launched at Geneva Watch Days, in an all-black case. Ressence has developed a p...
Old school new wave watchmaking. One of the most fascinating watches De Bethune has ever produced is the DBS, and it’s important on...
Tudor’s Pelagos FXD Alinghi Red Bull watches are a partnership with an unlikely star of competitive sailing. You wouldn’t thi...
In 2001, the Freak changed how we think of tourbillons forever. The tourbillon is by and large, essentially the same from one watch to th...
Richard Mille has long since become an institution in modern watchmaking, and his watches, thanks to the high prices they command both ne...
A modern milestone in the evolution of a signature complication. There are any number of watches which use some form of the world time co...
Want patina but not a green wrist? The Tudor Black Bay Bronze has you covered. I would say “everybody loves patina” but like ...
A high water mark for complicated watchmaking from the watchmaker’s watchmaker. The Master Grand Tradition Grande Complication Céle...
“If you want to make a statement, wear purple.” – Baron Davis Every color has a life of its own – entire books have been writ...
Back to anything but basic. I don’t know if it’s an actual trend, or just an artefact of the degree to which some watches bec...
You pays your money and you takes your chances. The 10th edition of Only Watch, the biennial auction to benefit research into therapies a...
Elton John will auction off 31 timepieces this Fall in a collection that can only be described as quintessential Elton. Elton John is arg...
But a solid gold G-SHOCK was the breakout star of the show. “It is with great pleasure that The 1916 Company introduces our newest ...
And they’re not brands, they’re watchmakers. One of the oldest tropes in fine watchmaking is that there is – or was – a ̶...
And there’s still 48 hours to go… If reports are to be believed, Apple — who, as much as we may not like to recognize or admi...
The Akrivia founder unveils his third Only Watch submission. Few watchmakers have garnered as much attention in recent years as Rexhep Re...
A prime example of a niche Seiko with unmatched provenance is blowing its estimate out of the water. It’s been a bit of a quiet summer in...
The evolution of the pilot’s watch tells the story of the evolution of flight itself. The pilot’s watch, along with the diver...
Tudor’s saturation diver, diversified. The Tudor Pelagos was first released by Tudor in 2012, and it represents Tudor’s appro...
“Renoir said once that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white.” – Ambroise V...
When amassing your watch collection, buyer’s remorse is essentially inevitable, but there are a few watches out there that will nev...
From Rolex to Omega and all the alloys in between. “This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life, I’ve been in love with its color… its brilliance...
As the end of summer approaches, allow me to offer some belated advice. This summer has been, in a word, hot. Very, very hot. In fact, it...
Secrets of the second most complicated Rolex. Rolex as a rule, does not make complicated watches, or at least it doesn’t make any w...
Because life’s not always a beach. The minute that Memorial Day rolls around (at least here in the United States) watch writers imm...
“When I gaze at a watch, I want it to inspire how I live my life.” – Tanmay Manohar Horology is a journey we all embark...
Collecting is exciting, but our community of collectors makes it even better. Working at The 1916 Company exposes you to some of the most...
Grammy Award Winner and entrepreneur, Shawn Stockman on watches, guitars and collecting ideologies. One universal truth about collecting ...
Crafting a watch collection can be a lot like making a coffee table book. Both weave a narrative not by including everything but through ...
For those with a passion for well-made things, the obsession lies not only in how an object is made but why it came to be made that way. ...
Put ten collectors in a room and ask them why they collect and you’ll get ten very different answers. Some spend their lives searching fo...
If you don’t yet know Shahendra Ohneswere, you certainly know his work. As Senior Vice President of Content Development & Co-Head of ...
Maybe you collected Matchbox cars, comic books, action figures or baseball cards when you were a kid. Maybe you displayed them in your ro...
The Heritage Collection is set to travel the world and give collectors fresh insights into how De Bethune became what it is today. More t...
Taking a deep dive into the vintage watch paradox by unpacking the enduring allure of timeless timepieces. If a vintage watch could speak...
And remember, handsome is as handsome does. The question of depth ratings and exactly what they mean has preoccupied watch enthusiasts fo...
Real engine turning is time and labor intensive, but results can’t be achieved any other way. Guilloché patterns can be seen on wat...
As the Paris Olympics are upon us, Omega continues to shape the games with its timing perfection. Some things just go together. These con...
Exploring the most eccentric dive watches of the summer, where quirky designs meet aquatic adventure. My tenth-grade chemistry teacher us...
“It’s all in the reflexes.” Jack Burton, Big Trouble In Little China We all find different ways of amusing ourselves wh...
As this Father’s Day has come and gone, the 1916 Team reflect on stories about Dad’s and watches. My dad wasn’t a “watc...
A tale as old as time zones. The world time watch, like the diver’s watch, and the pilot’s watch, is a product of the industr...
Venturing beyond the lunar-legend reveals a fascinating array of remarkable non-Moonwatch variants that deserve attention. It’s 1998 and ...
I only regret, that I have but one watch budget to blow for my collection. It is on the day on which Americans celebrate Independence day...
It’s the 224th anniversary of Breguet’s patent. Happy Tourbillon Day, to those who celebrate! If you’re so inclined, to...
A story of how George Daniels’ innovative approach to watchmaking and his pioneering work on the escapement ignited a passion for t...
A unique design language takes hold. This is the second in a multi-part series on the lasting impact of the 1990s on the watch industry a...
An Underappreciated Era Revisited: Part I This is the first in a multi-part series on the lasting impact of the 1990s on the watch indust...
At De Bethune, technical innovation and horological art go hand-in-hand. There is a natural tendency when you look at watches, to think o...
The AHA, announced at Geneva Watch Days 2024, is launching with a tantalum bracelet. Independent watchmaking brands are the darlings of t...
The 1916 Company Presents A Dynamic Exhibition Of Journe’s Most Significant Timepieces The 1916 Company is proud to present a colle...
The Grand Seiko Flagship is the latest of a series of new boutiques, including Citizen and Chanel. For those of us who have been long-tim...
The mechanical purist’s pick was the jury’s choice as well. A charming mechanical automaton in the shape of a bee. A time-onl...
The Ocean of Storms is set to rescue the much hyped collaboration. Have you ever tasted food that is neither bad nor good? You put it in ...
Breitling’s revival of Universal Genève may hinge on one model: The Polerouter. The dust has settled, and reality has set in. By now, eve...
At the beginning of December, we hosted our first initiative under the umbrella of The 1916 Company, partnering with Eleonor Picciotto an...
The 1916 Company and Eleonor Picciotto will showcase collections by Suzanne Syz, Alexandra Rosier, Selim Mouzannar, and Elie Top. The 191...
Experience 2024 novelties from the world’s finest brands and The 1916 Company’s extraordinary pre-owned collection NEWPORT BEACH, CA: SEP...
Celebrated jeweler honors four-decade Baltimore legacy with captivating new environment Radcliffe Jewelers, now part of The 1916 Company,...
Mark your calendar for The 1916 Company’s traveling exhibition to celebrate the pivotal collections of F.P. Journe and the heritage and i...
Experience the New App by The 1916 Company The same exceptional collecting experience you enjoyed with the WatchBox mobile app is now ele...
Hyde Park Jewelers, now The 1916 Company, celebrates the opening of a new mono-brand TUDOR Boutique in the exclusive Cherry Creek Shoppin...
Leadership appointments and forthcoming retail expansion unveiled. The 1916 Company, launched in late 2023 by merging WatchBox, Govberg, ...
The 1916 Company launches traveling exhibition in Miami with more than 60 rare and collectible F.P. Journe watches. The 1916 Company is p...
The 1916 Company ushers in a new era for watch & jewelry enthusiasts, uniting WatchBox, Govberg, Radcliffe, and Hyde Park Jewelers. T...