A modern milestone in the evolution of a signature complication. There are any number o...
Breitling Announces Partnership With NFL, Launches 34 New Team-Specific Chronoma...
Introducing The Alpina Heritage Automatic, An Instant Classic At Geneva Watch Da...
Heritage Brand Favre Leuba Returns With New Collection Featuring 22 New Models I...
MING, J.N. Shapiro, Fleming Announce Formation Of Alternative Horological Allian...
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 (...
Beauty is more than skin deep, but it’s not a bad place to start. It is a truism in the watch business that to sell a watch, all yo...
Beat the heat with the best straps for summer’s sweaty woes. I am a sweaty man. This is probably not the way my wife would like me ...
One of Journe’s most sophisticated complications is also one of his most enigmatic. The Centigraphe Souverain was not Journe’...
How De Bethune makes a star out of an unsung hero of watchmaking. The antishock system is something most watch enthusiasts can go a lifet...
A look at why the remontoir and tourbillon are an ultra-rare match made in heaven. Welcome to the second installment in our technical ser...
The De Bethune balances are cool as hell to look at, but behind the sci-fi aesthetics are basic laws of nature. De Bethune watches are ea...
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...
The second version of Daniel Roth’s modern classic launches at Geneva Watch Days in a modern classic metal. Last January, Daniel Ro...
The latest version of the Black Bay Chronograph comes in a new blue colorway, with a tachymetric bezel. Tudor launched the Black Bay Chro...
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...
Because sometimes chronograph design isn’t about why, it’s about why not. Since MING launched its first watch in 2017 – the n...
The legendary Olympics rings, as seen through the lens of the legendary Omega Speedmaster Professional. The logo for the Olympics is one ...
A pragmatically beautiful example of what may be the world’s most useful complication. The Tudor Black Bay GMT has been with us now...
Proof that sometimes, they really do make ’em like they used to. Watches based on classic models from a brand’s back catalog ...
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...
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...
Spotting a Richard Mille on the wrist of an NBA star is not headline news, but Jayson Tatum’s unconventional watch choice of the RM...
The watchmaker behind two of MB&F’s most complicated watches talks process, innovation, and the benefits of relative obscurity....
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 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...
Collectors unite to celebrate WatchBox’s official opening in mainland China alongside first public viewing of the De Bethune DB28xs Starr...
Tim Mosso, architect of the ultimate watch review video library, tops 100 million views on WatchBox Reviews channel WatchBox, the world’s...
Collector turned watch industry executive to lead WatchBox expansion in mainland China. WatchBox is pleased to announce the appointment o...