The 1916 Company, Leader in Collectible Watches and Fine Jewelry, Announces Roadmap for Continued Growth
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The 1916 Company, Leader in Collectible Watches and Fine Jewelry, Announces Roadmap for Continued Growth

Leadership appointments and forthcoming retail expansion unveiled. The 1916 Company, la...

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The Breguet Marine Ref. 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph Has A Tale To Tell
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The Breguet Marine Ref. 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph Has A Tale To Tell

Fast Track: TAG Heuer Launches The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph X Porsche 963, Ahead Of The 2024 24 Hours Of Le Mans
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Watch Spotting at the NBA Finals: Jayson Tatum and His Richard Mille 07-01 Memphis Design
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De Bethune Launches Two Colorful New Versions Of The DB Eight Monopusher Chronograph
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De Bethune Launches Two Colorful New Versions Of The DB Eight Monopusher Chronog...

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De Bethune Innovations: The Triple Pare-Chute Antishock System
De Bethune Innovations: The Triple Pare-Chute Antishock System

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...

F.P. Journe Complications: The Tourbillon Souverain
F.P. Journe Complications: The Tourbillon Souverain

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...

De Bethune Innovations: The Science Behind The De Bethune Balances
De Bethune Innovations: The Science Behind The De Bethune Balances

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...

The Definitive Guide: References Numbers All Collectors Should Know
The Definitive Guide: References Numbers All Collectors Should Know

You don’t need to know them all, but whether you are a seasoned watch collector or new to the game — these are the reference ...

A Look Under The Hood: The Calendar Complication Of The Parmigiani Fleurier Hijiri Perpetual Calendar
A Look Under The Hood: The Calendar Complication Of The Parmigiani Fle...

A world of hidden beauty is underneath the dial. One of the most interesting calendar watches currently produced by any brand, is the Par...

F.P. Journe Complications: The Chronomètre À Résonance, How And Why It Works
F.P. Journe Complications: The Chronomètre À Résonance, How And Why It...

One of Journe’s most famous complications is also one of his most mysterious. The problem of creating what F.P. Journe calls a reso...

The Inbox: Aren’t Hand Wound Perpetual Calendars Obsolete?
The Inbox: Aren’t Hand Wound Perpetual Calendars Obsolete?

If hand-wound perpetuals are such a bad idea, why do they even exist? Greetings all, and welcome back to The Inbox. We’ve been on a...

Quartz is Cool
Quartz is Cool

We may not want to admit it, but quartz is here to stay — and that’s a good thing. When we talk about watch enthusiasts, what we usually ...

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De Bethune Launches Two Colorful New Versions Of The DB Eight Monopusher Chronograph
De Bethune Launches Two Colorful New Versions Of The DB Eight Monopush...

The latest chronograph from De Bethune gets two colorful dials, and new precious metal cases. De Bethune’s history begins with a ch...

Spirit Of Adventure: Louis Vuitton Introduces Four New Time-Only Escale Watches
Spirit Of Adventure: Louis Vuitton Introduces Four New Time-Only Escal...

The latest Escale watches from Louis Vuitton make a subtle but strong connection to LV’s larger history. The latest Escale watches ...

Gérald Genta Introduces The New Gentissima Oursin, A ‘Sea Urchin’ For The Wrist
Gérald Genta Introduces The New Gentissima Oursin, A ‘Sea Urchin...

A classic Genta design from the 1990s is now being released as a full production model. Gèrald Genta is famous for having designed some o...

Brutalist Manifesto: The Audemars Piguet [RE]Master02
Brutalist Manifesto: The Audemars Piguet [RE]Master02

So much for an “incremental year.” For all that the buzz post-Watches & Wonders was that this was going to be a quiet, ev...

A Very Unexpected Genta: The Credor Locomotive
A Very Unexpected Genta: The Credor Locomotive

Does this mark the beginning of a wider international presence for Seiko’s other luxury brand? In one of the most unusual launches ...

Introducing The MB&F Legacy Machine Sequential Flyback
Introducing The MB&F Legacy Machine Sequential Flyback

Stephen Mcdonnell has finally designed the version of the Sequential EVO chronograph he’d intended to make from the beginning. Back...

The Last Journe LE: Introducing The F.P. Journe Chronographe FB ‘Tokyo Boutique’
The Last Journe LE: Introducing The F.P. Journe Chronographe FB ‘...

The new Chronographe FB Tokyo Boutique is both an ending and a celebration. F.P. Journe‘s Tokyo boutique was, when it opened twenty...

Introducing The Ming 37.09 Bluefin
Introducing The Ming 37.09 Bluefin

The latest Ming dive watch is chock-full of classic Ming design codes. The first diver’s watch that Ming ever produced was the 18.0...

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The Breguet Marine Ref. 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph Has A Tale To Tell
The Breguet Marine Ref. 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph Has A Tale To Tell

A deep dive on a tourbillon chronograph complication from the Horloger Marine. The tourbillon chronograph is a fairly rare complication, ...

A Certain Purity: The MB&F Legacy Machine LM 101
A Certain Purity: The MB&F Legacy Machine LM 101

A most elevated take on the balance wheel. The first time I met Maximillian Büsser, he’d come to New York for the US launch of Horo...

Linear Classic: A Remarkable Golden Bridge Watch, From Corum
Linear Classic: A Remarkable Golden Bridge Watch, From Corum

A magical miracle of miniaturization. Corum is a company which, like the industry itself, has had a lot of ups and downs since it was fou...

The Moser Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton
The Moser Pioneer Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton

A watchmaking marriage between two inventions from two of the greatest watchmakers of all time. Moser has a well-earned reputation for do...

A Breitling Chrono-Matic Limited Edition In Rose Gold
A Breitling Chrono-Matic Limited Edition In Rose Gold

Take to the skies, in style. Breitling has been on a real roll for the last few years, since Georges Kern, formerly the head of IWC, beca...

The Vacheron Constantin Cornes de Vache 1955
The Vacheron Constantin Cornes de Vache 1955

The ultimate form of the dress chronograph. The chronograph by and large is a complication which we are used to seeing in sports watches,...

Titanium Titan: The Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200M
Titanium Titan: The Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200M

A high-tech version of Omega’s most famous sea monster. It’s hard to write about a certain class of dive watches without drag...

One Rattrapante To Rule Them All: The A. Lange & Söhne Triple Split
One Rattrapante To Rule Them All: The A. Lange & Söhne Triple Spl...

The rattrapante chronograph assumes its ultimate form. There are three complications – call them the Big Three – which are considered mor...

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First Class: Aristocratic Complications Coming Up At Phillips New York Watch Auction X
First Class: Aristocratic Complications Coming Up At Phillips New York...

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...

Upsets, Surprises, And Business As Usual At Only Watch 2024
Upsets, Surprises, And Business As Usual At Only Watch 2024

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’s Peachtree Road Auction is Set to ‘Crash’ this February.
Elton John’s Peachtree Road Auction is Set to ‘Crash’ this February.

Elton John will auction off 31 timepieces this Fall in a collection that can only be described as quintessential Elton. Elton John is arg...

Phillips Ends The Year On A High Note
Phillips Ends The Year On A High Note

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 ...

The Watchmaking World Has A New “Big Three”
The Watchmaking World Has A New “Big Three”

And they’re not brands, they’re watchmakers. One of the oldest tropes in fine watchmaking is that there is – or was – a ̶...

Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko Hits £15k at Auction
Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko Hits £15k at Auction

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...

Rexhep Rexhepi for Only Watch 2023
Rexhep Rexhepi for Only Watch 2023

The Akrivia founder unveils his third Only Watch submission. Few watchmakers have garnered as much attention in recent years as Rexhep Re...

How Much Would You Pay For Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko?
How Much Would You Pay For Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko?

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...

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Avoiding Watch Buyer’s Remorse
Avoiding Watch Buyer’s Remorse

When amassing your watch collection, buyer’s remorse is essentially inevitable, but there are a few watches out there that will nev...

A Guide to Loving Gold
A Guide to Loving Gold

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...

Stop Wearing Stainless Steel
Stop Wearing Stainless Steel

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...

The Rolex Yacht-Master II: No Yacht Required
The Rolex Yacht-Master II: No Yacht Required

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...

Who Says A Summer Watch Has To Be A Sports Watch?
Who Says A Summer Watch Has To Be A Sports Watch?

Because life’s not always a beach. The minute that Memorial Day rolls around (at least here in the United States) watch writers imm...

Questions to Ask Before Buying a Watch
Questions to Ask Before Buying a Watch

Advice from our global team of watch experts. Buying a new watch can be, without a doubt, a daunting proposition. Between YouTube, Instag...

Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch
Collection Building Your Way with Griffin Bartsch

How would you spend half a million dollars? What about a million? This new column will offer our community of enthusiasts a forum to answ...

Variations On The Moonphase
Variations On The Moonphase

One of watchmaking’s oldest complications is still evolving. The moonphase complication is as old as watchmaking itself. In fact, i...

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Collector Conversation Rewind with Tanmay
Collector Conversation Rewind with Tanmay

“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...

2023 Collector Conversations: A Year in Review
2023 Collector Conversations: A Year in Review

Collecting is exciting, but our community of collectors makes it even better. Working at The 1916 Company exposes you to some of the most...

Collecting with Shawn Stockman
Collecting with Shawn Stockman

Grammy Award Winner and entrepreneur, Shawn Stockman on watches, guitars and collecting ideologies. One universal truth about collecting ...

Collecting Together <br> with Alex Assouline
Collecting Together
with Alex Assouline

Crafting a watch collection can be a lot like making a coffee table book. Both weave a narrative not by including everything but through ...

Collecting Together with Josh Wright
Collecting Together with Josh Wright

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. ...

Collecting Together with Gauthier Borsarello
Collecting Together with Gauthier Borsarello

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...

Collecting Together with Shahendra Ohneswere
Collecting Together with Shahendra Ohneswere

If you don’t yet know Shahendra Ohneswere, you certainly know his work. As Senior Vice President of Content Development & Co-Head of ...

Collector Conversation: Michael Strahan &#038; Marc Lasry
Collector Conversation: Michael Strahan & Marc Lasry

Maybe you collected Matchbox cars, comic books, action figures or baseball cards when you were a kid. Maybe you displayed them in your ro...

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Watch Spotting at the NBA Finals: Jayson Tatum and His Richard Mille 07-01 Memphis Design
Watch Spotting at the NBA Finals: Jayson Tatum and His Richard Mille 0...

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...

Recommended Reading: The Philosophies Of Stephen McDonnell, At A Collected Man
Recommended Reading: The Philosophies Of Stephen McDonnell, At A Colle...

The watchmaker behind two of MB&F’s most complicated watches talks process, innovation, and the benefits of relative obscurity....

Profiles in Time: Guillaume Laidet is the Mastermind of Horological Revival
Profiles in Time: Guillaume Laidet is the Mastermind of Horological Re...

Guillaume Laidet is a name that deserves more recognition in the watch community. Despite his significant contributions, he remains relat...

Four New Watchmaking Records For 2024, And What They Mean
Four New Watchmaking Records For 2024, And What They Mean

Vacheron, Piaget, IWC, and Bulgari all set new world’s records at Watches & Wonders this year. But what do those records really...

Watches &#038; Wonders Recap: The Year of the Moonphase Has Arrived
Watches & Wonders Recap: The Year of the Moonphase Has Arrived

Watches and Wonders is officially over, the dust has settled and Geneva has shifted from pandemonium to normal. We are now left with a sl...

Seeing The Centuries: Different Displays For The Perpetual Calendar
Seeing The Centuries: Different Displays For The Perpetual Calendar

The complexity of the perpetual calendar means that when it comes to variety in their displays, the sky’s the limit. The perpetual ...

The Pocket Square Effect: The Little Things That Make Or Break A Watch Design
The Pocket Square Effect: The Little Things That Make Or Break A Watch...

The pocket square is the most ubiquitous, underrated outfit-making detail any well-dressed man can utilize, but I bet you never realized ...

Why Two Of The Five Louis Vuitton Watch Prize Finalists Aren&#8217;t Wristwatches
Why Two Of The Five Louis Vuitton Watch Prize Finalists Aren’t W...

Time has many faces. The Louis Vuitton Watch Prize For Independent Creatives was established to recognize and reward horological and desi...

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Winding Up a Legacy: George Daniels and the Exquisite Art of the Escapement
Winding Up a Legacy: George Daniels and the Exquisite Art of the Escap...

A story of how George Daniels’ innovative approach to watchmaking and his pioneering work on the escapement ignited a passion for t...

I Love the 90s, Part II
I Love the 90s, Part II

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...

I Love the 90s, and You Should Too
I Love the 90s, and You Should Too

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...

The Art Of Invention: How De Bethune Builds The Future Of Watchmaking
The Art Of Invention: How De Bethune Builds The Future Of Watchmaking

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 Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tourbillon evolution, fast forward. The tourbillon, as we’ve seen, was for the most part a device used quite rarely in watchmaking ...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch
Tourbillon Chronicles Part III: Rise of the Wristwatch

The last word in pocket watch accuracy becomes the first name in wristwatch complications. In the late 1970s, as we (probably) all know, ...

The Inauguration and Evolution of the Datograph
The Inauguration and Evolution of the Datograph

A comprehensive look at the history of A. Lange & Söhne’s signature chronograph Around 2008-2009, at the start of my teenage ye...

Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution
Tourbillon Chronicles Part II: Two Centuries Of Evolution

How the tourbillon earned its reputation as one of the pinnacles of watchmaking. During his lifetime, Breguet produced only a small numbe...

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Generations: A Timeline Of F.P. Journe
Generations: A Timeline Of F.P. Journe

The 1916 Company Presents A Dynamic Exhibition Of Journe’s Most Significant Timepieces The 1916 Company is proud to present a colle...

Grand Seiko&#8217;s New Manhattan Flagship Is The Latest New NYC Horological Landmark
Grand Seiko’s New Manhattan Flagship Is The Latest New NYC Horol...

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...

Raúl Pagès Is The Winner Of The First Louis Vuitton Watch Prize For Independent Creatives
Raúl Pagès Is The Winner Of The First Louis Vuitton Watch Prize For In...

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 Blancpain x Swatch Fifty Fathoms Scuba: Diving Into the Rising Tide of its Stormy Journey
The Blancpain x Swatch Fifty Fathoms Scuba: Diving Into the Rising Tid...

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 ...

A Delayed Reaction to the Return of Universal Genève
A Delayed Reaction to the Return of Universal Genève

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...

Striking Design + Brilliant Watch Pairings
Striking Design + Brilliant Watch Pairings

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 Launches Jewelry Exhibition with Contemporary Designers
The 1916 Company Launches Jewelry Exhibition with Contemporary Designe...

The 1916 Company and Eleonor Picciotto will showcase collections by Suzanne Syz, Alexandra Rosier, Selim Mouzannar, and Elie Top. The 191...

Audemars Piguet Wins Big At The GPHG
Audemars Piguet Wins Big At The GPHG

The company’s Code 11.59 Universelle RD#4 takes home the top prize, the Aiguille D’Or. The 2023 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie...

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The 1916 Company, Leader in Collectible Watches and Fine Jewelry, Announces Roadmap for Continued Growth
The 1916 Company, Leader in Collectible Watches and Fine Jewelry, Anno...

Leadership appointments and forthcoming retail expansion unveiled. The 1916 Company, launched in late 2023 by merging WatchBox, Govberg, ...

GENERATIONS: A Timeline of F.P. Journe by The 1916 Company
GENERATIONS: A Timeline of F.P. Journe by The 1916 Company

The 1916 Company launches traveling exhibition in Miami with more than 60 rare and collectible F.P. Journe watches. The 1916 Company is p...

Introducing The 1916 Company
Introducing The 1916 Company

The 1916 Company ushers in a new era for watch & jewelry enthusiasts, uniting WatchBox, Govberg, Radcliffe, and Hyde Park Jewelers. T...

WatchBox China Inaugurates Shanghai Collector’s Lounge and Salon
WatchBox China Inaugurates Shanghai Collector’s Lounge and Salon

Collectors unite to celebrate WatchBox’s official opening in mainland China alongside first public viewing of the De Bethune DB28xs Starr...

Milestone: WatchBox Crosses 150 Million Views on YouTube
Milestone: WatchBox Crosses 150 Million Views on YouTube

Tim Mosso, architect of the ultimate watch review video library, tops 100 million views on WatchBox Reviews channel WatchBox, the world’s...

Andy Zhang Appointed CEO of WatchBox China
Andy Zhang Appointed CEO of WatchBox China

Collector turned watch industry executive to lead WatchBox expansion in mainland China. WatchBox is pleased to announce the appointment o...

Jack Forster Named Global Editorial Director at WatchBox
Jack Forster Named Global Editorial Director at WatchBox

WatchBox strengthens mission to educate and entertain collectors with arrival of renowned watch journalist  PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 18, ...

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Fast Track: TAG Heuer Launches The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph X Porsche 963, Ahead Of The 2024 24 Hours Of Le Mans
Fast Track: TAG Heuer Launches The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph X Por...

TAG Heuer celebrates its partnership with Porsche, with a watch inspired by a car created for one of the most brutally exhausting races i...

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