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Defining The Dress Watch When No One’s Dressing Up

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Defining The Dress Watch When No One’s Dressing Up

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 (...

Father’s Day Stories From The 1916 Company

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Father’s Day Stories From The 1916 Company

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...

Grand Seiko Debuts New Hand Wound Hi-Beat Caliber In SLGW002 And SLGW003 With White Birch Dials

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Grand Seiko Debuts New Hand Wound Hi-Beat Caliber In SLGW002 And SLGW0...

The caliber 9SA4 is Grand Seiko’s first hand wound Hi-Beat movement in over 50 years. Grand Seiko has always been known to enthusia...

Grand Seiko’s New Manhattan Flagship Is The Latest New NYC Horological Landmark

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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...

Smooth Operator: The Ice Queen Romance Of The Platinum Spring Drive 8 Day

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Smooth Operator: The Ice Queen Romance Of The Platinum Spring Drive 8 ...

The Platinum Spring Drive 8 Day might be the most quintessential Grand Seiko of them all. Seiko’s Spring Drive movements have been ...

Introducing The Grand Seiko ‘Katana’ US Exclusive Spring Drives

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Introducing The Grand Seiko ‘Katana’ US Exclusive Spring D...

An ode to the alchemy of steel. The first time I visited Japan, it was on a trip organized by Grand Seiko for press just after the brand ...

Wrist Check: The Grand Seiko Hi-Beat ‘White Birch’ SLGH005

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Wrist Check: The Grand Seiko Hi-Beat ‘White Birch’ SLGH005

Is the evolution a revolution? What is Grand Seiko? The answer to that question has changed quite a lot since Seiko relaunched Grand Seik...

WatchBox Inbox: Getting Started, Too Many Rolex, And More On Water Resistance

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WatchBox Inbox: Getting Started, Too Many Rolex, And More On Water Res...

Welcome to the WatchBox Inbox, where we answer questions sent to us by the WatchBox community. This week, we’re looking at how to start o...

Taking Sides: The Best James Bond Watch Is Not The Omega Seamaster

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Taking Sides: The Best James Bond Watch Is Not The Omega Seamaster

Come at me, bro. June 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s first appearanc...

Summertime Blues: The Grand Seiko SBGJ249 GMT “Shōsho”

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Summertime Blues: The Grand Seiko SBGJ249 GMT “Shōsho”

Turns out there is a cure for the summertime blues. Are you stuck, in the immortal words of Eddy Cochrane, working all summer just to try...

Watch 101

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 ...

A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023

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A Few Things I Didn’t Hate from Watches and Wonders 2023

Variety is the spice of life. This year’s Watches and Wonders Geneva was the biggest version of the show so far — there were over...

A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

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A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

Refreshes, Reboots and Disruptions from Rolex Watches and Wonders 2023 is the last remaining instance of a kind of event that used to d...

Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

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Heat Bluing: What It Is, How It’s Done, And Why It Matters

Every watch enthusiast with any time in the game has seen them — heat-blued hands, screws, and other steel and titanium components, add i...

December Auction Report

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December Auction Report

Auctions in December are always a little elegiac in feel — it’s the end of the year, the days have gotten shorter, and nighttime co...

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

Let’s face it, acquiring a watch that only a select few others will own is always an appealing proposition. We live in an industry satura...

8 Things to Know About IWC

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8 Things to Know About IWC

There’s a lot we all know about the beloved International Watch Company. Famed for their iconic pilot’s watch collection, the longstandin...

The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

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The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

As the world remains at home, we are forced to come together—remotely, of course—to find a new way to work and solve novel problems. The ...