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ONES TO WATCH: Patek Philippe’s priceless Watch Art expo winds up in Milan
Seven Milan-inspired limited editions headline Patek Philippe’s free showcase of 500 historic masterpieces, rare handcrafts and its entire current collection.
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Watch of the Week: A. Lange & Söhne's Triple Split rolls into London Town
A. Lange & Söhne’s platinum stopwatch masterpiece lands at Hampton Court, splitting seconds, minutes and hours with mindboggling mechanical sophistication.
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Watches of the Week: The (antimagnetic) IWC Ingenieur’s 50 years of magnetic appeal
Gérald Genta’s cult steel sports watch marks five decades with two antimagnetic, chronometric limited editions, blending industrial purpose with boulevardier appeal.
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Watch News: 8 to Clock
As spring’s perennial flush of horological novelties lose their, well, novelty, Alex Doak finds his heart ticking to a fresh wave of wrist fodder, winding its way from the valleys of Switzerland and Germany.
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Watch (expo) of the week: Vintage Vacheron lands in London
Switzerland’s most venerable watchmaker invites you to Bond Street to feast your eyes on some unprecedented horological masterpieces
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Watch of the Week: Anniversary for the Annual
Thirty years have passed since Patek Philippe coined a classic – and its new calendar celebrates in style
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Watch of the Week: Smoking salmon
Vacheron Constantin’s latest ultra-thin beauty mixes platinum sheen with off-the-scales orange-blush colouration
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Watch (revival) of the week: Gallet
Joining Universal Genève at Breitling’s ever-expanding ‘House of Brands’ is an imminent reboot with horological heritage, rare affordability and ‘wanderlust’ all baked in
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Watch of the week: Breitling’s all-new, streamlined Chronomat
Swiss watchmaker to pilots both civil and military (plus Jerry Seinfeld) has fine-tuned its most high-flying icon
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Our 12 top picks from Watches and Wonders
As the velvet ropes go back up on Geneva’s Palexpo convention centre, Alex Doak returns from Watches and Wonders bearing news of much horological brilliance
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Watch of the week: A Watch of wonders
IWC stole this week’s Genevan trade-fair extravaganza, gazing to the heavens in cahoots with US space privateers, ‘VAST’… And horolo-design guru Christian Knoop is here to tell us where the cool factor lies
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Universal Appeal
Geneva’s sleeping beauty awakens to cult status, at the hands of mighty Breitling
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A Gentleman and a collar
Switzerland’s perennial, affordable, not to mention sartorial watchmaker has something up its French-cuffed sleeve
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Watch of the week: Tissot Visodate 39mm
Seventy-two years young, a Swiss watchmaking legend is making another date with one of its perennial classics
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TIME, SQUARE, CIRCLE: the perfect proportions of Patek Philippe’s Golden Ellipse
Inspired either by the golden ratio or an American highway junction, Patek Philippe’s Golden Ellipse became one of the brand’s most distinctive and unexpectedly radical watch designs.
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Watch of the week: Chopard L.U.C Grand Strike
Thirty years pushing the envelope of modern ‘haute horlogerie’ demand nothing less than the most virtuoso birthday present any watch nerd could hope for.
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Watch(es) of the week: IWC Pilot’s Watch x George Russell
It’s lights out! on this season’s horological race for F1 superiority with a brace of tuned-up tickers paying tribute to Mercedes-AMG Petronas’s British wünderkind
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Watch of the week: Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch in Black and White
NASA's go-to chronograph supplier reverts to ‘reverse panda’ flight mode