News: Swiss Watch Exports Collapse By Unprecedented 81.3%
Standstill in production, distribution and sales

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Release: Seiko Tuna Goes Street Style With An Entirely New Series. And Arnie Joins The Fray Too.
This Tuna Is Not Going Extinct

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Hands-On: Seiko Marinemaster SLA023
Going Deep With The Blue Marinemaster

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Must-Read: Covid19 Hits Harder Than The Quartz Crisis
But exports are expected to rebound next year

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Release: Sinn 2020 Novelties 556 I RS 556 A RS

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News: Death By A Thousand Cuts Accelerates For Authorized Dealers
Turbocharged By Direct-To-Consumer Model

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Jan de Griff May 22, 2020

Release: Seiko Tuna Goes Street Style With An Entirely New Series. And Arnie Joins The Fray Too.
This Tuna Is Not Going Extinct

Jan de Griff May 19, 2020

Hands-On: Seiko Marinemaster SLA023
Going Deep With The Blue Marinemaster

Jeff L. May 14, 2020

Must-Read: Covid19 Hits Harder Than The Quartz Crisis
But exports are expected to rebound next year

Jan de Griff May 12, 2020

Release: Sinn 2020 Novelties 556 I RS 556 A RS

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Hands-On: Seiko Marinemaster SLA023
Going Deep With The Blue Marinemaster

May 14, 2020 8 Comments

Hands-On: Seiko King Turtle SRPE05 (VIDEO)
All Hail The King?

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Hands-On: Rolex Explorer vs Omega Speedmaster (VIDEO)
Clash Of The Icons

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Hands-On: Garmin MARQ Captain (Video)
Taking sports-watches to another level

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Hands-On: Seiko Prospex LX SNR029J
Redefining The Professional SEIKO Diver's Watch

March 9, 2020 2 Comments

Hands-On: Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGA211 (VIDEO)
This Snowflake Is Smoking Hot

February 28, 2020 11 Comments

Hands-On: Ming 17.06

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Hands-On: Glashütte Original PanoMaticLunar (VIDEO)
Stellar horology on full display

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Hands-On: Seiko King Turtle SRPE05 (VIDEO)
All Hail The King?

Seiko watches have terrible names, this one is officially called the srpe05k1. Luckily, seiko watches tend to have much better nicknames, this is the KING turtle. And it comes with a fantastic grenade dial. This is the new King Turtle, the one with the green grenade dial, there are

Hands-On: Seiko Marinemaster SLA023
Going Deep With The Blue Marinemaster

Jeff L. May 14, 2020 8 Comments

With its history going back to the 1965, Seiko has been making dive watches for quite some time now. We recently touched on the trilogy of Seiko dive watches celebrating

Hands-On: Rolex Explorer vs Omega Speedmaster (VIDEO)
Clash Of The Icons

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Hands-On: Garmin MARQ Captain (Video)
Taking sports-watches to another level

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Hands-On: Seiko Prospex LX SNR029J
Redefining The Professional SEIKO Diver's Watch

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Hands-On: Grand Seiko Snowflake SBGA211 (VIDEO)
This Snowflake Is Smoking Hot

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Interview: FEARS Watches – “This is my legacy” (VIDEO)

We talk to Nicholas Bowman Scargill – The Fourth Managing Director from the Fears Watch Company. Fears has a fascinating story to tell and beautiful watches to share. If you’re looking for a clean watch design and a very wearable

Interview: Mr. Yoshifusa Nakazawa, Watchmaker At Seiko’s Haute Horlogerie Micro Artist Studio

ThinIn the world of watchmaking, there are many watchmakers out there, none however quite like Mr Nakazawa. Mr Nakazawa is one of the key ingredients that makes Seiko’s Micro Arist Studio tick, and one of the crucial elements in some

Unscripted Jean-Claude Biver: Talking Rolex, Apple Watch, Karl Lagerfeld And More (Video Interview Part 2/2)

Without further delay, we are happy to present the second and final part of our Unscripted Interview with Mr Jean-Claude Biver. Mr Biver is one of just a few individuals to have dramatically impacted the Swiss Watch Industry and saved

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Photo Report: The Watches At Our Brussels Lunch

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VISIT TO THE MANUFACTURE

How A Vintage Dial Is Made At Glashütte Original

The dial is arguably the most interesting visual on a watch. Yet so often they turn out rather plain. Not so with the by now recognizable-from-a-mile Glashütte Original green Sixties and Sixties Panorama Date dials. Once seen, one simply does not forget. It is now with much personal delight

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Unscripted: Jean-Claude Biver, The Icon, The Hippie, The Brand (Video Interview Part 1/2)

Earlier this month we had the genuine pleasure to welcome Mr Jean-Claude Biver to Brussels

Interview: RESSENCE Founder & CEO Benoît Mintiens. Designing The Watch Of The Future (Long Read)

A few months ago, I had the sincere pleasure to visit Mr Mintiens at the

Report: Lunch With H. Moser & Cie (Video)

Earlier this month we had the pleasure to invite a great group of friends &

Report: Master Class Haute Horlogerie (Video)

A private Master Class showcasing the very best of modern Haute Horlogerie, oh yes indeed.

VISIT TO THE MANUFACTURE

How A Vintage Dial Is Made At Glashütte Original

A Visit To The H. Moser & Cie Manufacture

At the close of last year we had the pleasure to visit H. Moser & Cie in Schaffhausen (Neuhausen am Rheinfall to be exact). In an industry dominated by giant-sized luxury groups, H. Moser & Cie is one of the few remaining independent & family owned Swiss manufactures out there.

Interview: Giorgia Mondani

One doesn’t get into watch collecting without running into the Mondani family in one way or another. Be that in the shape of some of their reference books