It seems these days, that in order to get truly noticed in this crowded watch market, the watch companies have taken the complication pact to “boldly go where no one has gone before…”
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Feature articles about watches in our daily lives, watches in society, watch love, watch hate, in short – there’s a great big world of watches out there and we talk about it.
Baselworld 2013 – Through the Eyes of a First-Timer
I have been writing about watches for just a little over six years, and while that may not seem all that long to some of the feild’s more seasoned writers, that is the amount of time it required before the necessary connections and relationships were in place for me to be able to attend BaselWorld.
BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends June 6th
In the fifth edition of our bi-weekly roundup, we check out Patek Philippe’s new Sky Moon tourbillon watch, the latest Vianney Halter masterpiece, learn about Rolex’s history, find out the truth of replica watches, take a look at Seiko high beat movements and take a lesson on the care and feeding about mechanical watches.
Top 10 Space-Themed Watches
Be it space or spaceship, the watches below are some of the coolest modern watches which honor or make actual use of elements far from the Earth. Imaginative watchmakers use meteorite dials or design their cases and movements to look like spaceships. We love this stuff and as traditional as watchmaking is, these timepieces are directly inspired by science and science fiction…
Timezone.com Founder Worries About The Fragility Of High Watch Prices
Timezone.com Founder Richard Paige laments high watch prices and questions the logic of it all.
BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends May 24th
In the fourth edition of our bi-weekly roundup, we check out a rare George Daniels chronograph watch, interview Hublot’s Jean-Claude Biver, check out some new Panerais and visit Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
iPhone App Smart Enough To Read Watch Names
A bold look at the new Watch Radar watch brand recognition iPhone app.
Top 10 Elegant Dress Watches for Men
The aBlogtoWatch team has made dressing up that much easier (and costlier) with our list of the top 10 elegant dress watches. In life, we usually avoid complications, in a dress watch as well, the less the better, a simple uncluttered dial is one of the timeless qualities that a dress watch should fulfill. The focus should ideally be on the essence of a watch…
BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends May 7th
In the third edition of our bi-weekly roundup, we take a look at the some of my favorite watches from Baselworld 2013, which includes Hublot, Patek Philippe and Tag Heur. We also check out an interview with Laurent Picciotto of Chronopassion and find out how one can share his/her love of watches with their partners.
Top 10 ‘The Great Gatsby’ Era Watches
With the 2013 movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby book being released shortly, we wanted to take a look at some of the best wrist watches from the roaring 20s. The 1920s, in a sense, was the first real decade of the wrist watch. It was when both men and women started to adapt wrist watches over pocket watches. Some of the best brands that make watches today were around back then…
Top 10 Watches Of Baselworld 2013
The good news is that new watches in 2013 are better than ever, and take it from people who’ve seen the watches. Top 10 lists are great, but a few we’ve seen are written by people who haven’t even seen the products…
What Are The Best Personal Analytics Smartwatches?
There’s been an amazing amount of rapid developments in smartwatches in the last couple of years or so. In addition to timekeeping and displaying alerts, smartwatches can measure physical activity, monitor pulse rates, skin temperatures and perspiration levels…
BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends April 26th
In the second edition of our bi-weekly news roundup, we check out the new MB&F HM3 Megawind, explore the science being black watches, learn about an indestructible Omega watch and check out previews of two watches that will debut at Basel World 2013.
BEST FROM: aBlogtoWatch & Friends April 12th
We check out Bell & Ross’ new aviation-themed watches, Ressence’s new Type 3 watch, find out how the HYT H1 movement works and more.
How The Talk Of Time Has Changed
How we see time influences how we communicate and perceive time. Time for some people is waiting for hands on a dial to move into position, while for others it is carefully watching seconds precisely count away on a digital dial. When I was growing up the terms “analog” and “digital” only had reference to clock and watch faces. It was not until I was a bit older did I realize those words had meaning not related to telling the time.
Top 10 Living Legend Watches To Own
If you look at many of the most popular watch brands, you’ll notice that their collections usually contain a few (or many) classics whose names have been around for years. Brands like Rolex don’t really release new models, but rather continue to improve on their core collection over time.
