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Ulysse Nardin Game of Thrones

Official Game Of Thrones ‘The Night’s Watch,’ Wrist Watch

Thanks to watch maker Ulysse Nardin, The Night’s Watch now has a watch. Teaming up with HBO, Ulysse Nardin has produced a limited edition version of their Marine Diver for the Game of Thrones. The pre-mechanical fantasy medieval world now brought to life in the popular cable television show, now has a timepiece all their own.

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Ulysse Nardin Moonstruck Watch Review

Ulysse Nardin was an early proponent of modern celestial watches. In the 1990s the brand produced and pushed their Planetarium trilogy of watches that solely sought to reproduce in timepiece form unique devices meant to track and display the various cycles of the sky.

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HourTime Show Watch Podcast Episode 124 – Zombitastic

Best watches for the zombie apocalypse? We begin to discuss. Also some trouble with ultra expensive mobile phones, and a cool thing from Seiko. Listen to the HourTime Show watch podcast episode 124 here. Download the MP3.

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How Ulysse Nardin Beautifully Makes Watches Part 6

Ulysse Nardin has recently produced a beautiful corporate movie displaying the people and methods behind the production of watches are their facilities in Switzerland.

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How Ulysse Nardin Beautifully Makes Watches Part 5

Ulysse Nardin has recently produced a beautiful corporate movie displaying the people and methods behind the production of watches are their facilities in Switzerland.

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How Ulysse Nardin Beautifully Makes Watches Part 4

Ulysse Nardin has recently produced a beautiful corporate movie displaying the people and methods behind the production of watches are their facilities in Switzerland.

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How Ulysse Nardin Beautifully Makes Watches Part 3

Ulysse Nardin has recently produced a beautiful corporate movie displaying the people and methods behind the production of watches are their facilities in Switzerland.

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How Ulysse Nardin Beautifully Makes Watches Part 2

Ulysse Nardin has recently produced a beautiful corporate movie displaying the people and methods behind the production of watches are their facilities in Switzerland.

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How Ulysse Nardin Beautifully Makes Watches Part 1

Ulysse Nardin has recently produced a beautiful corporate movie displaying the people and methods behind the production of watches are their facilities in Switzerland.

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Ulysse Nardin Black Sea Chronograph Watch Hands-On

If you would have told me sight-unseen that a rubber-clad timepiece would make a luxury watch I would have never believed you. Then it started to happen, high-end brands began to experiment with coatings of vulcanized rubber on watches. It started with bezel pieces, crowns, and pushers. Then brands like Ulysse Nardin said “screw it, [...]

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Ulysse Nardin Minute Repeater Tourbillon Jaquemarts Watches Hands-On

There are two very rare watches covered in this article. Both are in the Westminster Minute Repeater Jaquemarts Tourbillon collection. Actually, I have seen this collection name arranged in a series of ways. Suffice it to say that “Minute Repeater, Jaquemarts, and Tourbillon” are all in the name – somewhere.  These are among the most [...]

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Ulysse Nardin Executive Dual Time Watch Review

I recall the first time that I saw the Executive Dual Time watch. I was visiting Ulysse Nardin at a watch trade show and saw some models I hadn’t yet familiarized myself with being displayed…

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Ochs Und Junior Selene Tinta Watch Review

At once elegant and mysteriously absent of text or logo, the Ochs and Junior selene tinta is a very different watch indeed…

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Ochs und Junior Watches

One of my heroes in watchmaking is a man named Ludwig Oechslin. He’s the genius behind ultra-complicated watches such as the Ulysse Nardin Trilogy Set, the amazing UN Freak in addition to minimal classics such as the MIH watch. Recently, he the younger Beat Weinmann started a new company, Ochs and Junior (Och und Junior) [...]

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Ulysse Nardin Watch Manufacture: Where Technology Meets Pride

Patrik Hoffmann was given the position of Ulysse Nardin CEO after the brand’s long standing CEO Rolf Schnyder sadly passed away in the spring of 2011. He recalls Rolf with extreme fondness, referring to how he treated him like a son in many ways, and how for long periods of time he would live at [...]

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Ulysse Nardin Freak Diavolo Watch Review

Back when I was a brand new watch lover I came across something weird called the Freak. I was still too much of a novice to know who or what Ulysse Nardin was, but the strange timepiece stuck in my mind – probably because there was nothing else like it (and still isn’t for that matter)…

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