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Time on Our Hands: Breitling Superocean Chronograph Steelfish
The Superocean Chronograph Steelfish ($5,700) is Breitling’s latest addition to its dive watch lineup.
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WatchesWith a New In-House Movement, Christopher Ward Sets the Bar High
Last week, while we Americans were celebrating our independence from England, English brand Christopher Ward was celebrating independence of a different sort. The ten-year-old Internet watch company announced that it had created its first in-house mechanical movement, the calibre SH21, for its new C9 Harrison 5 Day Automatic timepiece.
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WatchesAvant-Garde Watches on a Budget
Avant-garde watch design is best designed by what isn’t, rather than what it is: Understand classics like dress, dive, and aviator watches and you’ll know avant-garde when you see it. The problem with breaking the mold is that these watches often come with an equally unbelievable and impressive price tags, leaving mere mortals’ bank accounts wanting.
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Watches10 Soaring Pilot’s Watches
New or old, a pilot’s watch must be legible, tough, accurate and reliable, with extra points awarded if it looks good riding the sleeve of a flight jacket.
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WatchesThis Week in Watches: July 1, 2014
This Week in Watches: a young watch authority, a mean chopper-edition watch, and an Oris with a mechanical altimeter.
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WatchesBreakdown: Longines Heritage Avigation Watch Type A7
The new Longines Avigation Watch Type A7 differs visually from the 1930s original (most notable for its 45 degree canted dial) only in minor dial details. Other features remain: the 49 millimeter diameter, the hinged case back, the Breguet hands, and Arabic numerals.
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WatchesLearning to Freedive with One of the World’s Best
Most of the people who come to Bonaire are SCUBA divers, hauling heavy bags of gear — buoyancy vests and regulators. But on this visit, I decided to try something different: freediving.
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WatchesTime on Our Hands: Cartier Calibre de Cartier Diver
ISO 6425 is an international standard that spells out in great and unambiguous detail the criteria for what can be called a “diver’s watch”. Aside from the obvious water resistance requirement (100 meters, by the way), there are rules for legibility, salt water resistance and more.
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WatchesTimekeeping Selects: Seiko 6139 “Pogue” Chronograph (Sold)
For our new series, Timekeeping Selects, we’ve partnered with Analog/Shift, the New York-based purveyor of vintage watches. We’re doing the legwork for you, handpicking stunning, unique vintage timepieces at a wide variety of prices — all with impeccable authenticity, great stories, meticulously serviced and ready to wear.
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WatchesWant This, Get This: IWC Aquatimer Deep Three or ORIS Aquis Depth Gauge
Comparing two great depth gauge dive watches: the top shelf IWC Aquatimer Deep Three and an ingenious alternative from ORIS that works without any moving parts.
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WatchesFather, Time
Unlike many family traditions, including those shown in Patek Philippe ads, in our family, watch gifts didn’t flow from father to son but rather the other way around.
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WatchesBest Watches for Any Dad
A hint for Father’s Day gift seekers: He doesn’t need another screwdriver set. What he needs is something with more thought, more personality, something he’ll use.
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WatchesKit: Free-Diving the Mediterranean
Whether you’re heading to the Mediterranean coast in real life or just your daydreams, this kit of casual clothes and accoutrements will keep you both cool and looking cool.
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WatchesTimekeeping Selects: DOXA SUB 300T Sharkhunter
For our new series, Timekeeping Selects, we’ve partnered with Analog/Shift, the New York-based purveyor of vintage watches. We’re doing the legwork for you, handpicking stunning, unique vintage timepieces at a wide variety of prices — all with impeccable authenticity, great stories, meticulously serviced and ready to wear.
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WatchesTime on Our Hands: Squale 101 Atmos
Vintage watches are flying off the shelves right now, but the Squale 101 Atmos carries out its heritage look without pretense.
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WatchesProving Evolutionary Theory with IWC’s Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “Galapagos Islands”
The Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “Galapagos Islands” ($11,100) shares more with theCharles Darwin Foundation than donations. It’s a prime example of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — in Aquatimers.