Top 100 High-End Watch News, Reviews & Resources
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- 2-Tone Timepieces are a Hit with Young Watch Buyers - The New York Times.
- 5 best Americaine watches - The Telegraph.
- 10 best watches of 2018 - "In the world of watch-making, 2018 will be remembered as a year of disruption and celebration."
- 10 Most Expensive Patek Philippe Watches - The Richest.
- 10 of the best affordable men's watches - The Telegraph.
- 10 Things to Know About Omega - "From Apollo 11 to James Bond."
- 11 best wear-forever ladies' watches - The Telegraph.
- 17 expensive & ornate winners at 'Watchmaking Oscars' 2015 - Business Insider.
- 20 Totally Unique Watches - Bloomberg Business.
- 35 Most Expensive Watches in the World - T.I.M.
- 50+ Apple Watch Tips & Tricks - YouTube 25:37.
- 10,000 Year Clock - "Watch This Video of Jeff Bezos's 10,000 Year Clock Being Built."
- A man bought a Rolex for $345 in 1974. Its current value knocked him off his feet - "Told a watch like his is now worth $400,000 at auction, the man toppled to the ground."
- A Watch Master at Work - The New York Times.
- African Time - definition & explanation.
- AMAZON.COM'S LUXURY WATCHES STORE
 - save up to 35% on luxury watches: TAG Heuer, Omega, Movado, Cartier, GUCCI, Breitling, and more.
- Amazon Echo Dot with clock review: time is on its side - "A $59 clock that also comes with a pretty good speaker."
- Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry - "The Apple Watch continues to dominate the market."
- Apple Watch outsold the entire Swiss watch industry in 2019 - "The Apple Watch sold 31 million units worldwide, while all Swiss watch brands combined sold 21 million units, according to research from consulting firm Strategy Analytics."
- Apple Watch 'WOW' moment - iMore.
- Apple Watches banned from Cabinet after ministers warned devices could be vulnerable to hacking - The Telegraph.
- Astronomical clock - is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the sun, moon, zodiacal constellations, and sometimes major planets.
- At Watch Auctions, Vintage and Prime to Be Most Prized Qualities - The New York Times.
- ATOMIC CLOCK - clock device that uses an electronic transition frequency in the microwave, optical, or ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum of atoms as a frequency standard for its timekeeping element.
- ATOMIC TIME CLOCK - "Top radiocontrolled watches."
- Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore unveils bold new look for its 25th anniversary - The Telegraph.
- Audemars Piguet's extraordinary High Jewellery watch - The Telegraph.
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 - Barisieur's coffee-brewing alarm clock might actually happen - engadget.
- best alarm clock - engadget.
- Best custom-made watches - The Telegraph.
- best luxury watches of 2019 - "SIHH 2019: 6 luxury watch design trends to know."
- best men's watches at Baselworld 2018 - The Telegraph.
- Borrowed Time - "Luxury Watch Rental for Men."
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- Caesium standard - or caesium atomic clock is a primary frequency standard in which electronic transitions between the two hyperfine ground states of caesium-133 atoms are used to control the output frequency.
- Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age? - The New York Times.
- Cartier Courts Young Men With Luxe Watches - The New York Times.
- Cartier PanthÈre: the relaunch of a Eighties icon - The Telegraph.
- CHRONOGRAPH - Wikipedia.
- CHRONOMETER - Wikipedia.
- CIRCA - "CIRCA is the largest international buyer of fine jewelry, diamonds and watches."
- Circadian clock - in most living things makes it possible for organisms to coordinate their biology and behavior with daily environmental changes in the day-night cycle.
- CLOCK - Wikipedia.
- Clock of the Long Now - also called the 10,000-year clock, is a mechanical clock under construction, that is designed to keep time for 10,000 years.
- Cocktail watches to toast the party season - The Telegraph.
- collectingwatches.com - Guido Mondani Editore: "The leading publisher in the watch field." The best watches books: all about Rolex, Patek Philippe, Panerai and Omega.
- COMPLICATION (HOROLOGY) - refers to any feature in a timepiece beyond the simple display of hours and minutes.
- Construction begins on Jeff Bezos’ $42 million 10,000-year clock - The Verge.
- Curse of the £15million watch strikes again - Mirror Online.
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- Danish court rules artist's work cannot be cut up to make watches - "Tal R wins injunction against pair of Faroese art provocateurs who wanted to use his canvas to make wristwatches."
- Dollar watch - was a pocket watch or later, a wristwatch, that sold for about one US dollar. The sale of such watches began in 1892.
- Doomsday Clock announcement: Scientists reveal minutes to ‘apocalypse’ - The Telegraph.
- Doomsday Clock nears apocalypse over climate & nuclear fears - "The symbolic Doomsday Clock, which indicates how close our planet is to complete annihilation, is now only 100 seconds away from midnight."
- Doomsday Clock Reaches 100 Seconds to Midnight - "Here's the bad news: we've all got just 100 seconds to live. Here's the good news: they're metaphorical seconds."
- DOOMSDAY CLOCK ticks closer to NUCLEAR WAR - Wired.
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- ÉBAUCHE - jeweled watch movement, without its regulating organs, mainspring, dial, or hands.
- Electric watch - Wikipedia.
- Emilian Wehrle - (1832-1896). Reputed Black Forest clockmaker famous for his high-quality musical clocks. These musical clocks included the trumpeter clock, flute clock, singing bird clock, and rooster clock. These timepieces call the hour with the sound of a trumpeter, flute, bird and rooster respectively. He was also a maker of cuckoo clocks, but these were not the primary focus of the firm.
- Everything you need to know about the Tiffany Metro watch - The Telegraph.
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- FAMOUS PEOPLE WATCHES - find out what luxury watches of renown brands wear celebrities like actors, politicians and other famous people.
- FARFO'S VINTAGE WATCHES - since 1998. Specializing in vintage watches, antique watches and Swiss chronograph watch repair.
- FEDERATION OF THE SWISS WATCH INDUSTRY
- FLEURIER QUALITY FOUNDATION | FONDATION QUALITÉ FLEURIER - created on 5 June 2001, the Fleurier Quality Foundation stems from a joint project undertaken by the Chopard, Parmigiani Fleurier and Bovet Fleurier brands, as well as the Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier, to establish new aesthetic and technical criteria dedicated to the certification of finished watches.
- Flip clock - electromechanical, digital time keeping device with the time indicated by numbers that are sequentially revealed by a split-flap display.
- FOLEX - fake expensive watch as in, faux (french for fake) Rolex, faux-lex, folex.
- FONDATION DE LA HAUTE HORLOGERIE - history and advice from the experts.
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- Glossary - Professional Watches.
- Goldgena Watch Project - "Mechanical Timepieces at Reasonable Prices." We reveal everyting about prices and origin. We'll challenge the 'Swiss Label' and the traditional to distribution and marketing.
- Grand Seiko - "The history of the Japanese watchmaker determined to beat Switzerland at its own game."
- Grandfather clock - (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall.
- GUIDO MONDANI EDITORE - "The leading publisher in the watch field." The best watches books: all about Rolex, Patek Philippe, Panerai and Omega.
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 - HALLMARK OF GENEVA | GENEVA SEAL - a certification reserved for wrist watch movements made in the City or Canton of Geneva.
- Here's How Well the Apple Watch Can Detect Heart Problems - "Apple Watch’s app can detect abnormal heart rhythms. Scientists tested how well those alerts matched up with actual heart problems."
- Here’s What Diving With a $16,000 Gold Rolex Is Like - "Putting the two-tone Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller Steel and Gold through its paces while visiting the shipwrecks of Lake Superior."
- HH | FONDATION DE LA HAUTE HORLOGERIE - history and advice from the experts.
- HILA SUNDIAL CALCULATOR
- H. Moser & Cie creates million-dollar watch made of Swiss cheese - "The Swiss Mad Watch."
- HOROLOGICAL LINKS - Watches-Lexic.
- HOROLOGY - Wikipedia.
- How to escape the tyranny of the clock - "In our modern lives, every minute of our day is a valuable and precious commodity. But is it possible to abandon the clock altogether?"
- How to wear a Milanese strap - GQ.
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- Instagram Turbocharges the Watch Market - The New York Times.
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- Jack Nicklaus' iconic Rolex watch is being auctioned off - "You won't believe how much money it could be worth."
- Jacqueline Kennedy’s Cartier watch goes up for sale - The Telegraph.
- James Bond’s Watches: The Complete Movie Timeline - "He’s the world’s most famous secret agent, and the selection of watches on his wrist is at least as varied as the parade of 'Bond girls' at his side. Each watch reflects its epoch: from robust mechanical timekeepers, through digital timepieces, to state-of-the-art chronometers. Our timeline presents an overview of 007’s wrist-wear."
- JEFF BEZOS & THE CLOCK THAT WILL OUTLAST CIVILIZATION - Wired.
 - Jens Olsen's World Clock - advanced astronomical clock which is displayed in Copenhagen City Hall. The clock consists of 12 movements which together have 15,448 parts. The clock is mechanical and must be wound once a week. Displays include lunar and solar eclipses, positions of the stellar bodies, and a perpetual calendar, in addition to the time. The fastest gear completes a revolution every ten seconds and the slowest every 25,753 years.
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- LEADING EUROPEAN WATCH MAKERS OF THE LATE XIX AND EARLY XX CENTURIES - Made in Russia.
- LEATHERMAN’S NEW WATCH IS A TIME-TELLING TOOLKIT - Wired.
- Leica’s first watches are more than mere marketing - The Verge.
- Life's too short for slow computers - Don't buy a watch that makes you wait.
- List of and links to leading watch brands - Wikipedia.
- List of watch manufacturers - Wikipedia.
- Longcase clock - also tall-case clock, floor clock, or grandfather clock, is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case.
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- Mainspring - spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon - commonly spring steel - used as a power source in mechanical watches, some clocks, and other clockwork mechanisms.
- MANUFACTURE - Manufacture d'horlogerie (meaning "watchmaking manufacturer") is a French horological term of art that is also used in English.
- Marlon Brando’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ Rolex Sells for $1.95 Million - "The watch is notable for missing the 24-hour bezel that GMT-Master is known for—Brando is said to have popped it off on set of the movie - and inscribed with his name on the back. The piece was considered missing by Rolex collectors until it came up for auction at Phillips' Game Changers sale in New York held on December 10."
- Marlon Brando's Rolex GMT-Master Watch Worn In 'Apocalypse Now' Up For Auction With Phillips - Forbes.
- Milanese watch straps: no longer just for the boys - The Telegraph.
- most beautiful watch in the world - Mirror Online.
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- NICOLAS G. HAYEK - Wikipedia.
- Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec - inventor of the first chronograph in 1822.
- Nicolas G. Hayek Dies - the man who saved the Swiss watch industry.
- NIST-F-1 - cesium fountain atomic clock.
- NIST'S QUANTUM LOGIC CLOCK - based on aluminum ion is now the world's most precise clock.
- NTP - networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks.
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- One of the World’s Oldest Clocks Stops Ticking, Briefly - The New York Times.
- ONLINE STOPWATCH - "Everybody needs a stopwatch at some point - and there's never one around! Well... Now there is! Online Stopwatch! A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it."
- Orrery - mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model.
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 - Patek Philippe 5738R Golden Ellipse - "A large-format version of the rose-gold model. After the Golden Ellipse was launched in 1968 with a yellow-gold case featuring a mysteriously shimmering blue-gold dial, it was also crafted in cases with other gold alloys and dials with other colors."
- Patek Philippe Becomes Most Expensive Wristwatch Ever Sold at Geneva Charity Auction - BloombergBusiness.
- Patek Philippe celebrates 40 years of the Nautilus with a new Anniversary Collection - The Telegraph.
- Paul BuhrÉ Watches - montre24.com.
- Paul Newman Rolex Sells at Auction for Record $17.8 Million - The New York Times.
- Pavel BurÉ - "Russia’s First Mass-Produced Watch."
- Peter Henlein - (1485-1542). Locksmith and clockmaker of Nuremberg, Germany, is often considered the inventor of the watch. He was one of the first craftsmen to make small ornamental taschenuhr, portable clocks which were often worn as pendants or attached to clothing, regarded as the first watches. Many sources also erroneously credit him as the inventor of the mainspring.
- Photonic Swiss watch engraving might keep counterfeiters at bay - engadget.
- POCKET WATCH - Wikipedia.
- Pocket Watch, a Gentleman’s Best Friend - The New York Times.
- Pocket watch from 1982 sells for record amount at auction - "Pocket watch inspired by the moon landing sells for record $4.5 million."
- PROFESSIONAL WATCHES - "Luxury Watch Guide." One of the world's leading online editorial watch publications.
- Putin's Extravagant $700,000 Watch Collection - ABC News.
- Putin's Watches - Pinterest.
- Putin’s Wealth: No ‘smoking gun’ but some ‘smoking watches’ - WatchDog Watcher.
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- R.G. HOLLAND - "The Collector's Portfolio."
- Roger W Smith spends 11 months making a watch from scratch - "Meet Britain's most exclusive watchmaker, whose exquisite timepieces sell for up to £250,000."
- Rolex's spirit of adventure - The Telegraph.
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- Sapphire Case of This $194,000 Watch Will Pretty Much Float on Your Wrist - "The latest from Girard-Perregaux is a high-tech take on the brand’s Three Bridges movement."
- Severin Wunderman - (1938-2008). "Watch salesman became upscale timepiece maker."
- Shopping for Clocks - The New York Times.
- Smartwatch - Wikipedia.
- smartwatches are coming for the mainstream - The Verge.
- Smartwatches need to get smarter - The Verge.
- Someone got Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch - The Verge.
- Split-flap display - or sometimes simply a flap display, is an electromechanical display device that presents changeable alphanumeric text, and occasionally fixed graphics. Split-flap displays were once commonly used in consumer alarm clocks known as flip clocks.
- Steve McQueen watch set to reach £600,000, that was nearly lost to a house fire - The Telegraph.
- Steve Wozniak: 'I worry about the Apple Watch' - The Telegraph.
- Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business - "In an increasingly digital world, people are still willing to spend huge amounts on analogue timepieces. The question is, why?"
- STOPWATCH - Wikipedia.
- SUNDIAL - Wikipedia.
- SWISS MADE - Wikipedia.
- SWISS TIME - since 1963. "The Reference for Swiss Watches and Jewellery."
- SWISS WATCH BRANDS 1946-1959
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- TEMPERED - independent watchmakers and clockmakers' website.
- The art of watchmaking - in pictures - "A master watchmaker and an antiquarian horologist at their family-run workshop in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham."
- The doctor on your wrist: How smartwatches are saving lives - engadget.
- The most incredible bejeweled watches at Paris Couture - The Telegraph.
- The mountain town at the heart of time - "La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small Swiss town deep in the Jura mountains, was the world capital of the watch-making industry for over a hundred years. Today, it still produces some of the most exquisite and pricey timepieces on the globe."
- The Time Now - "Major place to look for the current time of any location in the world, based on the accurate US network of cesium clocks synchronized time. We also provide other information such as daylight saving time, time zones, currencies, country calling codes, detailed weather and forecast, sunrise & sunset, moonrise & moonset, coordinates, nearby cities, nearby airports and local businesses opening times and other information when available."
- THE TOP ULTRA LUXURY WATCHES - BusinessWeek.
- THE WATCH QUOTE - the luxury watches portal.
- THE WORLD CLOCK - time zones.
- The World's 30 Most Expensive Watches - T.I.M.
- The World's Most Expensive Watches - by Ariel Adams at Amazon.com. "The World's Most Expensive Watches presents some of the most extravagant, intricate, collectible, decadent, or just plain interesting modern-day timepieces that sit at the top of the price spectrum. Starting at a threshold price of about $200,000, it is a trip through the last decade or so of watches whose values soar incredibly to prices of $5 million dollars or more. Additionally, there is a selection of notable watches that yielded extremely high prices at auction - many of which are historically relevant."
- The World’s Most Expensive Watches 2010 - Bloomberg.
- THESE SUPER-PRECISE CLOCKS HELP WEAVE TOGETHER SPACE AND TIME - Wired.
- THIS GORGEOUS CLOCK MAKES THE TIME APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE - Wired.
- Tim Cook: In a few years people will say, 'How could I have ever thought about not wearing this watch?' - The Verge.
- TIMEPIECE FINDER - your search engine for authorized watch dealers worldwide.
- Top 10 Most Expensive Watches in the World - TheRichest.org
- TOTAL ROLEX - the book Total Rolex illustrates all watch models produced by Rolex, specifying the period of production and the metal of all watches.
- TOURBILLON - 20 Boutiques Worldwide. "True to the spirit of the masterpieces signed Breguet, Harry Winston, Blancpain, Glashütte Original, Jaquet Droz and Omega, as well as the exceptional Swatch models, Tourbillon constitutes the Haute Horlogerie distribution network for all the Swatch Group’s prestige brands."
- TOURBILLON - Wikipedia.
- TOURNEAU - founded 1900. "The World's Largest Watch Store."
- TRUSTED WATCH - "The International Timepiece-Portal."
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 - UNDERWOOD LONDON - "The safest way to protect your watches both automatic and non-automatic and all of your jewellery items as well."
- U.S. & WORLD POPULATION CLOCKS - U.S. Census Bureau.
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- Want to Stay Safe While Traveling? Wear a Rolex - Bloomberg.
- WATCH - Wikipedia.
- WATCH CHOICE - brings together a huge selection of men's luxury watches and women's luxury watches for sale from dealers around the world.
- WATCH HUT - UK's largest watch website.
- Watch industry's times are changing - "One of the luxury goods sector's showpiece events returns this week with its mix of innovation, art and wealth - topped off with a sprinkle of celebrity stardust from "brand ambassadors" from Hollywood or sport."
- WATCH TALK FORUMS - "Talking Watches. All The Time."
- WATCHES CHANNEL - "Timely Remarks on Watches." Will drift you towards daring innovations, century-old traditions, bold designs, and exclusive partnerships in the World of Watchmaking.
- WATCHES-LEXIC - "Watches enthusiasts, welcome to our site."
- WATCHES OUTLET - "Buy discount watches at wholesale prices!"
- WATCHFINDER - since 2002. "The pre-owned watch specialist. Created for people who love nice watches. Written by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts."
- WATCH-ID.COM - "Luxury Watches Lifestyle Guide." Wristwatches worn by celebrities and spotted in movies.
- WATCHISMO TIMES - "A reliquary of obscure timepieces from bygone eras as well as the cutting edge watches of today."
- WATCHLUXUS - "World's largest database of luxury watches!"
- WATCHMAKER - Wikipedia.
- WATCHSITES.NET - top watch sites.
- WATCHTIME.NET - "Das Uhren-Portal."
- WATCHUSEEK.COM - "The No. 1 interactive portal to worldwide watches and online watch shop".
- Water clock - any timepiece in which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel where the amount is then measured.
- What we get wrong about time - "Most of us tend to think of time as linear, absolute and constantly 'running out' - but is that really true? And how can we change our perceptions to feel better about its passing?"
- When do the clocks change around the world? And why? - "We examine where daylight saving time came from and why it doesn’t actually save daylight at all."
- Why a New York restaurateur is arming employees with Apple Watches - The Guardian.
- WORLD TIME CLOCKS FOR EVERYONE - "Clocks Around the World."
- WORLD TIME ZONE CLOCK - by Marco Polo watches.
- WORLD TIME ZONES
- World timer watches: travelling through the ages - The Telegraph.
- World's 30 Most Expensive Watches - T.I.M.
- world's best watches in 2019 - "Baselworld 2019: 10 new watches that combine beauty and innovation."
- WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE POCKETWATCH - Patek Philippe Supercomplication (The Henry Graves Supercomplication): sold for US$11,002,500 by Sotheby's (New York) on December 2, 1999.
- WORLDTEMPUS.COM - "Official Website Of Famous Brands."
- Wrist full of dollars: the most expensive watches money can buy - The Telegraph.
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- Your smartwatch is also recording your PIN - engadget.
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- Zenith watches collaborates with Cohiba Cuban cigars - The Telegraph.
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