In this month\'s round-up, we examine the new Seiko 5 Sports watch collection, learn more about the natural escapement, and try to understand just what it is about the Omega Calibre 321 that makes it so great.
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?Watches, Stories, and Gear? is a roundup of some of our favorite watch content on Worn & Wound, great stories from around the web, and cool gear that we?ve got our eye on.
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Neuchâtel, Switzerland-born Abraham-Louis Breguet spent most of his professional years as a watchmaker living and working in Paris, France during the late 18th century. The Breguet name lived on with considerable esteem past the death of... -
TAG Heuer and Porsche enter a long-term agreement for their Formula E engagement, as the Swiss luxury watchmaker becomes Title and Timing Partner.
The Porsche works entry into the ABB FIA Formula E Championship 2019/2020 will be under the name... -
I was caught in the early morning foot traffic as I made my way to Dresden Neustadt train station to begin my journey back to the town that felt like a second home for three years. The busyness of the city was in stark contrast...
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It used to be easier to predict what Christopher Ward was about to launch. In the company’s early days, homage pieces were the order of the day. Solidly built, mostly outsourced reflections of whatever trend the industry was wading through would... -
Over the past two decades, Nomos has taken a largely incremental approach to building out its various watch families. For a strong majority of that period, no timepiece that left the Glashütte manufactory measured over 40 mm or dared to betray the... -
Slim d’Hermès Titane (or “Hermès Slim Titanium, for us English speakers) is a new-for-2019 version of the acclaimed Hermès Slim watch (full aBlogtoWatch review here) in titanium. We covered the Hermès Slim Titanium after its initial... -
Whenever a press release opens with the tale of Spitfire crashing into the Russian tundra during a dogfight, you find your interest piqued and your expectations of what is to follow suddenly raised. That was the experience I enjoyed yesterday when I... -
The industry is very much enjoying a protracted romp through its back catalog, and while the desire for true novelty and innovation persists, this current fascination with the past has unearthed some throwback gems. Hamilton has a long association... -
Hamilton?s newest offering is a thorough and largely accurate rendition of a much loved military-issued aviation watch, the W10. Following many years of producing issued watches for the US military, Hamilton got the contract for a simple... -
Sponsored Post written for aBlogtoWatch by advertiser In 2015, three friends from Brittany realized their dream by founding Akrone, a French watchmaking company conceived to turn the industry on its head. The aim" To create good quality watches,... -
In case the name of this latest Raidillon release left you in any doubt, this watch has three hands. It also has a date. In addition to those basic, but much appreciated, functions (H. Moser I’m looking at you), the Raidillon Automatic 3 Hands... -
Corum’s modern Admiral collection has its roots in the original Admiral’s Cup, introduced by the brand in 1960 as one of the earliest and still most iconic timepieces inspired by yacht racing. The collection was still using the Admiral’s Cup... -
Seiko recently released one new variant each to their incredibly popular and collectible ?Samurai? and ?Turtle? lines. The SRPD21 Turtle and SRPD23 Samurai are part of the highly capable Prospex series of professional dive watches, and these... -
America?s largest luxury watch extravaganza, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 25 ? 26, 2019. This year?s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating... -
Throughout any given year, I see and get to interact with a lot of microbrand watches, from both new and existing brands. Due to their popularity in the industry, a lot of those watches are divers; but out of the crop I’ve seen in 2019,...
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The major new watch release for German Porsche Design at Baselworld 2019 is the Porsche Design 1919 Globetimer UTC. Germans typically prefer to use the term “UTC†(coordinated universal time) as opposed to Greenwich mean time (“GMTâ€Â) as a... -
The Panerai Luminor Due Collection is more than three years-old, but the slimline branch of the famous line is definitely aging gracefully. This update to the Panerai Luminor Due Watch Collection brings together a series of navy blue sunray and... -