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White luxury Dial Watches Guaranteed To Elevate Your Style
General color between men are generally black or white, then the white dial of the popular watch among them. It is safe to say that it is almost the same as picking your favorite offspring – sometimes you will support one, and sometimes you will want to be neither close to you. White Dial Watch…
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Ralph Lauren Automotive Skeleton Review
Dial Prominently located at 12 o’clock is a matte black galvanized subdial, with an azurage patten with a luminescent RL logo, stamped on top. At six o’clock is a decentralized seconds subdial with white Arabic numerals and an azurage pattern. Hours and minutes are indicated by matte black oxidized sword-shaped hands, which are coated…
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Reviewing IWC’s new Portofino Hand-Wound Monopusher
Most of us like to think that progress is linear. Experience, however, teaches us that, like crowds of people rushing through an airport, it is rather more like Brownian motion – the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid. In other words, things can go backwards or sideways just as easily as forwards. This…
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2016 Tribeca Film Festival: IWC Portugieser Annual Calendar
IWC marks its fourth year as “Official Festival Time Partner” of the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. As in all three previous years of the partnership, the Schaffhausen-based watch brand is releasing a limited-edition watch as a tribute to the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI). This year’s timepiece, officially unveiled this week at the annual…
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3 Historic IWC Pilot’s Watches
IWC BIG PILOT’S WATCH (1940) The first IWC Big Pilot’s Watch (Ref. IW431, with Caliber 52 T.S.C.) was supplied to the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) in 1940 in an edition of 1,000 pieces. The “big device,” constructed according to the criteria for an observer’s watch, is the largest wristwatch ever made by IWC, with a…
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Reviewing IWC Portofino Models Debut
Portofino is IWC’s elegant, vintage-inspired collection, with large, round, polished cases and clean, pure dials. The new IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Day & Date contains the brand’s in-house, manual-wound Caliber 59220, with day and date complications added. There is certainly plenty of room for the extra indications on the generous 45-mm dial without disturbing the…
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Reviewing IWC Portugieser
For the 75th anniversary of this watch, IWC released the Portugieser Ref. 5102, a hand-wound piece that after a full wind can keep ticking for up to 192 hours. Available in either stainless steel or 18k rose gold — at $11,400 and $21,200 respectively — this watch, according to IWC, strives to “lean heavily on…
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Reviewing IWC Big Pilot’s Watch
IWC introduced many new high-flying Pilots’ timepieces at SIHH, including the latest ticking tribute to the storied poet/author/aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Annual Calendar Edition “Le Petit Prince” — the first IWC Pilot’s Watch equipped with the annual calendar complication (meaning today is the one day t his year that you’d…
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Reviewing IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph
IWC incorporated a handful of design revisions — some subtle, others less so — in the new Pilot’s Watches it introduced at this year’s SIHH. Most of these were aesthetic revamps, but one new watch in particular boasts a major new technical advance as well. The IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph caught our attention with…
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Previewing IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Annual Calendar
The 26th annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) kicks off tomorrow at Geneva’s Palexpo center. As per SIHH tradition, IWC will focus on just one of its collections in 2016: this year, it’s the brand’s popular Big Pilot’s family. Among the many new high-flying timepieces debuting at Geneva is IWC’s latest ticking tribute…
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Previewing IWC Big Pilot’s Watch & IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the IWC Pilot’s Watch as well as the line’s revamping for SIHH 2016, and the brand seems intent on tapping into its quite illustrious history. The new IWC Big Pilot’s Watch is not getting any major redesign, but there are several aesthetic changes that overall work well and…
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Pre-SIHH 2016：IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “La Cumbre Volcano
Not so long ago, at the SIHH 2014, IWC renewed one of their collections, the iconic, sporty and dive-oriented Aquatimer. That’s the way to do at IWC for the SIHH: renewing entirely a family to have a complete coherent collection. Last year was the Portugeiser, 2013 the Ingenieur and 2012 the Pilot watches. For the…