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Christopher Ward x Ace Jewelers “The Twelve Hebrew” Review

Ace Jewelers was founded in 1975 by David Ben Joseph. Nowadays, it is owned and operated by his two sons, Alon and Amir. Both men have grown up in and around the watch and jewellery industries and are deeply passionate about their work, Ace’s position in the local community, and providing excellent customer service that focuses on uniting genuinely passionate people with their perfect luxury item.
The Ace & Dik boutique is located just across the road from the Rijksmuseum on one of the most pres...
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Circula ProTrail TRTS SE x The Real Time Show | Review

Although I’ve probably had the privilege more than most, introducing a watch I had a hand in bringing to market never gets old. In my previous roles in global sales for NOMOS Glashütte and as Partnerships Manager for Fratello and, subsequently in my capacity as the co-founder and co-host of The Real Time Show podcast, I’ve had the honour to work with several dynamic brands on the design and presentation of several limited or special editions.
I’ve worked with Czapek, Louis Moinet, Nivada Grenche...
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Top 5 Omega Models in the Collection Right Now [2024]

When it comes to brand building, I would always advise those starting out to make sure their core collection is tight. It should give newcomers an immediate sense of the brand’s specialities and focus, and give returning customers context for their previous purchases and what they might wish to buy next to further their connection to the brand.
When it comes to legacy brands’ organisation of their catalogues, however, the rules go out the window. I frequently stumble across bloated lineups from...
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Ulysse Nardin And Sustainability In Watchmaking

We live in an industry of buzzwords. Unique. In-house. Exclusive. Everywhere we turn, brands are selling us an extremely diverse array of products using an extremely limited vocabulary. For newcomers to the world of watchmaking, it must be very much like learning a new language. Figuring out how to decipher press releases, that often seem to be written in a stream of esoteric code, is a skill in itself. Of course, it doesn’t help that many of these words are frequently (and often deliberately) m...
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Top 5 Best British Watches in 2024 | WatchGecko

Following British Watchmakers’ Day, which was hosted by the British Watch and Clockmakers Alliance in March, the Best of British Watches event took place in Brighton earlier this month, celebrating all the weird and wonderful things coming out of the British scene in a more laid-back setting. The fact that the British watchmaking scene can sustain not one but two dedicated events in a single calendar year is perhaps why articles like this one are becoming ever more common. There is, quite frankl...
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First Look At The Echo/Neutra Rivanera Collection

Don’t you love it when a young brand throws a curve ball? Doing what Echo/Neutra has done with the release of the Rivanera is an all too rare attempt at fleshing out a brand narrative by diversifying the product offering. Will this handsome rectangular timepiece ever be the watch or the style of watch for which this Italian brand is best known? No. But neither is the Rolex 1908 the first model family to tumble from the lips of anyone you ask. Still, without that dressier line, the Crown’s standa...
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What Makes Breitling So Special? | WatchGecko

In these tough times for the watchmaking industry, having a long and strong history to rely upon can make the difference between soaring high and crashing out altogether. Even that, though, is no assurance of success. It has recently become painfully clear that a strategy that is at once backward-looking and forward-thinking is necessary. Things are currently so dire that even legendary names like Ulysse Nardin (founded in 1846) and Girard-Perregaux (established all the way back in 1791) are fee...
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The Best British Watch Brands for Every Budget in 2024

It seems there’s no end to the discussion posts like this can muster. There are, quite understandably, stark differences of opinion at every price point. “How can you forget about…”, “It’s crazy not to mention…”, “Whatever this guy was smoking when he wrote this, I want some,” etcetera, etcetera. The truth is, that’s the goal. This isn’t a factual list of the Best British Watch Brands. It isn’t backed up by consistent data points from price level to price level. It’s an opinion piece, conceived...
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Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Vs. Khaki Field Auto Review

The Hamilton Khaki Field model line is, without a doubt, one of the most popular and best-selling product families in watchmaking. Not only is Hamilton, a historic brand now a member of the Swatch Group, able to offer incredible build quality and specifications for the price but is also a brand that has carved for itself a reputation as a maker of rugged, reliable, daily wears that appeal to the EDC-obsessed community.
Of these products, perhaps no other range receives more lip service than the...
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Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Classic Hands-On Review

The term “classic” may well be frequently used but it seems far from having worn out its welcome in an increasingly conservative industry whose buyers are cautiously clinging to their cash tighter than ever. Three years ago, everyone was talking about which watches in which to invest; one good thing to come out of the sharp downturn is a return to sensible language.
Watches should never have been built up as an investment class; they are emotional purchases — investments of the heart, maybe, but...
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Why The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 With Onyx Dial Is The Wildest Stealth Wealth Flex

Every so often, we’re lucky enough to encounter a release that feels so seamless, so organic, that it is hard to believe, reflecting on the announcement even minutes after it sounded, that life could possibly have existed without it. So natural is the pairing of Onyx with the Lange 1 layout that one cannot help but admit the question was never really “if” but rather “when” it would be deployed.This release is perhaps even less surprising when one considers how we seem to be living through a hard...
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Seiko Prospex Speedtimer Mechanical Chronograph

By releasing a pair of new Seiko Speedtimer mechanical chronographs, the Japanese juggernaut refocuses attention on its long and storied history of providing timekeeping services for major sporting events, something the brand continues to do to this day, with its sponsorship of World Athletics.Since 1985, Seiko has been the official timekeeping partner of World Athletics, meaning this generation of track and field fanatics will also have opportunity to forge the same connection to the brand as I...
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Why Are Hardstone Dials Everywhere?

You might have noticed that, recently, many watch brands, both young and old, have been releasing models fitted with stone dials. While this practice is far from new, the sudden refocusing of attention on this particular aesthetic is striking.Perhaps due to the restrictive nature of the canvas with which watch designers must work, it is far from uncommon to see ancient arts resurrect time and time again. For years, enamel dials were out of fashion, with consumers favoring a more ascetic, modern,...
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Richard Mille’s RM 17-02 Tourbillon Titanium is A Lightweight Powerhouse with Striking Colors

If you want to understand the Richard Mille RM 17-02 Tourbillon Titanium, you need to get it in your hands. This is the kind of watch that really benefits from being seen in the metal and, crucially, held.The lightweight titanium case, which is fitted with a titanium movement, beggars belief. It isn’t the lightest mechanical watch in the world, but its size-to-weight ratio is remarkable. At 40.10mm wide, 13.0 mm tall, and with a 48.15mm L2L, you could be forgiven for expecting a significant amou...
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Inside the NOMOS Glashütte Forum — And Discovering The New Tangente 2date

When you’ve spent as much time in and around a company as I have with NOMOS Glashütte, you’re often able to predict what’s coming. However, brands rarely reward your foresight with an immediate response. Instead, they often take several more product release cycles than seems necessary to unveil the model you always believed would plug whatever gap you’d identified in their collection. In recent times, I’ve had a lot of success at predicting what NOMOS in particular would eventually do. Back in 2...
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Is TAG Heuer As Good As Rolex?

One of the great privileges of being a watch journalist is time. Not just the appreciation of it and the magnificent machines our more practical peers within the industry dedicate their lives to crafting, but also the time we get to spend studying brands, their history, their messaging, and, of course, their products. Being professionally engaged in a pursuit I would obsess over as a hobby were it not my livelihood means I don’t just have the opportunity and access to learn about every brand as...
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Top IWC Pilot’s Watches In 2024 | WatchGecko

It is telling that the brand’s most celebrated complication — the Kurt Klaus-designed Perpetual Calendar that has been delighting watch fans the world over for four decades now — has been deployed on so many Fliegers despite the marriage of aviation and long-term date-keeping not being the most natural of pairings. IWC knows what its customers want and, by giving it to them, has almost created an accidental sub-category of ultra-complicated Pilot’s watches.
But not everything has to be a chronog...
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The Top Brands at Geneva Watch Days 2024 | WatchGecko

With two major fairs of almost equal size and importance every year, spaced just five months apart, it feels like we’re never too far away from the next spate of releases. It’s fair to ask, therefore, if one can have too much of a good thing. However, rather than overwhelm the watch-curious public, brands seem to be settling into the groove, choosing one fair to release their showstoppers, and the other to consolidate whatever came before or preface what is soon to come.
While Geneva Watch Days,...
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Straum Jan Mayen Hands-On Review | WatchGecko

I’ve always taken a great deal of pride in having an eye for the next big thing. When Straum burst onto the scene, taking over Instagram with a vengeance with a series of intriguing paid ads, my interest was more than piqued.
I thought at that moment that this new independent brand out of Norway showed an incredible touch and sensitivity when it came to the design of its first model, the Opphav. A couple of weeks after seeing it online for the first time, I had production samples in my hands. Tu...
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Comparing the new Christopher Ward C65 Dune GMT with the Automatic Ver

The Christopher Ward C65 Dune Automatic is the perfect GADA watch, right? Unlike many true Go Anywhere, Do Anything watches, it has the ability (especially on a bracelet) to flirt with high-society functions thanks to its muted dial tones and under-the-radar sizing (38 mm diameter and 11.7 mm thickness). It’s price (£750) is borderline scandalous. Other watch brands must look at models like this from Christopher Ward and throw their hands up in exasperation. And so they should. When you have a h...
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Top Five Hublot Models In 2024

Hublot gets a lot of stick. The brand’s mainstream but arguably undeserved reputation as a brassy, brazen, baron of bombast has proven hard to dispel in the minds of the masses. To this end, Hublot is perhaps its own worst enemy. Never one to shy away from a bit of self-promotion, the brand aligns itself with attention-grabbing artists and elite sportspeople, chucking millions at globally visible event sponsorship.
Spirit of Big Bang Sang Bleu Sapphire - Credit Hublot
Say what you want about the...
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The Top Five IWC Watches In 2024

Everyone loves a good list article as it’s a chance to reinforce your own opinions via the clearly ranked opinions of others.


It’s a fun exercise, but it’s not always as easy to compile a good, well-reasoned, and possibly even thought-provoking list as you might think.
Deciding on your favourite out of a bunch of things that you don’t own can be a revelatory exercise. The fact you don’t own something is, in itself, a good place to start.
Hands-on with the IWC Portugieser Yacht...
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Echo/Neutra AVERAU 39 Moon phase “Big Moon” White

Creativity in watchmaking is rarer than it ought to be. While the challenges of doing something truly new in a saturated industry that, by the nature and function of its products, requires designers to work with a small and restrictive canvas are obvious, a sideways approach to watch design is still possible at an accessible price point, if only one is able to decouple their way of thinking from the norm.
Research and development are perilously expensive — costs that, should a brand shoulder the...
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Top Five Zenith Models In 2024

Over the past few years, Zenith, under the thoughtful and effective stewardship of recently departed CEO Julien Tornare, succeeded in revamping its catalogue to include a healthy mix of classic and progressive models that repositioned the brand well for the future. The headline-grabbing releases in the Defy collection seen during Watches and Wonders 2024 have been great at causing a stir, but Zenith’s real strength is in its highly-regarded chronographs that continue to set the standard in their...
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