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• WatchTime’s August Issue on Newsstands Now

  Last week our iPad app became available in iTunes, and this week the print edition hits newsstand shelves. In this issue, Gisbert Brunner goes inside Patek’s new 5270; we test watches from Cartier and Zenith; we present 40 new watches from Baselworld; we profile watchmaking legend Ludwig Oechslin, and much, much more. Click here to learn more, and be sure to look for WatchTime at Barnes &........

• Japanese Miyota Targets Swiss ETA With Caliber 9000 Series Watch Movements

  For about 10 years ETA has been threatening to stop supplying third-party (outside the Swatch Group) watch brands with movement kits. The horological drama has been high, with the Swiss government weighing in several times, and ETA seemingly going back and forth with what they are going to do. Before Nicolas Hayek died, the latest was that ETA would no longer be supplying (ebauches) movement kits ........

• Hands-On: The Omega Speedmaster X-33 Solar Impulse

  The Speedmaster Professional has since its introduction in 1957 come in a truly bewildering variety of shapes, sizes, designations and limited editions, but one of the most polarizing models, when it appeared, was the X-33. The X-33 was introduced, in the first version, in 1998; it was the result of an Omega development program designed to (finally) produce a multifunction quartz watch that would ........

• First IWC - Portuguese Auto versus Portofino?

  Hey all,I'm about to buy my first IWC (in fact, my first real watch), and I'm kind of torn between the Portuguese Automatic and the Portofino Vintage. I found photos online of exactly the two that I looked at this afternoon at the IWC store in Beverly Hills (see attached).Can anyone offer any advice about these two watches? I'm an attorney, so looking for something to wear with suits, but also t........