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• WatchTime’s June App Now Available

  In this issue Joe Thompson profiles Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek, who is not happy with the current state of watch retailing in America, and he lets us know it. Our Baselworld roundup looks at new watches from the world’s largest watch show. We enlist a dive instructor to help us test four diver’s watches, and we test new models from Panerai and Seiko. We take a close-up look at Vachero........

• Watch Shootout: IWC Ingenieur 40mm 3239 vs. Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 8500

  Contributed for watches-dealer by Dnes AlbertSince I became addicted to watches around the turn of the millennium I spent a lot of time perusing watch forums and sites dedicated to watch reviews. I picked up a lot of useful, if not expert-grade or properly structured information along the way. One thing I found myself increasingly interested in were in-depth comparisons of watch A vs. watch B. Th........

• Just Arrived: Lord Elgin Panorama

  It arrived last night and I spent until the wee hours cleaning and polishing it. By far, this had to be the most gunked up watch case I've ever cleaned. I had to take a Dremel to the dirt, after a soaking it, to removed it. It was so hardened that hand buffing was just futile. Additionally the crystal was very scratched as well (I should have a new one from Esslinger coming soon).All in all t........

• WatchTime Review of Nine Divers

  While perusing the web for articles and such on watches I came across an October 2007 review of nine dive watches by Watch Time magazine where they tested dive watches by Breitling, Certina, Doxa, Fortis, Mido, Oris, Sinn, Tag Heuer and Uts.A few of the watches were affected by extreme water pressure but the biggest surprise to me was that the Breitling crystal shattered under extreme pressure. He........