WatchTime Feb 2011

Can IWC’s new sailing watch, the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph, survive the perfect storm of a WatchTime test?

Brands

A. Lange & Söhne, Chronoswiss, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Tutima

Topics

Feature, Interview, Knowledge, Review, Watchmakers

SKU

USM1101

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WatchTime April 2011
WatchTime April 2011

COVER STORY BRINE TIME

Can IWC’s new sailing watch, the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph, survive the perfect storm of a WatchTime test?


WATCH TESTS TOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

A close look at Tutima’s Grand Classic Black sport watch, which boasts an extra-hardened, scratch-resistant case


WAKE-UP CALLER

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Memovox was designed to keep time on the wrist and double as an alarm clock on the nightstand. We see how well the newest version of the watch performs both tasks.


ANNUAL CHECK-UP

We take the pulse of A. Lange & Söhne’s yearold Saxonia Annual Calendar.


FEATURES PRECISION MAKERS

The specialists who work in réglage — the art of fitting the balance and hairspring and adjusting them for accuracy — play a crucial role in the watch production process.


ROLEX ROMPS

Rolex produced 7.08 million chronometers in the last decade, 4.7 million more than its nearest competitor.


FAMILY TIES

An inside look at the Sandoz Family Foundation’s MHF group, the corps of companies that work together to produce Parmigiani watches.


FUTURE-SHOCK JOCK

For Felix Baumgartner, co-founder and movement designer for the avant-garde watch brandUrwerk, raising eyebrows is its own reward.


SIRIUS SCRUTINY

Does the Chronoswiss Sirius shine as brightly as the star it’s named after?


BACK IS BEAUTIFUL V

A picture portfolio of watches with to-die-for derrières


DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS EDITOR’S LETTER READERS’ FORUM WATCHTALK

Remembering Gino Macaluso of Girard-Perregaux and Allen Brill of Rolex, Seiko’s Grand Seiko models come to the U.S., and more


WATCH QUIZ

Watch-related events of 2010


FINE CARS

Audi’s 2011 A8 sedan takes German luxury to
the next level.


FINE PENS

Onoto’s flagship pen of yore, the Magna, is not extinct after all.


FINE SPIRITS

Exploring the complex world of vintage single-malt Scotch


FINE CIGARS

The legendary La Palina, created by CBS’s Paley family, makes its return.


FACE TIME

A photo mélange of readers and their watches


LAST MINUTE

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