WatchTime June 2023

BVLGARI: OCTO ROMA CHRONOGRAPH +++ REVIEWS: IWC MARK XX – OMEGA SEAMASTER PLANET OCEAN ULTRA DEEP – GLASHÜTTE ORIGINAL SEAQ CHRONOGRAPH +++ TOOL WATCHES: ROLEX YACHT-MASTER +++ CLOSE UP: AUDEMARS PIGUET AND PATEK PHILIPPE

Brands

Bulgari, Glashütte Original, IWC, Omega, Rolex

Topics

Feature, Interview, Knowledge, Review, Watchmakers

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WatchTime June 2023

COVER STORY

CRONOGRAFO CAPITALE

By Roger Ruegger | Paying homage to the brand’s connection to

the Eternal City, Bulgari has just introduced the renewed Octo

Roma collection with a Clous de Paris motif on the dial — for the

frst time with a chronograph model.

 

TESTS & REVIEWS

O-MEGA-DEEP DIVER

By Martina Richter | Te Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep, a

concept watch that set a world record when it went to the bottom

of the Mariana Trench, goes into serial production. It has earned

the title of Master Chronometer and has been certifed by METAS

for saturation diving. Come along for a deep dive with this test.

 

THE ICONIC PILOT

By Rüdiger Bucher | IWC has maintained and developed

the Mark, its classic pilots’ watch, for decades, while giving it

progressively higher designation numbers. But with the latest

Mark, you can see many similarities to another star of the brand.

 

JUST WHAT WE WERE MISSING

By Alexander Krupp | It’s a phenomenon! Ever since the

Glashütte Original SeaQ Chronograph was launched last fall,

it’s felt like the watch we’ve always wanted.

 

FEATURES

BULOVA, ACCUTRON, NASA & THE U.S.

SPACE PROGRAM

By Bilal Khan | Bulova and now-standalone brand Accutron

are inextricably linked with NASA and the U.S. Space Program

(and even the CIA). Tis year, we saw a new re-edition series

and the refnement of an existing one that pay tribute to these

historic models.

 

CHRISTIAAN VAN DER KLAAUW

By Martin Green | Aligning the stars as the third-generation

majority shareholder takes over the helm.

 

NO SHORTCUTS

By Bilal Khan | Te RM 07-04 automatic sport is Richard Mille’s

frst women’s watch collection, arriving in six colorful versions,

and debuts the brand’s most compact automatic movement

to date.

 

BORN TO SAIL

By Jens Koch | Te Rolex Yacht-Master sailing watch was

introduced in 1992 and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.

We trace the development of an often-underappreciated model.

 

CLASH OF THE COMPLICATIONS

By Jens Koch | In the ’70s, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet

briefy pursued similar strategies. While this has changed radically

in recent times, the two extremely successful brands very much

compete in the complications they ofer, and much more.

 

BORN FROM THE FIRE

By Martin Green | We take a look at six very diferent tool

watches at a blacksmith’s workshop in Te Netherlands.

 

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS

PUBLISHER’S LETTER

EDITOR’S LETTER

ON WATCHTIME.COM

A glimpse at what’s on our site to keep you up to date

on the latest watch news. It’s also where Martin Green

regularly rambles.

 

WORLD OF WATCHTIME

See the global reach of WatchTime and its partners

 

READERS’ FORUM

WATCHTALK

Timepieces from Blancpain, Citizen, Montblanc,

Longines, MB&F, IWC, and more

 

WATCHTALK

Breguet draws a contemporary art crowd at Frieze.

 

WATCHTALK

Tár, keeping time and Leonard Bernstein

 

WATCHTALK

Christie’s is bringing together an array of F.P. Journe

timepieces for a unique stand-alone auction.

 

WATCHLIST

Salmon dials

 

FACETIME

A photo gallery of readers and their watches

 

THE LAST WORD

WatchTime talks with John Reardon, founder of Collectability.