We challenged our specialists to select their favorite watches from the upcoming Geneva Watch Auction: EIGHT (Nov 10-11). Here are their picks.
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25 years after the birth of the Royal Oak Offshore, its designer, Emmanuel Gueit, is putting his own up for sale next month. Arthur Touchot sat down with Gueit ahead of the sale to talk about the design of the Offshore, its legacy, and the 25th Anniversary re-edition, launched earlier this year by Audemars Piguet.
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Known today by collectors as “The Holy Trinity”, the Seamaster 300 (ref. CK 2913), Railmaster (ref. CK 2914), and the Speedmaster (ref. CK 2915) were introduced in 1957 to make Omega competitive in one of the fastest growing segments of the watch market: professional tool watches. These were followed swiftly with the release of a fourth model, the Ranchero aka "The Fourth Musketeer", in 1958. Arthur Touchot breaks down what makes each watch individually unique and explains why together, the "Broad Arrow" models form one of the most successful product launches of the 20th century.
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Today, we look at some of the historic pieces from the first, second and third versions of the legendary Reference 325 to understand why the original Portugieser became an icon of the 20th century.
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At first glance, the dial of the Breitling Navitimer can be a bit of a mystery. New York watch specialist Isabella Proia explains the model and its evolution through some of the watchmaker’s key models.
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