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The true story of Marie Antoinette’s amazing $11 million watch

John Biggs By John Biggs

On this day in 1983 the most incredible watch in the world was stolen from the L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Arts in Jerusalem. The watch, called the Breguet No. 160, disappeared for decades until resurfacing in a dusty attic decades later. My book, Marie Antoinette’s Watch tells the whole story but, in honor of this unique anniversary, I’m posting two chapters detailing the theft of the most mysterious watch in the world, the amazing, $11 million Que

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Introducing the Greyhours Essential Collection

Patrick Kansa By Patrick Kansa

As you might imagine, we here at WWR are truly spoiled for choice when it comes to what we are going to cover. While a lot of it comes from relationships we’ve established with brands, some true surprises come out of a cold contact from a brand that we’ve not heard of. One of these recently came in from Hong Kong, in the form of the Greyhours Essential collection.

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Watching the Web for April 9, 2016

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

Welcome and thanks for dropping in to our weekly Saturday feature, Watching the Web. We here at WWR take the time every week to scour the internet so you don’t have to, and then we bring the most interesting (at least to us) news and reviews to you, all in one place. We also take a moment to recap our own popular articles over the past week. Today, I wanted to look at the Hublot MP-07, new releases from Tissot, and an extended look at the Glycine Airman No. 1. From our pages, we have watches from Brathwait, Vilhelm, and Valachia.

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Watch Video Rewind got March 27, 2016

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

Since our travel budget can’t adsorb tickets to Switzerland, I am going to have to enjoy Basel virtually, hence the all BaselWorld 2016 edition of Watching Video Rewind. Yes, this is our weekly feature where we highlight watch videos we think might be of interest. I have a tourbillon from Tag Heuer, new watches from Seiko and Breitling. I usually start pulling this together before I look at the previous week’s article, but I am always amazed how Patrick and I frequently key in on totally different watches, even when we are looking at videos from the same event. If you have not checked it out, go look at last weeks videos for a different take on the show.

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Watching the Web for March 26, 2016

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

It is Saturday again, so it is once again time for Watching the Web, where we take you on a spin through the world of on-line watch sites, as well as highlight some of our most popular posts for the last week or so. This week, I am going to highlight a very timely release from Romain Jerome that I know Patrick loves, one of th emost interesting bits of news out of Basel, and a list of one site’s top watches from the show. Here at our site, we have a review of the Filson Dutch Harbor, a request from Janis Trading for a bit of help from the fans, and the Hastings Heritage Edition.

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Watching the Web for February 27, 2016

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

Here we are, the final weekend of February, and your regular Saturday feature, Watching the Web. We at WWR use this feature to point out some interesting watch related articles and reviews we come across when we check out other blogs, and we take a moment to look back at the more popular posts on our own site over the last week or so. From the wider blog-o-sphere, I wanted to point you to three new takes on smartwatches (and minus this, not a single mention of the Apple Watch). From our own site, you readers made our posts on the Division Furtive Type 50, some EDC storage solutions, a sale at Xetum, and the Squarestreet Aluminium the most read articles.

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Watching the Web for January 30, 2016

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

It seems like just yesterday that 2016 came upon us, and it is already 1/12 of the way into the books. So today I will present our final Watching the Web for the month of January, our weekly look at all things horological on the web, and a recap of what you found most interesting on our own site. Casting my web out to other sites, A Blog to Watch takes us to SIHH, A Timely Perspective shows us another piece from the show, and Monochrome shows off the very cool MCT Sequential One. From our own site, we have reviews of the Lum-Tec combat B33 GMT, the Minuteman Independence, and the LIV Genesis X1-A.

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Introducing the Lum-Tec Combat B33 GMT

Patrick Kansa By Patrick Kansa

We here at WWR like to focus on a wide variety of watches, and we certainly enjoy when we get to showcase something that is built in our neck of the woods. One brand we have not focused on as much, for whatever reason, is Ohio-based Lum Tec. They just recently announced their new-for-2016 models, and there was one in particular that caught my eye – the Lum Tec Combat B33 GMT.

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Watch Video Rewind for January 17, 2016

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

Hello and thanks for swinging by to check out our Sunday feature, Watch Video Rewind, where we look for cool wacth related videos from around the web, and bring them to your attention. Today I have the marriage of centuries old watch making technology and the latest tool for rapid prototyping, a 3D printed tourbillon. An article at Hodinkee tipped me off to this, and the Swiss engineer’s YouTube page has these videos and more.