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5 amazing watches showing at the Grand Seiko “Nature of Time” exhibition in New York City (including the one I’d give an organ for)
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: The barn find edition, how to hunt for valuable vintage and what to look out for
NEWS: Smartwatches set for 10% decline in 2020, while wearables power on in the pandemic, up 137%
Hublot and Ferrari create new Esports series with Assetto Corsa, and a little help from their friend, Charles Leclerc
A barn find to give you hope – the story of a very special NOS vintage Gruen Ocean Chief
Seiko answer people’s prayers with the smaller and bezel-less 2020 Seiko 5 Sports models
RECOMMENDED READING: Apple sold nearly 10 million more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry in 2019
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: New Seiko divers, sandblasted Octos and a queen of the safe
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Balls, death, Dan Henry’s 1937 and Bulgari’s best
#WRUW – Time+Tide readers share their best wrist shots and it’s root beer all-round…
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: To all the girls (and boys) who have written to us over the years …
Baselworld gets a $110mUSD lifeline from James Murdoch, son of billionaire Aussie-born media tycoon Rupert Murdoch
Renaissance Man Aldis Hodge is appointed to America’s oldest watchmaking guild HSNY
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Bond watches, Mido Ocean Stars and more lockdown
NEWS: Hublot launch an ecommerce site with a big bang, huge number of references available for purchase now
Could your watch give you COVID? Expert reveals why your timepiece could increase your chances of infection and how to stop it
Attention all! You can preorder TAG Heuer’s 3 recent limited editions online right now, including Fragment Design and Montreal 160th
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 5 varied reactions to the Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue and one ecstatic review of the TAG Heuer Connected Golf Edition
GAME ON: Gucci and Fnatic have bridged two worlds with their new collaborative dive watch
VIDEO: Time+Tide and DOXA contribute a sexy carbon SUB 300 Aqualung US Divers Limited Edition to Revolution x The Rake’s Covid-19 Solidarity Auction
NEWS: Study shows that a love of luxury watches is proof of superior virility
VIDEO: It’s part 3/3 of (pretend) Baselworld 2020, buckle up for 40 minutes of Seiko, Grand Seiko and Chris Hemsworth from his home in Byron Bay
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 5 reasons to watch the last Basel Video, inc. blowing the lid off the Breitling Party
The Seiko x Sega 60th Anniversary Chronographs are worth a trip to Japan, if you can get there in time
VIDEO: Virtual Baselworld 2020 Part 2 is live, and we have Rolex predictions, a live schnitzel and lots and lots of watches!
Will Coronavirus, and a recession, shorten that waiting list you’re still on? An economics professor and a former Swatch Group MD weigh in…
VIDEO: Baselworld is not dead! It’s on YouTube, including a smoking hot new khaki Longines live on wrist
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Brace yourself for virtual Baselworld, and get your mojo back with Navy SEAL Jocko Willinck’s inspirational watch
A mid-60s Submariner with a sea story, a bargain Speedy, and a lit Reverso at the first virtual Smith & Singer auction
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Celebrating the week we helped Zenith launch the final El Primero 50th Anniversary Edition and Billie Eilish’s baller new watch
Horological Society of New York responds to Coronavirus pandemic with Working Watchmakers Grant
After years of middling it, Baume & Mercier novelties are peaking, and people should be reconsidering
Coronavirus projected to wipe out 60 ‘Swiss Made’ watch brands, while downturn surpasses Quartz Crisis and GFC
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: All aboard the rollercoaster week that was, ride with us from the ecstasy to the agony
Baselworld officially cancelled for 2021, though MCH Group considering comeback via “follow-up formats”; journalists just pleased press releases will stop now
Bespoke, baby! You can now build your own custom Bremont Martin-Baker
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: An open letter describing how you schooled us on the place of watches in a pandemic. How can they still matter?
RECOMMENDED READING: If you own a high-value vintage watch, this story could make your day
Watch Fair & Chill: there’s a new way to do watch fairs. And it’s on the couch with this feature length video.
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: We are dropping a feature length virtual watch fair video on YouTube. Dress code: clothing optional  
ANNOUNCING: You can now buy our favourite H. Moser & Cie models in the Time+Tide Shop
INTERVIEW: Australian watchmaker Reuben Schoots is the first of his kind
LVMH is out, Basel is dead, so here’s the three things I won’t miss and the one tasty grilled treat that I will…
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: What, there’ve been some watches released? I beg your pardon?
How did Baselworld die? What happened? We created a timeline of events, and it’s basically the plot of ‘Marriage Story’
This curiously affordable gold Universal Genève owned by Elvis Presley is up for sale (again)
“Knock me out and you’ll get my Rolex” –  what happened when Tyson Fury fought Anthony Joshua
H. Moser & Cie started a joke that started the whole world wanting, now it’s ready for your wrist, for real
Bid now on this awesome Halios unique piece and support Vancouver General Hospital’s COVID-19 Response Fund
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: No watches for you 2020 says Patek, while Sheeran and Mayer tie 2-2 in the polls!
As of today, you can buy Patek Philippe online. Will COVID-19 force more brands into e-commerce? 
Some good news in the gloom, we just sent out the first round of bushfire donations!
BREAKING NEWS: Rolex shuts down production for 10 days, closing three factories
Is AFL star Dustin Martin’s hook-up with luxury watch chain Kennedy a case of retailers finally getting real?
Studios behind Bond decide this is no time to die, and postpone release until November
No Baselworld this year, for the first time since World War 1
Coronavirus cancels Watches & Wonders 2020, is Baselworld next?
What are these Swatch X 007 watches I’m seeing and can I still buy them?
Jean-Claude Biver reveals “the most beautiful watch I have ever seen”
What is it with Perth and Daytonas? Glenn explains his ‘unusual’ 116500LN in the days after Horology House scandal
BUSINESS NEWS: Swiss watch exports unaffected by Coronavirus outbreak yet, according to FHH
Join us at our first ever ‘Indie Explorer’ night at Time+Tide HQ in Melbourne
It’s nearly time for the Watch & Act! Wrap Party and you’re invited