Aside from perhaps a moon phase, few complications seem better suited to a De Bethune than those showing multiple time zones. With the De Bethune DB25 World Traveller (debuted here), you get not only world time indication but also a true GMT display, time, and date. Despite the high level of ...
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With Star Trek Beyond now in theaters, we got to thinking about the enormous cultural legacy of the popular science fiction franchise and the influence it has had - not least in the watch industry. The best watch makers are engineers and machinists, which also means there is a good chance they like ...
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De Bethune has always been preoccupied with a vaguely spacey, celestially inspired aesthetic, so it’s no surprise that their latest DB28 watches pay tribute to that most cosmic color, blue. The De Bethune DB28 Kind of Blue and DB28T Kind of Blue are the latest additions to the line, citing the ...
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It was almost three years ago that I first put on this piece unique version of the De Bethune Dream Watch 5 (DW5) with an all-meteorite case. De Bethune's David Zanetta said he "made the watch for fun," which pretty much sums up the reason he creates most of what he does. In 2014, our James Stacey ...
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At SIHH 2016, Swiss De Bethune will debut their first world-time watch with the De Bethune DB25 World Traveller. Based on the ongoing DB25 collection case, the De Bethune DB25 World Traveller contains a new movement with some new technology - and I'd like to discuss that element of the watch first. ...
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Beginning this upcoming Monday, January 18th, and running through Friday, January 22nd, is the always anticipated, annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) watch exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition will feature showings from some of the largest watch brands as well as a ...
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Sometimes it's tough to know where to start; in the case of this list, I didn't know where to stop! 10 watches is not a lot. Rather than pick out the true classics, I thought it might be better for me to offer the 10 watches off the beaten track. I mean, what's the point in a bunch of identical ...
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October 18, 2015 marks the beginning of the inaugural Dubai Watch Week, and aBlogtoWatch is going to be there to cover it. There are going to be showings from A.Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Breitling, Bulgari, Chopard, De Grisogono, F.P. Journe, Hublot, HYT, IWC, Louis Moinet, Montblanc, ...
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The DB28 Maxichrono watch is De Bethune's answer to the chronograph (and it is a "high beat" one at that), and like many of their horological products, it offers something you know in a way that is at least a little bit unique. The brand began showing prototype versions of the De Bethune DB28 ...
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"Carré des Horlogers" is going to be the new buzzword for those in the watch industry early in 2016, as the new iteration of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) makes a major move to incorporate nine fresh names into their roster of luxury watch makers. Up until now, SIHH has ...
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