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The web encyclopedia Watch Wiki presents an abundance of information about top quality wristwatches and the most prestigious watch companies which produce them.

With emphasis on high class mechanical watches and covering the best timepieces and their manufacturers in the first place, this watch wiki suits as reading matter for the connoisseur of this fascinating species of watches. So one could call it a special “Wikipedia for Watches”.

Here you can find an abundance of details about the leading watch brands and the best timepieces of the world, but also background reports about watch history and about the famous watchmakers and their career.

This website is also very useful as a handy shopping guide, because it is very fast, neutral, independent and provides important background information.

Current status: 5,569 pages and 3,729 images.

On this day

What happened on December 18:

  • 1960 — A team at the Seiko site in Suwa, central Japan, completes the first “Grand Seiko” model with a gold case and a slim manufacture caliber. This marks the birth of the eponymous “Grand Seiko” brand.
  • 1965 — American astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. land after orbiting the earth 206 times in 14 days aboard Gemini VII. The astronauts wear Omega Speedmaster watches on the mission.
  • 2017 — Piaget introduces the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic with Cal. 910P, the thinnest automatic watch produced to date.

Top 10 Brands

  1. TAG Heuer
  2. A. Lange & Söhne
  3. Breitling
  4. IWC
  5. Jaeger-LeCoultre
  6. Zenith
  7. Rolex
  8. Chronoswiss
  9. Omega
  10. Nomos

Top 10 Models

  1. Breitling Navitimer
  2. Audemars Piguet Royal Oak
  3. A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1
  4. Omega Speedmaster Professional
  5. Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Submariner
  6. Longines Lindbergh
  7. TAG Heuer Carrera
  8. Breitling Superocean
  9. Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Sea-Dweller 4000
  10. Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore

Notable Entries

Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie (click to enlarge!)
Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie
© Jaeger-LeCoultre

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Remarkable Models

[[:Temption CM-06]] (click to enlarge!)
Temption CM-06
© Temption

Automatic

Hand winding

Hand winding ultra flat

Chronographs - self-winding

[[:Breitling Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon]] (click to enlarge!)
Breitling Bentley Mulliner Tourbillon
© Breitling

Chronographs - manual winding

World Timers / Watches with Additional Time Zone

Watches with Repetition

[[:Vacheron Constantin Tour de L'Ile]] (click to enlarge!)
Vacheron Constantin Tour de L'Ile
© Vacheron Constantin

Watches with Perpetual Calendar

Astronomical Watches - self-winding

Astronomical Watches - manual winding

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