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		<div id="post-158" class="post-158 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-watch-brand-profiles category-watches">
			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-brand-profiles/urwerk/" title="Permalink to Urwerk" rel="bookmark">Urwerk</a></h2>

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				Hedge  and posted in <a href='watch-brand-profiles'>Watch Brand Profiles</a>, <a href='watches'>Watches</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>Discussing watches with Urwerk’s Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei is a throwback to the 1960s. All that was missing when I met the pair at Marcus was a hookah filled with Michoacan and a soundtrack by Earth Opera. Their Swiss-German &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-brand-profiles/urwerk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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		<div id="post-155" class="post-155 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-watch-fairs category-watches">
			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-fairs/you-show-me-yours/" title="Permalink to You Show Me Yours&#8230;." rel="bookmark">You Show Me Yours&#8230;.</a></h2>

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				QP  and posted in <a href='watch-fairs'>Watch Fairs</a>, <a href='watches'>Watches</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>© Ken Kessler 2003 &nbsp; Ken Kessler recounts his first-ever visit to the Basel and Geneva watch fairs Mecca for watch lovers? Sure, if your idea is overdosing on what you adore, on being so overwhelmed by a surfeit of &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-fairs/you-show-me-yours/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-brand-profiles/oris-and-the-williams-f1-team/" title="Permalink to Oris and the Williams F1 Team" rel="bookmark">Oris and the Williams F1 Team</a></h2>

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				iW  and posted in <a href='watch-brand-profiles'>Watch Brand Profiles</a>, <a href='car-related-watches'>Car-Related Watches</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>At the risk of upsetting devotees of NASCAR, Indycar, rallying, drag-racing, and other forms of motorsport, the global consensus is that Formula 1 represents the cutting edge. No, make that the bleeding edge of racing technology. Electronics, materials, telemetry, fuels, &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-brand-profiles/oris-and-the-williams-f1-team/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/style-features/sport-watches/" title="Permalink to Sport Watches" rel="bookmark">Sport Watches</a></h2>

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				City A.M.  and posted in <a href='style-features'>Style Features</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p> Hublot Big Bang Default watch purchases used to fall into categories: “dress watch”, “sport watch” and “work watch” were the main headings. There were numerous choices within those groupings, but few mattered. If you were looking at the quality sector, &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/style-features/sport-watches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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		<div id="post-124" class="post-124 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-watch-brand-profiles">
			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-brand-profiles/a-lange-sohne/" title="Permalink to A.Lange &#038; Söhne" rel="bookmark">A.Lange &#038; Söhne</a></h2>

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				Bespoke  and posted in <a href='watch-brand-profiles'>Watch Brand Profiles</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>As comebacks go, it’s the watch equivalent of Sinatra’s or Presley’s: A. Lange &amp; Söhne represents the pinnacle of German watchmaking, and a half-century in the wilderness only whetted enthusiasts’ appetites for more. Like every other unfortunate manufacturer or business &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-brand-profiles/a-lange-sohne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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		<div id="post-114" class="post-114 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-watch-fairs">
			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-fairs/baselworld-2008-preview/" title="Permalink to BaselWorld 2008 Preview" rel="bookmark">BaselWorld 2008 Preview</a></h2>

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				La Dolce Vita  and posted in <a href='watch-fairs'>Watch Fairs</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>(Jean Dunand Shabaka) &nbsp; &nbsp; It’s Disneyland for jewellery and watch lovers, the annual smorgasbord(s) where every watch brand reveals what’s in store for the coming season. The extravaganza begins at the massive Baselworld event encompassing brands in the thousands, &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/watch-fairs/baselworld-2008-preview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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		<div id="post-111" class="post-111 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news-items category-watch-fairs">
			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/news-items/baselworld-2012/" title="Permalink to Baselworld 2012" rel="bookmark">Baselworld 2012</a></h2>

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				Bespoke  and posted in <a href='news-items'>News Items</a>, <a href='watch-fairs'>Watch Fairs</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p> HYT H1 As much as the annual watch industry event called “Baselworld” is a shrine to the new, it’s also a wonderful showcase for continuity. By its very definition, a trend should be something transient, with its own sell-by date, &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/news-items/baselworld-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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		<div id="post-108" class="post-108 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-car-related-watches">
			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/car-related-watches/cars-and-watches/" title="Permalink to Cars and Watches" rel="bookmark">Cars and Watches</a></h2>

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				Broughtons Bentley Magazine  and posted in <a href='car-related-watches'>Car-Related Watches</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>Like tea and crumpets, or love and marriage, cars and watches go together with an almost uncanny mutual attraction. They may be filed under ‘Boys’ Toys’, but that’s precisely why they mesh so perfectly: both are mechanical marvels, no matter &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/car-related-watches/cars-and-watches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/buying-watches/buying-a-chronograph/" title="Permalink to Buying A Chronograph" rel="bookmark">Buying A Chronograph</a></h2>

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				Motorsport  and posted in <a href='buying-watches'>Buying Watches</a>, <a href='car-related-watches'>Car-Related Watches</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>&nbsp; Watches are inextricably linked with motoring for a simple reason: ever since the automobile first appeared, timing its speed across a fixed distance has been a test of a car’s merits. Time trials, race results, ‘how fast can she &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/buying-watches/buying-a-chronograph/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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			<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/car-related-watches/bugatti-watches/" title="Permalink to Bugatti Watches" rel="bookmark">Bugatti Watches</a></h2>

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				QP  and posted in <a href='car-related-watches'>Car-Related Watches</a>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

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				<p>Watch companies, especially the most prestigious ones, choose their automotive alliances with care. Think Girard-Perregaux and Ferrari, Bulgari and Cadillac or Breitling and Bentley. Some are natural partners, some of the marriages may be ones of convenience, but brands involved &hellip; <a href="https://www.watch-words.com/watches/car-related-watches/bugatti-watches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>
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