Saturday 7 November 2026
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Ceramic trades scratches for chips
Watch ceramic is exceptionally hard and keeps its finish through abrasion that marks metal. Its low tolerance for deformation means a sharp impact can produce a chip or fracture instead.
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NEWS · 2 NOVChrono24 ties watch insurance claims to current market valueThe marketplace's one-year policy starts in six European markets and distinguishes accidental damage from optional theft cover.
AUDEMARS PIGUET · 2 NOVAudemars Piguet puts its watchmakers behind Watch Keepers authenticationThe manufacture's certified pre-owned service combines its own watchmakers' checks with condition grading and a two-year warranty.
BENCH · 1 NOVA faster beat spends power to make each disturbance matter lessA high-frequency balance receives more impulses and divides time more finely. It can recover from brief disturbances sooner, but friction, power reserve and regulation still decide whether the watch is accurate.05BENCH · 28 OCTHeat-blued hands are wearing a film thinner than light06PINION WATCH COMPANY · 26 OCTPinion’s Firestarter puts red agate at the centre of a personal proposition07EXOFI · 26 OCTDoes EXOFI’s Wolf Rock 42 make a coherent everyday tool watch?08FRANCK MULLER · 26 OCTFranck Muller puts Amador Montes’ crane fly into the Vanguard Slim’s hands09NOMOS GLASHÜTTE · 26 OCTNOMOS gives the hand-wound Club more room, with the 38.5 mm Club 38 ruthenium
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BENCH · 4 NOVCeramic trades scratches for chipsWatch ceramic is exceptionally hard and keeps its finish through abrasion that marks metal. Its low tolerance for deformation means a sharp impact can produce a chip or fracture instead.BENCH · 1 NOVA faster beat spends power to make each disturbance matter lessA high-frequency balance receives more impulses and divides time more finely. It can recover from brief disturbances sooner, but friction, power reserve and regulation still decide whether the watch is accurate.
BENCH · 28 OCTHeat-blued hands are wearing a film thinner than lightThe blue is not paint. Heating polished steel grows a transparent oxide layer, and interference within that extremely thin film selects the colour your eye receives.In focus
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