A Beginner’s Guide To The GMT Bezel By: James Stacey As something of a nerd for travel watches, I can't help but obsess over the myriad permutations that exist within the basic concept of a watch that shows the time in two (or more) places. I am also…
How Hamilton Made A Watch For 'Dune Part: 2' And Turned It Into Two Illuminating Limited Editions By Danny Milton; Photos By Kasia Milton When news broke that Dune: Part Two would be exiting the 2023 release calendar, it goes without saying that there was a desert-sized wave – nay, a sandstor…
Asking Akio Naito – President Of Seiko Watches – About Grand Seiko In The USA By: Malaika Crawford Grand Seiko is a brand that I have yet to fully wrap my head around, at least aesthetically. This is not meant in a pejorative sense, it's just my reality, having only entered this industry a fe…
Today, I have some very exciting news to share with you. After eight years of building the #1 solution for buying and selling pre-owned luxury watches, Crown & Caliber has been acquired by HODINKEE, the industry leader in the world of watches. Back in 2015, HODINKEE’s founder Benjamin Clymer an…
Some of the world’s most popular and well-known watch brands in the world reside in Switzerland, a country whose history is rich with watchmaking. That concentration of watchmaking genius is a truly special thing, but the Swiss are hardly the only Europeans making incredible timepieces. A few hundre…
The Tudor Black Bay 79230n - A Modern Interpretation of Vintage Styling Tudor is a special brand that has a history and heritage that many watchmakers would love to claim. Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf created the brand in 1926, but the company has grown its own legacy in recent years. Tudor watches a…
The Grand Seiko catalog is packed with so many great models that it’d take a year to cover them all. The company’s watches are versatile and are all exercises in modern designs without betraying the precision and heritage that characterizes high-end watches coming out of Japan. To celebrate Grand Se…
Video Transcription Hey everyone, it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber and today we're going to talk about the OMEGA Speedmaster Professional. Well at least for a little bit or at least in context of that watch. The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional is effectively an unchanged design. I mean for over 6…
Video Transcription NATHAN: It's a new watch day. It's a new watch day. Guess what? We have a bunch of new watches. Hey guys it is Nathan with Crown & Caliber and if I was excited a couple of weeks ago because we had a new Submariner then I am even that much more excited today. So, a couple of…
Video Transcription Hey everyone. So today we are back with another buying guide and in today's buying guide we are going to be looking at an entire brand. We're going to be looking at a brand from Germany. Today we are looking at Nomos. Now, there are a few reasons that we want to do a buying guide…
Video Transcription JONATHAN: Rolling! NATHAN: Hey, it's summer, and the summer means the ocean, and the ocean means diving, and diving means dive watches. JONATHAN: We're playing a game of word association. NATHAN: Hey everyone this is Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and today we are talking about…
Video Transcription Oh hey! I didn't see you there. Just brushing up on my Rolex terminology. And that's got me thinking. Rolex terminology is a great primer to understanding the watch industry as an individual. What I mean by that is Rolex has been a master marketer. In the earlier 20th century Rol…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Hey everyone its Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and today I am answering questions and I'm answering questions that you guys have asked whether it was in YouTube comments or from some of our other social channels we basically went through and pulled together a lot of qu…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Hey everyone it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and today we have something really exciting, something fresh, something new. Today we're going to be looking at the new Black Bay Fifty-Eight Blue. How we have this new watch is pretty awesome. So, one of our good friends…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Another day another buying guide. Hey everyone, it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber. And we are back, as I said, with another buying guide, and today we are going to be looking at Cartier. Now specifically we're going to be looking at the Cartier Tank. And it is worth me…
Video Transcription Hey everyone, its Nathan with Crown & Caliber and we are back with you guessed it another Rolex video, but let me first give some context to this video. Recently we did a video on how to speak Rolex in which we went through and highlighted a bunch of terms that we thought wer…
Video Transcription Hey guys it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and we're back with another buying guide, but this buying guide is a little different. Today we are looking at an entire brand. Today we're going to be looking at a TAG Heuer. Now the reason we decided to do the entire brand for a bu…
Video Transcription NATHAN: Hey everyone its Nathan with Crown & Caliber and today I am answering questions. And I’m answering questions that you guys have asked. Whether it was in YouTube comments or from some of our other social channels. We basically went through and pulled together a lot of…
Video Transcription Hey guys it's Nathan with a Crown & Caliber and what I have here is an Apple Watch Series 5 and what I have here is a 15-year-old Datejust. And for the next couple of weeks I've decided to wear this instead of this so I can give a comparison of the two. Now before people star…
Video Transcription Okay! So there is no fictional character more synonymous with watches than James Bond. He's the coolest guy on earth with the best gadgets. One of which is always a stylish, drool-worthy timepiece. And in the spirit of the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, we're excited to di…
We believe that time is best used to give back. COVID-19 has affected people on a global scale and so we created the Giving Time Auctions to help people and communities impacted by the pandemic. To do this, we auction luxury timepieces, donated by generous donors to charities making a difference dur…
Video Transcription You know how much we love a model guide on this channel. And I'm excited to bring you this one specifically. Today we are talking about the Tudor Black Bay. And even though the Black Bay launched only a few years ago in 2012, the collection now includes over a dozen variations. A…
Video Transcription On this channel we talk a lot about watches. We geek out about the nerdy details. All the little intricacies that make these things so marvelous, and so marvelous in fact that Crown & Caliber was basically started to make these more accessible to people. We kind of wanted to…
Video Transcription So today we're talking about grail watches. Now, we see a lot of watches here and sometimes we kind of forget that a Submariner or a Carrera is a lifelong achievement for a lot of people, it is for me as well. We get to see these watches and we want to show them to you. They're f…
Video Transcription All right let's do this. What you need to know before picking a Submariner: take one. So here we go another video on the Submariner, but before you decide to stop watching this video has some very helpful points to navigating picking out the right Sub for you, and since the Rolex…
Video Transcription IWC is a company with a storied history that continues to impress the horology world with each new update. Within this video we will forego the complete overview of IWC as a brand and instead focus on the most famous watch family, the Portuguese or as it was renamed in 2015 at th…
Video Transcription In every way timekeeping was born out of man's fascination with the Sun and its daily rhythms. The world's earliest horologists used sundials to inform are now familiar gears and hands. And of all the things they tracked the lunar cycle was one of the most important. Today the mo…
Transcription NATHAN: Hey guys it's Nathan with Crown & Caliber, and today we're trying something a little different. We're here with my colleague and good friend Alli, and up into this point you've pretty much only seen me and frankly my top half, and I actually do have legs. So, what we've dec…
Video Transcript JLC is a brand that has been around for nearly 200 years, and of course during that time the brand has broken records, made some iconic watches and solidified itself among many "Grail lists". This is our guide to JLC. And here's what we're going to cover. 1. The storied history of t…
\Video Transcript Here at Crown & Caliber we often feature watches that can cost $4,000 and $5,000, and sometimes even more, and let's be honest that can be a lot of money. So, we thought we'd feature some of our favorite watches that are a little bit more affordable. Here are top seven picks fo…
Which Came First – The Watch or the Celebrity Following? It’s kind of like the age-old debate, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Are there increasing numbers of celebrities interested in watches overall or does this year’s group of Oscar nominees just happen to be watch-centric? In previous…
Brief History of Materials Used for the Watch Case For centuries, watchmakers exclusively used precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum to construct the watch case. Hundreds of years ago, these precious metals were readily available. The use of gold, silver, and platinum in watchmaking also r…
Watches and Ski Season Winter is in full throttle. The first snow has fallen. For many of us, that means a mid-season getaway is right around the corner. There’s no better way to embrace the cold months than with a ski trip to the nearest mountain. You know to pack your goggles, boots, and jacket, b…
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