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Countdown To Christmas: Great Gifts For Him…

With just seventeen full shopping days left until Christmas, today we are focusing our attention on Great Gifts for Him at World of Watches. No matter if you are shopping for your husband, boyfriend, dad, son, brother, uncle or special friends, there are over 2,600 men’s styles from by today’s most sought-after watchmakers, including Breitling, Corum, Invicta, U-Boat, Bulova, Rolex, Swiss Legend, Omega, Red Line, TAG Heuer, Lucien Piccard, Raymond Weil, Luminox, Tissot, Porsche Design, Eterna and more. Whether it’s a prestigious high-end timepiece, a depth defying deep-sea diver’s model, an action-packed pilot’s chronograph or a rugged and adventurous sport…

Watch Out! WOW TV Sneak Preview For July 23rd & 24th

World of Watches TV Preview

WorldofWatches TV has something for everyone this weekend with three hours of incredible deals on today’s top watches, all with five to six stress-free payments too. The program airs this Saturday and Sunday evening at 6:00 pm EST on DirectTV, as well as streaming live on Facebook, You Tube and WorldofWatches.com/wowtv. The Semi-Annual Lucien Piccard kicks-off the first hour of the program both nights featuring the deep-discounts on many of the brand’s most popular styles. Lucien Piccard customers will also receive a 6-slot watch box with their purchase and each watch will be offered with six stress-free payments. Date Night…

Watch Collection Essentials: Racing Inspired Watches

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For decades the worlds of high-speed auto racing and horology have shared a long and successful association. Many of the world’s top-watchmakers, including TAG Heuer and Rolex have not only featured collections inspired by fast-paced touring cars and prominent racing competitions, they have also sponsored many of these prestigious racing competitions too. TAG Heuer has long been associated with automobiles and auto racing. The brand’s founder Edouard Heuer received a patent in 1911 for his Time of Trip dashboard chronograph, which was used in automobiles to measure the time and duration of a trip. Heuer went on to become the…

Deep Sea Diver’s Watches In Leagues Of Their Own…

Diving Watches

Seasoned, professional divers will tell you that timing is everything in the deep depths of the ocean, especially when you’re scaling the ocean’s floors. No matter if your next diving expedition takes you off the Maltese Islands of the Mediterranean Sea, to the shores of Belize in the Caribbean Islands or to the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific, you’ll want a truly submersible wristwatch ideal for deep-sea diving. First and foremost, you should consider a timepiece that is water-resistant more than 200 meters, preferably 500 meters or more to ensure that there will be no issues with water entrapment…

I See a Full Moon Rising…

Lunar Update: Hi, I’m back and talking about the moon again. I promise I’ll take a break on the topic after this… Moon Phase Watches. They’re my latest obsession. Combining my love for the moon and my love for watches and conveniently placing it on my wrist. These are among the most highly sought-after luxury timepieces in the world today. They’re available with mechanical, automatic and quartz movements and are magical because they follow the progression of the moon through her different phases… from new moon, first quarter through full moon to final quarter. A watch with a moon phase feature displays the phases of the moon…

High-Ranking Military Time

Military inspired wristwatches have been popular for generations. In many cases, a watchmaker’s popularity has been deeply influenced by their production of  specific watches for a country’s military unit. Rotary watches rose to fame in England during World War II, becoming the official watch supplier of the entire British army. The brand was consequentially worn in just about every British household during the war and became immensely popular throughout the nation after the war. Rotary’s popularity in England was so immense, that it moved its corporate headquarters to Great Britain after the war. During the early 1960’s, the United States…

Into The Light With Luminox

When it comes to luminous wristwatches, the brand Luminox is in a league of their own. A good many timepieces feature luminous hands and hour markers with luminescent paint, which requires charging by a light source. Others have built-in lighting, which operate at the touch of a button. Luminox watches feature a state-of-the-art light technology feauuring miniscule gas lighting, that is always lit on the hands, hour markers and even the bezels on some models.  What’s more this patented light technology is designed to continuously glow for more than 25 years. The brand name comes from the Latin term for Light:…