European Watch Co.

European Watch Co. TRUSTED BY WATCH ENTHUSIASTS SINCE 1993

www.europeanwatch.com We buy and sell fine watches and welcome trade-ins of your pre-owned timepieces.

Our extensive contacts among domestic and international authorized watch dealers enable us to offer the most prestigious watch brands at substantial, highly competitive discounts. All of our watches are sold complete with the manufacturers box and official papers. We maintain an inventory of only the finest contemporary and vintage watches. The brands we carry include, Patek Philippe, FP Journe, B

lancpain, Breguet, Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, A. Lange and Sohne, Jager LeCoultre, IWC, Laurent Ferrier, Zenith, Rolex, Omega, Richard Mille, and Panerai

Our selection changes nearly every day, and we promptly update the website, so we recommend looking in on us often. All of our timepieces are covered by our own exclusive one year limited warranty.

09/07/2026

EP 10 of ranking EVERY watch brand...

In this episode Justin and Rob rank the brand, Piaget.

Rob will tell you nobody makes a better stone dial, and nobody has chased thinness longer or harder. He is right about both.

But Justin asked one question instead. Name the Piaget everybody wants. Not a calibre. A watch.

Piaget's greatest achievements are thin movements, and movements do not become icons.

Here is where they end up ranking it...

09/07/2026

EP 10 of ranking EVERY watch brand...

In this episode Justin and Rob rank the brand, Piaget.

Rob will tell you nobody makes a better stone dial, and nobody has chased thinness longer or harder. He is right about both.

But Justin asked one question instead. Name the Piaget everybody wants. Not a calibre. A watch.

Piaget’s greatest achievements are thin movements, and movements do not become icons.

Here is where they end up ranking it...

In March 1884 a Swiss watchmaker filed a patent in the United States. Not because he was selling there, but because Swit...
09/07/2026

In March 1884 a Swiss watchmaker filed a patent in the United States. Not because he was selling there, but because Switzerland did not have a patent office yet.

What Constant Girard was protecting was an arrangement of three parallel bridges, shaped like arrows, carrying the tourbillon and the going train. Bridges are structural. Almost every maker kept them hidden on the back of the movement where nobody would ever look at them. Girard moved his to the front and made them the face of the watch.

Five years later he showed La Esmeralda at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and took a gold medal.

This is reference 99295, the first skeletonised version of the Neo Tourbillon with Three Bridges. The bridges are redrawn as arched, rounded, openworked forms in black, and the movement is pierced front and back so there is almost nothing left to hide behind. A white gold micro rotor sits beneath the skeletonised barrel, which is how it winds itself without a rotor sweeping across the view.

Titanium, 45mm across and 16mm thick, which reads enormous on paper and considerably less so on the wrist.

Everyone else spent a century hiding the structure. Girard-Perregaux built a house on showing it.

09/06/2026

Day 3 of Geneva Watch Days with Taylor!

Every split seconds chronograph built before 2004 shared the same ceiling - you could split the seconds hand, which mean...
09/06/2026

Every split seconds chronograph built before 2004 shared the same ceiling - you could split the seconds hand, which meant you could only compare two events that finished within sixty seconds of one another.
Lange decided to do what they do best and took things a step further and added a second minute hand.

The Double Split carries two chronograph hands and two rattrapante hands. Both pairs stop independently and resynchronise, which takes the comparison range from sixty seconds out to thirty minutes. It was the first mechanical chronograph in history to do it, and by Lange's own account, it’s still the only one.

Calibre L001.1, 465 parts, thirty eight hours of reserve, in a platinum case 43mm across. It is a flyback as well, so one press stops, resets and restarts.

Being first is easy to claim. Being the only one, two decades later, is the harder number.

Every split seconds chronograph built before 2004 shared the same ceiling - you could split the seconds hand, which mean...
09/06/2026

Every split seconds chronograph built before 2004 shared the same ceiling - you could split the seconds hand, which meant you could only compare two events that finished within sixty seconds of one another.
Lange decided to do what they do best and took things a step further and added a second minute hand.

The Double Split carries two chronograph hands and two rattrapante hands. Both pairs stop independently and resynchronise, which takes the comparison range from sixty seconds out to thirty minutes. It was the first mechanical chronograph in history to do it, and by Lange’s own account, it’s still the only one.

Calibre L001.1, 465 parts, thirty eight hours of reserve, in a platinum case 43mm across. It is a flyback as well, so one press stops, resets and restarts.

Being first is easy to claim. Being the only one, two decades later, is the harder number.

09/06/2026

Do you think the Cubitus is taking over??

Justin and Rob discuss the new 50th anniversary of Patek Philippe’s Nautilus line.

09/05/2026

EP 9 of ranking EVERY watch brand... ROLEX.

This is one of the most loaded brands...

Rolex is the brand most collectors start with, which is exactly why ranking it is so tough. Whether you love or hate their watches, you cannot deny they are an incredible brand.

But here's where we rank them...

09/05/2026

EP 9 of ranking EVERY watch brand... ROLEX.

This is one of the most loaded brands...

Rolex is the brand most collectors start with, which is exactly why ranking it is so tough. Whether you love or hate their watches, you cannot deny they are an incredible brand.

But here’s where we rank them...

In 1997 Patek did something it had rarely bothered to do. It built a watch for someone who was not already a Patek custo...
09/05/2026

In 1997 Patek did something it had rarely bothered to do. It built a watch for someone who was not already a Patek customer.

The Aquanaut was aimed at a younger, sportier buyer looking for an alternative to what the brand already offered. Even the strap was new. Patek spent more than a year developing the Tropical strap, testing over twenty candidate materials, and engineered it to resist salt water, UV and daily wear.

Almost everyone calls it rubber, but it is a composite, and that distinction was the entire point of making it.

This is the 5167R in 18k rose gold with a brown dial, 40mm in diameter and 8.1mm thick.

The Nautilus was designed to be noticed. The Aquanaut was designed to be worn.

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