Grammy-award-winning music artist and producer Swizz Beatz is a serious watch connoisseur. His excellent taste and understanding of the watch industry and its heritage have led to some fantastic collaborations in the past. Now he joins forces with De Bethune, yet in quite a different way. In 2020 he challenged master watchmaker and brand founder Denis Flageollet to create a watch that unites some signature features of previous De Bethune creations into a unique timepiece. Form and function should go hand in hand, with a focus on beauty, legibility, and user-friendliness. What Swizz Beatz dreamed, Flageollet and his team made a reality in Dream Watch 5.

By its very nature, fads come and go and the watch industry is has seen its fair share of them. However, the two-tone watch is one that has transcended trend-status to become a bona fide classic style. From old-world heritage brands to cutting-edge niche brands, just about every watchmaker has dipped their toes into the two-tone look—and sometimes in surprising ways. Here are four examples of current luxury watches taking on the classic two-tone colorway.

Watches & Wonders Miami will return to the illustrious Design District for its second annual event in partnership with the Fondation Haute Horlogerie.

The 2018-edition of the Grand Prix D'Horlogerie De Geneve (GPHG), also known as the Oscar's of the watch world, took place last Friday evening, during a special Gala event. The line-up was imposing, and each of the winners represents without a doubt the best of their category.

Every year the SIAR, Salon Internacional Alta Relojeria, grows bigger. Held in Mexico-city, it is the stage on which bold new designs, often highlighting the unique culture of its host country are introduced. Also, this year we were not disappointed, with several incredible new watches, as well as interesting news!

Colors play an important role in watchmaking. Often not so much on the technical side but for sure on the visual one. They greatly contribute to the character of a timepiece. While paints and lacquers can relatively easily be made in any color desired, other materials are much harder color, but that didn't stop some brands from pursuing it anyway!

Baselworld 2018 brought a lot of new watches, from the large, well-known brands, but also many independent brands introduced extraordinary new models. These are five of Haute Time's favourites!

While the SIHH takes place in the Palexpo halls of Geneva, this is not the only place in the city where you can find the latest and greatest watches. In the downtown area, brands that are not officially part of the SIHH setup shop on boats and in the exclusives hotels near the lake. For them, Baselworld is often the main fair to introduce their new models, but that didn’t stop them to bring a few novelties to Geneva as well!

How futuristic can a mechanical watch be? These four incredible, and unusual, watches will give you the answer to that question!

Sometimes there is only one way you want to see a watch: on the wrist! In its natural habitat, with clothing to match, it gives the best impression of how the watch will look around your own wrist, like one of these seven very different, yet very tempting examples.

De Bethune watches don't seem to come out of Switzerland, but straight out of space! Their high-tech designs present traditional Swiss watchmaking in such a progressive shape that you get groundbreaking watches. This applies especially to the DB28 "Kind of Blue" Tourbillon.

What makes a luxury watch so luxurious? The answer to that can be found in the details. Creating a watch is not that difficult, but making it refined more so. That is why Audemars Piguet advertising slogan, "To Break The Rules, You Must First Master Them",

The De Bethune DB25T Zodiac Watch is pretty to inside and out, but you'll have to turn it over to see why...

Today, we visited De Bethune's booth, to see some of our favorite watches from the DB28 collection...