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Everything to Know Before Heading to WatchTime New York

North America's premier public luxury watch collector event brings rare timepieces, new releases and some of watchmaking’s biggest names to Gotham Hall. Here’s what to see and who to meet.

For watch collectors, the third week of October in New York has become a fixture on the calendar. Brand launches, boutique gatherings and collector dinners fill the schedule, with WatchTime New York as the main event. Returning to Gotham Hall Oct. 16-18, the three-day show is arguably North America’s biggest collector-focused watch event, bringing major luxury houses, independent watchmakers and their audiences together under one roof.

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The appeal is straightforward. Visitors can try on watches, examine movements and talk directly with the people who make them. For small independents that may produce only a few dozen watches a year, that kind of access can be hard to find elsewhere. For collectors, it’s also a chance to compare very different kinds of watchmaking without spending a week crisscrossing Manhattan between appointments.

This year’s lineup includes more than 40 brands, with Blancpain, Chopard, Piaget, Zenith, Ulysse Nardin and Parmigiani Fleurier among the established names. MB&F, H. Moser & Cie., Voutilainen, Laurent Ferrier, Urwerk and Ferdinand Berthoud give the event considerable weight in independent watchmaking, while Citizen, G-Shock, Oris and Bell........

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