Technical Perspective: A Look At The Carrera – Heuer 01 Chronograph With TAG...
Last month in New York City, TAG Heuer celebrated the launch of their Carrera - Heuer 01 chronograph with a spectacular event featuring new brand ambassador Tom Brady. The Carrera - Heuer 01 is a...
View ArticleIntroducing: The New Limited Edition Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro-Rotor In...
The Galet Micro-Rotor is, without any debate, one of the finest time-only watches in the world. The finishing, which we compared in a show-down of giants against the Seiko Eichi II and Philippe Dufour...
View ArticleIntroducing: The Urwerk EMC Pistol, With Intricate Case Engraving And...
Last year, Urwerk introduced the EMC (Electro Mechanical Control), a mechanical watch that lets you check its rate electronically at the touch of a button. Urwerk's EMC won the "exceptional mechanism"...
View ArticleHands-On: The Bovet Sergio Pininfarina Split Second Chronograph 45
“Purity of line, and harmony of proportion. If they are good, they are good forever.” – Sergio Pininfarina Bovet is not a company that has, historically, loomed terribly large on the horizons of most...
View ArticlePhoto Report: The Ralph Lauren + HODINKEE Preview Of The New RL Automotive...
Last week in New York City, Ralph Lauren and HODINKEE treated watch enthusiasts to an evening celebrating the new RL Automotive Skeleton watch at the Ralph Lauren flagship store on Madison Avenue....
View ArticleIntroducing: The 2015 Tudor Fastrider Black Shield
Tudor has just introduced the latest version of its Fastrider Chronograph, which is a part of its ongoing partnership with Ducati. The newest version of the Fastrider Chronograph Black Shield breaks...
View ArticleA Week On The Wrist: The Piaget Altiplano Chronograph With Caliber 883P
The Piaget Altiplano Chronograph has been on our radar ever since it was first introduced in December of last year, for a lot of different reasons. First of all, the world of ultra-thin chronographs...
View ArticlePhoto Report: A (Very) Close-Up Look At The Petite Heure Minute San...
Different watch companies are identified by collectors with different kinds of watchmaking for different reasons; if there's one company that is identified with horological enameling – one of the most...
View ArticleIn Celebration Of Jack Heuer's Birthday, We Look Back At The Best Heuer...
Today is TAG Heuer Honorary Chairman Jack Heuer's birthday, and to celebrate, we're revisiting three HODINKEE articles that illustrate his importance to the brand that carries his name, as well as to...
View ArticleA Look At Last Week's Christie's Geneva Sale, And What It Says About The Market
Only Watch, and the Phillips Watch Auction: Two (read my analysis here) may have captured the most headlines from last week’s watch auctions in Geneva, but the Christie’s auction on Monday, November...
View ArticleBring a Loupe: A Submariner You Probably Haven't Seen Before, An Enicar You...
This week's Bring A Loupe will cover rare and attractive watches, available right now on eBay and at upcoming European auctions. Among our picks, you should not miss one of the rarest Tudor...
View ArticlePre-SIHH 2016: Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Constantin has just announced that for the 2016 SIHH, they’ll be introducing four new models into the Métiers d'Art Fabuleux Ornements collection. The collection was first introduced two...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: The Five Best Buys In Vintage Rolex, For $8,000 Or Less,...
The vintage Rolex market, as Kiran told you this week in his recap of the Christie's Geneva sale, is blazing hot. In some cases, it has even eclipsed the vintage Patek world in terms of buzz and...
View ArticlePhoto Report: The Extraordinary Dials Of Glashütte Original's Sixties Iconic...
Glashütte Original recently introduced the Sixties Iconic Collection, inspired by the iconic GUB Spezimatic watch. The dials on these watches are extraordinary, and deserve a close look. With that in...
View ArticleThe Value Proposition: The Longines Column-Wheel, Single-Push-Piece...
There aren’t too many more inherently refined animals in the horological bestiary than monopusher, two-register, column-wheel chronographs. They have a certain archaic fascination – I suppose you...
View ArticleTwo Men Bought The Very Same Kind Of Watch On The Same Day In The Same Town,...
Here is a question I receive at a frequency of more than three times per week, in person: "How much should I pay for a 5513 Sub?" To answer that question with less than six caveats does the inquirer,...
View ArticleFound: Four Watches Used In The Filming Of Mad Men, For Sale At Christie's...
Remember when Mad Men was the thing? I sure do. I can't tell you how many "Mad Men Style" watch shoots I was involved with back then – whether it was talking about how the show revived the traditional...
View ArticleHands-On: The MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual Calendar, And Why It Matters To...
The Legacy Machine Perpetual Calendar was the very first true high complication from MB&F, which seems very difficult to believe at first, because the impression one has of the company, and its...
View ArticleFound: A Patek Philippe 3448 Perpetual Calendar Owned By Ringo Starr (Seriously)
Any auction dedicated to a member of the Beatles and his wife – a former James Bond girl – would be interesting to follow; when we discovered that the lots included a Patek reference 3448 – a rare...
View ArticleBreaking News: The Federal Trade Commission Takes Action Against Deceptive...
Earlier this year, HODINKEE published an article concerning the questionable advertising tactics of a portion of the American watchmaking industry. Entitled "Smoke And Mirrors In The American...
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