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What We're Giving Thanks For At HODINKEE This Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers celebrating the holiday! We're based in New York, as you all probably know, so we're out of the office ourselves getting ready to enjoy the holiday, but we...
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Bring a Loupe: A Selection Of Watches Under $3,000, With Two Incredible...
This week's Bring A Loupe focuses on finding great vintage watches on a budget under $3,000. An impossible goal? Not at all – we found a very funky Hamilton, and a triple calendar from Gallet, and...
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The HODINKEE Shop Now Stocks 15 Essential Watch Books, Plus Our Top Picks For...
In honor of Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, the HODINKEE Shop is now stocking 15 books that are required reading for any watch lover – and we’ve put together...
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First Look: Ten Top Vintage Lots From The Phillips Hong Kong Watch Auction One
November saw some pretty exciting auctions and the good news is, the season is far from over. Come December, Phillips' first auction in Hong Kong will offer plenty of incredible vintage grails. Think...
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Reference Points: Understanding The Omega Speedmaster (VIDEO)
Welcome to the third installment of Reference Points, our series that takes an exhaustive look at some of the most important families of timepieces in history (Episode 1 featured the entire collection...
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Found: A Magnificent World War II Rolex 3525 And The Story Of The RAF Officer...
One big reason to love vintage watches is because they tell us stories – they seem to represent the soul of their former owners, who trusted and loved their timepieces and wore them through thick and...
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Hands-On: The Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Deadbeat
“In England "dead beat" means worn out, used up. ... But here, "dead beat" is used, as a substantive, to mean a scoundrel, a shiftless, swindling vagabond.” –The Galaxy, 1878 The complication known as...
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Technical Perspective: Ferrari Formula 1 Engineer Disassembles A Heuer...
Automatic chronographs are wonderfully complicated movements, and the race to produce the first ended with the announcement of the Chronomatic in 1969. This movement was used by Hamilton, Heuer and...
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Photo Report: Recapping The HODINKEE And Tiffany & Co. Event In New York
On the 18th of last month, HODINKEE hosted an event with Tiffany & Co. at their flagship boutique on 5th Avenue. The event was a continued celebration of the CT60 Collection, named for Tiffany...
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Horological Society Of New York: Thinking Through Leap Seconds With Sara...
The December 7th meeting of the Horological Society of New York (HSNY) will feature a lecture by artist Sara Morawetz. All HSNY meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, visit...
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Type Casting: Comparing The Breguet Type XX And Type XXI Chronographs
The Type XX and Type XXI chronographs don’t seem to get quite as much attention as you would think they’d get, at least in the USA, where the world of pilot’s chronographs skews much more heavily...
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Photo Report: RGM Watches At The Balvenie Rare Craft Collection In New York City
The Balvenie Rare Craft Collection recently came to New York City, featuring an exposition of five craftspeople demonstrating how they do what they love. Anthony Bourdain curated the exposition, which...
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Breaking News: Shinola To Keep 'Built in Detroit' Marketing Despite FTC Guidance
Last week, HODINKEE broke the news of the Federal Trade Commission's guidance on the Made in USA label as applied to American watchmaking companies. Today, the Detroit Free Press spoke with Shinola...
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Inside The Manufacture: Two Days With Parmigiani Fleurier (And Some Thoughts...
By Nicholas Manousos When we talk about fine watchmaking, the words “in-house” and “manufacture” invariably come up. We use them to describe how vertically integrated a company is – in other words how...
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Cartier Presents Six New Models For SIHH 2016, With Live Pics
It's December already (already!) and you know what that means: pre-SIHH announcements for watches that will officially debut next month in Geneva are already coming in. This one's a big one: six new...
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Bring a Loupe: A Knockout Selection Of Vintage Chronographs From Eberhard,...
This week's Bring A Loupe is mostly about chronographs, one of the most useful (if not the most useful) complications out there. I could not resist featuring a couple of Heuer and Universal Geneve;...
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Introducing: The A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Tourbillon Handwerkskunst (Full...
The "Handwerkskunst" watches from A. Lange & Söhne represent probably the highest end of what's already a very high end watchmaking company: the combination of very demanding and very refined...
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Hands-On: The 1950s Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar Reference 5516 For...
I don't know how many times I've admitted this, but I dream of being a vintage Audemars Piguet collector. The watches are so rare, so beautiful, so special, and until recently, completely under the...
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Introducing: The Limited Edition Ace Watch From Martenero And Tanner Goods
New York City's Martenero Watches has teamed up with Tanner Goods of Portland, Oregon, for a limited edition watch showcasing the best from each brand. The limited edition Martenero Ace will feature a...
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Technical Perspective: Kari Voutilainen Reviews Four High-End Chronographs,...
Suffice it to say master watchmaker Kari Voutilainen knows a thing or two about a good watch. That's why when we saw our friends at QP Magazine ask the highly regarded technician about some of today's...
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