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In-Depth: Four Tips To Spot (And Avoid) A Restored Dial
Collecting vintage watches isn’t for the faint-hearted. There are many, many things that can go wrong if one doesn’t know what to look out for – wrong movements, crowns, hands, franken-watches – the...
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Introducing: The Hublot Big Bang Unico Sapphire
Just when you thought Hublot couldn't get any crazier, they go ahead and release a clear watch. That's right, CLEAR. The Big Bang Unico Sapphire automatic flyback chronograph is the first new release...
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Hands-On: The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Ultra-Thin With Caliber 1120
This is a watch we loved a lot when we went hands-on with it at the SIHH. It’s part of the refreshed Overseas line of watches, and while it’s the sort of thing one expects from Vacheron Constantin,...
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Introducing: The New Glashütte Original Senator Chronometer, With A Dark Blue...
Directly inspired by the marine chronometers made in Glashütte during the mid-20th century, the Senator Chronometer was introduced in 2009 with a perfectly archetypal dial layout for the genre. It...
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Editors' Picks: The HODINKEE Valentine's Day 2016 Watch Gift Guide, Because...
Ah, Valentine’s Day, you either love it or hate it (mostly the latter). Here at HODINKEE we love it – okay not really, but we thought it would be great to bring you a selection of watches (in addition...
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Watch Spotting: Super Bowl 50 Champion Peyton Manning Wearing A Panerai...
Whether it was for the sport, the commercials, the halftime show, or the incredibly awesome nachos (add chorizo – you're welcome), you were likely one of the 111.9 million viewers that tuned into that...
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Bring a Loupe: A Modern Deep Sea From LeCoultre, A Great Looking Universal...
This week, Bring A Loupe goes all-in on eBay to find the better deals, and some bad ones too. Expect to see a ridiculously cheap Heuer, a great looking Universal Geneve, and two questionable Rolexes....
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Hands-On: The Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days PAM 662 And Luminor 1950 PAM 663
Panerai doesn’t leave me indifferent. But I feel different about Panerai every time I have one on. One moment I get why the Paneristi are so devoted to the brand and why the subtle differences between...
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Watch Spotting: Ellen DeGeneres Wearing A Vintage Rolex Daytona 6265 While...
Everyone knows Ellen DeGeneres – the mononymously famous Ellen (yes, that is a real word, we didn't make it up) is one of the best known and best liked people not just on TV, but in show business in...
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Found: The Most Amazing Vintage Watch Website Nobody's Heard Of (But Not For...
I recently came across an incredible website – a kind of paradise if, like me, you are passionate about vintage watches. Timeline.Watch, started as the virtual catalog of experienced watch enthusiast...
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Found: The Watch That Would (Not) Be King: A Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Made...
This vintage Reverso is one with a stronger than usual connection to history, and it's a memento of a crisis. Engraved on the back with a dedication to a king, it would never be worn by its intended...
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Found: An Early World Time Watch Given To President Woodrow Wilson By The...
Last Presidents' Day, we added a remarkable Czech pocket watch given to President Woodrow Wilson in gratitude for his role in defeating Germany in World War I to our legendary Guide to the Watches of...
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Bring a Loupe: Five Reasons Why Spending $5,000 On This Tudor 'Monte Carlo'...
The Tudor "Monte Carlo" is undoubtedly a very cool looking chronograph, with a funky color scheme that you would not have expected from Manufacture Rolex – also the owner of Tudor. The successive...
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Hands-On: Kari Voutilainen's Unique Platinum GMT-6 And Burgundy Dial Vingt-8
The biggest new feature of the SIHH this year was, of course, the area set aside for presentations by nine independent watchmakers, known as the Carré des Horlogers. Based on word-of-mouth from...
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Hands-On: The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Chronograph, Now With The Geneva...
The 1970s gave birth to four high-end stainless-steel mechanical watches with integrated bracelets. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak (1972), the IWC Ingenieur SL (1976), the Patek Philippe Nautilus (also...
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Introducing: The Harry Winston Project Z9, A Flyback Self-Winding Chronograph...
Harry Winston's Project Z timepieces have been part of the company's watch offerings since 2004. At that time, Ron Winston was still very much a part of the company, and the first Project Z watch...
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VIDEO: How To Service The 234-Component Caliber 1861 Inside The Omega...
Over the past 18 months – really since the introduction of that watch from the fruit company – people have asked myself and my colleagues how big of a threat these new types of watches will be to the...
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Hands-On: The New Seiko Prospex 200m Divers, SRP775 And SRP777, Two Dive...
This year we've got two new additions to the Seiko family of entry and mid-level diver's watches. These are the new-to-the-Prospex line, cushion-cased-shaped dive watches, which for the U.S. market,...
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Hands-On: The Van Cleef & Arpels Ronde Des Papillons, With On-Demand Dial...
Van Cleef & Arpels, usually associated with those little clover earrings and necklaces, has expanded its Poetic Complications collection this year with the Lady Arpels Ronde des Papillons watch...
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Introducing: The Arnold & Son HM Double Hemisphere Perpetual Moon, With A...
Most moon-phase displays typically require the use of loupe to be fully appreciated, but no such instrument is needed when it comes to Arnold & Son’s latest watch. Instead, it provides us with a...
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