A Week On The Wrist: The Calibre de Cartier Chronograph
I’ll begin by saying this: Cartier deserves your respect. In fact, I would say that Cartier is one of three Richemont-owned watchmakers that are pushing things forward in a major way yet do not receive...
View ArticleHODINKEE Teams Up With Freemans Sporting Club To Create The Traveler Sportcoat
The Traveler Sportcoat is the first collaboration between HODINKEE and Freemans Sporting Club. We travel. A lot. This year alone our team has been to Tokyo, Reykjadalur, Chantilly, Schaffhausen,...
View ArticleIntroducing the 6B MK2, A New Pilot’s Watch From The Maker Of GasGasBones Straps
As most readers know, there’s a lot of BS in the watch business – dubious claims, hyperbolic claims of pedigree and purpose, and breathless marketing hype. But Carl Evans is the real deal. He’s the...
View ArticleHands-On With The Nomos Zurich Worldtimer True Blue
A new dial color was introduced for the Nomos Zurich Worldtimer: "True Blue." Two months ago, when we first heard word of a new dial color for the Nomos Zurich Worldtimer, two things were certain: we...
View ArticleA Limited Edition Panerai Celebrates Revolution Magazine’s Tenth Anniversary
The watch magazine Revolution is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year and Panerai has created a limited edition watch to commemorate the milestone. Revolution was founded in Singapore in 2004...
View ArticleHands-On With The Entire Collection Of Lange & Söhne Lange 1 20th Anniversary...
About a month ago, A. Lange & Söhne announced a set of limited edition Lange 1's that would be sold in pairs to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its most iconic watch. We made that announcement...
View ArticleIntroducing The Piaget Altiplano Chronograph, Now The Thinnest Hand-Wound...
Here it is people. This is a major new introduction from Piaget, and it is really impressive stuff. Piaget is known for making the thinnest complicated watches in the world. Actually, they also happen...
View ArticleWatch Spotting, Art Basel Miami Edition, At The W Hotel South Beach
IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days In not-so-inconspicuous strategies catering to presumably affluent consumers, a number of watch brands engage in elaborate marketing exercises during the annual Art...
View ArticleWhat's Selling Where: Highlights Of Next Week's New York Auctions
This coming week features a number of auctions in New York (plus one in London) so I thought I would compile the highlights in a single article, while also flag some lots of concern in the hope that...
View ArticleA. Lange & Söhne Refreshes Saxonia Line For SIHH
Not content to leave well enough alone, A. Lange & Söhne has given three models from their Saxonia line a discreet dial makeover before going into SIHH next month. The updated design affects the...
View ArticleIntroducing The Longines Conquest 1/100th Alpine Skiing Chronograph
The ability to time events to hundredths of a second is quite a technological feat. Such recording requirements surpass the needs of the average chronograph-user (who is more likely to use this...
View ArticleOmega Develops A New Watchmaking Certification Process With The Swiss Federal...
The new certification process is open to watches from any manufacturer. With the introduction of the Master Co-Axial movement in 2013, touted as "the world's first truly anti-magnetic movement", Omega...
View ArticleA Conversation On Provocation And Design Polarization With Roger Dubuis CEO...
" If you want to exist, you have to exist with provocation." Jean-Marc Pontroue, CEO of Roger Dubuis. There are two main similarities between a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster and the watches of Roger...
View ArticleIntroducing the Cartier Crash Skeleton, An Icon Reimagined
Recently, Ben implored a simple point to Hodinkee readers: Cartier deserves your respect. The manufacture’s latest release of the Crash Skeleton, with Calibre 9618 MC, furthers that notion. Cartier...
View ArticleJoin HODINKEE This Weekend For A Vintage Watch Trunk Show At Bergdorf Goodman
(No watches were harmed in the making of this image.) This Friday and Saturday, team HODINKEE will be at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City to present a selection of vintage watches curated especially...
View ArticleIntroducing The Ulysse Nardin Imperial Blue, A Flying Tourbillon With...
As of late, Ulysse Nardin has decided to really own the nautical theme, almost exclusively. Make no mistake, the nautical theme isn’t necessarily a rotating bezel and a brushed, depth-resistant case....
View ArticleTAG Heuer CEO Stéphane Linder Resigns, Jean-Claude Biver Steps In As Interim CEO
Stéphane Linder worked at Tag Heuer for 21 years. Big news out of La Chaux-de-Fonds: Stéphane Linder, CEO of TAG Heuer, has resigned from his position at the helm of one of the world's largest...
View ArticleWhat's Selling Where: Shopping At Cool Vintage Watches In Parkville, Missouri
If you love vintage watches and ever find yourself in Kansas City, it is certainly worth the 20-minute drive to the quaint town of Parkville to check out Cool Vintage Watches (CVW). Located on the...
View ArticleHands-On With The Greubel Forsey GMT Black, A 22-Piece Limited Edition With...
The Greubel Forsey GMT Black is limited to 22 pieces. There is a 3-D globe set within the Greubel Forsey GMT that will tell you where around the world, at any given moment, the sun is shining or...
View ArticleIN-DEPTH: Inside The Archives Of Audemars Piguet (Video)
To me, vintage Audemars Piguet is one of the most exciting, underappreciated, and beautiful categories of watches to study and collect. But let's not get it twisted.I won't pretend that as a whole, the...
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