HODINKEE Radio: Episode 56: Watch Collection Fantasy Draft 2019

September 10, 2019

Subscribe to the show: (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn). Already heard it once or twice? Please leave a short review here, and tell us which guests we should have on! While its not quite sweater weather yet here in New York City, that other classic American fall tradition is most definitely upon us: football season! With that comes fantasy football, and a few days before our office league draft, a few of us got talking and came up with the out-of-left-field idea to do a fantasy watch collection draft right here on HODINKEE Radio to celebrate.For those of you not familiar with fantasy football, the idea is pretty simple: You pick players from different teams to assemble your fantasy team. Then, when those individual players do good things, you get points. For our fantasy watch collection draft, scoring works a bit differently (more on that below), but the basic concept is the same. Four people each assemble their ideal collection of six watches by drafting them from an infinite pool of watches. The catch? Once a given model is taken, nobody else can pick that model. Someone picks a Submariner, thats it for the Submariner. Somebody picks a Royal Oak, same thing.?Now, as youll hear in the episode, there were some different understandings of what "fantasy" means here and some collections are a bit more fantastic than others. The result is a fun episode with some healthy competition thrown in there too. I sense we might have an annual tradition on our hands here The Collections To give our fantasy watch collections some structure we took a page from the fantasy football playbook and came up with six positions that each of us had to fill. These are Modern Sport Watch, Modern Dress Watch, Vintage Sport Watch, Vintage Dress Watch, High Complication, and Flex. In each collection below, theyre listed in that order, though each person could draft in whatever order he or she saw fit.Without further ado, here are the four collections we came up with: Ben Modern Sport Watch: Rolex Submariner ref. 116618 in yellow gold with black dial Modern Dress Watch: Philippe Dufours Simplicity No. 00 (white gold in 34mm with guilloch dial) Vintage Sport Watch: Omega Speedmaster used by Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11? Vintage Dress Watch: Grand Seiko "First" in platinum (which inspired this watch) High Complication: Cartier Tortue Minute Repeater from the 1920s with Audemars Piguet movement Flex: Patek Philippe ref. 1563 chronograph belonging to Duke Ellington Cara Modern Sport Watch: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak ref. 15450 Modern Dress Watch: Bulgari Serpenti Misteriosi Pallini Vintage Sport Watch: Rolex Daytona ref. 6239 in stainless steel (non Paul Newman dial) Vintage Dress Watch: Cartier Crash, original Cartier London model? High Complication: Patek Philippe Ref. 3448 "Padellone" perpetual calendar in white gold (not a Senza Luna) Flex: Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication Jack Modern Sport Watch: Seiko Prospex 1970 Diver's Re-Creation Limited Edition SLA033 "Willard" Modern Dress Watch: Cartier Tank Louis Cartier in yellow gold Vintage Sport Watch: Patek Philippe Ref. 3417 Amagnetic Vintage Dress Watch: Omega 30T2RG Chronomtre High Complication: Patek Philippe Observatory Tourbillon Wristwatch Flex: Rolex Day-Date 36 in yellow gold with champagne dial Stephen Modern Sport Watch: Tudor Black Bay 58 Modern Dress Watch: Akrivia Chronomtre Contemporain in platinum Vintage Sport Watch: Rolex Space-Dweller ref. 1016 Vintage Dress Watch: Patek Philippe ref. 2526 in white gold with enamel dial High Complication: Rolex ref. 8171 in steel with steel hands and markers Flex: Richard Mille RM27-01 Nadal You Pick The Winner The best part of all of this? You all get to pick the winner of the inaugural HODINKEE Radio Watch Collection Fantasy Draft. Click the link below to vote on which collection you think takes the cake. There are no strict criteria here C just pick your favorite. Voting will be open for just over a week, ending at 6:00 PM ET on Wednesday, September 18. May the best collector win!Click here to vote on a winner! Show Notes 15:00Still Life with Woodpecker?20:50The Sale Of The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Jr. Supercomplication?31:00Cartier Tank Cintre?34:53The Persistence of Memory?50:00 Full List Of Final Collections