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Introducing: A. Lange & Sohne Opens New Boutique In Costa Mesa, California
A. Lange & Sohne has opened its fourth boutique in the United States. The new store opened on August 2nd and is located in the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California. The South Coast Plaza is the location of 250 retailers and has the highest sales volume of any shopping center in the United States. It is recognized as the premier luxury shopping center in Southern California. With this new boutique, Lange will be able to offer a new home for both its timepieces and its clients in the city of the arts, as Costa Mesa calls itself. For more information...
Interview: Atom Moore: Watches Photographed Through The Eyes Of A Collector
Atom Moore, a New York City-based photographer, presents an exhibition of watch photography next month. "Watch Portraits" will open Thursday, September 3, 2015, with a reception at Sacred Gallery in SoHo from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. The exhibition will feature selections from two styles of photography Moore has developed over two years of working in the watch industry: macros, or extreme close-ups of one element of a modern watch; and mash-ups, or composites of images taken of several examples of the same model of vintage watch. On a searing late-August evening, Moore sat down with me in the Library Bar in the NoMad Hotel. We disc...
Talking Watches: With Brad Farmerie
Welcome to episode 18 of Talking Watches. Today we're sitting down with Brad Farmerie, the executive chef behind several of the hottest New York City eateries right now. After honing his craft in London in the 1990s, Farmerie returned to the U.S. in 2003 to open Public Restaurant, which would earn the coveted Michelin Star a handful of years later. In 2011, Saxon + Parole opened its doors, and it is here that we met to discuss his thoughtfully curated collection. This is Talking Watches with Brad Farmerie. Bell & Ross BR 03 Farmerie's first mechanical watch was this B...
Weekend Report: Watch (And Car) Spotting At The 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
As we told you last month, there isn't a better place to be for a car or watch fan than Monterey Car Week. We've already shown you some of the cars we saw at the contemporary-focused Quail Motorsport Gathering, and now we're back to talk watches. OK fine, we'll show you some cars from the headlining Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, too. This is a good old-fashioned modem-burner, folks. Watches Spotted In The Wild ...
Hands-On: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Chronograph, And More Thoughts On "In-House"
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Chronograph is a pretty unique offering nowadays C an under $10K chronograph with a great look, an in-house movement, and a very versatile design. Its not a new watch C the Master Chronograph was first introduced five years ago, in 2010, and the movement C the Jaeger-LeCoultre self-winding chronograph caliber 751 C was introduced all the way back in 2005. At the time, it was introduced as the very first automatic chronograph ever produced by Jaeger LeCoultre, and while no one was exactly surprised to see one from JLC it was still greeted with a lot of fanfare, and rightly so C a new automatic chronograph movement from any manufacturer is always a big event, simpl...
Hands-On: In The Master's Footsteps: The Breguet Reference 7337
Breguet has in recent years become increasingly active in telling its own story, and for watch enthusiasts, its a really unique story and one well worth knowing. ?Since the firm was founded by Abraham Breguet in the late 18th century, its had, to put it mildly, its ups and downs but it has also for many years produced some of the most beautifully designed watches anywhere in the horological world. ?Recent years have seen a great deal of attention paid to Breguets sports watches (including the rightly well-respected Type XXI) and its more overtly extroverted watches, such as the La Tradition family; and of course its been a period of almost unbelievably technical inventiveness --everythin...
Hands-On: With The Cartier Tank Anglaise
The Cartier Tank is one of the most recognizable watch designs of all time. With the classic, linear design, the Tank never goes out of favor. Today I am going to review the Tank Anglaise, the latest addition to the Tank family, which is an updated version of the classic. First, a little background on the Cartier Tank. The prototype for the Cartier Tank was designed during the First World War in 1917 by Louis Cartier, with the watch breaking onto the market in 1919. The industrial design was inspired by the horizontal section of the Renault tank. It is traditionally thought that, the prot...
The Value Proposition: The Montblanc Heritage Chronomtrie Ultra Slim
The Montblanc Heritage Chronomtrie Collection was launched earlier this year at the SIHH, and it includes a number of watches that have attracted, for very good reasons, a great deal of attention, including the Montblanc Heritage Chronomtrie ExoTourbillon Minute Chronograph Vasco da Gama, the Montblance Heritage Chronomtrie Quantime Annual Vasco da Gama, and the very nicely done and very practical Montblanc Heritage Chronomtrie Dual Time. It also includes a watch whose merits are easy to miss at first glance, and which we finally had a chance to look at up close and personal recently here at HODINKEE. ?That watch is the Heritage Chronomtrie Ultra-Slim. ...
Weekend Report: The Opera House Cup In Nantucket With Panerai
This year marked the 10th year of Panerai's sponsorship of the 43rd annual Opera House Cup Regatta in Nantucket. The Opera House Cup Regatta is an annual race for classic wooden yachts that takes place in the waters off Nantucket; it gets its name from the Opera House Restaurant, whose owner, Gwen Gaillard, came up with the idea for the regatta ?in 1973, after hearing local sailors lament the absence of a regatta for classic wooden-hull yachts. In the subsequent four decades it's evolved to become one of the most spectacular exhibitions of sailing yachts in the world; I had the opportunity to go out and watch the regatta with Panerai and it was truly a sight to behold (see pictures below).Th...
A Week On The Wrist: The Glashtte Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date
The world of in-house, self-winding chronograph movements started out small in 1969 with the Breitling/Heuer/Buren Caliber 11, the Zenith El Primero, and the Seiko caliber 6139 and it coincided with the beginning of the quartz era, which did not exactly provide a lush financial environment for horological innovation (as we all know the Seiko caliber 6139 is long gone, as is the caliber 11 and if it werent for the fact that Rolex started using the El Primero in the Daytona in 1988, that might not be around either.? Today its still a small group, at least in comparison to the number of brands offering automatic chronographs C...
Found: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic Worn By Captain William Anderson On The USS Nautilus
Earlier this week, we stopped off in Le Sentier, Switzerland, to visit the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. We were there to see something brand new C something they we will be thrilled to report on in the coming months. But, like most great products, what is new is usually based in something old, and what we saw as lovers of JLC's Geophysic line of watches was downright awesome. As you may remember, the very first Geophysic was designed to be the utmost in chronometric performance and durability, and one example was gifted to a Captain William R. Anderson, who piloted the USS Nautilus C the first atomic submarine C to the North Pole in 1958. We saw his actual watch. ...
Sotheby's Hong Kong has just announced the highlights from their upcoming sale on October 6th. The sale will consist of 420 lots with an estimate exceeding 86 million HKD ($11 million US). The sale consists of a range of pieces from all the major watch brands with a spattering of jeweled pieces, modern wristwatches, and vintage pieces. BUT the most exciting part of the sale is the vintage Patek Philippe Reference 2523 World-Time with dual-crown. Leading the pack is an incredibly cool Patek Philippe Reference 2523/1 Yellow Gold World Time Wristwatch with 24-hour indication and double crown, made in 1968 with an estimate of 4 t...
A New School Year Begins At Glashtte Original's Watchmaking School
Watchmakers are in high demand around the world, and many brands have opened their own schools to ensure they have the horological talent necessary to grow their businesses. Glashtte Original's Alfred Helwig School of Watchmaking recently welcomed 26 new students to their state-of-the-art facility. The Alfred Helwig School teaches both watchmaking and toolmaking in three and three-and-a-half-year sessions, respectively. Twenty-two of the 26 new students will focus on watchmaking; the other four will focus on toolmaking. With the new class, the school now has 80 students in total under its roof. Graduates will receive a Germa...
The chronograph is a decidedly difficult complication to produce C that much we know. After all, up until about 15 years ago there were less than a handful of manually wound chronographs in existence. Another great tenet of watchmaking is that of the ultra-thin movement, a specialty practically owned these days but nobody but Piaget. It was last December that we caught a glimpse of a truly extraordinary timepiece C the Piaget Alitplano Chronograph C a manually wound, in-house chronograph with fly-back mechanism and GMT function that was only 8.24 mm thick. As of today, this incredible watch is in stores, and we thought it was worth revisiting this incredible piece by allowing Philippe Leopol...
Hands-On: General Douglas MacArthur's Personal Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso
In April of this year, while searching through an Antiquorum catalog, we discovered one of the coolest examples of one of the coolest watches of all time C a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso owned by none other than General Douglas MacArthur. We've always known the Reverso to be the choice of several great men, but it was unknown that General MacArthur in particular wore the watch. We knew the MacArthur Reverso would have its fans when it came up for sale, and we were right C it sold for over 87,000 CHF. What we didn't know at the time was that the watch would be purchased by the company that originally made it, and we would have the chance to see it in the metal some months later. ...
A. Lange & Sohne Opens New Manufactory Building In Glashtte
On August 26, 2015, A. Lange & Sohne celebrated the opening of its new manufactory building. After three years of construction, it was officially inaugurated by German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and Free State of Saxony Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich. The Chancellor thanked 91-year-old "re-founder" Walter Lange, stating, "The new beginning was not easy, but you and your companions succeeded in securing the manufactorys top-tier position among the worlds finest watch brands once again. Eastern Germanys good reputation as innovative, flexible and [a] modern location is based on s...
At The Bench: Testing Out The ONEOF Accuracy
Giving someone like me watch-related gadgets that I can empirically test is like handing a grail Lange over to Jack. It just brings out the unadulterated passion we have for the world of watches. Testing the new Accuracy machine by ONEOF was a great opportunity to both test something new and to talk about the most fundamental characteristic of a watch. For people who work on watches, timing is an all-consuming obsession. Almost everything we do is to make sure the timing is as good as possible. We clean, inspect, burnish, polish, oil, and adjust to make sure a watch keeps proper and reliable time, but in reality, all this work is to make sure that the wearer doesnt have to think about it. ...
IWC has a wonderful history of no nonsense, beautiful, and impactful wristwatches. I'm talking Mark XI pilots watches, Ingenuiers, and of course, the Portuguese. To be fair, there isn't a more important IWC family to any real collector than the Portuguese, and just yesterday, IWC released a 164-page online book about this most important collection. This online book covers not only the earliest days of the Portuguese family C including how many examples of the early reference 325 were made and in which series C but also every subsequent variation of the Portuguese family. Of note, you will find a detailed section on the Jubile...
On June 29th of this year, we showed you a simple looking watch C one made of stainless steel with a simple self-winding movement inside C that got a lot of people excited. I'm talking about the Tudor Heritage Black Bay ONE Reference 7923/001, a unique watch made for Only Watch 2015. The watch is a variation on the existing Tudor Black Bay, with a black bezel and dial and hands that resemble those found on one of Tudor's most collectible and sought after vintage pieces, the reference 7923 seen here when we went inside the Tudor vault. Not only is it great looking, but it's also the very first confirmed unique watch to ever come from Tudor. Now we have a few "live" photos of it C and it looks...
H10: Livestream: The Swiss Industry Then, Now, And Tomorrow C A Conversation With Jean-Claude Biver
Swiss watch legend Jean-Claude Biver will discuss the history and evolution of the industry with HODINKEE editor-at-large Joe Thompson. He will also take questions from attendees in an extensive Q&A session. Biver began his watch career in 1975 and has been a pivotal player in the evolution of the Swiss watch industry over the past half century, from the quartz-watch crisis to the rise of the smartwatch. He is celebrated world-wide as a proven strategic thinker, brand builder, management motivator, and marketing maven. This is sure to be a treat....