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Introducing: The Bulova Moonwatch Re-Edition, With A High Beat Quartz Movement And $550 Pricetag
On October 1st of this year, we were thrilled to break the news that the one and only privately held lunar-worn chronograph would be coming up for sale. This was big news because as we told you then, all of the Omegas that made it to the moon were, are, and always will be property of the United States government, meaning you would never, ever be able to own one. But, Captain Dave Scott and his personal Bulova chronograph, on the other hand, also worn on the moon, is a different story. That watch ended up selling for a whopping $1.62 million two weeks ago. Now, Bulova has released a watch that looks just like it. And it only costs $550. ...
Technical Perspective: The Armin Strom Skeleton Pure Water
A mechanical watch movement is intrinsically beautiful C a little city on your wrist full of wheels and pinions and bridges and levers. Armin Strom celebrates that beauty with the Skeleton Pure collection, a range of watches that bring the open-worked movement to the forefront and allow the wearer to appreciate the mechanics inside without having to take the watch off their wrist. Let's take a closer look at the Armin Strom Skeleton Pure Water. Ratchet wheel detail with uniquely shaped spokes. The Armin Strom brand focuses exclusively on skeletonized watches with finely finished manufacture movements. The Skeleton Pure collect...
Photo Report: Parmigiani Fleurier Opens Their First Boutique In North America
Parmigiani Fleurier recently celebrated the grand opening of their new Miami Design District boutique with a gala event, full of enthusiastic fans of the brand. The boutique is Parmigiani Fleurier's first standalone store in North America, and no detail was left unturned. The Studio Parmigiani in Miami is Parmigiani Fleuriers fourteenth store. Miamis Design District is blossoming with with art galleries, design studios, fine restaurants, and a huge amount of watch boutiques. The Design District is an amazing area in an energetic city, perfect for Parmigiani Fleuriers first North American boutique.I used to live in Miami wh...
Last month in New York City, TAG Heuer celebrated the launch of their Carrera - Heuer 01 chronograph with a spectacular event featuring new brand ambassador Tom Brady. The Carrera - Heuer 01 is a milestone watch for TAG Heuer. Besides being a manufacture automatic chronograph at a very attractive price, it is a major product launch for the brand's new CEO, Jean-Claude Biver. Recently, HODINKEE caught up with TAG Heuer's Head of Products, Marc Walti, for a technical discussion about the movement in the Carrera - Heuer 01. HODINKEE: How does the Calibre Heuer 01 differ from Calibre 1887? ?(...
Introducing: The Legacy Machine Perpetual From MB&F
Max Bsser and his cohorts at his horological think tank, MB&F, have, without question, created a bewildering variety of watches over the years that have used horology as a jumping off point for the exploration of a highly idiosyncratic vocabulary of watchmaking, in which mechanics put themselves at the service of an aesthetics that freely mingles everything from pop culture to science fiction to sometimes alarming arachnomorphism, and beyond. However, what MB&F thus far has largely not addressed itself to is the world of traditional complications C other than the tourbillon, used by MB&F for its aesthetic impact, you will look in vain for anything beyond a simple calendar or a m...
Last week HODINKEE and Xavier Nolot (CEO of Audemars Piguet North America) hosted a private dinner for members of the company's board of directors, top Audemars Piguet clients, and HODINKEE readers to celebrate the launch of the new Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar 26574, which we announced here. Photographer and filmmaker Michael Benson created an astronomical-themed environment for the guests, using black and white imagery to create composite landscapes of the universe. However, the real star of the night was the Perpetual Calendar Royal Oak Reference 26574....
Introducing: The Tiffany CT60 Annual Calendar Limited Edition
There are a lot of ways to classify complications, but one of the most basic is that there are complications that invite you to interact with a watch more (the chronograph, the repeater) and those that invite you to interact with the watch less. The latter might include anything that improves accuracy, and relieves you of the burden of re-setting the watch too frequently. It also includes calendar complications, especially the perpetual calendar C which, in theory, keeps you from having to reset the date by hand in any month of fewer than 31 days, including the month of February, even in a leap year. I say in theory because...
One of the questions I'm asked most by watch collectors is "what's next?" in the world of vintage watches. We've seen the likes of Universal Geneve and Heuer really climb over the last few years, and Rolex and Patek C well C you know about them already. The two answers that I have been most often giving over the last 18 months or so, at least when talking about high-end vintage watches, is complicated Vacheron and AP's. The quality, the design, and pure, unadulterated watchmaking make these two categories so fun to observe, and the rarity and value make them fantastic places to spend your hard-earned money, in particular relative to vintage Patek. Today I'll take a look at two watches, both ...
Introducing: Four New Watches From Roger Smith (Plus Technical Analysis)
Last year we began to see some clues that something was afoot at Roger Smith's workshop. ?He started posting close ups of movement diagrams on his Instagram account that showed something entirely new. A lot of people, including myself, thought that he would introduce a new watch. He did, but he also introduced an entirely new range of watches. This is mind-boggling for an independent watchmaker that produces less than 10 watches per year, by hand, using traditional British watchmaking techniques. A Significant Step Forward For British Watchmaking The new watches are the Series 1, 2, 3, and 4. All incl...
Interview: A Look Inside The Personal Watch Collection Of Ralph Lauren
To put it simply, there is no one that has influenced all of us more in the way that we dress and think about style than Ralph Lauren. What started 40 years ago with one young man from the Bronx with an eye for design has turned into not just a global empire, but also an entire way of thinking C a world that has come to envelop far more than simply the Northeastern preppiness of Polo, but also the urbane chic-ness of the handmade Purple Label and the Southwestern workwear meets Brooklyn aura of RRL. Ralph Lauren's influence reaches far beyond clothes, into home goods and decorations, leather and accessories C each encompassing not a style, but an entire approach to living, one directed compl...
This week's Bring A Loupe will feature an early Autavia chronograph from Heuer, and reveal another from Longines C a true eBay find in all its glory, horrendous pictures included. We will also look into watches with some very special dimensions, starting with the first ultra-thin Piaget with automatic movement, and then examining two incredible Vacheron Constantins, both with oversized cases in pink gold. This is your Bring A Loupe for November 6, 2015. An Early Heuer Autavia Reference 2446 Second Generation Two weeks ago we covered in depth an early Autavia that ultimately fetched $45,000 on eBay and...
Hands-On: The Omega Seamaster 300 SPECTRE Limited Edition
Its tough to shake the grip that Rolex has in the minds of watch enthusiasts and film buffs alike as the James Bond watch C first of all, its the watch that Ian Fleming wrote into the books; Fleming himself wore a Rolex, and the prototypical and original cinematic James Bond C Sean Connery C wore a Submariner in Dr. No. Connery will always be the original Bond, and the Sub will always be the original movie Bond watch, but that doesnt mean C as subsequent years have shown C that there arent worthy successors to both, and Daniel Craigs take on Bond as a barely restrained borderline sociopath on a collision course with himself has gone a long way towards rehabilitating what had become some...
If youve been following HODINKEE lately, you probably know that this is a big weekend in the watch auction world. And the watch that has probably attracted the most attention is Patek Philippes contribution for Only Watch, a piece unique 5016 in steel. Why? Because, as Jack alludes to here, there has been a widespread consensus that if the right elements came together, this watch could become one of the highest priced wristwatches of all time. Patek Phillipe for Only Watch 2015 Well, the hammer just dropped on the Patek and we have the result. After back and forth bidding between two phone bidders for the last 2 Million CHF,...
Breaking News: Impressive Results For Richard Mille And F.P. Journe At Only Watch
It was a given from the beginning that the Patek Phillipe was going to be the top priced lot of the day here at the Only Watch auction. The question was which watch would take 2nd place. The two top contenders were the Richard Mille Tourbillon RM 27-02 Rafael Nadal and the F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain Bleu. The Richard Mille had the advantage of being based on a watch that has a much higher list price (about $800k), and (and this does matter to some) the exact watch in the sale today is a prototype that was actually game C worn by Nadal during the 2015 season including at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. The Journe in comparison is based on a watch with a list price of ab...
Announcing The Winners Of The HODINKEE Reader Survey, 2015 Edition
The response to this year's HODINKEE reader survey was incredible. Over 20,000 of you shared with us your thoughts on us, on yourselves, and on the amazing and amazingly varied world of wristwatches we inhabit. We know many of you have been eagerly awaiting news on who the survey contest winners are, and we thank you for your patience and apologize for the delay; coming up on that in just a minute. First, however, we want to really thank each and every one of you who participated. With the information you shared with us, we'll be able to better refine and hone our key editorial mission of bringing you the very best in watch news, reviews, history. and ?more, and we want to thank you all as w...
Remember the Omega Seamaster 300 SPECTRE Limited Edition watch that we covered here earlier in the week? Well one lucky fan was given one by his idol, Daniel Craig, leading up to the James Bond "Spectre" premiere. Britton Walker, an eight-year-old James Bond expert from Canada, had the chance to hang out with Daniel Craig while visiting London. When they met, Craig gave Walker a brand new Omega Seamaster made specifically for "Spectre." Britton, who was naturally ecstatic, relayed the story to Ellen DeGeneres on her show. See the full story below....
Breaking News: The Tudor Black Bay One At Only Watch 2015 Sells For Over 100 Times Retail Price
The hammer has just dropped on the Tudor Heritage Black Bay One and I hereby dub this result officially the most unsurprising surprise of Only Watch 2015. Let me explain C in the past few weeks, Ive been in many conversations with other watch guys about Only Watch 2015. Naturally the high priced lots were the topic of many of those discussions, but this Tudor came up almost as often. Why? Because of the belief that this piece could really go crazy C possibly hammering for significantly over estimate. What kind of result would be considered crazy? Well, the Heritage Black Bay One at Only Watch is a piece unique, but it is very si...
Introducing: The TAG Heuer Connected Smartwatch
We all knew it was coming, we just didn't know in what form. Today in New York City, TAG Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver introduced the brand's very first connected wristwatch. The TAG Heuer Connected is a 46 mm watch that looks very much like the new mechanical Carrera with Caliber 01 inside, but instead of a self-winding, Swiss-made movement, we have a Google-powered operating system. The watch takes the shape of a modern TAG Carrera, with a 46 mm case made of grade 2 titanium, complete with titanium deployant buckle. The stock black rubber strap may be swapped to a host of different colors, and the watch looks and feels very m...
Editorial: My Thoughts On The TAG Heuer Connected Smartwatch (VIDEO)
Today, TAG Heuer announced the TAG Heuer Connected smartwatch, which is powered by Intel hardware and Google's Wear OS. While it might not feature the latest and greatest in the increasingly crowded wearable-tech market, it might just be C due to a unique trade-in program C the smartwatch of choice for the diehard TAG Heuer fan. Watch the video above for all of my thoughts. The Specs - 46.2 mm in diameter - 12.8 mm thick - case, back, and lugs made of grade-2 titanium - black rubber strap, with additional straps available in red, blue, white, and orange - 1.5 in. transflective LTPS LCD display - 360 x 360...
Market Analysis On The Sometimes Spectacular, Sometimes Not Phillips Geneva Watch Auction Two
The Phillips Geneva Watch Auction Two has just concluded and were here to bring you our analysis of the sale. The auction resulted in 95% of lots being sold and brought in a total of 27,844,575 CHF (which is about the same in U.S. Dollars) versus a pre-sale estimate of 13.7 million to 24.8 million CHF. Lets take a look at some of the most interesting results of the sale. Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction Two Lot 112 C F.P. Journe Tourbillon Souverain, platinum, 1999: 269,000 CHFAs far as I know, this is the only Souscription Journe to ever come up at auction. As such there was no precedence for where this watch, the ninth wat...