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In-Depth: The Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Asymtrique Edition Historique.
The?Tourbillon 24 Secondes Asymtrique was first introduced by Greubel Forsey ten years ago, in 2007, and it has over the last decades become something of an icon for the company C in this respect, probably only surpassed by the Double Tourbillon 30o. The Vision version of the Asymtrique would go on to win the?Grand Prix de lAiguille dOr in 2015, at the Grand Prix Horlogerie de Genve, and after 15 versions of the Tourbillon 24 Secondes, and 5 of the Asymtrique, Greubel Forsey is closing out the asymmetrical version of this tourbillon with the Edition Historiques, which is available in two versions C red gold, or platinum C of 11 pieces each. ...
Introducing: The TAG Heuer Tom Brady Special Edition Heuer 01 Chronograph
TAG Heuer has just released a new special edition watch with brand ambassador Tom Brady. The New England Patriots quarterback, and five-time Super Bowl victor, has been a brand ambassador with the LVMH-owned watch manufacturer since 2015. This is the first co-designed watch released by TAG Heuer with Brady. The Tom Brady Special Edition is based on the Heuer 01 Chronograph in 43mm (which stems from the 45mm Carrera 01 originally released in 2013). The blue dial displays the date, constant seconds, and 30-minute and 12-hour registers. The number 12 is displayed prominently in red to represent Brady's jersey number.? ...
Hands-On: The Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Small Model
One of the most common complaints over the last decade or more from watch enthusiasts has been that watches have, by and large, gotten too big for their own good. It's certainly true that watches are bigger now, in general, than at any other time in the history of wristwatches although size itself is, like any other fashion, variable, and it's no more objectively wrong for 40mm watches to be popular, than it was wrong for leisure suits to be popular (ok, maybe not leisure suits). What does or doesn't work for anyone in terms of comfort and style is very dependent on physique and personal tastes as well; you can hardly expect someone who's six foot five with an eight inch wrist to think that ...
Introducing: The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Aventador S (Live Pics & Pricing)
Whatever you may think about watch/car partnerships, Roger Dubuis and Lamborghini are brands that evoke pretty passionate responses, positive and negative, among basically anyone who cares enough about watches or cars to have an opinion at all.? The RD 103SQ movement seen the the caseback of the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Aventador S. While certainly not for everyone, each has die-hard advocates and, unsurprisingly, theres a fair amount of overlap between their client bases. (Roger Dubuis CEO Jean-Marc Pontroue says that he had the idea to make something happen with Lamborghini after repeatedly hearing the supercars name come up...
Announcements: The HODINKEE Magazine, Volume 1, Is Now Available
The big day is finally here: the HODINKEE Magazine, Volume 1, is now available. If you pre-ordered your copy, it should be arriving any day now, and if you haven't yet, you can still head on over to the HODINKEE Shop to pick one up. In addition to offering the magazine directly through the HODINKEE Shop, we've teamed up with some of the best retailers on the planet for distribution. The HODINKEE Magazine is available for purchase at The Armoury in Hong Kong and New York City, Askov Finlayson in Minneapolis, Drake's in New York City, GJ Cleverley in London, Iconic Magazines in New York City,?the Leica Store in San Francisco, Todd Snyder in New York City, and Woaw ...
Business News: What Is The World's Most Valuable Watch Brand?
Each year, the marketing research consultant Kantar Millward Brown issues a report ranking the worlds leading brands by their estimated brand value. The BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, as the report is called, ranks the worlds top 100 brands in terms of brand equity. It also ranks the most valuable brands in a number of key product segments, including luxury. Rolex Headquarters A review of the 315-page 2017 BrandZ report, issued in June, makes it clear that the worlds most valuable watch brand is Rolex, which has an estimated brand value of $8.053 billion. The estimate is based on a complicated formula combining...
Friday Live: Episode 19: With New York Times Best-Selling Author Gary Shteyngart
After a week-long hiatus, we're back! We have lots to discuss this week, and to join in the discussion we have invited our good friend and HODINKEE Magazine contributor Gary Shteyngart to join in the conversation. You may remember Gary from his recent New Yorker story about his foray into the vintage watch world, or from from one of his 10 books featured on the New York Times best sellers list, including The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Super Sad True Love Story. Most recently, however, Gary authored some closing thoughts for Volume 1 of the HODINKEE Magazine in which he details the struggles of a small-wristed watch enthusaist. ...
Introducing: The Ferdinand Berthoud Chronomtre FB 1.3
The Chopard Group has a number of interests other than the creation of Chopard watches, including two very large movement manufacturing centers in Fleurier. One of its more recent enterprises was the founding, in 2015, of a brand separate from Chopard named for the great French chronometer maker, Ferdinand Berthoud, and which launched with a watch C the Chronomtre Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1 C which takes its inspiration from the notion of a "marine chronometer for the wrist." We spent A Week On The Wrist recently with this watch and came away very favorably impressed; there are a number of engineering and design decisions present that make it not only very visually interesting and horologicall...
Introducing: The Oris Big Crown D.26 286 HB-RAG Limited Edition
We have a new watch from Oris to announce this afternoon. Its a limited edition pilots timepiece in the Big Crown family, and its named after the Dewoitine D.26, ?a French-designed, Swiss-made propeller plane that was long used to train pilots for the Swiss Air Force way back in 1931.?The aircraft was a trainer version of the monoplane D.27 fighter aircraft, of which a total of 66 were made. We owe this new limited editions existence to a group of volunteer enthusiasts known as Hanger 31, who preserve and regularly fly one of two extant Dewoitine D.26s from a base in the Swiss town of Grenchen.? The latest limited editio...
This week offers some serious contenders with very attractive features: a Rolex MilSub, and a Breitling Co-Pilot. The sword handset and fixed bars of the Submariner were indeed military requirements (hence the Milsub nickname) while the large chronograph from Breitling exhibits the oversized minute sub-register found in the previous AVI models, and also on the Breguet Type 20. We have also included some more unexpected finds, including a Movado diver, and a Yema Flygraf. This is your Bring A Loupe for September 29, 2017.? A Breitling Co-Pilot Reference 7650 The Breitling reference 7650CP shows its stylist...
Interview: Rainer Mutsch On Designing The Rado True Stratum
Rainer Mutsch embodies modern Vienna. He is an industrial designer creating minimalist designs atop an extremely busy street around the corner from the Belvedere Palace. In other words, its a mix of creative edge, traffic that could have put Jimi Hendrix in a songwriting mood, and Disneyland-for-real. Mutschs designs are often very material and tech-driven C he studied furniture design in Copenhagen, product design at the University of Arts Berlin, and industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He's had his own design studio since 2008, with notable projects including modular outdoor furniture made of fiber-cement, as well as a variety of other projects in which structural...
Hands-On: The Cartier Tank Cintre Skeleton
The Cartier Tank has existed in a truly bewildering range of variations and sub-variations over the years since it was first introduced in 1917, and yet surprisingly enough almost none of those variants make use of skeletonized, or openworked, movements. Cartier certainly has sold an enormous number of openworked pocket and wristwatches over the years, but it was not until the introduction of the Tank Louis Cartier Noctambule (part of the Collection Prive Cartier Paris collection) in 2004 that an openworked Tank appeared. This was followed by the Tank MC Skeleton, in 2013, and then the Tank LC Sapphire Skeleton in 2014, which was widely critically praised and generally regarded as a very su...
Photo Report: The HODINKEE Magazine Launch Party
Last week we had the pleasure of celebrating the launch of the HODINKEE Magazine, Volume 1, in New York City. Nearly 200 friends and enthusiasts turned out to enjoy cocktails (kindly provided by the Glenfiddich and Hendrick's), music, and the magazine with the HODINKEE Team, and we even had a little HODINKEE Shop pop-up too. ?After months of toiling away to produce this magazine, it was exciting to finally get it into people's hands and to see reactions to this entirely new part of the HODINKEE portfolio.? Enjoy the photos from the evening below and we hope to see you at another HODINKEE event soon! ...
Introducing: The Chanel CODE COCO
Chanel is no stranger to the watch game. In fact, the Parisian fashion house has been on something of a roll lately. It all started a few years ago with the Boy.Friend, and then last year they made an even bigger splash with their first ever dedicated men's watch, the Monsieur, which featured an in-house movement developed with none other than Romain Gauthier. It was a not-so-secret hit with us here at HODINKEE, as one of the more surprising and interesting watches of that year's Baselworld fair due to the jump-hour Caliber 1. Then, keeping things going, Chanel followed up with the Premire Camlia Skeleton and the Caliber 2 just earlier this year. The ...
Editorial: Why I Miss The COSC Chronometer Data
Maybe you heard that Switzerlands official chronometer testing agency has decided to stop issuing chronometer data by brand. I cant speak for anybody else, but as a guy with a serious watch-data habit, this is inducing tremors.? COSC (Contr?le Officiel Suisse des Chronomtres) has been releasing such data in its annual report (in French) since 1974. Suddenly, in the report for 2016, issued in mid-2017, the brand data vanished. Instead, there was a terse statement from COSC board chairman Nico de Rooij: At the request of our clients, and to protect brands confidentiality, our annual report has been revamped and no longer provides statistics by brands. Each cli...
Introducing: The A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds In Pink Gold
The Richard Lange Jumping Seconds from A. Lange & Sohne was first introduced at the 2016 edition of the SIHH, and as part of the Richard Lange family, it's intended to showcase certain aspects of precision timekeeping. The first version of the watch was released in platinum, with rhodium plated hands, and made a suitably austere impression, relieved somewhat by the unusual overlapping sub-dials for the hours, minutes, and seconds and, if you let the watch run down enough, the appearance of a red triangle at 6:00 (the window switches to red when there is ten hours of power reserve remaining).? The Richard Lange Jumping Seconds in platinum, 2016 editi...
Inside The Manufacture: Six Of The Coolest Things I Saw Inside Montblanc
Anyone who has visited more than one watch factory knows that they almost all share a number of things in common. There are the large industrial floors with the bays of CNC machines. There are the open clean rooms filled with white-coated watchmakers with their elbows perched on their benches. And there is some kind of inner sanctum, where a handful of craftspeople furtively create the best things to bear a given brand's name. But each manufacture has a few special things about it too C the things that give that maker its unique flavor and feel. Those are the things that make each visit worthwhile and exciting. ? Earlier this yea...
Announcements: Stay Tuned For Something Big Tomorrow At 1 PM ET
We've been working on something really special for nearly a year, and we're almost ready to share it with you all. All the details will be available tomorrow, October 4, at 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT), so be sure to keep your eyes on HODINKEE to be among the first to see our latest collaboration. You definitely don't want to miss this, we promise. That's all we can say for the moment, but we can't wait to share this special collaboration with you tomorrow. Stay tuned....
Four Revolutions: A Concise History Of The Modern Watch World
Forty years ago last month, I started a new job as an associate editor on a monthly magazine with the tortured name of Jewelers Circular-Keystone. My reporting career began the year before on a newspaper in Cape May County, New Jersey. Things there went well. In addition to covering local news and politics, I got to cover some national stories like the Democratic Convention of 1976 and Jimmy Carters inauguration. The journalism gods smiled on the rookie and I won a couple of reporting awards. They were my ticket out of Cape May County in pursuit of that coveted five-figure salary. (Yep, it was four figures per year on small-town papers in those days.) On my fir...
The Historiques Collection from Vacheron Constantin is the home of a number of critic and fan favorites, including the Cornes de Vache chronographs and the oh-so-deliciously-thin Ultra-Fine 1955. It also includes the quirky but extremely appealing American 1921 "Driver's Watch," with its unusual angled dial. Today Vacheron's announced several major new additions to the Historiques family: two versions of two closely related, and quite wonderful, triple calendar and moonphase references from the 1940s, and a new version of the American 1921 in a new, significantly smaller case. Let's take a look at the calendar and moonphase watches first. The Historiques 1942 And...