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Happenings: The Horological Society of New York's 152nd Anniversary Gala & Charity Auction
The Horological Society of New York (HSNY) invites you to celebrate its 152nd anniversary at the 2018 Gala and Charity Auction?on Wednesday April 18, 2018. The annual Gala and Charity Auction is an opportunity to look back at the Society's accomplishments, recognize talented watchmaking students, and bid on some cool watches and ephemera. HSNY of course invites you to come celebrate New York's horological tradition too. Charity Auction, Hosted by Christie's HSNY's 2018 Charity Auction, hosted by Christie's International Head of Watches, John Reardon, will take place at the Gala. A selection of extraordinary timepieces and horological ...
Hands-On: The Mido Commander Shade
If you're growing tired of the usual new vintage dive watches and chronographs born of designs from the 1960s, perhaps I can interest you in something rather different. As part of the celebration of their 100th anniversary, Mido has launched a pair of classic Commanders with a 70s-inspired dial design. Based on a Commander design from 1979, the new Mido Commander Shade is well outside my normal taste in watches but caught my eye with its effortless style, delightful wrist presence, and accessible pricing.? The dial is legible and distinctive with a faded, graduated finish. When I first adjusted the old school sliding clasp and...
Found: A Tiffany-Signed Patek Philippe 2526 In Platinum With Enamel Dial And Platinum Bracelet
It is no secret that I have a thing for the 2526. Like, a big one. There is something so special about the large, screw-back case and insanely high-end self-winding movement. Then of course you have the enamel dial! There is so much to love and we see 2526s come up for sale all the time, so it's easy to get a little blase about them. And then you see something like this. Holee. Shiz. What you are looking at is a platinum cased Patek Philippe reference 2526 with a white enamel dial without diamonds. And it's Tiffany-signed! And it comes on a platinum, period correct Tiffany bracelet! And the condition is insane!? This 2526 is...
Photo Report: The Fashion And Watches Of Baselworld 2018
Every year, Baselworld seems to get more and more hectic. There are press conferences, and product releases, and events to attend, not to mention all the stories we want to write and all the photos we want to take. But, sometimes it's good to keep your head up and to look around a bit. Along with the watches, there are a lot of interesting people at Baselworld too. This year we thought it would be fun to chat with some of the show's most well-dressed attendees to see what they had on their wrists. Each pairs fashion and watches in a slightly different way, and there's a ton to learn and admire from taking a look. You might recognize a few familiar faces, but we m...
Monta is a young American brand based in St. Louis, Missouri, that produces a focused but growing line of steel sport watches. This includes the Triumph field watch, the Oceanking diver, and the Skyquest (which is a GMT iteration of the Oceanking). The Oceanking was the brand's original watch, and the first generation sold out quickly, leading to the development of the second-gen version seen here. Carrying a number of updates prompted by feedback from customers, the 2018 Oceanking is well-made, and has a conservative design that seeks to cater to the dive watch enthusiast.? 40.7mm wide and now 2mm thinner, the new Oceanking is really good on wrist. ...
The connection between motorsports and watchmaking is both obvious and elusive. Cars, racing, and time are joined at the hip, of course, but cars and watches couldn't be more diametrically opposed as machines. On the one hand you have the huge and powerful; on the other, you have the small, the relatively delicate, and the virtually silent. And yet, somehow they keep finding themselves in each other's company. Goodwood House, in March 2018. A great place to observe cars doing what cars are meant to do, from early fire-breathing monsters from before World War 1, to recent F1 cars, to modern hypercars like the Bugatti Chiron, is...
Photo Report: Celebrating The Vacheron Constantin Overseas In New York City
Last Thursday evening we were joined by 75 collectors at the Vacheron Constantin boutique in New York City, as we celebrated the latest evolution of the Vacheron Constantin Overseas collection. Hosted by Leslie Kobrin, President of Vacheron Constantin Americas, and our own editor-in-chief, Jack Forster, we discussed the historic influence of the Overseas collection and the adaptability of the design across the last 40 years.?In addition to the showing off the 2018 SIHH novelties, Vacheron Constantin also brought in several special historical pieces, including the precursor to the original Overseas wristwatch, the Reference 222 from the 1970s as well as the Overseas I from 1996, and the Overs...
An interesting calendrical fact is that this year, the Easter holiday falls on April 1st, which is celebrated as April Fools' Day in many European and Western countries. The idea behind April Fools' Day is a simple one: it's a day on which you play presumably harmless pranks on unwitting friends and family. By tradition, you reveal that you've played such a prank by shouting "April Fool!' at the victim, and then share a hearty laugh (or you get a punch in the kisser depending on whether or not you've remembered that it's only a joke if both people laugh).? This year, this pleasant tradition (and there are many traditions worldwide of a day on which one plays pran...
Rewind: Watchmaking's Unsolved Problem With The Date Of Easter
Every field has its famous, and famously daunting, challenges. In mathematics, one of the biggest is also one of the simplest: the so-called Collatz Conjecture, which is so easy to frame that a kid can understand it, but so difficult to prove that the great mathematician Paul Erdos once remarked, "Mathematics is not ready for such problems." Sometimes such thorny problems do fall, but generally it's only after many years and many failures (one such problem in math was a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem, which finally, after centuries, yielded in 1994, ending what may have been one of the longest trolls in the history of number theory). In mechanical horology many ...
Just Because: Google Honors Clockmaker John Harrison With A Doodle On His 325th Birthday
If you visit Google.com today, you'll be greeted by a nice surprise: British clockmaker John Harrison will be staring back at you. In case you're not familiar with the Google Doodle, basically Google replaces the logo on its homepage each day with a bit of art that both references the logo and nods to something historic or relevant for the day. Today's Doodle is a fun little sketch of Harrison hard at work solving the longitude problem, and it marks what would be the legendary clockmaker's 325th birthday. While most of you are probably at least a little familiar with John Harrison, here's a brief refresher. The British clockmaker was born on April 3, 1693, in Yor...
A Week On The Wrist: The IWC Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight-Days Edition '150 Years'
Watch brands love celebrating anniversaries. A quick walk around the halls of SIHH or Baselworld will yield countless chances to mark "historic moments" and "groundbreaking innovations." For my money though, a minor product marking its 35th year in production or a brand touting its all-important 115-year anniversary falls a little flat though. Now, the 150th birthday of a company C that's an anniversary that deserves a proper celebration. To mark that milestone, IWC has launched a massive "Jubilee Collection" that includes dozens of watches from the brand's simplest and most accessible, to some with crazy new complications. All are limited editions of varying qua...
Baselworld 2018: The Show Fights For Its Life
On Friday morning, March 23, the second day of Baselworld, the CEO of a Swiss watch company stopped me in the show's main hall to deliver shocking news. He had it on good authority that there would be one more Baselworld next year, and then the show would close. His source was a taxi driver. "Taxi drivers are better than journalists," he said. "They always have the news first."?The "one-and-done" rumor had legs. Four days later, on a Basel tram, I overheard a Canadian jewelry salesman say to a friend, "I heard that the taxi drivers say the show will end in 2020." So it went at Baselworld 2018. In an unusual twist, one of the bigg...
Hands-On: The Omega Speedmaster CK 2998 Limited Edition (For 2018)
One of the best known and best loved vintage Speedmaster models is the reference 2998, which set the basic vocabulary for Omega Speedmaster design, right down to the present day. The original ref. 2998, in addition to having been foundational for modern Speedmaster design codes, was also worn by astronaut Wally Schirra in 1962, during the Mercury Sigma 7 mission, and it's been the basis for a number of modern Speedmaster models, and limited editions. Back in 2012 we had the introduction of the very popular First Omega In Space (or just the FOIS to Speedmaster initiates) about which HODINKEE founder Ben Clymer wrote, at the time, "Let's get one thing straight ... the new Omega First Omega In ...
Hands-On: The Glashtte Original Sixties Ref. 1-39-52-03-02-04 With Green Dial
I'd have to do a heck of a lot more rigorous data analysis than I'm inclined to (as well as have actual data and probably, being a statistician wouldn't hurt) to assert this rigorously, but I feel as if colored dials have been going much more mainstream in the last few years. Even manufacturers with a general reputation for solid (and even stolid) good quality are offering a cornucopia of colors. The fact that you can get a Grand Seiko in a color described as "Peacock" or that Rolex carries a dial color for the Oyster Perpetual that it calls "Red Grape" (and these aren't brands known for whimsy, to put it mildly) tells you something about how far we've come from the generally monochrome pale...
Hands-On: The TAG Heuer Monaco Bamford
To be totally candid, I've never cared for Bamford blacked-out watches. We all choose our things about which to be irrationally doctrinaire in this world. Some people are intolerant of date windows (on principle), some people are intolerant of anything over 38mm in diameter (on principle,) some people are intolerant of non-in-house movements, and on and on. I've always been intolerant of so-called "modded watches," and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the closet museum conservator in me, but I hate the idea of taking a finished watch as the starting point for significant cosmetic modifications. I would never tell anyone what to do with their own watch, but that doesn't stop me from privately dep...
Hands-On: The Sinn 910 SRS Flyback Chronograph
In many ways, Sinn is a chronograph brand. While they are undoubtedly known for Teutonic pilot's watches and burly divers like the U1, when Sinn debuted a limited edition model for their 55th anniversary in 2016, it was a lovely split-seconds chronograph called the 910 Anniversary. At Baselworld last month, Sinn announced the next model in the 910 series, the SRS flyback chronograph.? 41.5mm in steel, the 910 SRS looks distinctive and wears very well. Available on leather (above) or a steel bracelet, the 910 SRS weighs 89 grams without a strap. Despite ...
Hands-On: The Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Power Reserve 5 Days Sapphire
At Baselworld 2018 there were many highlights, including, but not limited to, the uptick in ladies' tool watches, the Rainbow Daytona, and more solid, consumer-friendly pieces than ever. But one of the biggest surprises to me was my strange affinity for the Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon 5 Days Sapphire. While this watch is may be one of the more ridiculous pieces of our time (I mean, who actually needs this watch?) I couldn't help but respect it, and here's why. The Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Power Reserve 5 Days Sapphire. Looking at the watch in profile you really get a sense of the transparent case. ...
Happenings: The Art Of Medieval Time At The Morgan Library
There are few things instilled in us as early as our sense of time C both in terms of what "o'clock" it is and where we are in the yearly calendar. Having adapted to a particular way of doing things, we resist change strenuously; hence the near-universal failure of attempts at calendar reform (even when it's badly needed, and eminently commonsensical). However, in the Middle Ages in Europe, before there were clocks, and before the Gregorian calendar superseded the Julian, the time as well as the day, and moreover, the average person's sense of what time was at its most basic, were fundamentally different from today. Antiphony for Easter (an antiphony is...
Yesterday in Augusta, Georgia, Patrick Reed won the 2018 Masters, holding off a late charge from both Ricky Fowler and Jordan Spieth. Heading into the final day of play, he was the favorite to don the iconic green jacket, and some gutsy play earned him one of golf's highest honors. Reed doesn't wear a watch while he's actually playing (unlike some other big-name, Masters-winning golfers such as Bubba Watson), but he did put something on his wrist between sinking that final putt and the trophy ceremony. And his choice? The Hublot Big Bang Ferrari White Ceramic Carbon, a bold multi-material chronograph from 2015. If you forgot abou...
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games might already feel like something in the distant past, but it was only a little over six weeks ago that the closing ceremony was held in PyeongChang, South Korea. Amidst the myriad great story lines, from a recently converted snowboarder beating the field in downhill skiing to a long-awaited gold medal for the U.S. women's hockey team, one sport caught everyone by surprise: curling. I'll admit it C I was totally obsessed. When the U.S. men's team took gold, I may or may not have done some neighbor-disrupting screaming at my television.? To commemorate this monumental win, the five-man squad wanted to...