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Sunday Rewind: A Game Of Tones II C Hearing Bulgari's Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater
In the second part of a three-part series in which Jack explores a few examples of modern and innovative minute repeaters, take a closer look at C and a listen to C Bulgari's incredible Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater.? As remarkably thin as it is limited, the Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater is just 6.85mm thick C?despite housing a beautiful and very advanced hand-wound minute repeater-equipped movement. If you missed part one, start here, and then hit the link below for some chime-heavy nerdery.?Click here to read: "In-Depth: A Game Of Tones II C The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater (With Live Recording)....
Introducing: The Oris Roberto Clemente Limited Edition
The larger-than-life reputation of Roberto Clemente as a Hall of Fame baseball player and humanitarian was forged long before his tragic death in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico on December 31, 1972. Today, Oris is paying respect to Clemente and his incredible legacy through the release of a 3,000-piece limited edition on the occasion of Major League Baseball's annual celebration of Roberto Clemente Day.? Roberto Clemente was one of the greatest baseball players of all time, defying the odds and rising through the ranks in the Puerto Rican professional league and eventually signing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where, d...
Introducing: The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Self-Winding In Full Pink Gold
Do you remember April? It was a few months ago, and while I recall neither its position nor its progression as a measurement of time, I do recall writing about how Vacheron Constantin announced that it would be offering its Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin with a blue dial and a matching bracelet in 19k pink gold. As time is a flat circle, we meet again, as Vacheron Constantin has just announced a blue and gold version of its Overseas Self-Winding as part of the news cycle surrounding Watches & Wonders Shanghai. Initial Thoughts When the full gold and blue treatment was added to the Overseas QP,...
Introducing: The Purnell Escape II Carbon And Escape II All Black
There aren't a whole lot of companies left, especially outside the major luxury groups, who still go in for advancing the art of technically complex, visually arresting multi-axis tourbillons. One of Purnell's most dramatic watches is the Escape I Spherion. The Escape I was introduced in 2017; it is a very high speed, triple-axis tourbillon whose cages rotate, from the outer to the inner, in 30, 60, and 8 seconds. In 2019, Purnell introduced the Escape II, which has two triple-axis Spherion tourbillon systems linked by a differential, and which in motion, is one of the most kinetically dramatic wristwatches I've ever seen. The to...
Introducing: The A. Lange & Sohne Tourbograph Perpetual And 1815 Thin Honeygold Limited Editions
Today, German horological powerhouse A. Lange & Sohne is announcing the release of a trio of watches in a collection celebrating brand founder Ferdinand Adolph Lange. Included in that collection C and the focus of this introduction C are the Tourbograph Perpetual Honeygold and the 1815 Thin Honeygold. That's right: Both watches are cased in the brand's unique gold alloy generally reserved for special occasions and limited editions (or, in this case, both). One is a perpetual calendar chronograph with a rattrapante function, and the other a classic time-only C sans seconds hand C dress watch. These pieces, and the collection at large, belong to the 1815 family, which is a reference to F.A...
Introducing: HODINKEE Insurance, The Hassle-Free Way To Insure Your Watches
HODINKEE has come a long way since its inception. We are constantly striving to make this community we love better, whether it is through award-winning editorial coverage across multiple platforms or bringing you some of the best modern and vintage watches via the HODINKEE Shop. Our goal remains to make people fall in love with watches and to bring you products and services that make our hobby better.?And that last bit is especially important. Everything we do, we do in the spirit of serving the watch community so that our shared passion is more accessible and fun. It is why we are really excited to share something with you that we have been working on for the last three years.?Today, we bri...
Introducing: The A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Rattrapante Honeygold
It is a bit surprising at first to hear that this is the first rattrapante-only complicated watch from Lange C your brain seizes up a little bit as you think, "Now surely that can't be the case." But it is. Now, the complication is far from unknown to Lange, and to Lange connoisseurs and enthusiasts, of course. We have the Double Split, with split seconds and minutes and which is, it is worth mentioning, also a flyback chronograph (both seconds and minutes), and there is also the Triple Split, which is the only split-seconds chronograph ever made which splits the seconds, minutes, and hours.? Then we get into really rarefied territory with the Tourbograph Pour Le...
Welcome to the twentieth installment of "My Watch Story," a video series starring HODINKEE readers and their most prized watches. The submissions continue to stream in, and we couldn't be happier to share them with the watch community. Today, we have five new stories submitted by Josh Dux, Guido Maniscalco, Lucas Borba Cravo, Uros Prokic, and Michael Sutton.Feeling inspired, or just discovering this project? Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to learn how to submit your own video. But first, we hope you enjoy this installment of My Watch Story. Josh Dux And His Omega Seamaster For Josh, a teache...
The Grey NATO: Episode 123: Diving Deeper With Ocean Explorer Extraordinaire Laurent Ballesta
Subscribe to the show: (Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Google Play and Spotify). Already heard it once or twice? Please leave a short review here, and tell us what topics you'd like us to chat about (or email [email protected]). thegreynato The Grey NATO - 123 - Diving Deeper With Oceanographer Extraordinaire Laurent Ballesta It's as easy as one-two-three for this episode of The Grey NATO which features an in-depth (accurate pun) chat between Jason and the wonderfully talented and very adventurous Laurent Ballesta. Widely known for his Blancpain-supported Gombessa projects, Ballesta is a world-class underwater photographer and has c...
In-Depth: The Early Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar
Picture yourself in a big city and feeling an equally big need for a new watch. You've had some success, and you walk into an upscale retailer with the hopes of finding something rare and distinctive C a watch that conveys both style and an appreciation for high-end watchmaking. A gold Patek? Not exciting enough. An Omega Constellation? Too baroque, perhaps.? Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar reference 25654ST in steel. (Image: courtesy of A Collected Man) Walking around the showroom and peering into the glittering cases, you pass much of the old guard until you see something different. While the shape of a Royal Oak is about as di...
Introducing: The Ressence Type 3MC For The Prince Albert II Of Monaco Foundation
Earlier this year, we covered Ressence and Sotheby's #WatchesAgainstCovid19 design competition. The winning design was produced and auctioned off by Sotheby's with the proceeds going to COVID-19 research. Well, Ressence is back with another unique piece and another good cause. Yesterday, the brand announced the Ressence Type 3MC for the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, in partnership with C and sold exclusively through C Art in Time.?Shortly after the sale went live, the watch sold. ?Only one of these watches will be made, and?part of the proceeds of the sale will support the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's environmental efforts in promoting sustainable development. ...
The recently introduced F-43 Bicompax marked a new direction for Fortis under the leadership of Jupp Philipp, who took over the company in 2018. Now, the Flieger F-41, F-39, and F-39-J models are being added to the Fortis Flieger family. F stands for flieger, and the -41 and -39 designations correspond with case size. The -J suffix in the F-39-J denotes a special edition that's limited to 50 pieces and sold only in Japan. I'm not sure it's entirely intentional, but there's an obvious parallel between the nomenclature of the new flieger watches and the USAF's Tri-Service aircraft designation system. Other forces follow different naming conventions; have a look at Britain's here.? ...
Bring a Loupe: An Olympic Seiko, A Deep-Diving Girard-Perregaux, And A First-Execution Heuer Autavia
As you'll soon see, it's been a great week in the world of vintage watches, with a host of interesting pieces making themselves known to the collecting world. Thanks to the inclusion of a first-execution Ref. 2446 Autavia and a Zenith-powered Le Gant, there's a strong showing of reverse panda chronographs, complemented by a sector-dial Fortis and an early diver from Girard-Perregaux rounding out the unconventional must-haves category. For good measure, there's an outstanding Seiko world-timer with an Olympic twist.? 1957 Girard-Perregaux Deep Diver Ref. 7254 Not to say Girard-Perregaux hasn't released muc...
Sunday Rewind: Stopping The Tourbillon
Not all tourbillons are created equal. To get the inside story on just what it takes to make a tourbillon with a stop-seconds mechanism, look no further than this arresting post from Jack as he delves into the technical warrants of a tourbillon and why a halting mechanism seems entirely crucial to the tourbillon's original intent.? Originally published more than four years ago, while the tourbillon is sometimes applied as little more than ornamentation on the road to making a watch feel more special, the history of the tourbillon (and its technical merits) is not to be overlooked. It's a wonder that it took the watch world so lon...
HODINKEE Radio: Episode 104: Curator And Art Critic Dexter Wimberly
Subscribe to the show: (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn). Already heard it once or twice? Please leave a short review, and tell us which guests we should have on! If youre a longtime listener or reader, you probably already know that, outside of watches, one of my greatest passions is art. I love looking at art, reading about art, and making art. So you can imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon a reference to HODINKEE Radio while perusing an article on Artnet a few weeks ago. It turns out that curator, critic, and founder of Art World Conference Dexter Wimberly is a longtime member of the HODINKEE community and a loyal li...
Welcome to another installment of "My Watch Story," a video series starring HODINKEE readers and their most prized watches. The submissions continue to stream in, and we couldn't be happier to share them with the watch community. Today, we have five new stories submitted by Rob Pellow, Luke Hendrickson, Robin Krebs, Martijn Roes, and Dennis Nguyen.Feeling inspired, or just discovering this project? Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to learn how to submit your own video. But first, we hope you enjoy this installment of My Watch Story. Rob Pellow And His TAG Heuer Targa Florio For Rob, who is cur...
Hands-On: The Chanel J12 Paradoxe
Chanel's J12 watch debuted in 2000. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the collection, and the J12 Paradoxe was released for this season. We were able to get our hands on one and spend some time with the watch. Let's start by covering the basics. As you can see, the J12 Paradoxe features a bicolor look, combining white and black. The remarkable thing here is that, although the clean-cut borderline may suggest the two-tone color scheme is just a paint job, the watch is actually constructed with two colored ceramic case components.The production process of the case is truly unique. Two single-colored complete cases are cut, th...
Business News: The Finalists For The 2020 Grand Prix dHorlogerie de Genve (GPHG)
With summer now fading into the blur of September, it is about time to kick off another round of watchmaking's most illustrious annual prize, the Grand Prix dHorlogerie de Genve (GPHG). For those that don't commonly follow the awards, the process starts when the finalists are announced (today) C 84 of them C and will culminate with a full award ceremony in Geneva on November 12.? The Bulgari Octo Finissimo S Blue Dial (nominated to the Men's category, left) and the Sarpaneva Lunation Harvest Moon (nominated for the Calendars and Astronomy category, right). With six finalists for each of the 14 categories, there is a little s...
Editors' Picks: Our Favorite 2020 New Releases For Under $3,000
There is a certain "sweet spot" in watch pricing. It sits somewhere at, or below, the $3,000 mark. In that range, there are a host of watches to choose from that offer tremendous value either from a movement, build quality, aesthetic, or functionality perspective. Sometimes, it can be all of the above. Now, there have been a lot of new releases this year C in fact, they continue to pour in as we type. Luckily, many of these watches have fallen within that always-welcome price range. Given that, we thought it would be as good a time as ever to pick some of our favorite new watches, released this year, and priced at $3,000 and under. Jack Forster: NOMOS Tetra Symph...
Introducing: The Apple Watch Series 6 & Apple Watch SE
Despite all the chaos of 2020, there's one thing I knew all along we'd be able to count on: September would bring us a new Apple Watch. It's like clockwork, if you'll pardon the pun. Today, via a completely virtual keynote event, Apple has released not one, but two new Apple Watch models: The premium Apple Watch Series 6 and the more affordable Apple Watch SE. This is the first time in six years of Apple Watch releases that we're getting two truly new models at once (the Series 0/Series 1 situation from when the Series 2 was released doesn't count). It shows that Apple is dedicated to building out the Apple Watch line-up for different customers and to making sure...