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HODINKEE Radio: Episode 108: Auction Scandals, New Releases, And The Black Bay Fifty-Eight Revisited
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! In the last few weeks, we've had some amazing guests on the pod, and we've also done a call-in show, giving us a chance to answer some of your most burning questions right on air. This week, we're going old school though and focusing on conversations with our editors. There's been a lot going on in the watch world, with plenty of new releases and some major auction news too, so I got Jack and Danny into the virtual studio with me to sort through it all. Jack offers ...
Sunday Rewind: Inside Seiko Japan
Despite our ever-increasing dependence on technology and automation, watchmaking is still very much a handcraft, and it is always thrilling to see just how the human element can take all of the bare components and create something that any of us may one day wear on our wrist. With that in mind, today we are taking a look back to our 2015 tour of several Seiko locations in Japan. Seiko is a huge and complex company, but these are just a few of the places in which their watches become a reality.? Originally published in May 2015 and complete with a full video and plenty of photos, this post covers special entry into two of Seiko's ...
Introducing: The MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO
According to several of the top Google results for "15th-anniversary metal," the traditional gift for a 15th anniversary is crystal. For MB&F's 15th, they opted to include some zirconium between two slabs of sapphire in creating their latest limited edition stunner, the Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO. A decidedly youthful take on the brand's incredible perpetual calendar, the EVO is sporty, colorful, and very, very limited.? Initial Thoughts When it comes to MB&F's Legacy Machines, the general methodology is to interpret classical watchmaking through the eye of a modern outfit like MB&F. As such...
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 Matt Kang, Tristan Berghaus, Jared Quiza, Alexander Woellwarth, and William Aguila.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. Matt Kang And His Seiko Diver Matt works in video pro...
In-Depth: Why No Watch Is 'Waterproof'
One of the (many) pet peeves of the self-described watch enthusiast is the amount of verbiage on modern watches, although this is not particularly a feature of only modern watches C I suppose in the days when automatic winding systems were fairly novel, having that feature called out on the dial of a watch would help it stand out from the crowd in a jeweler's display case. Descriptive verbiage seems to very much be a phenomenon associated with wristwatches rather than pocket watches, which as a rule carried little or no such information on their dials or cases. But as wristwatches gradually displaced pocket watches and began to dramatically diversify in functionality and purpose, words crept...
Back in March, we introduced the first watch to use Grand Seiko's new Hi-Beat movement, the 9SA5. That watch, SLGH002, which Jack later went in-depth with, was a dressy, limited edition run of 100 pieces. ?The new movement inside it was nine years in development and marks a new generation of mechanical calibers at Grand Seiko. Now, we're seeing the movement in a new guise: a stainless steel watch, which is also part of the brand's 60th-anniversary releases.? As expertly explained in Jack's two articles on the SLGH002, the main point of interest in this watch and the 9SA5 movement, in particular, is its implementation of a truly n...
People are funny (this is a banal observation, but it seems more apropos this year than ever). One way in which this manifests itself is in the human capacity to worry about the inconsequential in the face of life's bigger and more unsolvable problems, and in the watch world, this has taken the form, for many years, of the assertion in some quarters, that one of the inherent superiorities of mechanical watches over quartz watches is that a quartz watch will be "fried" by the electromagnetic pulse produced by a nuclear explosion. "Oh, sure, quartz is more accurate," the conversation goes, "but you know what? What if there's a nuclear war? Then what?" There is a pause for dramatic effect and t...
Photo Report: The Watches And Wheels Of Targa Carolina, An Underground Porsche Rally
It was originally meant to be an escape from work. A weekend of nothing but playing with a few floor-hinged pedals that rocketed a rear-engined, air-cooled 1985 Porsche 911 Targa through some of the most beautiful backroads America has to offer. No watches. Just a 3.2 liter flat-six at full tilt behind me and the open road in front of me. Eyes up, foot down.? A backdated "G-Model" Porsche 911 cruises along the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. It belongs to Charles Stanley, a fixture in the underground Porsche enthusiast scene and the founder of Targa Carolina. The event was Targa Carolina, an underground rally through t...
Introducing: The Astor + Banks Fortitude (With Live Pics & Pricing)
One of the great things about the current state of the watch world is that despite the endless onslaught of wait-lists, greedy flippers, and ever-increasing price tags, it's still a great time to be an entry-level enthusiast. While undoubtedly a challenging era for all those involved, the past few years have solidified something of a proving ground in the sub $1,000 space. Thus, assuming the product is good, fairly priced, and C most importantly C designed for the enthusiast, success remains entirely possible. Last September, I looked at the Sea Ranger from Chicago's Astor+Banks, and now we have the follow-up. Dubbed the Fortitude, it's a port of the same functional methodology into a more s...
Introducing: The TAG Heuer Carrera Sport Chronograph 160 Years Special Edition
To mark its 160th anniversary this year, TAG Heuer has been releasing a series of limited-edition tributes to one of its most popular models, the Carrera, paying homage to memorable iterations of the storied line. Today, we look back to the mid-'60s and the Carrera 45 Dato ref. 3147 first execution C a classic and collectible version of the Carrera featuring a signature red date positioned, unusually, at 12 o'clock.The two models that TAG Heuer has created to pay tribute to the historical model feature a more contemporary design in the form of a 44mm case and dial options in white or blue, with contrasting sub-dials. The white dial is paired with a black ceramic tachymeter bezel, while the b...
Introducing: The Herms Arceau L'Heure De La Lune, With 'New York Meteorite' Dial
The Herms Arceau L'Heure De La Lune has quite a few fans at HODINKEE, including Stephen Pulvirent and myself, and if you spend a little time with the watch and have anything like a romantic streak, you will probably find it quite captivating as well. The moon-phase complication in any form always has a whiff of the whimsical and pleasantly otherworldly about it, and the version of the complication used by Herms is no exception.? We've covered the complication, which was designed for Herms by Jean-Fran?ois Mojon (the founder of complicatio...
Introducing: The New In-House Oris Caliber 400
It is not often that manufacturers announce a new movement, and as most know, there are excellent reasons for this. The movement, for all that it is often the least talked-about part of a watch, is of course what makes a watch a watch, and they're extremely expensive to develop and to tool up to produce. Many so-called new movements are, in fact, variations on existing movements, and developing an entirely new in-house caliber is an expense that can easily take years and run into the millions of dollars (or yen, or francs, or euros, depending on where you've set up shop). As a consequence of the cost and time it takes, series-produced in-house movements are generally made by companies that a...
HODINKEE Radio: Episode 109: Watch Vlogger Jenni Elle
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 you've been paying attention to the broader world of watch media in 2020, one of the biggest bright spots has been the emergence of Jenni Elle on YouTube. While she's been in the industry, so to speak, since 2018 when she founded Watchvice with her husband, she only launched her English-language YouTube channel in January 2020. A little more than nine months later, it's hard to imagine the watch world without her, and she's been on our list of must-get HODINKEE R...
Sunday Rewind: The Why Of Water Resistance
Of the myriad ways in which we measure and compare watches, water resistance is a crucial aspect that sits high on the list of concerns for many watch fans C even those that have little intention of diving beneath the waves while wearing their watch. That being said, how much do you really know about how water resistance actually works? While Jack recently offered a look at why "no watch is waterproof," this story is more about how we measure the concept of water resistance.? Should you need an, ahem, deep dive, look no further than this exploration of two different ISO ratings. Originally posted nearly three years ago, this post...
Just Because: What Watch Would Be Worn By George Smiley, The Anti-James Bond?
Above, Gary Oldman as George Smiley, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011). Warning: minor spoilers for the Karla Trilogy and one early but significant plot spoiler for The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. I was I think rightly and properly fascinated by James Bond movies growing up. (I barely realized that there was a literary James Bond until one quite miserable sophomore year in high school, which I was helped in getting through by reading the battered paperback versions of the story in the local library next to the school. The school had a grey, institutional look more appropriate to a federal penitentiary than a temple of learning, but that is another story.)...
Introducing: The Panerai Radiomir Venti PAM2020
Panerai has released the new Radiomir Venti (PAM2020), a 45mm timepiece celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Paneristi online community. Paneristi are, of course, Panerai enthusiasts, and Paneristi.com was created just as the brand was returning to prominence in the watch world at the turn of the new millennium. It has since become one of the foremost resources and destinations for all things Panerai and is the self-proclaimed "Unofficial Resource of Officine Panerai." Panerai has partnered with the Paneristi to create a special (and limited) edition watch with design queues from 1930s Panerai Radiomir models for the hands, the color of the lume, and even the finishing of the matte dial. ...
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 Jason Chu, Nicholas Puleo, Jon Bruno, Matthew Lopez, and Darrin Guitreau.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. Jason Chu And His Rolex Air-King With Domino's Dial Jason, ...
Introducing: The Massena LAB Uni-Racer
The Massena LAB website has, over the past several days, featured a teaser in the form of a graphic that was pretty unmistakable to anyone who may have visited a movie theater from roughly the middle '60s to the early 1990s. If youve been to the Massena LAB site and are of a certain age, then I'm willing to bet that you had a good sense for what might be coming today. A graphic from the Massena LAB site that calls to mind an old-school version of the Universal Pictures logo. Today, we're looking at what has to be one of my favorite new watches of 2020. It's been in the works for just about three years, having sprung from the ...
The Omega Speedmaster As It Was Always Intended
The very first Captain America movie is notable for a number of reasons (including a very clever example of a variation on the Gordian Knot puzzle, involving a secret training camp, a flagpole, and a ride back to base with Agent Carter), but one of the most memorable moments is, of course, the awakening of the eponymous Captain after being given up for dead in 1945, in the present C where he goes on to become the keystone in the arch of the organization known as the Avengers. For me, the Captain's disappearance and resurrection echoes the history of that singular mechanical chronograph movement known as the caliber 321.?Born during an epoch of glory, in the 1950s, it blazed a trail of glory ...
Auctions: Three Interesting Lots From The Upcoming Monaco Legend 'Exclusive Timepieces' Auction
To many in the watch collecting world, the name Davide Parmegiani is synonymous with vintage watches. Our own Ben Clymer detailed the experience of purchasing a rare Universal Genve Chronograph from Parmegiani in the HODINKEE Magazine, Volume 2. And Parmegiani shared the stage with Ben and John Goldberger for a discussion entitled "The Italian Influence" during HODINKEE's H10 celebrations in New York in 2018. Parmegiani is known for his expertise and for his ability to source very special vintage watches. In his capacity as the chairman of the watch department of Monaco Legend Auctions, Parmegiani and his team have put together quite an assortment for their upco...