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As Arthur C. Clarke wrote at the beginning of his epic novel of first contact, Rendezvous With Rama, "sooner or later, it was bound to happen." So it is with the replacement of the caliber 1861 Moonwatch, with a new version, using the co-axial caliber 3861. Omega announced an upgraded version of the caliber 1861 in March of 2019 C the new version, the caliber 3861, first appeared in the gold-on-gold Apollo 11 Anniversary Limited Edition. Since then, it's appeared in two more watches C in May of 2019, in the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Limited Edition, in stainless steel; and then, in October of 2020, in the "Silver Snoopy" 50th Anniversary Speedmaster (the model has proven to be extremely pop...
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 Kris Mahboobani, Samuel Tan, Jed Pineda, Jeff Beauregard, and Sam Sprengelmeyer.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. Kris Mahboobani And His Breitling Bentley 6.75 Kris, fro...
In-Depth: Remembering Fricker, The Watchmaker That Drove The Internet Crazy
In the deep end of an Olympic-size swimming pool, I once came close to drowning. This was back in the late 2000s, and I was taking a PADI open water course as an elective at my university's fitness and aquatic center. The instructor, who knew just about everything there was to know about SCUBA diving, was an old-school kind of guy. A real-life crusty treasure hunter, he'd been diving for well over 30 years. As I knelt on the bottom of the pool, practicing removing my mask and performing basic skills like regulator recovery and buddy breathing, he snuck around behind me and shut off my air while my mask was off. I panicked, grabbed my backup regulator, and sucked in a deep breath, but all I g...
It's finally a new year, and though we're all about moving forward and looking ahead, there's no better way to reflect on the past than through a vintage watch. Whether it's a pivotal model in the history of watchmaking and our culture or a model with subtle nuances only the keen eye of a collector will appreciate, vintage watches tell the best stories, and this week, we have a selection that is well worth recounting. How did the Rolex Precision ref. 9083 get the nickname "UFO?" Why does Enicar give a watch with a Super Compressor case designed for dive watches the name "Sherpa?" What does the "GT" stand for in the?Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox Polaris II "GT?" You can learn all about these watch...
The Complete Buyers Guide To The New Omega Speedmaster
With the dawn of a new year and the first Speedy Tuesday of 2021, the celestial backdrop over Bienne, Switzerland has opened forth and offered unto us, the unwashed terrestrial masses, a brand new caliber 3861 Co-Axial-equipped Speedmaster Pro. And while Omega offers what can feel like countless SKUs within the lineage of its famed chronograph, the launch of a true meat-n-potatoes Moonwatch is a massive release. For those collectors with a taste for that classic Speedmaster aesthetic, the caliber 1861 Speedy Pro is out and the new caliber 3861 is in.? The new Moonwatch Professional Co-Axial Master Chronometer in Sedna Gold, ...
One To Watch: The 25-Year-Old Upstart Breathing New Life Into Traditional French Watchmaking
It's easy to forget that Switzerland wasn't always the global center of watchmaking. The United States led the charge into industrial watchmaking in the late 19th century; Britain created chronometers to fuel the Age of Exploration. And, in between, France took the fusion of technical and artistic watchmaking to new heights, courtesy of legends like Abraham-Louis Breguet.?Tho Auffret is a young Frenchman looking to reinterpret his country's storied horological past for today's collectors, creating truly handmade watches in a distinctive style. Auffret's resum is already impressive, and he's even starting to develop a design language all his own C no small feat for someone barely 25 years o...
Sunday Rewind: The First Omega In Space
Unless you've been living under a pile of moon rocks, you saw this week's release of the new Omega Speedmaster "Moonwatch" C the first true revamp of the watch in upwards of 50 years. With a new chronometer-certified Co-Axial movement, stepped dial, and tapered bracelet (among a slew of other tweaks and changes), the new models pack a ton of modern flourishes in keeping with the classic vintage design. ? With the release of the new Moonwatch, it's as good a time as any to revisit 2016's Week on the Wrist with another Speedy variant: The aptly named "First Omega in Space." Different from the standard production Speedmaster, the FO...
HODINKEE Radio: Analyzing The New Speedmaster, Reviewing An Icon, And Building A Horological Legacy
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! Anyone who thought that things were going to settle down when the calendar flipped was sorely mistaken. For many of our editors, it was only the second day back online after vacation when Omega dropped a total bomb in our inboxes in the form of a brand new Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch. Watch lovers have literally been waiting for decades for the Moonwatch to get a new movement, and Omega did not disappoint. You can see incredible stories about the new Speedy f...
Introducing: The 100th Anniversary Cartier Tank Cintre Limited Edition
Last week, Cartier quietly announced a new watch. Well, not exactly new, and definitely not "announced." Pictures of a new Cartier Tank Cintre Limited Edition, in celebration of the 100th birthday of the watch, began circulating among the tight-knit circle of serious Cartier collectors on Instagram, and despite the fact that Cartier had chosen to launch one of the most irresistible Tanks in recent memory by simply delivering it to clients and letting the Internet do the rest, the watch became an overnight celebrity. The Cartier Tank was introduced commercially in 1919, and in the 15 or so years following the launch of the origin...
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 Abhilash Keluth, Jayson de Castro, Elliott Field, Arvind Kalipersad, and Paolo Esguerra.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. Abhilash Keluth And His Casio MRW-200H Seventeen...
How To Take Better Photos Of Your Watches C Without Buying A New Camera
So you got a new watch, and you're blown away by how cool it looks C you just can't wait to snap a killer wrist shot and put some real heat in your timeline.?You pull out your camera and start snapping, but none of your shots manage to capture just how good the watch looks in person. Sure, the watch is there, but its appeal is clouded by myriad issues like mirror highlights on the lugs, dark shadows, reflections of weird colors, and even the outline of your hand, camera, face, and forehead in the reflective crystal of the watch. You pick the best shot, slap a filter on it, and hope for some likes C?but isn't there a better way?? A modern Leica M10-P nex...
The glow of the new year has quickly faded, and here we are, in the throes of a brisk January. The days are short, and it's easy to want nothing more than to curl up by a fire with a warm beverage, a good read, and, of course, your favorite timepiece on your wrist. There's nothing more comforting than spending time inside with a vintage watch on a cold winter day, and our staff couldn't agree more C now more than ever.? We're all looking for something to enliven the winter months, and that something may very well be a vintage watch with a story that can't help but warm your heart. Here, our staff has chosen three watches from this week's vintage selection that ar...
The Sports Section: What's The Best Watch For Runners?
Every January, millions of us emerge from an egg-noggy holiday stupor and resolve to start running. This year, we really mean it. What choice do we have? Gyms are closed. And we've all spent the past ten months playing Animal Crossing while eating sourdough in our pajamas. We've gotta get out there.? Searching for a little watch-related motivation, we turned to our friends at Tracksmith C the Boston brand that makes the coolest running clothes (and tells the best running stories) pretty much anywhere. The staff is packed with hardcore pavement pounders. If anyone knows the most useful, stylish timepieces to strap on while sweating out the miles, it's them. See be...
The Grey NATO: Episode 135: Gishani!
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 - 135 - Gishani! It's the first episode of 2021, and the TGN boys wanted to make it extra special, so they called in an extra special guest C Jason's wife, Gishani Ratnayake! Responsible for much of the photography, underwater or otherwise, that adorns Jason's writing, Gishani sits down as a co-host to chat about watch photography, diving, great recipes from her home country of Sri ...
Recommended Reading: Atomic Clock Scientists Suggest Shortening Minute To 59 Seconds
Mankind has mastered one important element of timekeeping, and that's accuracy. To quote my esteemed colleague Jack Forster, accuracy?"is the degree to which the watch agrees with an external, more accurate time standard." But what if that standard is actually changing? According to scientists via timeanddate.com, days are getting shorter. In fact, 2020 had the highest amount of shortest days ever recorded. Earth's rotation isn't constant, it varies by fractions of a second, and that's resulted in scientists suggesting, "We should consider shortening the minute to just 59 seconds, at least for one 'negative leap second' that will better line us up with Earth's re...
Introducing: The Ming 27.02 With Sapphire And Guilloch Dial
Ming watches generally sell out almost as quickly as they're announced, which is a testimony to the international popularity of founder Ming Thein's designs, but which also has led to expressions of occasional frustration from friends of the brand. For the last production run of the just-announced 27.02 watches C the final model of the 27 series, which uses a highly modified Peseaux cal. 7001 C the company's opted for a sequential rollout, in which they'll offer the watch in batches made available on different dates. The 27.02 uses the same basic design, and the same movement, as the 27.01 but features a sapphire and guilloch pattern dial, in contrast to the brass dial used in the 27.01. ...
Sunday Rewind: Patek Philippe's Iconic Ad Campaign
Every slice of the commercial product world has an ad campaign or two that manages to transcend both its original market and, in the rarest cases, the passage of time. Generally from an era before all things were digital, the automotive world had VW's "Lemon," the early tech scene had Apple's "Think Different" campaign, and fast-casual dining forced the question "Where's the beef!?" But what about watches?? As famous as Rolex's "If you were doing X C you'd wear a Rolex" campaign may be, it's arguable that Patek Philippe takes the crown with their famous ad series that coined the phrase "You never actually own a Patek Philippe, yo...
How They Made It: A Clever Way To Tell Time By Color
Editor's Note: This article features a watch carried in the HODINKEE Shop. We can't think of another watch that can trace its origin to neuroscience experiments at Harvard, but that was the seed for Ressence's Type 1 Squared X, the fourth and final limited-edition in Collection X, marking the Belgian niche brand's 10th anniversary in 2020.? About three years ago, professor Christopher Harvey at Harvard's department of neuroscience contacted Ressence to express his appreciation for their unconventional timepieces. While he wasn't in a position to buy one, he did want to use their unique time displays in experiments to research how quic...
The World Needs More Diverse Watchmakers
Watch enthusiasts and collectors have lamented the need for more qualified watchmakers for some time. We feel this need most acutely when we send our watch in for service and a long period of waiting commences. Some in the watch community are taking a closer look at a connected issue. Discovering the next generation of watchmakers in new places is an important way to add much-needed talent and new creative viewpoints to the field. The Horological Society of New York, America's oldest watchmaking guild, is adding to its program of financial aid for those who want to study the craft.? "Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor-Inventor-Astr...
HODINKEE Radio: Twenty-Teens Watch Collection Fantasy Draft
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! We wanted to kick off 2021 with a bang, and when it comes to HODINKEE Radio that means a fantasy draft. Since we just entered a new decade, it seemed as good a time as any to look back at the last 10 years and some of our favorite watches from the period. The watch world is a completely different universe to what it was in 2011, and in addition to the watches themselves, this is a great opportunity to look back at our hobby, the industry that supports it, and the co...