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What We Learned From The KPMG Report On The British Horological Industry
Founded in 2020, the British Alliance of Watch and Clock Makers (The Alliance) is a trade body with a mission to encourage and guide the modern renewal of British watch- and clock-making. Having a solid foundation is key to affecting positive change, and with that in mind, the Alliance commissioned a bellwether report from the global accounting firm KPMG to analyze the current state of the British horological industry. This report provides an interesting snapshot of the British horological industry and will be a useful tool for studying future growth. This first Bellwether survey of our sector is a significant milestone for Brit...
With its wide spectrum of colors, functions, and prices there's a G-Shock for basically every occasion. That is unquestionably terrific, if not a little overwhelming. To help narrow down the abundance of choices for the G-Shock-considering public, we pulled a few select choices and the hyper-specific places we'd wear them. Please add your watch and occasion combinations in the comments. Best G-Shock For Experiencing The Best Of The Brand Today: MTG-B2000 I adore G-Shock watches. I even like to say that I wouldn't be working in the watch industry if a young interest in these durable digital tickers hadn't ...
Watching Movies: Tom Hanks Lives In An Airport And Wears A Vintage Omega In 'The Terminal'
The history of cinema includes a slew of famous actor-director pairings, duos whose screen synergy is palpable, time and again. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are an all-star pair, having teamed up on a number of films: Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Bridge of Spies, The Post, and today's movie of choice, The Terminal (2004). Starring Hanks, the film tracks his character Viktor Navorski, a tourist from fictional Krakozhia. He arrives at JFK airport in New York for a brief trip only to learn his country's government was overthrown, his passport invalidated, and his ability to leave the airport stripped. Hanks' Navorski makes a home inside of the international terminal at JFK wearin...
Sunday Rewind: J.J. Redick's Vacheron Constantin 1921
On Friday, our own Danny Milton spent a week with the Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921 in white gold C dressing up in full 1920's attire and bringing the watch with him for a game of golf. It's a classic, and the deco-inspired piece felt very at home among the sand traps and putting greens. This watch has appealed to all manner of collector over the years, and has even crossed over into non-deco sports. Enter J.J. Redick, the second C ever C guest on Talking Watches. For this week's Rewind, we thought we'd revisit this episode. Redick had an impressive collection at the time the video was shot, including a seriously ...
Recommended Reading: Aurel Bacs Dishes On His Own Collection In A New Video Series
Aurel Bacs C legend of the auction world, and master of the hammer C has launched a new video series on YouTube. For those who don't know, Bacs is the Senior Consultant for Phillips. He's overseen some of the biggest auction moments in recent years, including the famed Paul Newman Daytona. Now, you might be thinking that this video series is auction-centric C and you'd be wrong. Instead, it's being billed "Bacs to Basics" and features Bacs himself in a free-wheeling, unfiltered discussion about vintage watches C his vintage watches. And these aren't pieces set to hit the block either C just part and parcel of his personal collection. ...
Olympic Epee Fencer Curtis McDowald Shares His Collection On Talking Watches
By the time you watch this episode of Talking Watches, Curtis McDowald will be in Tokyo, along with the rest of the U.S. fencing team. Fencing, for many Americans, is an exotic sport C so much so that if you mention it, you might very well get a blank stare. (I remember asking a clerk at a Montgomery Ward department store, in the 1970s, if they sold fencing equipment. I ended up in an aisle full of gear for building fences.) But McDowald and his team hope to change all that C and to establish American fencing as a force to be reckoned with, internationally. Every sport has its unique demands C fencing, as well. Fencing is sword-fighti...
Just Because: Dear God, There's A Third Space Jam Watch
One fine day last week, I wrote two stories about two different Space Jam-themed watches. Many of you found this strange. I, too, found it strange. But I dont make the watches, my friends, I just cover them. And if someone out there wants to release a six-figure cartoon-movie tourbillon, well, thats news. Im as curious as you are about who would buy such a thing. Anyway, after I logged off for the day, I truly thought I had put this chapter behind me, and was now free to contemplate other important horological matters, such as the plight of the 4:30 date window. But then came a third release. A third Space Jam watch. If I may quote my beleaguered cinematic pre...
Interview: Why Urwerk Just Can't Stop Using Tantalum
In May, Urwerk announced a 12-piece limited edition of its UR-105 CT model C a classic design from the brand, complete with a shield enclosure. But this release isn't your run of the mill LE fare. For one thing, this is the end of the 105 collection entirely. For another, the watch features the use of a notoriously difficult material called tantalum C notorious because of its reputation for eating through CNC machines and drill bits. Tantalum is a rare and hard lustrous transition metal. One of its key traits is high corrosion-resistance to acids. When it comes to working with the metal, something to bear in mind is that it is not solderable. Grinding and drillin...
Five Fun Watches For Serious Collectors
Despite its ever-anachronistic roots, watchmaking and collecting are often very serious affairs. From hunting the forums for tidbits of information like some modern-day time-obsessed Indiana Jones to the careful math (and clairvoyance) of auction results, its not surprising that watch collecting can often feel needlessly heavy. As with many of lifes passions, it can be valuable to zoom out, consider the stakes and, you know, take it easy. Sometimes its nice to take a break from the endless parade of asset-class wrist wear and just throw on something that makes you smile while also being interesting enough to stand in for other options you might have at your di...
Mountaineer Conrad Anker's First Watch
As children, we are aware of time in a peripheral sense. Our first connection is night. Our parents encourage us to be quiet and still. Not knowing the structure of time as an infant, we think its perfectly fine C to our parents dismay C to ask for food or to test out our newfound vocal cords at all hours of the evening. In a few years, we grasp time, and it becomes less abstract. Concepts such as past, present, and future begin to take shape. The past equates to the olden days, the realm of grandparents. The present is playing with your friends, right now. And future is that magical day of birth that is rewarded with toys and cake. As we enter school, time tak...
Watch Spotting: Collin Morikawa Celebrates His Open Championship With An Omega Speedmaster
This past weekend, tucked away in the town of Sandwich, near the Cliffs of Dover in Kent, England (when else do I get to type that?) C a golf tournament took place at the famed Royal St. George's Golf Club. It wasn't just any tournament either, but the final major championship of the 2021 golf season: The Open Championship. The links-style course proved challenging for many of the game's top players and came down to a tight finish, with Jordan Spieth almost catching the eventual champion, Collin Morikawa C who won his second major in only eight tries. As the 24-year-old hoisted C and kissed C the Claret Jug, he had a particular Omega on his wrist. ...
4 Of Our Favorite Olympic Watch Moments
The 2020 Olympics are up and running, looking wildly different than previous games. While we all wait to see how the events unfold, we decided to take a trip down memory lane with some of our favorite watch moments from previous games. Johnny Weir's Rolex Datejust Two-Tone My favorite thing about the Olympics is how I magically transform into an expert on every sport known to man for two weeks every other year. It's like clockwork. Strange, right? All joking aside though, it's commentators like Johnny Weir who really make watching the games fun. The pithy insights, the inside tips, and, of course, the...
Point/Counterpoint: Why Watch Design Still Hasn't Recovered From The Recession
Today, two HODINKEE writers with very different opinions consider how and why the financial crisis of 2008 has affected the way we look at watches, and how watch design was affected. In this article, Jack Forster argues that the recession spawned a trend towards the conservative and nostalgic that's still with us today. Cole Pennington's Counterpoint offers his point of view, that innovation in design is more vigorous today than ever. We invite you to read both pieces, and let us know your thoughts in the comments sections. It's a clich, but one with some truth to it, that tastes become conservative when times are hard. In 2008, the global financial crisis put t...
In-Depth: Urwerk Puts The Space Shuttle On Your Wrist
The first iteration of what eventually became the space shuttle emerged in 1968 as the Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. It took until April 12, 1981 for the world's first reusable spacecraft to reach orbit in the form of STS-1, crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen. Before the space shuttle, leaving the earth meant relying on rocket technology born from WWII. The advent of the space shuttle fundamentally changed the way we travelled to space, not to mention enabling the creation of the International Space Station. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once said "The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation." ...
Point/Counterpoint: How Watch Design Came Roaring Back From The Great Recession
Today, two HODINKEE writers with very different opinions consider how and why the financial crisis of 2008 has affected the way we look at watches, and how watch design was affected. Jack Forster's article argues that the recession spawned a trend towards the conservative and nostalgic that's still with us today. In this article, Cole Pennington offers his point of view, arguing that innovation in design is more vigorous today than ever. We invite you to read both pieces, and let us know your thoughts in the comments sections. There's no question that the recession, from 2007 to 2009, stunted the growth of the watch industry, crippled design innovation, and shift...
The Thunderbolt Chronograph Is The First Chronograph From Gorilla, Featuring A Dubois-Depraz Module
Gorilla is a company founded by someone with stronger than usual credentials for running a design-centric watch brand: Octavio Garcia, who for over ten years worked on watch design at Audemars Piguet, and for the last four of those years, served as Chief Artistic Officer. Prior to AP, he was at Omega, although he worked on design projects for other Swatch Group brands, as well. Although much of his professional life has been spent in Europe, he's originally from Chicago, where he discovered a love of comic books and comic book art, as well as American car culture (he helped his father restore and repair classic American muscle cars from the 1970s). ...
Exciting Watch Moments From the Olympic Games
Thomas Bach's Omega Seamaster Olympic Official Timekeeper Limited Edition Set (Photo by Fred Lee/Getty Images) IOC President Thomas Bach has to be happy. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have officially concluded, after over a year of conjecture over whether or not they would happen. His watch of choice during this year's Olympics? The Omega Seamaster Olympic Official Timekeeper, a 100-piece limited-edition box set that contains five separate watches. C Logan Baker Yuliya Levchenko's Richard Mille RM 007 Titanium (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) ...
The H. Moser Mega Cool Is Mega Cool
Back in April, I wrote up a piece on the H. Moser & Cie Pioneer Centre Seconds Mega Cool, the summer-ready entrant into the brand's catalogue. But those were the brisk days of early Spring and I didn't get to handle the watch in person. But now Im sweating regularly and I've had more than ample time to spend with the watch during the season it feels built for. Let's talk about the name C Mega Cool. For those out there cringing at the phraseology, remember that you must think globally. Mega might seem like an antiquated adjective to many Americans, but it's the equivalent of "very" or "super" in many European languages. I spo...
To view the entire current selection of vintage watches available in the HODINKEE Shop, click here.Questions? Send us a note, or let us know in the comments. Want to sell your vintage watch through the HODINKEE Shop? Click here.Want to sell your pre-owned watch through Crown & Caliber? Click here. This Week's Vintage Watches Speedmaster, Polerouter, Carrera, Submariner, and Santos. There are watches in the grand scheme of vintage collecting that just scream classic HODINKEE C and this week's selection is chock-full of them. These are the kind of watches that were best shown in a 2012 wrist shot with the streets of New York City in...
7 Of The Best Watches For Summer
As you may already be aware, it is summer. For many of us this means cook-outs and lake swims, long drives, or luxurious naps on the beach. Whatever you have planned for your summer (no shame if that plan is "nothing"), you're going to need a reliable, good-looking, and fun watch as your boon companion for your antics. Here are seven of our favorites. Synchron Military This is a watch I've already worn while jumping off the dock at my cottage and simply cannot wait to take diving (shout out @garactacle for livin' right), my watch of summer 2021 is the limited-edition Synchron Military. Meant as an homage...