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The Man Who Brought The Olympics To Tokyo In 1964
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is finally upon us and this is the second-ever Olympics to be held in Tokyo, following the 1964 games of nearly 60 years ago. The event was delayed for a year due to the novel Coronavirus pandemic, and the athletes are competing without the cheers of a live audience, under the guidance of state of emergency protocols C an unprecedented circumstance in the history of the games. While I didnt win any tickets, the love of watches brought me to the story of a family with a special connection to the Olympics in Tokyo. They shared with me their story of the family patriarch who is responsible for making the 1964 Tokyo Olympics possible. The Beg...
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 With the Tokyo Olympic Games in full swing, there is no better watch to lead off the vintage selection this week than Omega's very first Olympics Limited Edition. For more Omega Olympics LEs, check out our partners at Crown and Caliber. The watch world was a different beast back in 1956; do you think there w...
Those of you with eyes for the free-wheeling world of the microbrand have likely had Brew Watch Co. on your radar for at least the past few years. This coffee-obsessed NYC-based watch brand has been cranking out fun and funky designs since Jonathan Ferrer started the brand in 2015. Over those years, the brand has earned an earnest and engaged following but none of their watches C lovely as they are C managed to speak directly to my taste. That is, until this past week when Brew announced their latest chronograph, the Metric.? Offered in two distinctive colorways, the Metric is a 36mm steel sports chronograph that features an inte...
The Hodinkee Editors pick their favorite Olympic edition watches from Omega
At this point, when you think Olympics and watches, you likely think of Omega. And that's with good reason. Along with the James Bond franchise, the Olympic Games represent a massive and hugely valuable international stage for Omega and, alongside the timekeeping duties, the setting offers the opportunity to brand special products directly into the theatre of sport. Given a deeply engaged worldwide audience, it's no surprise that Omega would want to leverage their considerable watchmaking acumen (and a wide array of styles), in communicating their continued relationship with the Olympics, and as such, they have a remarkable back catalog of watches that have been produced or launched in conju...
A look at the history of center seconds hands in watches.
One of the most taken-for-granted features of modern watches is the placement of the seconds hand at the center of the movement. But in the history of watchmaking, this is actually a relatively recent development. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that center seconds hands began to appear on a regular basis, in series produced movements. Today, most movements are designed to have center seconds by default. So if you see a modern watch with a small seconds dial, there just might be a little hidden mechanical magic making it happen. Before the 1940s, almost all watches had a running seconds hand located in a sub-dial, usually at 6:00. This was due to t...
HODINKEE Radio: The 2021 Hype Watch 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! The days of watch collecting as a mostly solitary hobby for those disengaged with contemporary culture are long gone. And they've been gone for awhile if we're being honest. Watches are some of the most sought-after accessories around, getting everything from fashion luminaries to adventurers to artists to call their local boutiques begging to be bumped up a few spots on that miles-long waitlist. And the die-hards are going harder than ever, paying more than 10x ret...
Watch Robbers Charged For Viloent Crimes In New York
This past Monday, the NYPD and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of an indictment bringing charges against two men in conjunction with 11 alleged robberies, all connected to the theft of luxury watches in the New York City area (including New Jersey and Long Island). The Richard Mille RM 27-04 Tourbillon Rafael Nadal The list of alleged crimes perpetrated by the two men (Victor Rivera and Johan Araujo) includes "conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, attempted robbery, attempted extortion, interstate transportation of stolen property, money laundering, and firearms offense...
In today's Hollywood, if there's a chance to take an existing movie franchise from the past, capitalize off of generational nostalgia and reinvent it for today, you better believe a studio will do it. Take the string of articles I recently wrote about Space Jam watches. A trio of timepieces designed to promote Space Jam: A New Legacy C a flashy and entirely unnecessary reboot of the 1996 Michael Jordan film. It seems to me that the golden rule is: Take a title, add a colon and a subtitle and you've got yourself a franchise. That's exactly the case with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), the Dwayne Johnson-led sequel to the Robin William led original (two peop...
We Review The Tag Heur Connected Smartwatch
You can track anything on your wrist these days. Running. Swimming. Sleep. Heart rate. Heart rate variability. There are so many metrics available to the amateur athlete?C and regular workaday slouch C that, some might argue, we know too much about our bodies. Were too connected. But everyone wants these metrics. Garmin knows this. Apple knows this. Whoop knows this. TAG Heuer does, too. Enter the TAG Heuer Connected, which this summer was updated to include swimming and indoor running. Its the venerable Swiss brands entry into the smartwatch (and multisport watch) world. If Patrick Bateman were a marathoner, this would be his training partner. ...
The Sports Section: This Runner's Entire Career Hinges On Less Than One Second
This post was produced in partnership with Tracksmith. At the elite level, a 1500m footrace C which is almost one mile C takes roughly three-and-a-half to four minutes. In the front of the pack, the margins of victory can (and often do) come down to tenths or even hundredths of a second. Nick Willis stretching while wearing his Timex Ironman Classic 30. In a short race, like a 100m sprint, youd expect those tiny margins. The whole thing is over in less than 10 seconds, so of course the outcome will be decided by fractions. But a middle-distance event is something else. It's nearly four full laps a...
All About Nine O'Clock Small Seconds Displays
I'm not quite sure when it started, but at some point or another in the last few years, I became fascinated by asymmetry in watch design. I love me some A. Lange & Sohne, F.P. Journe, Jaquet Droz, and Glashtte Original, but those once-offbeat designs, with all the timing displays askew, have since grown tame to me. Im talking about some serious off-kilter wristwatch design, where even a Dato won't do. I've become fixated on watches that drop the small seconds display at nine o'clock and leave it there C?no chronographs, no date windows or power reserves, nothing. Zilch. Two hands and a funky seconds display, preferably at nine o'clock C?that's all I want to...
Hands-On With The Casio Duro MDV106-1A
The Casio Duro MDV106-1A might just be the internet's favorite affordable diver. A search on WatchUSeek reveals 485 pages of results. Reddit shows a similar amount. The #CasioDuro hashtag has been used over 5,000 times on Instagram. Even Bill Gates is a confirmed fan. Casio tells me that since the MDV106 series was first released in June 2011, they've sold 600,000 of them worldwide.After years and years of hearing people praise this simple, quartz-powered dive watch, I broke down and purchased one for myself back in January. Fifty dollars (MSRP: $69.95) and one Amazon order later, I held my third Casio (not counting my G-Shocks!)...
A look back at Speedmasters being worn in space.
Unless you were hiding under a rock (which seems like a more and more attractive place to be these days) you probably read that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took a little trip recently, on a rocket ship with a design that Sigmund Freud would have appreciated at least as much as any aerospace engineer. (The jokes really kind of write themselves). As HODINKEE's Danny Milton pointed out, Bezos and his crewmates wore Omega Speedmaster Professionals on the outside of their flightsuits. Of course, the Blue Origin crew's Speedmasters were just the latest in a long, long line of Speedmasters which have been in use in crewed space flight sin...
Glashtte Original Panomatic Lunar With New Green Gradient Dial
Glashtte Original has an extremely broad range of watches, and an extremely interesting history to go along with it. (Stop me if you've heard this one). The company is, and no prizes for guessing right on this one, based in Glashtte, which is a pleasant half-hour or so drive from Dresden. It's a small town C around 7,000 folks live there, and there are over a dozen watch brands headquartered there, with Glashtte Original the largest in terms of production. Watchmaking in Glashtte came to a screeching halt at the end of World War II when the town was bombed (though it had been struggling in the pre-war years as well). The East German government collectivized t...
The Bulova 50th Anniversary Lunar Pilot Limited Edition Celebrates The "Other" Moon Watch
It's important to remember that the Speedmaster wasn't the only game in town. It was selected out of a number of Moon Watch contenders with the right technical chops, including the Accutron. While Bulova didn't make the cut for the watch worn on the mission, Accutron timing instruments did make their way onto 46 official NASA missions. Then on August 2, 1971, Bulova finally earned the title of? "Moon Watch" when David R. Scott wore the Bulova Chronograph ref. 88510/01 on the lunar surface. He elected to wear the watch after the crystal on his Speedmaster came off during an earlier moonwalk. Scott noted in an official NASA log: ...
Why most people wear their watches on the left wrist.
On July 9th, 1916, The New York Times ran a piece with the title, "The Changed Status Of The Wristwatch." The correspondent wrote in part: "Much has been printed in European papers of the subject of strap watches as part of military equipment. This has attracted a good deal of attention, since modern warfare has demonstrated the necessity for officers and soldiers to know the time." There is then a detailed discussion of the rapid evolution of the wristwatch, and the story concludes, "Until recently, the bracelet watch has been looked upon by Americans as more or less of a joke. Vaudeville artists and moving-pictures actors have utilized it as a fun-maker, as a '...
Crown & Caliber and HODINKEE Capsule Collection
A few months ago Crown & Caliber and HODINKEE become one company. Our pre-owned section got bigger, better, and brighter and made many of our Rolex dreams seem a little bit more attainable. This was all well and good but from where we sat in New York City, C&C still seemed like a far-off entity, a castle in a cloud full of pre-owned watches. So to bridge the divide Cole Pennington and I flew down to Atlanta to meet the good people who make up C&C and see how they spend their time, what makes them tick, and, oh yeah, check out the capsule collection they curated just for us.?After a quick flight, we arrived at the C&C office to tour the on-site facilities and confirm the rumor...
The Junghans Max Bill Edition Set 60
Founded in 1861, the German brand Junghans is enjoying its 160th birthday this year, but that's not the outfit's only anniversary of note. 2021 also marks the 60th year of the watch design that Max Bill created for Junghans back in 1961. Bill, who passed away in 1994, was a prolific creator and is known the world over for his work in everything from industrial design to architecture, typeface, and more. Earlier this year, Junghans announced a special limited edition set of three Max Bill watches in honor of the 60th anniversary of Bill's minimal-but-beautiful design legacy.? Sold exclusively as a set and only via Junghans retail ...
Why Doesn't Novak Djokovic Have A Watch Sponsor?
One of the world's greatest athletes currently lacks a watch sponsor. To which you might reply C?who cares? Well, I do. As a man who enjoys watching tennis and wearing watches, I take pleasure in analyzing and interpreting the watches my favorite athletes wear. It's yet another storyline to follow. I think it's fascinating that Daniil Medvedev and Bovet have struck up a relationship. I also love that Zenith has embraced the amount of screen time tennis coaches get during a match, by partnering with Patrick Mouratoglou, Serena Williams' coach. I think Roger Federer (Rolex) and Rafael Nadal (Richard Mille) are absolutely perfect brand ambassadors for their respecti...
The Best Of The Tokyo Olympics
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! After a yearlong delay, tons of fanfare, and not a small bit of controversy, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo have finally come to a close. Yesterday, we saw the closing ceremonies and the start of the countdown to next year's winter games in Beijing, China. But before we put the warm weather contests in the rearview mirror, we wanted to look back at this year's Games and our favorite horologically-inclined moments from the last few weeks.?Luckily, Nora and Danny wer...