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Check Out This Over-Engineered Approach To Clock Repair
We recently learned of a developer in Germany who had employed a most unorthodox, and over-engineered, method in the repair of his household clock. Hendrik Ohrdes (AKA Developer Hendrik), or @_devdrik, as he is known on Instagram, programmed a robotic arm, nicknamed Serworm Michael, to adjust the time on a broken quartz-powered clock. It has to be the most Rube Goldberg-style clock repair I've ever seen, so I reached out to Ohrdes to find out how he came up with the idea to program a robotic arm in this way. Initially, he told me, the idea had been to build a robotic arm capable of holding his phone a...
Welcome to HODINKEE's Dive Watch Weekend, where 15 of the best stories we've ever published about dive watches will be resurfaced for your reading enjoyment. We'll republish five greatest hits each day of this long weekend, in hopes of inspiring you to submerge. We absolutely love dive watches C and we think even old-school readers will find a few pieces they missed the first time around. "It was used as a tool, and a diver's life depended on it" is a popular refrain in HODINKEE stories about dive watches. And it's not an exaggeration C there was a time, from the '50s to the late '80s, before dive computers became ubiquitous when a pr...
Reference Point's Rolex Submariner
We're spending the last long weekend of summer underwater, and we invite you to jump in with us. All the way through Labor Day, we'll be filling the site with the best, most hard-core HODINKEE dive watch stories from the past 10 years. This is one. The Rolex Submariner isn't just the world's most famous dive watch C it's arguably the most famous watch, full stop. Yesterday we brought back a recent "Week On The Wrist" with the latest Submariner model. But back in 2019, we dove deep into the vintage Submariner with a Reference Points article and video. To read and watch "Reference Points: Everything You...
Taking the Omega Seamaster for a Dive
We're spending the last long weekend of summer underwater, and we invite you to jump in with us. All the way through Labor Day, we'll be filling the site with the best, most hard-core HODINKEE dive watch stories from the past 10 years. This is one. "The Seamaster Professional," Jason Heaton reminds us, "started life as a shiny accessory made to slide under Pierce Brosnan's cuff in the mid-90s, when James Bond was a well-coiffed dandy. It's the archetypal 'dress diver' C the exact opposite of a tool watch, with a glittery multi-link bracelet, scalloped bezel, skeleton hands, and stylized wave dial."Three years ago Jason wondered, ...
Taking The Royal Oak Offshore Off Shore
We're spending the last long weekend of summer underwater, and we invite you to jump in with us. All the way through Labor Day, we'll be filling the site with the best, most hard-core HODINKEE dive watch stories from the past 10 years. This is one. If you had your very own ROO, would you wear it into the ocean? Jason Heaton would. A full decade ago (oh, how time flies here at the Dink), he winged off to the Caribbean and took this ISO-certified diver down to explore a sunken freighter that once held 25,000 pounds of marijuana.?This is vintage HODINKEE, all the way up to the operatic music in the video.? ...
The First Woman Night Watch In Lausanne In 600 Years
Lausanne's an old town C originally a Celtic settlement on the north shore of Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), it was colonized by the Romans, and after the Empire closed up shop, became a city under various rulers up until it became part of the Swiss Federation in 1803, as the capital city of the Canton Of Vaud. If you're visiting the city, one must-see place to check out is the cathedral, which had its foundations laid as early as 1170. A series of fires in the late Middle Ages prompted the city to establish the position of night watch C a person whose job was to mount the steps in the cathedral's bell tower and call out the time at night, and also to keep an eye out for fires. The watch is theref...
HODINKEE Editors Most Surprising Watches From Geneva Watch Days 2021
At its height, in 2014, Baselworld (remember Baselworld?) welcomed some 150,000 visitors and had 1500 exhibitors C finding something surprising was a given. The demise of large-scale trade shows means that unexpected moves from watch manufacturers are thinner on the ground than they used to be. However, Geneva Watch Days, which wrapped up last week after bringing the in-person watch show back on a smaller scale, still managed to give us some watches we didn't see coming. Logan Baker: The Oris Aquis Upcycle I just bought my first Oris. It was our recent Divers Sixty-Five Limited Edition with the caliber 40...
Hey, HODINKEE!: Winding Weirdness, Watch Wear Wisdom, And Heirloom Watches, Part Deux
Hi everyone! Welcome to episode 4 of Hey, HODINKEE! C where we answer your questions about all watches, great and small. This week, HODINKEE Editor-in-Chief Jack Forster looks at a question all of us who collect have to face, sooner or later: How seldom is too seldom to wear a watch? Watches after all are machines and like most machines, they have moving parts that are meant to move, not sit idle indefinitely. But with so many watches to love and buy and own and regret buying and sell and regret selling and buy back again for more than you paid the first time around, how often should something get into the rotation to keep it from throwing a rod or blowing a head gasket? Find out in this ver...
Robin Swithinbank On Time Machines: An Analogue Obsession
If you're the type who would feel undressed on leaving the house without first putting on a watch (and almost inevitably you are, given how you're currently spending your time), and have ever wondered why that might be, you may find some enlightenment, and some comfort even, in a new and thoroughly entertaining short film called Time Machines: An Analogue Obsession, now streaming near you. Produced by Stage3 Media Works, the film has slipped all but unnoticed into the ether to now, gathering a mere 1,100 views in its first 10 days. This, despite being one of the most charmingly and intelligently considered pieces of content devoted to mechanical watches ever made...
Marathon x J. Crew Navigator is one heck of a mall watch.
When I was in my early teens, and my friends and relatives who weren't watch enthusiasts (it's easy to forget that this constitutes most people on earth) found out that I was into watches, they had a tendency to give me Fossil, Swiss Army, or any variety of what some might consider a "mall watch" as a gift for the holidays, graduations, and various other occasions in life. And I couldn't be more grateful for their generosity; it sustained my budding interest in horology and put a watch on my wrist to enjoy. But I quickly outgrew them as my collecting got more serious and my tastes evolved. Had the 2021 Marathon x J.Crew Navigator...
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 After a long and relaxing Labor Day weekend here in the States, let's get back to the cadence we all know and love with HODINKEE Vintage hitting your newsfeed Wednesday morning. What is more centering than a Rolex "Big Red" Daytona? The collection is fewer this week with about ten watches being stocked in the...
TAG Heuer's New Night Diver Glows In The Dark
Back in April at Watches & Wonders Geneva, TAG Heuer unveiled a new generation of its Aquaracer with eight 43mm and 36mm Professional 300 options powered by the TAG Heuer Cal. 5 automatic movement, which is based on the ETA 2824-2. Today, we have three additions to the collection, all 43mm in diameter. And one of them in particular just might bring back memories for a lot of folks who remember TAG in the '80s. The Aquaracer Night Diver, with its full lume dial, is a new twist on a 1980s classic that brought nighttime visibility to the fore. Contrasted with a DLC-coated steel case and black ceramic bezel, the Night Diver's sig...
The Tunnel To Towers Foundation And William Wood Watches Team Up To Create A LE Watch
I can vividly remember the moments after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center the morning of September 11th, 2001. I was a high school freshman in suburban New Jersey, about 16 miles from Lower Manhattan. During second period, the classroom phone rang and our teacher was instructed to send anyone with parents working in New York City (about half the student body) to the auditorium; the school then issued a media blackout and we weren't allowed to turn on the TVs or go on the computer to look at the news. It was a misguided effort to curb the growing chaos. I used "web clippings" on a hand-me-down Palm Pilot to find out what happened. ...
Daniel Day-Lewis' Gold Watch In 'Phantom Thread'
The best retire at the top of their game C leaving us to wonder what they would have left in the tank if they hadn't hung up that jersey. Like Michael Jordan when he left the Chicago Bulls in 1993 after winning three straight championships. He reached the mountaintop C had nothing left to give. The game was too easy. Or Michael Jordan, after un-retiring in 1994 and then re-retiring in 1998, after winning three straight titles. Or Michael Jordan after un-retiring in 2001 and re-retiring in 2003. Okay, maybe this was a bad example, but it's all to say that one of the most talented actors of his generation, Daniel Day-Lewis, the MJ of Hollywood, abruptly announced his retirement from the craft ...
The New Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar For The U.S. Market
About a month ago, Robin Swithinbank brought us news that a titanium Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar for Japan would be available globally. Today, we've got another take on the titanium RO Perpetual, this time for the US market, with limited availability in other markets slated for October. Knowing what interest in the Royal Oak is these days, this is the kind of watch that will almost certainly be hard to get one's hands on, even if the $80,000 price tag is no barrier. Fortunately, we were able to shoot one earlier this week, and I spent some time with it. Join me as we take a closer look at what figures to be a really hot take on an already hot watch. ...
Writer Michael Hainey Interviews 9/11 Survivor Thomas Canavan
Its just a regular watch, for a regular guy, Thomas Canavan tells me. I think I mighta paid 10 bucks for it, I dont recall. Maybe at Walmart? All I remember is, I bought it because I needed something reliable. I was taking the train to and from Grand Central every day, and if you learn one thing doing that, everythings a matter of seconds. But the watch? Theres nothing special about it, really. But of course there is something special about the watch. And about Canavan. A quartz field watch made by a brand called Milan, which is a trademark held by the M.Z. Berger company, the piece sits encased in a small box beneath a pin-li...
What Watch Does Shohei Ohtani Wear?
Shohei Ohtani is a lot of things. He's the best player in baseball this year, a dynamic force on the pitching mound as well as at the plate for the Los Angeles Angels. He's the most remarkable two-way baseball player we've had since Babe Ruth, a dual threat whose consistent, dominant success this season has the baseball world buzzing. During MLB All-Star Weekend in July, he participated in the Home Run Derby, was the starting pitcher and the leadoff designated hitter for the American League C?all firsts in baseball history. It's "Sho-time." (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) What's most notable for me, however, is the fa...
Revisiting The Mido Ocean Star Decompression Timer 1961 'Rainbow Diver'
Hot off the heels of Dive Watch Weekend we decided to revisit ... another dive watch. The Mido Ocean Star Decompression Timer ?1961 is a watch that works for divers and non-divers alike, as its colorful decompression table is both a tool and a splash of fun. If you are somewhat dive-curious, Jack breaks down the whats and whys of decompression and decompression tables in this Introducing post from last summer. Along with useful explanations of diving terms and tools, Jack also meditates on the idea of a "summer watch." Now that we are in that weird post-Labor Day summer/fall limbo state, the idea of such a rigid classification se...
This week, we're chatting dive watches while attempting to avoid all of the clich puns. So let's dive in (I'm sorry) with a panel made up exclusively of certified divers. Listen as Cole Pennington and HODINKEE's own SVP of Content, Nick Marino, peel out of their wetsuits and jump on the mics to chat about diving, dive watches, and what it all means to the greater mindshare of watch enthusiasts. ? We recap our respective starts in diving, share our fondest dive-watch memories, and ponder the possible formation of the official Hodinkee Spearfishing Team. We also predict what will happen when current tastes move on from the world of mid-...
Watch Spotting At The 2021 U.S. Open
The yearlong tennis circuit has a rhythm and flow to it that's nearly unmatched in any other professional sports league. Every week, for close to 11 months of the year, professional tennis players from all over the world, both men and women, descend upon courts of clay, grass, and asphalt to compete for ranking points, honors, and prize money. There's nearly nonstop action from the opening salvo of the Australian Open every January, to the closing ceremonies at the U.S. Open in New York City in September.? Unlike most other sports, tennis is a solitary activity. It's a one-on-one, mano-a-mano competition that will always end with a single champion. When you're on...