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Vacheron Constantin's New York Boutique Shows Photographs Of Cory Richards
Vacheron Constantin's partnership with mountaineer and National Geographic photographer Cory Richards has produced what HODINKEE's James Stacey called, "easily my favorite watch of 2021" C the Overseas Dual Time Everest, which along with the Overseas Chronograph Everest, launched earlier this month. For many watch enthusiasts, this may have been the first introduction to Richards, but his work as a photographer will be familiar to a much wider audience. Vacheron Constantin has mounted an exhibit of some of his most iconic photographs at the New York boutique, which will be running through November 15th, 2021.? Khoisan Tribesmen, Botswana ...
HODINKEE Editor in Chief Jack Forster wonders what watch could last forever
The watch world is full of interesting hypothetical cases that will, if there is anything like luck or justice, never transpire, but which are fun to consider as thought experiments. Not infrequently, these revolve around various apocalyptic scenarios. One of my all-time favorites, for instance, is the assertion that a quartz watch is inferior to a mechanical watch in the event of a nearby nuclear explosion because the EMP (electromagnetic pulse) associated with the blast will "fry the circuitry" (it turns out to the joy of G-Shock fans worldwide, that this is not, in fact, the case). Another related but different scenario involves what I like to call (as of five...
HODINKEE's Favorite Affordable Field Watches
Outdoor gear is expensive. And while a watch may not be as necessary as say, a tent, it is still a useful tool for whatever rugged adventures await. To help balance out the cost of all the needs and wants of heading out on your next excursion, HODINKEE editors gleefully present to you their favorite field watches for under $1,000. Orient Defender Gen 1 One of the first mechanical watches I bought, after a vintage Glycine Compressor and a Seiko SKX007, was the first-generation Orient Defender. This wonderful little field watch has remained one of my most-worn pieces ever since. It's surprisingly complicate...
The Watch That Really Glows In The Dark
When you think "Bond watch," images of Rolex Submariners, and Omega Seamasters spring to mind. These are the heavy hitters, the kings of Swiss dive watches, and the only watches 007 would dare bring underwater C wait, we're forgetting one. Almost lost to time is a certain Heuer quartz diver C the Diver Professional C on the wrist of one Timothy Dalton in 1987's The Living Daylights. Once you know to look for it, it's actually quite hard to miss. That's because, unlike other watches worn by M's best agent, it featured a fully PVD-coated aesthetic (bracelet included) and a bright white dial. The surface of that dial was completely coated in luminescent material C w...
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 We're pleased to announce that we've located yet another Rolex Deep Sea Special; that's right, the third one to surface (pun definitely intended) as of late. You know, we figured with The Great Outdoors Week in full swing, what's more outdoorsy than the bottom of the ocean? Just kidding, we wish. Although, i...
Paul Newman's Paul Newman Daytona Resurfaces in LA
Over the weekend, we noticed a curious thing pop up at a star-studded event for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which formally opened to the public today. Despite the likes of Nicole Kidman, Lady Gaga, and Spike Lee turning out, the most exciting appearance C at least from our vantage C was that of the Rolex Daytona Ref. 6239 originally owned and worn by Paul Newman. This is the wristwatch, you will recall, that was auctioned in New York in 2017 for $17.75 million, becoming, for a time, the most expensive in the world. From the moment the gavel fell, there was speculation as to who might have bought it. ...
Do Casio Fishing Watches Really Work?
"We speak of killing a trout with a rod. It is the effort made by the trout that kills it." ?CErnest Hemingway I had a steadfast routine in the summers of my New Jersey pre-teen years. I'd save the last 20 percent of whatever my parents made for dinner and sneak it into a little Ziploc bag and instead of sticking around for dessert C likely freezer pops during the summer C I'd hop on my GT Bump and cruise ten minutes to Grover Cleveland Pond, the local fishing hole, pinning my fishing pole between my left hand and the handlebars. Hanging off the right side of my bike I'd have a small plastic shopping bag with leftover dinner, a few hooks, a bobber or two, a knife...
Interested in selling a pre-owned watch? Get your quote.Want to sell your vintage watch through the HODINKEE Shop? Click here. This Week's Vintage Watches HODINKEE Pre-Owned, Great Outdoors style. That's right, we're playing along with this week's editorial theme over here, too. While possibly the best "outdoorsy" watch available on HODINKEE Pre-Owned page C a 46mm titanium Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor C sold last week, don't fret. There are plenty more watches in stock and newly listed for this week. Take a hike (with a Breitling Colt Skyracer)! Get out of town (wearing a Panerai Mare Nostrum)! Go fly a kite (with the Speedmast...
The Best Watches For Extreme Conditions
Should you find yourself in the sort of outing one could only characterize as "really dangerous" or "testing the endurance of man" you're going to want a serious watch. Armed with a sense of imagination and a wealth of watch knowledge, our editors selected the best watches for truly trying conditions. Sinn UX (EZM 2B) If I'm going to put this watch up against extreme environments, then there better be some extreme engineering involved in creating a watch for the task. The Sinn UX (EZM 2B) is exactly that. The dial, hands, and quartz movement sit in a bath of oil inside the watch case. This serves two purp...
How To Use An Analog Watch To Find True North
This may be Great Outdoors Week on HODINKEE, but for some of us soft-handed, knowledge-worker, keyboard-tapping urbanites, the Great Outdoors may be something to be feared, as the first members of genus Homo, eons ago, looked out with fear upon the darkness of the night, listening to the distant growls of big cats looking for some tasty, tasty Australopithecus on which to sup. Peel away the thin veneer of civilization, and that terror-stricken primate isn't too far below the surface, especially if you find yourself straying off a trail and realizing, too late, that you don't know where you are and worse, don't know how to find your way back. While any a...
How A Casio MW240 Helped Me Bike Across Iceland
Its late in the afternoon as we approach the Myrdalsjokull Glacier from the north. I dont really know what I pictured a glacier in all its winter glory to look like, exactly, but it was certainly not this. This looks, well, easy.?As my expedition team C Chris Burkard and Rebecca Rusch C and I pedal the flat volcanic plain, I feel an urgency that I hadnt experienced until now. When the goal of travel is simply to make it to the pre-appointed destination safely, you actively seek to remove anything that may put you at risk from the equation. Urgency can put you at risk. However, this moment calls for it. We are 300 miles through our 330-mile journey from the nor...
What Watch Strap Should I Wear?
Strap accumulation is a real thing; sometimes I feel like I'm more of a strap collector than I am a watch enthusiast. We often say that changing a watch's strap is akin to changing its entire personality; putting on a NATO strap is like taking off your dress shoes after a long day and settling into a pair of house slippers. Most watch straps, like the watches they serve, were designed with a purpose in mind. So given this week's exploration of The Great Outdoors in watches, it's as good a time as any to break down the circumstances and occasions when you might want to opt for rubber over steel, or nylon over leather. ...
Jimmy Stewart Wore A Tissot In 'Rear Window?'
Before he became an iconic director and spearheaded the French New Wave of cinema, Francois Truffaut was a writer C a film critic. He was also an early admirer, nay obsessive, of one Alfred Hitchcock. Truffaut would eventually publish Hitchcock/Truffaut, a book of the interviews he had with the "Master of Suspense," detailing Hitchcocks entire career behind the camera. Today we're revisiting a Hitchcock's classic, Rear Window (1954), and there's no better way to sum it up than the way Truffaut did in his original review 67 years ago: "Rear Window is a film about indiscretion, about intimacy violated and taken by surprise at its most wretched moments; a film abou...
Writer Sarah Miller Attempts To Understand How Watches Work
In the immortal words of John F. Kennedy, There comes a time in every womans life when she must cease in being an embarrassment to the horological community. Im just kidding, JFK never said that, but on his 45th birthday he did receive an engraved Rolex from Marilyn Monroe which he quickly instructed an aide to get rid of. Also, he wore an Omega Ultra-Thin to his inauguration. Furthermore, that Omega was a ref. OT3980 with a manually wound movement, while the Rolex, a Day-Date, whose fluted bezel, case design, and proportions are similar to the Rolex Datejust, but whose bracelet is more like a hybrid of the Oyster and Jubilee, had a caliber 3055 movement, running at 4 hertz. ...
I've been on an absolute A. Lange & Sohne kick the past few months. I think I've read every news blurb, forum post, review, and announcement made online in the past decade. I've gone pretty deep down the rabbit hole. I even picked up a copy of Walter Lange's autobiography to delve into. But no story quite touched me in the way that this 1999 TimeZone interview between Gnter Blmlein and Peter Chong did. Mr. Gnter Blmlein Peter Chong, who you might recognize as the founder of the watch site Deployant, conducted his chat with Mr. Blmlein over the internet (maybe over AOL chat? Email? I'd hone...
The meaning of the coat of arms on the Geneva Seal
Although it doesn't get around quite as much as it used to, the Geneva Seal C or Poin?on de Genve C has been, is now, and always will be an important part of the history of watchmaking in Switzerland. The Seal is also sometimes called the Geneva Hallmark, although "Seal" seems a better fit, despite the fact that poin?on, or "punch" is the word used for hallmarks in French. A hallmark is a mark placed on a precious metal object by some independent inspection agency attesting to its purity (the study of hallmarks used on watch cases over the centuries is a fascinating subject in itself, at least if you're the sort of person who finds the study of hallmarks used on watch cases over the centuri...
Want A Watch That Can Dive Deep and Climb High?
Norqain is continuing to build watches around its new in-house (everyone calm down) movement C the? NN20/1. Today we are looking at the Adventure Neverest C a three-hand, no date, dive style watch that slots into the Adventure collection alongside the recently released Neverest GMTs. Last year, the brand effectively broke the horological internet when it first announced the NN20/1 to the world. The reason behind the digital pitchfork and torch-carrying was the fact that Norqain's movement was built by the very same company that produces Tudor's in-house calibers. This opened the dam ...
This Seiko Silverwave re-writes horological history
Chris Dahlman wanted a Silverwave J12082, Seiko's first dive watch (the 62MAS is the first professional diver). So in 2018 he logged onto Yahoo Japan Auctions and placed the $300 winning bid on one and considered himself set. But when it arrived stateside, he discovered that it wasn't quite the watch he was looking for. It was even better. This Silverwave had a date, something the standard Silverwave didn't. It also had a mix of Katakana and Kanji characters engraved around the perimeter of the caseback. These hadn't been visible in the auction pictures. Curious, he had a family friend who reads Japan...
Introducing The New Swatch x Supriya Lele
The playbook for Swatch collaborations has always been about fun. There are the amusing (and ultra-collectible) Mickey Mouse watches from Damien Hirst and Keith Haring; the wacky totem-pole-like number designed with the pop star Mika. Swatchs latest collab with Supriya Lele, a British-Indian fashion designer, carries on the good vibrations. Launched last month, the Swatch Skin Classic comes in five models, in bright, peppy colors, and features an ultra-thin case to match ultra-thin printed straps, and, for the first time, color-printed glass over the dial. Three of the watches feature Madras check C Indias perennial print thats signature to Leles work C in zi...
Les Cabinotiers Westminster Sonnerie C Tribute to Johannes Vermeer pocket watch unique piece
She's one of the most famous faces in the history of European art C Girl With A Pearl Earring, completed around 1665 by the Dutch artist, Johannes (Jan) Vermeer. Vermeer is famous for his naturalistic use of light and Girl With A Pearl Earring is one of his most characteristic works. Her identity is unknown, but her image has legions of admirers, one of whom commissioned this remarkable, unique piece pocket watch. The painting on the cover of the watch was executed over a two-year period by one of the most famous modern practitioners of the art of enamel miniature painting, Anita Porchet.? Girl With A Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer of Delft, 1665. Imag...