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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? Email us at [email protected]?with some photos. Want to sell your pre-owned watch? Click?here. This Week's Vintage Watches Comfortably into the second month of 2022, as we watch the days get longer, it's about time to check in on those goals and resolutions. If any of them had to do with adding a vintage watch to your watch box, we can help. For all of the others, maybe talk to Jack or Logan. ...
Is This The World's Most Underrated Split-Seconds Chronograph?
I first met Michel Parmigiani in the late spring of 2017. He was the guest of honor at a dinner I was helping coordinate in New York between Parmigiani Fleurier, the company he founded in 1996, and a small group of collectors. Michel's flight had apparently just landed from Switzerland, and the man was clearly exhausted. Despite the evident fatigue and language barrier that separated Michel from the active conversation within the collector group, he didn't let it stop him from engaging with the evening's merriment. The author, right, at age 21, next to Michel Parmigiani, founder of Parmigiani Fleurier. At the center of our tab...
Top Chef Judge Hugh Acheson On His Favorite Watches
Hugh Acheson will have the egg sandwich with bacon and a side of hash browns. Its a chilly Atlanta morning, and Acheson C the rangy chef who made his name modernizing Southern food C has slid into a diner booth with a flannel shirt and a cup of coffee and a whole bunch of inexpensive watches. Its like wine, he tells me. There's definitely a difference between cheap and inexpensive. Acheson likes good, well-made stuff. When it comes to watches, that means the kind he can beat to hell and not worry about. And that cost about as much as a pork chop. While he does not exactly invite me to peruse h...
In watch design, "shrink it and pink it" has become a pejorative. But done right, pink is as potent as any other hue and can work on basically any wrist. Pink watches range from bold and bright to subtle and demure C what is a salmon dial, after all, if not a shade of pink? We asked H staffers to share their top picks and these Valentine's-appropriate dials redeem the most maligned color in wristwear. Rolex Oyster Perpetual - Candy Pink I'll admit, the optics on my selection are not great. Would-be Rolex buyers probably think I'm just here to antagonize by picking a watch that's so hard to get at retail. ...
HODINKEE's Jack Forster on why he's a lifelong watch lover
People sometimes ask me (less often than you'd think) when I first got interested in watches and the truth is, I don't remember. It's sort of like asking a restaurant critic when they first got interested in food, or an art critic when they first got interested in art. Maybe there's a Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment when you sit back from your desk at your nine-to-five and exclaim, "Dear God! I must become an art critic, or die in the attempt to become one!" But in general, I think it's something you sort of grow into, and it's only in retrospect that you realize there were early warning signs. Another question people ask me, and which I sometimes ask myself,...
Complicated Watches Available On HODINKEE Pre-Owned
A wristwatch is a solution to a problem. When you want to know the time, it tells you. But what if you have more problems than that? What if you want to measure elapsed time or know the exact phase of the lunar cycle? Well, that's what complicated watchmaking is for C?answering more than just the question of the time. Either the date window or power reserve are considered the most straightforward of complications, but there's a whole world of high-end options worth exploring.?We curated a small collection of our favorite complications out of the hundreds of watches currently listed on HODINKEE Pre-Owned. You can check out a few of those in more detail below, or go ahead and peruse at your ow...
HODINKEE's Best Stories About Love
Well isn't this sweet. A little Valentine's Day hang for you and me! ?Whether you've got big sweet plans this weekend or Monday or zero plans at all anytime ever, I'm here for you and your watch-related entertainment. I've rounded up some watches and stories that speak to this holiday and the various ways one might feel about it. Just a little something to keep you busy while you count down the hours till all of that CVS candy goes on sale.? Can I take you on a Date(just)??? Love! Romance! Heartbreak! Last-minute roses! Kind of weird things to talk about on a watch site, but since so much of love is about mil...
Honus Wagner's Watch Is Set To Break Records At Auction
Overlooking the Allegheny River is Pittsburgh's PNC Park C what many consider MLB's best baseball venue today C home of the Pirates. Walk up to the Peoples Home Plate Gate (one of several entrances) and you'll find yourself in the shadow of one J.P. "Honus" Wagner . well, his statue, at least. A fixture of the city for years, he continues to loom large. Born in a suburb now called Carnegie, he was, and continues to be, the Steel City's son. This month, a very special watch that belonged to Wagner is set to come up for auction as part of Heritage's Winter Platinum Night Sports event. The watch is special for a couple of reasons: it has his name engraved on the ca...
Smack in the middle of the Genta family townhouse in London is the studio of the late Grald Genta. The double-height room is flooded in natural light from windows high above. He was in the center of the house and he liked that, recalls Evelyne Genta, his widow and partner in business and life. The room is where Genta, by far the most famous watch designer ever, drew every single day until his death, in 2011, at age 80. Even though he had sold his eponymous company more than a decade before his passing, Genta showed no signs of slowing down. Grald would never have lived the life of a retired gentleman, Mrs. Genta says. The part he liked about his work C the...
Meet The New-For-2022 TAG Heuer Connected Watch
Nearly seven years ago, in November 2015, former TAG Heuer CEO and LVMH Watch Department head honcho Jean-Claude Biver introduced?the first generation of the TAG Heuer Connected Watch in New York City.? A lot has changed since then.?Smartwatches have become ubiquitous, thanks in large part to the unprecedented success of a single operator that dominates over 50 percent of the global market. But traditional luxury watches haven't been left in the dust as so many predicted in the early days of the smartwatch C?the category has grown and grown. These are two disparate sections of the watch world, both expanding, that we rarely see interacting with one another. In fa...
This story was originally published on February 13, 2022. But love is patient, love is kind, and love is sometimes reminding someone that they should insure their watch.? I'm Marc Hajjar, the Director of Hodinkee Insurance. This wasn't the meet-cute I intended, but I'm here to wax poetically on something that seems to weigh on the hearts of a lot of Hodinkee's readers: the passion for collecting. Like many of you, I'm a collector. For some time now, I have been collecting other objectsmostly art and art-related books. This hobby, which began with my studies, morphed into a career and then a passion.What I've always found interesting ...
Share Watches For Valentine's Day
Whether or not your Valentine shares the watch obsession that brings to you the 'Dink, a timepiece can be a great gift. But let's be real, luxury watches are expensive! Picking one that you can both get some mileage out of is not only the financially prudent thing to do, it can even be romantic (if you spin it right). While anyone, regardless of gender, can wear any watch they want, here are six gift-worthy standouts with wide-ranging appeal. If you're gonna splurge, why not double dip? Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Duoface When a lot of watch lovers think of the Reverso, it's with engraving and personalizatio...
Did you forget that it's Valentine's Day? Don't worry! Hodinkee Radio is here to make sure you have something to listen to while you manage the dreaded silent treatment. Dumb jokes aside, I asked Nora, Jack, and Danny to chat about the nuances of Valentine's Day watch writing, the conundrum of a watch that won't be shared, and why we love watches in the first place.? It's a short and sweet episode with plenty of variety, so thanks very much for listening, and happy Valentine's Day from the entire HODINKEE team.? Show Notes 1:00 Valentine's Theme Weekend1:43 HODINKEE Spouses Tell Us ...
Look For This Oak & Oscar On The Wrist Of US Curling Team Members This Winter
Chicago-based hometown horological heroes Oak & Oscar are cheering on America's premier curling athletes, Team Shuster, with an actual watch instead of a watch party. They've recently launched the Team Shuster Humboldt 12hr, and it's just like any other Humboldt, the brand's first non-limited watch that Stephen Pulvirent wrote about in 2018, except for one thing C there's a piece of a curling stone that was actually used in the Olympic games inset into the caseback. You're looking at a curling stone that's been carved out to make watch caseback inlays. Only ten of these watches have been m...
The Most Complete Space Watch Database, Ever.
On January 19th, 2022 at 6AM, Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov performed an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA)? from the International Space Station. On his wrist was a Panerai Radiomir 45mm PAM210; the first Panerai to have ever gone to space. All that would be old news if you were following Robert Jackson's Watches Used In Space Exploration database. At 1,899 (and growing) entries, it's the most complete set of data regarding watches used in space. Jackson works in education by day, but in the evenings he toils away adding to the digital database and making it easier for users to sort through. Watch enthusiasm can take many forms. Some folks ...
The Nine Stages Of A Relationship With A Watch
We often refer to watch collecting, or watch obsession, as "the hobby." This is our way of swatting away notions that it's anything more serious than that. Kind of like we do with a not-so-significant other when we aren't prepared to make a commitment C "it's just casual." But watch collecting mirrors sentient relationships more than you might think. If you've gone farther than just getting your feet wet in this thing of ours, then you know exactly what I am talking about. Much like falling in love, there's an obsessive quality to zeroing in on a watch you C for lack of a better word C love. Falling head over heels with a wristwa...
Introducing JC Biver, A New Watch Brand By Jean-Claude Biver
Jean-Claude Biver, age 72, is itching to get back into the watch business. After stepping down as the President of LVMH's Watch Division in 2018, the last four years have been relatively quiet for Biver. We last saw the giant of Swiss watchmaking in 2020, when he received France's Legion Of Honor, and then at the Phillips Geneva Watch Auction: XI, where he sold four vintage Patek Philippe wristwatches from his personal collection for over eight million dollars.? Speaking with Radio Tlvision Suisse (RTS) yesterday morning as part of the station's Mdialogues segment, Biver opened up about a bicycle accident that resulted in a re...
Jewelry Designer Maggi Simpkins On Her Cartier Tank
In Watch of the Week, we invite HODINKEE staffers and friends to explain why they love a certain piece. This week's columnist is jewelry designer Maggi Simpkins, who has run her bespoke engagement ring company since 2015. She recently designed a one-million-dollar ring for "Brilliant and Black C A Jewelry Renaissance," an exhibition at Sotheby's. Most of the jewelry I wear has a significant amount of sentimental value for me. Almost every day I wear my moms engagement ring, a ring of her mother's that I stack with a band I made out of my fathers gold-fill glasses frames. On my neck, I wear a pendant necklace from his mother. Im a strong believer in connecting ...
New Vintage Watches In The HODINKEE Shop
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? Email us at [email protected]?with some photos. Want to sell your pre-owned watch? Click?here. This Week's Vintage Watches It's always rewarding to share a great Rolex Submariner or Patek Philippe Ellipse here C we love to see collectors in the HODINKEE community realize a dream by purchasing a legendary watch like one of those or, say, a Rolex GMT-Master. We strive to always offer excellent examples of these more "c...
What Watches Celebrities Wore To The Superbowl
Super Bowl LVI is now over and many of us are recovering from an evening of junk food and alcohol (oh, and it's Valentine's Day). Now that the dust has settled, and the Rams are officially champions, we can recalibrate, and get back to those little mechanical things that we love so much watches I'm talking about watches. The game took place in La La Land, so you know Ingelwood's own Sofi Stadium was packed to the brim with celebrities showing off their favorite pieces. Everyone came out to see the game, from Charlize Theron to LeBron James, but honestly we aren't as concerned with the celebs themselves as we are with what they had on their wrists. ...