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Save The Date With The Armin Strom Orbit
Armin Strom, ever a fascinating and esoteric manufacturer that is never afraid to take a chance and make something quirky, has just announced their latest limited edition creation for Watches and Wonders 2022. It's called the Orbit and it features a column-wheel actuated date display that coordinates with a fixed ceramic bezel surrounding its skeletonized execution and asymmetrical dial layout.? Armin Strom claims this is the first time a date function has ever been displayed on a bezel with the ability to engage or disengage the date hand with a button (located at 10 o'clock on the case flank) and I certainly can't think of anot...
Three Tourbillons Launched For 100th Anniversary Of Gucci
It's been roughly a year now since Gucci introduced its first line of luxury timepieces C in early 2021, the company launched new luxury watches in its Grip and G-Timeless collections, as well as a new luxury line of watches with a newly developed movement. The caliber GG727.25 comes in two versions, the GG727.25A automatic and the GG727.25 tourbillon, with dials for all the new luxury watches made in Gucci's own dial factory, Fabbrica Quadranti, which is located in Ticino, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The watches derive from the mind of Gucci's maximalist creative director, Alessandro Michele, whose design language doesn't really fit any traditional category. His influences,...
Fly By Night With The IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Ceratanium
We're off to the races in Geneva for Watches and Wonders 2022 and IWC has brought a handful of new Top Gun releases, including the Pilot's Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Ceratanium. Hitting the collection as the first fully Ceratanium 41mm chronograph from IWC, this new model offers an appealing mix of size, layout, tech, and style. ? That's right, if you like your watch coloring on the darker side and your pilot's chronos on the smaller side (that's relative to other IWC offerings), this new Ceratanium 41mm Top Gun chronograph should certainly be on your radar. Ceratanium is a special material that mixes the weight benefits of tit...
The World's Most Amazing Omega Collection
Back in the early aughts, I heard rumors of a mega-collector from Bangkok with the most comprehensive collection of Omegas known to mankind. He never surfaced when I asked around about him. I figured he was just an urban legend, the horological equivalent of Keyser Soze. But last year Ukrit Vanagosoom, one-half of the team behind BKK Rooftop Studio, told me that it was all true, there really was a man just outside of Bangkok with the greatest collection of Omegas in the world. And he was willing to chat with me. It was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. There was one peculiarity, however. We would hav...
Hues Of Hublot With A Colorful Quartet Of Limited Edition Integral Ceramics
Have you been champing at the bit for a new ceramic Hublot but didn't fall in love with the previous grey, white, or blue options? Well, worry not, as Hublot has heard your cries from on high and has rendered forth four new limited edition colorways for the Big Bang Integral Ceramic C?Jungle Green, Blue Indigo, Sand Beige, and Sky Blue. Each model is limited to 250 pieces while otherwise following the format established by the previous Integral Ceramic models.? That means 42mm cases that are 13.45mm thick and come fitted to a matching full ceramic bracelet with a titanium deployant buckle. All four examples are satin finished wit...
The Green Omega Seamaster Is A Sleeper Hit
The Watches and Wonders trade show is nigh. But before I fly across the Atlantic to Geneva, Switzerland, I need to address the big green diver in the room. Last week, Omega held its own private event called Omega Days where it unveiled its 2022 novelties. You saw a lot of them here on HODINKEE, from the new Ultra Deep to the multicolored Aqua Terra models to the Moonshine Gold Speedmasters. And then, out of nowhere, we were handed an absolute bombshell release by way of the new Omega x Swatch MoonSwatch. I already devoted more than 1,000 words on that watch, and you countered with over 700 comments, so I'll leave it at that. ...
The Tag Heuer Solargraph Is The Most Interesting Release Of The Season
TAG Heuer is still giving us 40mm Aquaracers C but this time there's a twist. Meet the new Aquaracer Solargraph. That's right, a solar-powered TAG in the same form factor we saw announced during LVMH watch week in January. Where that watch was all steel, the Solargraph is packaged in a black DLC-coated steel case with a closed caseback bearing the same compass engraving introduced with the Aquaracer Outdoors collection. The dial features the same horizontal line design that we've come to know, only if you look closely you'll see that it's quite translucent in order to allow the sunlight to make its way through and power the movement. Aesthetically, there are some...
The TAG Heuer Superdiver With A Kenissi Movement
It's dive watch season at TAG Heuer. We've already gotten the new Aquaracer 40mm collection (including a new Solar DLC variant). This new release is a little less enthusiast-driven and a lot more hardcore. It's called the Superdiver and it represents the toolish side of TAG's offering. It's a large C as in 45mm large C grade 5 titanium case with a large crown protector adding to the already beefy design. It has a bi-color bezel of orange and black hybrid ceramic which matches the black dial and orange hands. The lume plots have a creamy coloration to them. The caseback features the same diver motif found on watches like the Night...
The Carrera Plasma Is The Craziest Watch TAG Heuer Has Ever Made.
Take a good look at these photos, because you'll probably never see a Tag Heuer Carrera Plasma in real life. According to TAG Heuer CEO Frdric Arnault "more than one, but less than a dozen" will be made. It's the horological equivalent of a demonstrator aircraft. And it costs close to half a million Swiss francs. Demonstrator aircraft are built to test and explore the limits of aerodynamics, materials, and propulsion. When a new technology emerges that can change the way we fly, a "demonstrator" airframe is developed to test the concept. Take a look at the Boeing X-37B to get an idea of where I'm going with this. Only a few of ...
Vacheron Constantin Introduces The Les Historiques 222 In Yellow Gold For Watches & Wonders
The Vacheron Constantin 222 is one of a group of integrated-bracelet sports watches introduced during the 1970s which began with the Royal Oak in 1972 and then with the Patek Nautilus in 1976. A year after the Nautilus came out, Vacheron introduced the 222, with a design not by Grald Genta, but by designer Jorg Hysek, who was just 24 years old. The original run of the 222 lasted seven years and about 500 were made in steel, 150 in gold, and less than 100 in two-tone, all with an integrated bracelet. While not the first integrated bracelet sports watch from Vacheron C that honor goes to the 1975 Chronomtre Royal, ref. 42001 C it is the best-known from the period and has become a highly coll...
Vacheron Constantin's Les Cabinotiers department is a sort of manufacture within the manufacture, dedicated to producing one-off high complications with, generally speaking, an unusual twist in terms of dial layout and overall design. It's always a pleasure to cover them because the stuff from Les Cabinotiers is invariably at the highest conceivable level of execution C their motto might be, Putting The Haute In Horlogerie. Their most recent outing was the drop-dead gorgeous Homage To Vermeer pocket watch (a grande et petite sonnerie, minute repeater with an enamel miniature by Anita Porchet), and for Watches & Wonders 2022, they've come out with a new, highly complex unique piece wristw...
The Herms Arceau LeTemps Voyageur DualTime Zone Launches At Watches & Wonders 2022
The Arceau models from Herms have become the vehicle for both time-only watches, as well as complications such as the Arceau L'Heure De La Lune. Originally designed by Henri D'Origny in 1978, the round case and arch-shaped lugs have made the various Arceau models design icons for Herms and for Watches & Wonders 2022, Herms is introducing the new Arceau Le Temps De Voyageur C an Arceau take on a dual time zone watch.? The home time is shown in an aperture at 12:00, while local time is shown on a subdial mounted on a satellite that can move around the dial, above the stylized map beneath it. The procedure for setting up the ...
The New Hybris Artistica Caliber 945 And Master Grande Tradition Caliber 948 From Jaeger-LeCoultre
Jaeger-LeCoultre has, over the last twenty years, produced a truly astounding number of highly complex and often multi-axis tourbillons (Spherotourbillon, anyone?). One of its most serenely beautiful complications, however, is the caliber 945. The movement was introduced all the way back in 2010 but it has been produced by Jaeger-LeCoultre in several variations since then (most recently, if my memory's still reasonably reliable, in 2020). There is nothing quite like the 945 from any other maker. It's basically an orbital flying tourbillon and minute repeater C the one minute flying tourbillon orbits around the dial once every sidereal day and is, in every iteration, accompanied by a planisph...
Chopard's L.U.C Collection at a quarter century.
In 1996, Chopard announced an in-house movement that deserves to be remembered as important to the revival of high-end watchmaking. At a time when many firms were entirely beholden to movement suppliers, Karl-Friederich Scheufele, a real watch enthusiast in his own right, saw another way forward. A year later, a new watch line to house the micro-rotor movement debuted. It was named L.U.C, after the company's founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard. Its first watch drew favorable comparisons to a brand no less than Patek Philippe. To mark 25 years of that collection, Chopard is launching a trio of chiming watches that mete out the time audi...
HODINKEE Went Global For The Omega x Swatch MoonSwatch Launch
The Omega x Swatch collaboration launched today, and went straight to the damn moon.? We knew it was going to be big when we received more than a thousand comments on our Introducing post a couple days ago. And sure enough, lines began forming outside of Swatch retailers in London, Singapore, and New York City well before the $260 piece officially went on sale. Since it wasn't available online, collectors pitched tents to be among the first to take delivery of the hottest watch of this very young year. Starting as early as yesterday, reports started to come in. In Melbourne, the watches apparently sold out in under 10 minutes and the ...
The First Minute Repeater In The Richard Lange Collection
A. Lange & Sohne is closely associated with complicated watchmaking. That means split-seconds chronographs, perpetual calendars, tourbillons, and more. A category of complications the German company isn't as well-known for, however, is chiming watches and repeaters. That's not to say there've been zero A. Lange & Sohne chiming watches, there just haven't been very many.? A. Lange & Sohne first showed it was capable of producing a chiming watch in 2013's Grand Complication. (To be completely accurate, Lange actually first released the Zeitwerk Striking Time in 2011, but it chimes once every 15 minutes; not on-demand li...
A. Lange & Sohne Introduces The Odysseus In Titanium
A. Lange & Sohne has just introduced the third iteration of its Odysseus sport watch at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2022, opting for a titanium case after 2019's inaugural stainless-steel example and the 2020 follow-up in white gold. While the dimensions, specs, and movement all remain the same as the two previous Odysseus releases, Lange is introducing a brand-new "Ice Blue" dial color. The multi-layer dial construction has what at first appears to be concentric guilloch grooves surrounding a textured central area. While they appear to mimic a typical azzurage decoration, these lines actually emanate from the hour markers ...
Lange Updates Its Larger Lange 1
A. Lange & Sohne is kicking off 2022 with a refresh of its larger-format Lange 1, the Grand Lange 1. Available in either 18-carat white or pink gold with a solid-silver grey dial, the new-for-2022 Grand Lange 1 has an updated case profile that results in a height of just 8.2mm, to go with its 41mm diameter. It's now thinner than the previous-gen Grand Lange 1 (8.8mm), as well as the OG Lange 1 (9.8mm).?? The updated Grand Lange 1 is powered by caliber L095.1, the same manual-wind movement the collection has used since 2013. Although it features only a single mainspring barrel compared to the two found in the standard Lange 1's movement, the increased diameter...
Citizen Releases A Classic Pair Of Mechanical Dive Watches
Citizen has a long, proud history of dive-watch production. But you don't have to take it from me C our friend and diver extraordinaire Jason Heaton goes so far as to place "the original Citizen Aqualand in the pantheon of great dive watches, alongside the first Fifty Fathoms, the Rolex Submariner, and the Doxa SUB 300." That's high praise from the man who knows dive watches better than pretty much anyone. The latest release from Citizen should be right up the alley of anyone who appreciates dive-watch history. The new Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m consists of an ISO-certified pair of mechanical dive watches, each placed in a nicely sized 41mm 12.1mm case tha...
Grand Seiko's SBGW283 And SBGW285
Although technically separate from Grand Seiko's Watches & Wonders Geneva 2022 releases (which we covered here, here, and here), we've just received word from the Japanese watchmaker about a pair of new additions to the company's Elegance collection. The two new watches feature textured light blue or dark green dials, 37.3mm 11.7mm stainless steel cases, and the manual-wind caliber 9S63 inside. You could consider them to be spiritual, serially produced successors to last year's green-dial US-exclusive limited edition SBGW- releases that sold out in the blink of an eye. Part of Grand Seiko's growing "Seasonal" collection of ...