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10 Ben Clymer's Favorite HODINKEE Magazine Articles So Far
Making a magazine is hard. And even though I used to write for magazines and went to journalism school and did so many of the things you'd think would prepare me for making a magazine, I didn't really understand it until we we were on our fifth all-nighter making Volume 1. It takes a different type of commitment, of thought, and of planning C the last of which I'm not exactly known for. Hell, one could even say this business was built on the very antithesis of the long-form, long-lead-time, hyper-produced content that makes magazines so rewarding C and that's exactly why we had to make one. To do the opposite of what one would expect, and to provide our staff the opportunity to work out a co...
The H. Moser & Cie. Endeavour Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon Aqua Blue
Earlier this week, H. Moser & Cie. took the wraps off the latest iteration of their stunning Endeavour Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon. The new kid on the block is a 40mm execution of either 18K red gold or titanium, each with a gorgeous aqua blue dial that uses grand feu enamel on a hammered surface. Still packing a 1-minute flying tourbillon and a full minute repeater complication, this Endeavour may be a bit smaller than its predecessors, but it's certainly not lacking when it comes to Moser's unique appeal.? Originally launched in 2019 with a 43mm white gold case, 2021 saw a titanium follow-up of the same size, and now...
What Watch Does Denzel Washington Wear In Inside Man?
I live in Brooklyn and I love basketball but I don't care for the Brooklyn Nets. Spike Lee also lives in Brooklyn and similarly shares little love for the borough's NBA team. He's a Knicks guy, I'm a Wizards fan, and our apathy for the Nets is likely all we have in common. That and an undying passion for the moving image. If you walk around the Fort Greene neighborhood of BK (I don't actually call it that except to save time in a text message), you're likely to come across the rather ornately decorated exterior of a building on an otherwise unassuming residential block. This is where Lee's production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, is headquartered. This ...
Where The Money Spent On The $6 Million Tiffany Blue Patek Nautilus 5711 Went
Every watch that comes up for auction has at least two specific stories to tell. There's the history of the watch itself and then there is the small matter of the price it actually sells for, which can influence secondary market conditions and even provide a bellwether of popular interest in the specific watch, the collection as a whole, or even the brand itself. The winners are generally unidentifiable private individuals bidding over the phone or internet, and these stories conclude once the hammer C?a proverbial curtain if there ever was one C?has fallen. One extraordinary exception has been our ongoing coverage of the Tiffany-Blue Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711...
You may know Eric Wind as the proprietor of Wind Vintage and frequent Reference Points collaborator. But if you go way back, you know him as the prolific HODINKEE contributor who wrote Bring A Loupe in the early days. He brought vintage collecting to a wider audience, introducing them to the interesting dimensions of the hobby through his work right here on this very website. The Winds at home in Florida. To many of us, myself included, Wind is synonymous with vintage watches. But I didn't know very much about the man's personal collection until I inquired for this story. By his own reckoning, he has somewhere around 50 pieces...
Happenings: Sbastian Vivas To Lecture At The Horological Society Of New York
In 2022, the Royal Oak watch is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In preparation for this event, the Audemars Piguet Heritage team spent a few years in the brand's archives to better understand the history of this iconoclastic timepiece, which became a cultural icon within and beyond watchmaking. At the June 6, 2022, lecture of the Horological Society of New York, Sbastian Vivas, Heritage & Museum Director at Audemars Piguet, will distinguish myth from reality in terms of the watch's creation process as well as its reception, commercial success, and extraordinary destiny. This lecture will share the results of this ongoing ...
The Story Of The #TheLovedPatek
In Watch of the Week, we invite HODINKEE staffers and friends to explain why they love a certain watch. The author of this story is Robert Velasquez, a New York-based watch industry professional and collector. It's funny how much a platform like Instagram can impact our lives C?I've spent over a decade on there sharing my adventures and experiences in the watch world with folks from my accounts @doublewristing (formerly @spanishrob). And today, I want to share the 100-percent true story behind #TheLovedPatek, the Tiffany-stamped Nautilus 5711 that I wore every day for eight years. #TheLovedPatek No...
The Complete Story Of The MoonSwatch
The week of March 20, we took notice of some cryptic social media chatter out of Swatch and Omega on Instagram: "On March 25, it's time to change your Swatch," and " it's time to change your Omega." This had the watch community more than a little confused. Then came the full-page ads in The New York Times teasing a weekend release and reveal. Rumors abounded. Enthusiasts began crafting their own mockups. Would it be a Speedmaster? What would it be called? A SwatchMaster? Without warning, two days before the stated launch date, news broke on the internet and we finally saw...
Scott Carpenter's Breitling Cosmonaute C The First Swiss Wristwatch Worn in Space
Watch collectors love mysteries. Perhaps the ultimate mystery arises when the watch of a highly-visible celebrity or public figuredisappears from public view. Yoko Ono gave John Lennon a Patek Philippe reference 2499 perpetual calendar chronograph two months before he died, but the public has seen only two photos of him wearing the watch. Pablo Picasso was photographed wearing three watches C made by by Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek Phillippe and Rolex, respectively C but none has been seen since his death in 1973. So what about the first Swiss wristwatch that was worn in space, the Breitling Cosmonaute that Scott Carpenter wore on May 24, 1962, when he became the seco...
Picking The Perfect Watch For Your Job Interview
When you're preparing for a big job interview, how you present yourself is everything. You gotta brush those teeth, kids. Shine those shoes. And show your would-be employer that you mean business by wearing exactly the right watch. This goes double (triple? quintuple?) if you're trying to work here at HODINKEE, where "what's on your wrist?" is a more common greeting than "hey," "hi," or "hello." So we thought it'd be fun to show you what a bunch of us wore in that make-or-break moment. Each of us has a different story, a different watch, and a different reason behind the choice. And we all got the job!? Sanders Poe, Client Services Co...
New Vintage Watches In The HODINKEE Shop
To view the entire current selection of vintage watches available in the HODINKEE Shop, click here. This Week's Vintage Watches Last week, we touched on value through two-tone case and bracelet metal as compared to stainless steel or solid gold options. This week, we continue the value theme with a small collection of relatively lower price-point options of iconic vintage references or models. Collectors have come to refer to these alternatives as "Poor Man's (insert more well-known watch here)." Here, the HODINKEE Vintage Team looks to these poorly nickn...
Minhoo Yoo is leading Korea Independent Watchmaking
It was in his third year studying industrial art in university that Minhoon Yoo discovered watches as a mode of expression. He was designing furniture for an assignment when he saw a documentary on the channel NHK World-Japan covering Philippe Dufour and his Simplicity model. Suddenly it clicked C watches, too, had an emotional component to them. Yoo found a new fascination in watchmaking; it was the perfect canvas for his artistic approach to manufacturing and engineering. He started by buying watchmaking books, machines, lathe manuals, watch repair manuals, and voraciously consuming content online. "The book that helped me most...
The New Bremont and Rapha Collaboration
Analog watches aren't exactly new in professional cycling. The legendary 7-Eleven team of the late 1980s C starring Andy Hampsten C wore TAG Heuer's Formula 1 watches. And later superstars, like Fabien Cancellara and Jan Ulrich, would routinely race with their IWC Aquatimer or Ingenieur watches. These days there's a new crop of rider ambassadors wearing the Breitling Endurance Professional and Richard Mille watches while racing C we've got three-time Grand tour winner and Breitling ambassador Vincenzo Nibali, former World Champion Julian Alaphilippe (RM 67-02), sprinter legend Mark Cavendish (RM-011), and two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Poga?ar (another RM 6...
What Is The Cheapest Watch From A. Lange & Sohne?
When the mood strikes just so, I like to borrow the tired technique of beginning a story with the dictionary definition of a word or phrase I'm looking to explore in greater detail. In this case, as the article title might suggest, that term is "entryClevel" which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as a product "suitable for a beginner or first-time user; basic." Basic! Over the years, we have colloquially turned the word "basic" into a pejorative. In watch-speak, we often hear "entry-level" bandied around with similar contempt C it's the "cheap" way to enter into a particular brand's ecosystem. I'd like to think that this new(ish) Entry-Level series has helpe...
The New Vacheron Constantin Mtiers d'Art collection, Tribute To Great Civilisations
The new Vacheron Constantin Mtiers d'Art collection, Tribute To Great Civilisations, is not for everyone. Quite literally C each of the four new watches is a limited and numbered series of five. Five! So if this is your thing, and you're lucky enough to have the bankroll, you'll want to move quickly. The series was designed in close collaboration with the Louvre, and each watch references a piece in the museum's collection of antiquities C the Grand sphinx de Tanis, Lion de Darius, Victoire de Samothrace, and Buste d'Auguste. Each 42mm watch in the collection employs a different craft technique that ...
Pre-Owned Watches, Now $300 Off
Memorial Day Weekend is almost here. For many of us in the States that means a three-day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, and hopefully some glorious weather for a backyard barbecue. HODINKEE is celebrating with $300 off every pre-owned watch we carry through May 30 with code PW-MDW300. So if you've had your eye on a new watch, the deal just became a little bit sweeter. Rolex GMT-Master 126711CHNR So much has been made of steel sport watches over the past two or three years, but if you ask us, two-tone has been another area where interest has been growing substantially. The GMT-Master II ref. 126711 ha...
An Inside Look At The Career Of Virginie Liatard-Roessli
As the watch industry explodes, there's more interest than ever in the professionals behind the scenes. This new series, How I Got Here, will tell the stories behind the creatives, executives, and other power players who make the business tick. Click here to read our first few installments. The world of watch auctions is deeper than any single lot. Every piece that goes up for sale is the culmination of months and months of work by a team of specialists who often toil behind the scenes. These watch experts are the ones who source, authenticate, and catalog each of the hundreds of watches that go under the hammer during any given auction season. ...
Greetings one and all, and welcome once again to Hey, HODINKEE, that?ever-evolving extravaganza of enquiry in which you, the faithful viewer, pose horological questions which we attempt to answer. This week, a reader who loves watches but hates winding writes in to ask about long power reserves in particular, and how best to avoid a ritual which some of us find one of the most intrinsically charming of all the aspects of watch ownership C hand-winding. Another wants to know what exactly, if any, are the differences between dive watches rated to 100 meters, and to 300 meters? And a trend-watcher wonders whether or not, after many years of stainless steel ruling th...
Best Pilot's Watch Stories On Hodinkee
If you're on the fence about seeing Top Gun: Maverick, I'd urge you to check it out for the watches and cars alone. The movie underscores the notion that analog instruments still have a place in our modern world, even though they're sometimes reduced to a mere symbol. Sure, fighter pilots don't need watches in the cockpit anymore, but take a look at @wingwatches and you'll find that many still wear them. To me, pilot's watches evoke the fantasy of freedom in a way that other watches can't. As we learned from Top Gun, sometimes you have to do the job the traditional way. This weekend, we're looking at stories about high flying pilot's watches that remind us how ma...
The TAG Heuer 'Dark Lord,' A '70s Classic, Is Back
Almost two years ago, we ran a story ranking our favorite watch nicknames. Slotting in at number 10 was the TAG Heuer Monaco, but not just any ordinary Monaco. This was an all-back-everything example, complete with black strap, PVD-coated black case, and a monochromatic dial design contrasting the most '70s-esque orange flourishes. Our own Cole Pennington chose this Monaco for our nickname round-up because it's become known, in horological circles, as the "Dark Lord," and I am sure you can see why. My favorite part of the write-up is Cole ascribing the watch to Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, and Luke Skywalker in a manner of four sentences. Impressive. Most impressive. ...