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What Watch Was Kate Middleton Wearing At Wimbledon?
Today's Wimbledon Men's Final featured the unexpected. First there was the matchup: Novak Djokovic against the wild and (sometimes) wonderful Nick Kyrgios. Rafael Nadal was forced to retire from the tournament due to an abdominal injury which thrust the unpredictable Kyrgios into the spotlight C and his first Grand Slam Final. After two of the more controversial players in the sport were through with their match, and Djokovic landed his 21st Grand Slam title (and 7th at Wimbledon), it was time to hand out the hardware. Photo, Getty And who better to hand out the trophy than the Duchess of Cambridge herself (she is the Pa...
How IWCs Top Gun Collection Got Its Colors
Fallon, Nevada is a dusty stretch of land bookended by the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west and desert tumbleweeds to the east. Its landscape is beautiful in the expansive way that only flat open landscapes can be. Since the 1960s, it's been home to the U.S. Naval Force's premiere training academy C you might know it by the name Top Gun. When you think of Top Gun, what comes to mind? Tom Cruise, obviously. But what else? For Christian Knoop, IWC's creative director, it was the dust of the Mojave desert; the icy waters of Lake Tahoe in the winter; the deep green of the mountain forests that the fighter pilots observe as they zoom overhead. For the last co...
In-Depth: A New Exhibit Shows How Patek Helped Start The Quartz Race
If you were passing through Zurich's airport in the 1980s and needed a place to get your bearings or set your watch to the local time zone, you'd probably end up at a clock in the center of the airport underneath a large, iconic box sign that said "Meeting Point." It harkened back to the days when any town's clock was the community's waypoint. Zurich's was a point of pride C a special satellite model of the state-of-the-art Patek Philippe electronic timing system that synchronized clocks throughout the airport. That iconic clock was the inspiration for Meeting Point, a new exhibition from dealers Collectability and Analog:Shift....
An In Depth Technical Analysis Of The Richard Mille RM UP-01
When we first announced the debut of the Richard Mille RM UP-01 Ferrari, the reaction was, unsurprisingly, mixed. The watch is an example of watchmaking taken to an extreme in the pursuit of a single goal, which is to see just how flat you can make a mechanical wristwatch that is still to some degree practical to wear. Richard Mille said when the watch launched, "At just 1.75 millimetres thick, the RM UP-01 Ferrari constitutes a triumph of technical prowess and exemplifies a new approach to watch mechanics in which technicity more than ever dictates aesthetics" C essentially a statement that the design of the watch arises less from aesthetic and ergonomic considerations, and more from C in f...
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 Vintage watch collectors are regularly distilled down to case-focused or dial-focused. Be it condition- or design-driven, some collectors are more drawn to the "face" of a watch while others tend to lean more heavily on a timepiece's architecture. Of course, what makes a great vintage watch is the marriage of these two key elements plus a tinge of horological interest powering the whole show. On the topic of great vintage watches, the HODINKEE Shop has been "restocked" with two "new" timepieces fitting that b...
We're drawn to the glow of lume on a dial like a crane fly is to a street lamp on a humid July night. We can't help it, so we might as well embrace it. Welcome to a weekend's worth of reading about the watch world's bright spot C luminescence. In 1908 when radium paint was invented,? the wristwatch wasn't commonplace quite yet C but in a few short years, it would become a mainstream accessory for both men and women. And some of those early watches featured luminescent radium paint. We now know the harmful effects of radium paint and the health hazards associated with it, but in the early days, there was certainly a dark side to lume. The "Radium Girls" who painte...
Hands-On The Tudor Ranger 79950
We're only halfway through July, but 2022 is already shaping up to be the year of the field watch. Legible, function-forward, military-adjacent wristwatches have been around for a century now, but have been on something of a glow-up lately. A lot of you know, love, and maybe even own the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical, which has not slowed down since its launch in 2017. Then we have the Rolex Explorer's 2021 return to 36mm, followed by this year's Watches & Wonders release of both the Tudor Black Bay Pro and the Patek Philippe Calatava 5226G-001. Add it all up and you'll see that straightforward and casually capable steel sport watches are enjoying a moment. ...
The Lange 1815 Rattrapante, Now In Platinum
A. Lange & Sohne has produced an incredible number of complications since the company launched its first collection of watches in 1994. Some of them have been unusual variations on existing concepts for complications (the Zeitwerk is an example) but the company has also produced a very rich range of traditional complications, often combined in very beautiful and highly complex timepieces. The three classic high complications are the minute repeater, the rattrapante chronograph, and the perpetual calendar (combine all three in a single watch and you have a Grand Complication, at least according to the traditional definition). Lange has done all three, and it's well known for making some o...
This Omega Seamaster 300 Was Born Out Of Instagram Culture
Social media has had a profound effect on watch taste, collecting, and the entire hobby in general. Where it used to be that you would walk into a watch shop, eyeball something under the counter and buy it purely because you liked it?C now there's all manner of other external factors to consider. Will it look good in photos? Will people click the "like" button? Will I gain followers? Is it a hot watch? While I've done my darnedest to steer clear of this realm of horological intrigue, I've definitely noticed its creeping effects. And so, for this edition of A Week on the Wrist, I opted for a watch which seems to have been born out of these conditions. Released in ...
Every week we bring you a selection of our favorite watches from the HODINKEE Pre-Owned Collection. This week, we're zeroing in on watches with colorful dials. While we think they are all great picks for year-round wear, it would be a shame for them not to see action in the final months of summer and early fall. Grand Seiko Heritage Hi-Beat Soko Frost SBGH295 No roundup of watches with colorful dials would be complete without a Grand Seiko. The Japanese luxury watchmaker's penchant for gorgeous dials is on full display in this Soko Frost limited edition for the US market. As we've seen in previous limited editions, this model takes inspir...
The Bamford x G-Shock DW-6900BWD-1ER
Nearly two years later, G-Shock has doubled down on their hugely successful collab with the fine folks at Bamford Watch Department via the launch of the new Bamford x G-Shock DW-6900BWD-1ER limited edition. Like the preceding 5610 variation, this new creation offers a distinctly Bamford black-and-blue colorway for the DW-6900 base.? With Bamford's signature aqua blue forming much of the case and dial text, not to mention the inner side of the strap, the DW-6900BWD-1ER has a negative LCD with a blue EL backlight.? Measuring 53.2 x 50 x 18.7, the DW-6900 series sits at the core of G-Shock's long-standin...
This week, I've rounded up Jack and Mark Kauzlarich for an in-depth chat about the new Tudor Ranger. Mark covered the launch of this latest sports model from Tudor for HODINKEE, Jack remains an owner of the preceding 79910 Ranger, and I also got a chance to see and photograph the new model on the day it was released, so all we had to do was plug in some microphones.? From Mark's experience at a significant in-person watch launch to our combined thoughts on the spec, pricing, and market placement for the new Ranger, it's a nerdy look at a conventional yet somehow divisive new field watch from Tudor. Thanks so much for listening, I'll se...
The Zodiac Super Sea Wolf Pro-Diver In Stainless Steel Vs. Titanium
The downtime between actually catching fish is a great time to ponder the big questions in life. Out on the water it's easy to separate yourself from all of life's mundane routines enough to take a look at the big picture. Answers seem to come more easily to the existential conundrums that really matter. For instance, "which of the two new 42mm Zodiac Super Sea Wolf Pro-Diver models is better: the stainless steel or titanium model?" I'd been wearing both intermittently over the last two weeks and I couldn't make up my mind. On a balmy afternoon I took to the brackish backwaters of the Mississippi coast to find a...
What Watch Does Ryan Gosling Wear In 'The Gray Man'
Sometimes, moviegoers just want a plain old action flick. It may not be the kind of film that draws critical praise, but boy if it doesn't have high octane physical action, and explosions. Action is a legit genre unto itself C and its one that the Russo Brothers of Captain America: (Winter Soldier and Civil War) and Avengers (Infinity War and Endgame) are very familiar with on a superhero level. But their latest film, The Gray Man takes things back to reality a bit, focusing on regular humans, sans web-slinging, hammer-wielding, and shield-tossing. Instead of S.H.I.E.L.D., we get a movie focused on a covert group within the CIA comprised of former criminals hired...
What Is A Second, And How Did It Come To Be?
Headline image, Akrivia Chronomtre Contemporaine II. The second is almost ubiquitous in watchmaking C whether it's at the center of the dial, or coyly winking up at you from a subdial at 6:00 (or somewhere else C 9:00 is another possible location) the seconds hand allows you to see time passing in a very direct and visceral way. The second, even in dress watches that don't have a second hand, is built into the basic mechanism of a watch C balances are designed to beat so many times per second. A balance beating at 18,000 vph (vibrations per hour) is also beating five times per second, and as long as it beats exactly five times per second, no more, no less, you h...
Review Of The Horage Omnium Gen 2
Back in the '60s and '70s the major players in the watch industry weren't who they are today. Through group consolidations and acquisitions, the decimation of smaller brands during the quartz crisis, and the relegation of the wristwatch to a luxury accessory, we ended up with something of a watch world oligarchy. We know who the big players are. One way to the top back in that era was through technical innovation. Remember the race for the first automatic chronograph in '69? Or the coming together of seemingly disparate manufactures to create the?Caliber 11??That sort of energy around making a movement "in-house" has slowed a bit since so many brands have found w...
The Horological Society of New York (HSNY) announces the opening of an exhibit nearly a century in the making "Watches From the James Arthur Collection" named after one of New York's most passionate and hands-on collectors. James Arthur, 1842-1930 Arthur (1842-1930) was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and migrated to the United States in 1871 where he found a job in manufacturing. Unlike many immigrants of the time who struggled to find jobs on the East Coast, Arthur was immediately employed in New York City as a mechanic. He went on to work with steam pumps and valves manufacturer Adam Carr and jointly patented an ...
Everything You Should Know About BOLDR Watches
Leon Leong was tired of his smartwatch dying all the time. He loved the functionality and ability it offered while he was outdoors hiking, rock climbing, and bouldering, but it was a massive frustration for him that his watch would run out of juice at the end of the day. The Boldr Expedition I Rub? al-Khali; $699. So Leong, a former marketer who cut his teeth at a variety of start-ups companies in Singapore, and is now 37, decided he'd create his own smartwatch under a new company named Boldr, after his favorite sport (bouldering). Boldr's first watch, the Voyage, featured two separate batteries, one with a two-year lifespan t...
HODINKEE's Top Field Watch Stories
I was somewhere on US Highway 12 between Detroit and Chicago when Mark Kauzlarich brought us the news of the new-for-2022 Tudor Ranger, the Swiss company's updated flagship field watch. After pulling over to catch up on Mark's briefing, fill up with gas ($$$), and grab a bottle of Faygo, I had the realization that the definition of a "field watch" is entirely ambiguous. It's a term I can clearly picture in my mind, but I can't quite pin down what makes or breaks the genre. In the most traditional sense, I'd point to a military specification like 1962's MIL-W-3818B, 1964's MIL-W-46374, or 1967's GG-W-113 as guida...
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 Neither of the "new" vintage watches in the HODINKEE Shop are going to break records for being the thinnest on the market nor the most expensive. Neither require a small pen to wind or set the time, and neither are going to impress in a nightclub setting. As modern watches push the limits of what a time-telling device can be, looking to the vintage sector of collecting allows more focus on wearability of wristwatches, accuracy of movements, as well as iconic and timeless designs. ...