Best Super NEWS Watches
We Paired '90s Watches With '90s Fashion
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. In this second installment, the HODINKEE Lookbook is celebrating the 1990s C a decade close to many of our hearts ('90s kids, raise your hands). There's just something so charming about the fashion of this decade, from the brilliant primary colors to the oversized threads to the sense of experimentation. The '90s, from a style perspective, are a living time capsule. We weren't honoring the past, but rather pu...
Slow Down With This Unconventional Watch Brand
There will always be another deadline to hit, another task to complete, or another meeting to cram into your already-busy schedule. Time is such a valuable resource, yet we often throw it away without much thought; without any deliberation. We give into the idea that faster, and more, is better C but there's an entire school of thought that emphasizes quality over quantity, and seeks to mitigate our insatiable appetite for more of whatever it is. The German company Slow is a response to this notion. The idea behind the design is simple: Give users the big picture C ?the 24-hour picture C and help them conceptualize time in a way that makes it more meaningfu...
Greg Selch Opens Up About His Love For '90s Blancpain And Zenith Watches
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week.?And to commemorate the occasion, this week's Watch of the Week columnist is the prodigious collector and Talking Watches alumnus Greg Selch. When I first started collecting watches in my twenties I couldn't afford new ones, but it didn't matter all that much because I was only doing it for the fun.?Watches were very cool mechanical gems that fit nicely in my collecting "repertoire" but, like vintage Leica cameras, ...
Bill Clinton Wore A Regular Guy Timex Ironman To His Inauguration
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. Those lucky enough to be POTUS during the wristwatch era have worn some great ones. FDR had his Movado Triple Calendar. Truman sported a neato little guy called the Flying Officer, from the Gallet Clamshell family. Eisenhower had a Rolex Datejust (Reagan had a Rolex, too), Kennedy favored an Omega, Johnson a Patek. Ford had some weird Pulsar thing that at least had a personality, possibly more than its wearer...
Our Favorite Watches of the '90s
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. In honor of '90s Week, I thought it would be fun to collect a few folks from the HODINKEE team and ask them to write a little bit about their favorite watch from the 1990s. Many of us are '90s kids C or look back on the decade with rose-tinted glasses C especially when it comes to the many great watches of the decade.? So, take a tour down memory lane with IWC chronographs, the youthful...
Pre-Owned Picks '90s Watches That Are Da Bomb
The 1990's, a decade of flannel and Jnco jeans was also when mechanical watchmaking became hella fly. Let's get jiggy with it and let Tag Team say what I mean:German watchmaking, back againNew classic models, let's begin300M, Patek Aquanaut, let me hear some noiseThe Royal Oak Offshore, jump, jump, rejoiceSays there's a new watch over here, a new watch over thereWave on the Seamaster, new classic dial styleThese three words mean watches are hereWhoomp, there it is!Okay, I might have gone a little too '90s, but don't let that deter you from checking out some great watches from a great decade in watches. Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse 3989J ...
Sylvester Stallone wears a Panerai in 90s action movie Daylight.
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. Sly Stallone is a former Emergency Medical Services chief who was forced out when a colleague died on his watch. Now he's driving a taxi and wearing a Panerai Luminor 5218-201/a, 44 millimeters of glowing green testosterone strapped to the wrist with good old-fashioned leather and a good old-fashioned tang buckle. Meanwhile, a truck filled with toxic waste has exploded in a Manhattan tunnel, killing many and ...
Dennis Rodman Wears A Swatch Chronograph in 1997 Daylight
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. Double Team is a 1997 film starring Mickey Rourke, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Dennis Rodman. I can't tell you the plot because you will never forgive me or recover. All you need to know about this film is that Dennis Rodman's character wears a ?Swatch Chronograph, a 1996 Chrono Swatch Cool Pack to be precise, thanks to Logan Edwards for an entire afternoon spent researching, sometimes in actual books, and thanks to...
Toni Braxton Wore A Cartier Panthre To The VMAs With Dennis Rodman
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. Ordinarily, we wouldn't let Dennis Rodman C already covered in this series C take attention away from the gorgeous and talented Toni Braxton and her Cartier Panthre. But there's no good photo (please alert us if you know of one) of Toni Braxton and her Cartier that doesn't also feature Dennis Rodman. The larger issue: If we're going to cover this decade right we've got to sort of put Rodman everywhere, becau...
The Spec Sheet: The Only Thing Missing From This '007' Omega Seamaster Is Daniel Craig's Wrist
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. The Spec Sheet is back, now in its regularly-scheduled slot (keep your eyes peeled, every Tuesday and Thursday). Today, we're spending 60 seconds with a legendary dive watch design from the early 1990s that's firmly entrenched in James Bond lore. Behold the Omega Seamaster Diver 300m Titanium 007 Edition, the watch worn by Daniel Craig in his swan song ...
Vintage Watches: Oh Snap! A 1990s Extravaganza Featuring Audemars Piguet, Tudor, And Cartier
To view the entire current selection of vintage watches available in the HODINKEE Shop, click here. This ('90s) Week's Vintage Watches '90s Week leaves the Vintage Team in a tough spot. Yeah, the '90s weren't that long ago and the emblematic version of a "vintage watch" is more often thought of as a 1960s gilt-dialed Rolex Submariner than a version of the same watch 30 years newer. That being said, the last decade of the 20th century is also the last bastion of wide-spread tritium lume usage by the watch world and the creamy patina that we all know and love. On the topic of "is a watch from the 1990s considered vintage," we say, "...
Culture Of Time: Our Favorite Horological Print Ads From The '90s
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. When it comes to horological print ads, there's one man who has made a business of studying, preserving, and offering them for sale. His name is Nicholas Federowicz and he's the man behind Ad Patina, a niche business selling framed vintage ads of collectable watches. When it came time to look at ads from the '90s, (something I'm into) I knew Nick was the right man to call. The '90...
[Editor's note: This is Jack Forster's last story for HODINKEE C one of more than 1,000 he produced over the years. Please join us in wishing him well.] Vacheron Constantin's relaunch of the 222 at this year's Watches & Wonders wasn't exactly a surprise, but it was still an extremely welcome revival of a design which, after 45 years, was ready to come back with a bang. The 222 was part of the first generation of integrated bracelet luxury sports watches, which of course began with the groundbreaking Audemars Piguet Royal Oak in 1972, and then the release of the Patek Philippe Nautilus in 1976. ...
Will The Spring Case Tourbillon Become The Most Expensive George Daniels Watch Of All Time?
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi. We'll be here all week. As we've already discussed this week, the modern independent watchmaking movement really kicked into high gear in the 1990s. And the OG of it all was an English gent by the name of George Daniels. The inventor of the co-axial escapement is the godfather of today's handcrafted horology segment, and he spent nearly the entirety of his watchmaking career working in his studio on the Isle of Man. ...
Michael Crichton's Breitling Has An Interesting Backstory
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. Michael Crichton was the pop-culture king of the 1990s. The adaptation of his novel Jurassic Park took over the big screens, E.R. dominated the small screen, and thrillers such as Rising Sun and Airframe cemented Crichton as one of America's leading novelists. And in the middle of the decade, Crichton celebrated his success with a watch, a Breitling Montbrillant chronograph with a "vintage" movement. ...
The Patek Philippe reference 5035 Annual Calendar
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. As I'm sure you've started to surmise from the theme of this week, the '90s were a strange time for watchmaking and it was an era that forced many brands back to the drawing board. Even those that had seemingly survived the quartz crisis now found themselves facing an audience of somewhat diminished enthusiasm, especially from the collector's perspective. This included Patek Philippe, one of the most hallowed...
Best HODINKEE Stories About Watches From The 1990s.
Welcome to?'90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. The end of '90s week is nigh! Awwwwwww. But before we reach the end of the road for this particular theme week I wanted to highlight a few more gems?from the site. We hope you've enjoyed this horological trip down memory lane so far; please hop into the comments and let us know what you like most about the decade, what we may have missed, and your favorite En Vogue song. Here you will f...
What Was So Cool About The Timex Datalink?
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. Technology is so seamlessly integrated into our lives these days that it's hard to remember when "technology" was a consumer hobby on its own. The Apple Watch normalized the incredible concept of wrist-mounted computing power. Sure, the idea has been around since Dick Tracy's wrist communicator filled the pages of comic books, but now managing your life from your wrist just seems so normal. ...
What Breitling Watch Brings 'Seinfeld' And 'Friends' Together?
Cue the bass slaps, double dip your chips, and soak yourself in a fountain on the Warner Bros. backlot holding an oversized cappuccino because we're hopping into a time machine back to Thursday nights in the 1990s. We're talking primetime "Must See TV," courtesy of Seinfeld and Friends C with a horological bent. Jerry Seinfeld and Courtney Cox in the season-five episode of Seinfeld called "The Wife." Notice the Breitling Chronomat sneaking out from beneath Seinfeld's sleeve. Image, Columbia Pictures Television/ Netflix These two shows held up the NBC comedy machine for over a decade, from 1989 into the early aughts, but had th...
The first Patek Philippe Aquanaut, the reference 5060A
Welcome to '90s Week, where we're revisiting the raddest (and most underrated) watches of the decade, plus the trends and innovations that defined the end of the 20th century. Plug in your dial-up modem and grab a Crystal Pepsi.?We'll be here all week. In the mid-'90s, Patek Philippe had a problem. Watch enthusiasm was starting to rebound from the effects of the quartz crisis and the recession of the early 1980s. By the mid-'90s, the biggest name in high-end watchmaking was looking at a market that was flush with youthful dot-com cash and a taste for well-made watches, especially those with a casual sporty appeal. So what was the prob...