Best Super NEWS Watches
Earlier today, Tudor used Geneva Watch Days to make a huge announcement C the new Pelagos 39. That's right, the Pelagos is now the next Tudor watch to make the jump to the 39mm sizing, following the ever-popular Black Bay Fifty-Eight, and the Black Bay Pro. If you're a dive watch fan, and even more so a Tudor fan, the Pelagos will largely be a known quantity, but the new Pelgaos 39 marks a number of changes from the original format. Should I say it? No, right? Ah heck, allow a guy to be excited about a dive watch. Let's dive in.? I'm not here to waste your time and I'll have a full hands-on follow-up as soon as possible, so let's...
Will Ulysse Nardin Make A Comeback With Rainbow Watches
Geneva Watch Days?takes place in the Swiss cultural capital from Monday, August 29, to Thursday, September 1, 2022, so stay tuned to HODINKEE in the days ahead for detailed coverage of all the top releases, from brands such as Bulgari, MB&F, Oris, Urwerk, and many more. Ulysse Nardin, fresh off its conscious uncoupling from luxury group Kering, celebrates Geneva Watch Days with two new versions of its Lady Diver 39mm and Blast Tourbillon 45mm watches. What connects these two watches C?one fun and flirty, the other weighty and imposing? A connection as old as time, or at least as old as 1979's The Muppet Movie. That's right, the rainbow connection! ...
Panerai is very much a brand of two eras. It has serious historical chops C especially when we talk about the Radiomir C and deep tool watch roots. Early Radiomir models were produced by Rolex for the Italian Navy. But also, Panerai is something of a foundational brand when it comes to the "big watch craze" of the early aughts. Talk to enough watch enthusiasts and you're likely to hear that their journey either began or intersects with Panerai. And for good reason. Panerai watches have a distinct style. While the Luminor is every?bit as much an icon, the Radiomir is the more classic on its face (or case, if you will).When it come...
The TAG Heuer Autavia Chronometer Flyback Chronograph
Automobile. Aviation. It's all in the name C Autavia (automobile and aviation). Heuer introduced the Autavia as a wristwatch in the early 1960s, though its portmanteau dates even further back, to the days of Heuer producing dash timers for cars and planes. No matter the era, the history of the Autavia has always been tied to timing things. After those dash timers, the Heuer Autavia was first brought to the wrist in the '60s as a chronograph. This year, TAG Heuer finally brought the Autavia line back to its roots after a long absence, introducing the Autavia Flyback Chronograph in DLC. While decked out in the trappings of a modern...
Jacob & Co.s Astronomia Solar Bitcoin
Geneva Watch Days?takes place in the Swiss cultural capital from Monday, August 29, to Thursday, September 1, 2022, so stay tuned to HODINKEE in the days ahead for detailed coverage of all the top releases, from brands such as Bulgari, MB&F, Oris, Urwerk, and many more. By now there are so many Jacob & Co. Astronomias that it's unclear whether more of them will fit into the universe to which they pay tribute. There's the Astronomia Sky, the Astronomia Art, the Astronomia Tourbillon, the Astronomia Casino, the Astronomia Tourbillon Casino Baguette ... You get the idea. These are large watches with a lot of opulence and technology fighting for space under t...
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 Without any doubt, looking back decades and exploring the landscape of what we now call "vintage" offers the widest variety in the world of watches. With over a half-century of horology to choose from, this is the category to go hunting in. Vintage is where we find watches (or clocks) that speak to the time in which they were created just as much as they tell the time. This week we have a handful of "new" offerings hitting the Vintage Watches section of the HODINKEE Shop. To view...
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Blue Ceramic
The hottest luxury watch on the planet is the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak.? Ah, but which Royal Oak? Which one is the most interesting and collectible of all the contemporary, current-production models? My nominee is the ceramic-cased Royal Oak QP.? It features everything that makes a "conventional" (if there is such a thing) Royal Oak so damn good C?namely the grande tapisserie dial, the thin profile, the integrated bracelet that's a work of art unto itself, and of course, the octagonal bezel C?but the ceramic-cased RO QP pushes it all to the max.?The use of state-of-the-art colored ceramic for the case and bracelet means the entire pa...
Following the attention stirred up by Geneva Watch Days, the Netherlands' own Gronefeld has taken the opportunity to announce the brand's first-ever sports watch. Called the 1969 DeltaWorks, this steel sports watch is said to have been inspired by the "Dutch Delta Works" and comes fitted to a rubber strap and buyers can even option matching rubberized inserts for the case flanks.? For those (like me) who don't have any pre-existing knowledge about the Dutch Delta Works, it is a series of water management projects (like damns, surge barriers, and dikes) that help to protect a lowland area of the Netherlands from flooding. Given th...
Pre-Owned Picks: Save On Your Favorite Watches This Labor Day Weekend
So, good news bad news: Want the bad news first? Summer is over C no more excuseless midday ice cream cones, no more lazy afternoons at the beach, no more shorts and sandals. Okay, how about some good news? The arrival of Labor Day means we're running a big sale on pre-owned watches here at HODINKEE, just in time to pick up a new timepiece for the fall season. Here are the deets:$200 off watches between $2,500-$4,999$350 off watches between? $5,000-$7,499?$500 off watches between? $7,500-$9,999?$750 off watches between? $10,000-$14,999$1,000 off watches $15,000+T&Cs Apply Yup, you read that right: We're offering hundreds and hundreds of dollars off everything...
The New Carl F. Bucherer's Manero Flyback Watch
Geneva Watch Days?takes place in the Swiss cultural capital from Monday, August 29, to Thursday, September 1, 2022, so stay tuned to HODINKEE in the days ahead for detailed coverage of all the top releases, from brands such as Bulgari, MB&F, Oris, Urwerk, and many more. For Geneva Watch Days 2022, Carl F. Bucherer introduced five new colorways for the Manero Flyback: blue, green, red, white, and black. Not only are the colors new, so is the case size. In line with the industry-wide trend of downsizing, the new Manero is now 40mm, down from 43mm. In a press release, Uwe Liebminger, Carl F. Bucherer...
HODINKEE's Favourite Watches From Geneva Watch Days 2022
Geneva Watch Days has come to a close, which means we can now proceed to the really fun part C arguing about which releases were the best. We rounded up a handful of the editorial team to see which pieces (whether from the show or simply aligning with the show) stood out the most. If we managed to miss your favorite new release, be sure to let us know in the comments.?Otherwise, let's get to the picks. Krayon Anywhere My favorite watch that I saw while on the ground in Switzerland this week wasn't a new watch at all. This was my first time handling any watch by Rmi Maillat of Krayon, and I was absolutely...
The Mirrored Bulgari Octo Finissimo Sejima Special Edition
Geneva Watch Days?takes place in the Swiss cultural capital from Monday, August 29, to Thursday, September 1, 2022, so stay tuned to HODINKEE in the days ahead for detailed coverage of all the top releases, from brands such as Bulgari, MB&F, Oris, Urwerk, and many more. The hardest watch to photograph at Geneva Watch Days 2022 was also a surprise. It wasn't the latest Moser with a Vantablack dial or an obscure vintage watch with a scratched crystal and zero anti-reflective coating. It was Bulgari's new Octo Finissimo, created in collaboration with the Pritzker-winning Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima. A departure from the traditional (and easy-to-photograph) ...
The George Daniels Spring Case Tourbillon: Everything You Need To Know
A few weeks ago, we broke the news that Phillips, in association with Bacs & Russo, will be auctioning off a trio of extra-special wristwatches by George Daniels during Geneva Watch Auction: XVI this November.If you missed that announcement and your eyebrow is currently raised at the thought of three (!) separate Daniels wristwatches coexisting in one sale, you have good reason to be surprised: A single wristwatch with the George Daniels name is a remarkable thing in itself, which is why we rarely ever see more than one or two come to auction in any given season. To have three up for grabs at a single auction is simply unheard of. All three of the G...
Best Hodinkee Comments Of The Week
Hi there! And welcome to The Conversation, where our editors respond to the most interesting, inspiring, thought-provoking, and deeply strange comments from you, the HODINKEE readers. Sometimes during the week we just dont have time to react the way wed like to. So our goal here is to highlight the best of our incredible community, tie up any loose ends, and just have a nice chill Sunday chat sesh. Hope you enjoy and see you next week!? Meditations On The Middle Class The story: Logan Baker argues that these are high times for collectors of mid-priced watches.? The co...
Tom Cruise Wears A Tudor In 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol'
In 1996, Brian De Palma's Mission Impossible arrived in theaters as a modern re-imagination of the classic 1960s television show. Much like Martin Scorsese did when creating a sequel to The Hustler (1961) with The Color of Money (1986), De Palma cast Tom Cruise as the fresh blood in a known universe. Cruise portrayed a new MI character named Ethan Hunt. The film was a hit, and the rest is history. So much so that today we're looking at the fourth installment of the movie series, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011), directed by Brad Bird of Pixar fame (for what it's worth, we are now staring down the barrel of eight MI films). This one follows Hunt on the ...
F.P. Journe Chronomtre Rsonance: Hands-On Review
The Chronomtre Rsonance by F.P. Journe isn't the easiest watch to understand. I would even go so far as to say that it requires a certain level of suspension in belief of the more traditional aspects of engineering, acoustics, and watchmaking.?The entire phenomenon of resonance feels like a magic trick. We're just supposed to believe there's any truth behind big scientific words such as "harmonic oscillation," and that C tada! C?it somehow makes your watch more precise? I don't know about you, but that immediately sets off my BS detector.? Eighteenth-century watchmakers Abraham-Louis Breguet and Antide Janvier pioneered the c...
Last week, while much of the watch world's eyes were trained on Geneva Watch Days, Tudor dropped the mic across town with the new Pelagos 39. Seemingly a play-the-hits evolution of the brand's well-known 42mm pro-spec dive watch, the Pelagos 39 is smaller, thinner, and simpler than its siblings. And those adjustments were enough to make a huge amount of noise with our readers C and with collectors worldwide. Since its debut in 2012, the Pelagos has always been characterized by its uncompromisingly modern take on the dive watch. Could this new evolution be the Tudor that many of us have been waiting for? ...
The Tag Heuer Connected x Porsche
TAG Heuer has recently announced a special edition of their latest Calibre E4 Connected smartwatch, highlighting the brand's longstanding relationship with Porsche. Meant to offer extra smartwatch-derived features for owners of modern Porsches, the new TAG Heuer Connected x Porsche Edition has been styled in a manner reminiscent of the Porsche Taycan, the brand's first fully electric production model.? Based on TAG Heuer's top-spec E4 generation of the Connected smartwatch, this new Porsche Edition has a 45mm titanium case with a ceramic bezel and a sapphire front crystal. Thickness is 15.3mm and within those dimensions, we find ...
The New Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 8, And Apple Watch SE
Greetings from Cupertino! I'm writing this from the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, where Apple just wrapped up its annual keynote presentation presenting all of its latest and greatest goodies and gadgets, including the iPhone 14 and three C?count 'em, three C?new types of Apple Watch. It's the largest and most comprehensive update to the top-of-the-line smartwatch yet.? Inside Apple Park. Apple CEO Tim Cook, COO Jeff Williams, and Deidre Caldbeck, director of?Apple Watch?product marketing, guided us through everything there is to know about the all-new Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 8, and Apple Watch SE.?Here's the...
A Guide To The Best Titanium Watches
If you haven't heard, Rolex introduced its first production titanium watch earlier this week C?the new Deepsea Challenge, which also happens to be water-resistant to 11,000 meters. But let's focus on the titanium of it all this weekend, a metal that's been used in watchmaking for at least 50 years (Citizen recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its X-8 Chronometer). Rolex has a tendency to show up a little late to the party C fashionably late, of course C?but when it does, everyone at the party cranes their neck to take a gander. Sure, we know Rolex has been playing around with titanium for years C?the Tudor Pelagos was released way back in 2012, after all C?but it's just different when...