Best Super NEWS Watches
Jimmy Butler's TAG Heuer Watches
Last week, TAG Heuer announced a heavy-hitting 18k gold take on the modern Carrera chronograph design. The brand says this new watch draws inspiration from two places: The Heuer 1158 CHN and the racing livery (aka race car design, for those about to Google "livery") of the ?John Player Special Formula 1. The former is an iconic Heuer chrono, and personal favorite of Jack Heuer, which was presented to winning drivers. The latter is an all-black car design with distinct gold accents. This JPS should not be confused with another watch brand's chronograph that has colloquially taken on that nickname. Looking at this new Carrera, you ...
Second Opinions: Modern Women's Watches Aren't Cutting It. These Vintage Omegas Show What's Possible
In 1984, Omega released a watch called the De Ville Tennis, an 18K solid yellow-gold stunner with a case shaped like a tennis racket. Sporty and insanely glamorous, it had a champagne dial and diamonds on the bezel. There was also a fully diamond pav model that came as part of the Tennis Montre et Bijoux set. In 1986, they released a two-tone version, sans gemstones, the more chill cousin of the bunch. The De Ville Tennis Then came the De Ville Symbol. It was two-tone with a 32mm case, and a yin-yang symbol on the dial. It looked like some kind of psychedelic talisman that was stolen from the set of The Holy Mountain, or a lo...
Best Hodinkee Comments Of November 2022
Good morning! It is once again time for us to have a little chat. Here, you will find Hodinkee editors responding in-depth to some of the most thoughtful, thought-provoking, or just case-provoking comments of the past few weeks.? Blues For The Chronomtre Bleu The Story: Brandon's new favorite watch.? The comment: The ship has sailed for me for this watch, it will stay a dream now. used to be around 15k euro...Buuut, any details about that strap?? Looks great. -panic.? The response: We're dreaming together, buddy! At least you got to see the ship f...
Understanding The Herms Arceau Lift Tourbillon Rptition Minutes So Black
Herms is on a tear this year, like a runaway horse pulling a carriage full of the GPHG awards it racked up a few weeks ago. The brand won both the Mens' and Ladies' complications categories with their respective Arceau Le Temps Voyageur models. It still may come as a surprise to a lot of the watch community, however, that the maison has so many complicated offerings in its catalogs that many haven't even made it to its website. Case-in-point: Herms Arceau Lift Tourbillon Rptition Minutes So Black. Though not GPHG award-nominated (I'd imagine it would be in the running for any "longest name" category) it's still a technical marvel. In this case, the achievemen...
TAG Heuer Monaco Review and Specs
Way back in 2013, Ben Clymer took a vintage Heuer Monaco out for A Week On The Wrist, writing that "the original Heuer Monaco is a great watch. It is nothing short of an icon in this little world of 20th-century wristwatches, and I believe it always will be. It is a beautiful object on its own, made slightly less beautiful when put on the wrist C it looks better on the table, than it does on." While the high price of a vintage Monaco gave us pause before recommending such a bold watch, any concern is alleviated with the modern TAG Heuer Monaco. It remains faithful to the original Monaco C?famous for all kinds of things, from being worn on Steve McQueen's wrist in...
Go Inside The 2022 Grand Seiko GS9 Collector Summit
I won't sugarcoat this C?if you like Grand Seiko watches, and you weren't at the Weylin in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last Friday, you missed out. The high-end Japanese watchmaker hosted its second annual GS9 Club Collectors' Summit that day, and it turned out to be an unbelievable day of Grand Seiko-focused programming, with more than 500 Grand Seiko lovers in attendance.? For almost 12 hours, from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., there were a multitude of panel discussions (featuring many familiar faces), interactive watchmaking demonstrations, and collector conversations to attend. Pretty much the entire current Grand Seiko catalog was present and accounted for. There w...
The 'Murph' Watch From 'Insterstellar' Is Now 38mm
Hamilton, a watch brand often synonymous with Hollywood, has taken one of its on-screen icons and brought it down to size C 38mm, to be exact. The "Murph," a cult favorite watch among cinephiles and horologists alike, has now been made more wearable and brought in line with the core Khaki Field Automatic line. The Murph was designed and created especially for Interstellar in 2014. We have covered that story here on Hodinkee, speaking to prop master Ritchie Kremer, who helped design the original watch. At the time of the film's release, it was not a production model but a prop watch C and it remained out of production for five yea...
Louis Vuitton To Award New Watch Prize
This past Sunday, a New York Times story officially announcing a new initiative from Louis Vuitton watches focused on the promotion of independent horological creativity spread across the internet. Today, Jean Arnault, Director of Watches for Louis Vuitton made that announcement C well C officially official via a video on his own social media account. Arnault and LV are creating the "Louis Vuitton Watch Prize for Independent Creatives." The prize, which will be awarded biennially (that's every other year), is organized by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton in Geneva, Switzerland C and spearheaded by the 24-year-old Arnault. The brand states in its press rel...
Hodinkee Holiday Gift Guide: To Keeping Things Casual This Year
In this year's Hodinkee Holiday Gift Guides, we're featuring special guests with their top gift picks across a range of price points from our very own Hodinkee Shop and beyond. No matter who you're shopping for this season, we've got you covered. The holiday season is about so many things. I love giving and receiving thoughtful gifts, but I also love being able to relax and recharge after a busy year. And that's what my gift guide is focused on C?products and items that will help you take a break at the end of the year, and that you can hopefully carry with you into 2023 and beyond. ...
Hodinkee Holiday Gift Guide: For People Who Believe 'More Is More'
In this year's?Hodinkee Holiday Gift Guides, our editors round up their top gift picks across a range of price points, from all corners of the internet and our very own Hodinkee Shop. No matter who you're shopping for this season, we've got you covered. I am a self-confessed hoarder, so in theory, I could shop for loved ones from the comfort of my own closet. But, sigh, that would be cheating! This year, I'm going to brave the streets of NYC, soak up the festive cheer, and hit some real-life brick-and-mortar stores. In a dream world, I would buy everything at Bergdorf Goodman on a casual weekday to avoid the crowds, finish by 5 p.m., and end the day with some per...
Turkey? Football? Better Yet C Pre-Owned Dive Watches
Once again, Thanksgiving is upon us. For most of us in the United States, we'll either be reading this article, waiting for dinner to cook, or recovering from a turkey-induced coma. The best type of watch content for any of these cases covers something we're all familiar with, that special something that feels like home on the wrist. Dress watches are becoming less common in collections these days. Pilots' watches will always have a fan base. Chronographs and the daily-wear watch will never go out of style. But it's that waterproof mainstay C the dive watch C that has a home in nearly all collections.? The dive watch wasn't the first waterproof style of watch; th...
Hodinkee's Best Stories About Timers
If you live in the U.S. and are of the mind to, you probably celebrated some form of Thanksgiving a few days ago. Maybe you're still celebrating C eating leftovers and doing some shopping, fighting with your cousins during charades (just me?).?Odds are, in your meal prep you had to time something, many things, coordinating oven space and broiler times.? Watches by their very nature time things, usually in the familiar increments of hours, minutes, and occasionally seconds. But certain watches are designed to time particular things in particular ways. Racing chronographs and dive bezels are the most common, but what about those wa...
New Vintage Watches In The Hodinkee Shop
To view the entire current selection of vintage watches available in the Hodinkee Shop, click here. As we gather to celebrate American Thanksgiving and generally end the year on a high note, mind your p-words around your non-watch friends and family. We're talking about patina and provenance. While these p-words roll off our tongues and keyboards with little hesitation, to people who are not watch-pilled, they can be a bit jarring. The easiest way to tell on yourself and your journey from someone with cool watches to someone who spends a lot of time talking to people they know only by username, is to comment on how the turkey skin resembles your 1950s Rolex Bubbl...
F.P. Journe Watch Boxes, Toys, and Hats Show How Big The Hype Is
There's a narrative you can tell about the November watch auctions that goes something like this: The hype is dying down, especially on mass-produced modern watches, but truly rare, special stuff is still doing just fine. Why yes, I will take that Vacheron Overseas Perpetual Calendar under retail, thank you very much, but try telling a legit 1-of-3 vintage Vacheron minute repeater (and its $500,000 all-in price) there's a looming "recession." Something I've been trying to puzzle out is whether F.P. Journe is more of the former or the latter. The answer C?as is often the case C is probably a little bit of both. See, a couple of plastic F.P. Journe toys sold for CH...
Holiday Hodinkee Gift Guide: For The Parents Who Gave Us Every Little Thing
In this year's?Hodinkee Holiday Gift Guides, our team rounds up their top gift picks across a range of price points from our very own Hodinkee Shop. No matter who you're shopping for this season, we've got you covered. Even if you're a watch newbie! For many watch enthusiasts, the horological "spark" may have been lit by their parents at a young age. It also may have been from seeing them wear a watch each and every day, which in turn made your young impressionable self want to emulate their grown-up counterpart. It may have been a family heirloom, that precious OMEGA that was passed down through generations, which ignited the spark to start writing about w...
Steal vs. Splurge: The Scurfa Diver One vs. The Tudor Pelagos 39
With the recent launch of the fully-titanium Rolex Deepsea Challenge, I think it's safe to say that titanium watches are having something of a moment. From Tudor to Rolex and even smaller enthusiast brands like Baltic, we're seeing titanium used for more and more dive watches. Citizen has been doing this for decades, and this year they released their very competitive Challenge Diver and its easy-wearing proportions are matched by a featherweight wrist presence. If you want to try out a titanium dive watch, it's arguable that the available selection has never been more diverse, versatile, or packed full of value. Interestingly, and in stark contrast to the new big...
Brendan Cunningham's Tudor North Flag
In Watch of the Week, we invite Hodinkee staffers and friends to explain why they love a certain watch. This week's columnist is the author and economist Brendan Cunningham, who recently published his first book, Selling the Crown: The Secret History of Marketing Rolex. Today, he's telling us the story behind his Tudor North Flag. About a decade ago, in early October 2013, I found myself sitting at a circular table in my office at the U.S. Naval Academy, where I worked as a professor of economics. My colleagues and I followed a rotation when it came to leading our department. That day it was my turn. And on this particular day, I had the unenviable task of handin...
The 60th Anniversary James Bond Omega Seamaster
Omega is in London this week celebrating a certain MI6-centric film franchise's 60th birthday. As part of those festivities, it announced a brand new James Bond anniversary Seamaster, taking a fan favorite form factor back to its roots. This is the new Seamaster Diver 300m 60th Anniversary Edition. It's another take on the design ethos brought forth for Daniel Craig's final Bond film, No Time To Die with a number of notable changes. This time it's fashioned in steel, with a no-date display, and comes fitted to a vintage-evocative mesh bracelet.? This one is special because it harkens back to Omega's f...
Logan Baker's Ideal Two Watch Collection
It's been far too long since we published a new addition to our "The Two Watch Collection" column.It's a concept built entirely around restraint, something that watch collectors aren't well known for adhering to. I myself struggle with accumulating too many affordable watches that I rarely end up wearing or even looking at. But I think it's an important part of the collecting journey C?to experience a large number of watch genres, styles, and complications. The Blancpain Leman Ultra-Thin 2100 I've worked in watch media for more than seven years now, and one of the truly wonderful things about my job is that I get to experience...
Understanding Carl F. Bucherers New Mastery Lab Pice Unique
I sometimes daydream of the "good ol' days" of watchmaking when wealthy industrialists not unlike myself C?okay, quite unlike myself C could walk into a grand maison of horology and request the most incredibly complicated watches that had never before been imagined. Well, today Carl F. Bucherer is officially unveiling the "Carl F. Bucherer Mastery Lab," an individualization program that allows clients to live out part of that fantasy by nearly completely customizing the brand's top in-house movements for a customer's own unique watch. While it's not likely that any of these pieces will become another eponymous "Henry Graves," it's an interesting entry into ...