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Surprises From Watches & Wonders 2023
Yesterday we shared our favorite watches from this year's W&W. Now we're back with the ones that caught us off guard. The term surprise means something different to all of us, and this list ranges from the pieces that we never thought would be made, to those we loved more than we thought. Some have emoji-laden complications, others Muppet-laden complications. The rest knocked our socks off for all manner of reasons. But in the end, each of these watches surprised and delighted us.?Without further ado, here are our most surprising pieces from Watches & Wonders 2023. IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun Oceana ...
Timex Three Time Zone Chronograph
Announced earlier today, Timex unveiled the latest in their evolution of the fan-favorite Q Timex range C the Three Time Zone Chronograph. Blending two of the most useful complications around, this steel travel watch combines the Q format with a multi-talented feature set at a price that is likely less C maybe even a lot less C than you might be expecting.? Ok. So it's a 40mm steel Q Timex that is 48mm lug to lug with 18mm lug widths, a bi-directional 12-hour bezel, 50 meters of water resistance, and your choice of a steel bracelet or a black synthetic rubber strap (both use quick-release spring bars). Available in black, white, ...
Watchmaking Classes In Silicon Valley
The Horological Society of New York's award-winning classes are on the road again! HSNY is traveling to Silicon Valley on June 10 & 11, 2023, with hosts Chopard and ISSIMI. At HSNY's Horological Education classes, students discover what actually makes a watch tick under the guidance of the HSNY's staff of professional watchmakers. Students work on a mechanical watch movement, studying the gear train, winding and setting mechanisms, and escapement. The weekend half-day classes cover everything taught during the individual evening classes held in New York.Enrollment is now open for the classes, and we look forward to seeing you there!Hodinkee is a sponsor...
Reading Time At HSNY: Smokers, Banquets, Galas - Celebrating 157 Years Of Horological Tradition
This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by HSNY's librarian, Miranda Marraccini. This article was co-written by HSNY's Deputy Director, Carolina Navarro. For 157 years, the Horological Society of New York (HSNY) has known how to throw a good party. On April 15, 2023, we'll be celebrating at our annual gala at the Harvard Club of New York City, just across the street from our headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. It will be a night of tasty food, live music, and support for HSNY's mission. Our earliest club social events were "smokers" not for smoking meat, as I originally guessed, but social events where men ...
Introducing the Ming 29.01 World Timer for 2023
Four years after presenting its 19.02 Worldtimer, Ming is back with the 29.01 Worldtimer. It's also the first watch in Ming's new 29 series, which Ming says evolves its previous 19 series. It's an updated take on Ming's now well-recognized aesthetic. The Ming 29.01 has no bezel, with the top crystal instead fitting right into the 40mm titanium case. Below the crystal is a sapphire upper dial and sapphire hands, which sit above a 24-hour metallic disc with a subtle blue-to-black gradient meant to represent day and night. Since this is Ming, there's also lume everywhere (HyCeram ceramic Super-LumiNova X1, thanks for asking) C?on the sapphire dial, world-time disc b...
Hands-On Review of the 2023 Cartier Tank Amricaine
Cartier introduced the Tank Amricaine back in 1987 as a more modern, aggressive take on its signature model that dates back to 1917. For 2023, Cartier has updated the Tank Amricaine to make it a little thinner, slimmer, and curvier. As with many Cartier design updates, these small changes make for slight, noticeable improvements to a classic design. It's what makes the Tank the Tank, and why it's looked more or less the same for more than a century. The new Tank Amricaine comes in three sizes: mini, small, and large, and two metals, pink gold and steel. If you want, you can add diamonds or a bracelet to the mini and small pink gold Amricaines. There's a...
Photo Report: From Suits To Streetwear, The Style Of Watches & Wonders
I doubt I'd be accused of having great style, so I do see the irony in my being ?tasked with heading up our style-spotting coverage of Watches & Wonders. The closest I came to a compliment on my style was when Mark Cho of The Armoury liked my suit on day one before I became a disheveled mess in the Rolex meeting. Luckily I had spotting and shooting help from my actually fashionable colleague James Stacey. But to all the real stylish people out there I missed, please know that it's not you, it's me, and I'll be teaming up with our style editor Malaika Crawford next year so better start preparing your fits now. The f...
Introducing: The New 38mm Seiko 5 Sports SRPK29, SRPK31, SRPK33, And SRPK35
Less than a month after Seiko released their new 36mm Seiko 5 field watches, the brand is back with an even more familiar design that has also been downsized C?the SKX-inspired Seiko 5 Sports. With four new models now being offered in 38mm sizing, Seiko's popular line of 100-meter "dive style" watches expands in a manner that will certainly suit a wider variety of wrists.? These new models include the SRPK29 (black), the SRPK31 (champagne), the SRPK33 (teal), and the SRPK35 (orange). All four are 38mm wide, 12.1mm thick, and 44.2mm lug to lug and come on steel bracelets, have drilled 20mm lugs, 100 meters of water resistance (wit...
Masters Sunday is one of the best days of the entire sports calendar. I've played golf since I was a kid, and now that watches are my job, there's also another sport to Masters Sunday: spotting the watch of the winner. Watch brands go all-in on sponsoring golf. Rolex sponsors all four men's majors, and brands from Rolex to Audemars Piguet to Hublot have a roster of ambassadors that quickly slip on their watches after a round and wear them on camera during post-round activities, interviews, and hopefully, a trophy presentation. With storms delaying the finish of The Masters this year, we decided to look back at a few of our favorite watches of past Masters c...
I've been pumped to see the Sinn T50 line since it was announced back in late February. As such, while I was in Geneva for Watches & Wonders, I set aside some time to swing by the Sinn booth at Time to Watches, a public fair that takes place in the city over a similar window of time. And, after having a few minutes with a couple of different T50 versions C including the Goldbronze LE C I'm pleased to report that my excitement was warranted. In short, the T50 rips. Now for the long. For those that slept on the original announcement, the T50 is essentially a grade 5 titanium expression of the U50, w...
Review Of A. Lange & Sohne Odysseus Chrongraph
Excuse my mixed literary references but for years the Odysseus has been my white whale. The first watch I ever saw under embargo was the 2019 release of the original steel Odysseus. A passionate watch enthusiast, I was hired by an unnamed outlet to photograph the new piece C something I'd never done before C and despite my excitement, it went exactly as terribly as you could imagine. Lange graciously gave me another shot with a brand-new Odysseus at Watches & Wonders and boy, is it a doozy. When Ben said on our W&W Day 1 podcast that Lange "continually do stuff for people like me when th...
This story went live the moment Simon Brette officially announced his first watch, the Chronomtre Artisans. Even if you were here at exactly 9:00 am Eastern Time on April 12, 2023, by the time you've read this far, the watch is sold out through 2028. Less than two weeks ago that date was 2027. By the time you reach the next paragraph, it very well could be 2029 and I wouldn't bat an eye. This is not hype. The watch is truly that good. How does an otherwise unknown brand build a half-decade-long waitlist before its official launch? Great watchmaking, notable experience, and word of mouth. Building a w...
Hands-On Review of the Burgundy Black Bay Master Chronometer
There's a common trope that Tudor exists to do what Rolex can't or won't do. But in a year when Rolex is doing everything from emoji watches to titanium Yacht-Masters, what does that leave for Tudor to do? Double down on the fundamentals of making reliable, robust watches, and don't make a fuss about it. That's what old-school, all-business-all-the-time Rolex would've done. And that's exactly what Tudor has done with the updated Black Bay Master Chronometer. At first blush, this new burgundy Black Bay looks a lot like the original burgundy Black Bay from 2012. Same bezel insert, same case diameter, and a dial and handset that look familiar. When I saw the announc...
MoonSwatch Mission To Moonshine New York Release Report
The forecast called for rain under the third full moon of 2023. Ordinarily and especially in April that wouldn't have been a problem. But today was no ordinary day. Today was MoonSwatch Launch Day with the Mission to Moonshine Gold making its way to Times Square in New York (in addition to 13 other cities across the globe). A Week on the Wrist with the MoonSwatch Danny Milton gives us the definitive story on the MoonSwatch. We got word of this launch Monday morning. Given that the first Omega x Swatch collaboration came out more than a year ago, we briefly thought "maybe this MoonSw...
Pre-Owned Picks Neo-Vintage Watches With Staying Power
Last week was all about Watches & Wonders, an event that creates a big buzz around the newest releases.It can take time to digest what we do or do not like about an emoji Rolex or if we can convince our significant other to let us grab that L.U.C, ?so for now let's take a look at some watches that we have all had plenty of time to think about.? This week's pre-owned picks are about the neo-vintage watches in our collection. The ones that aren't ready for their AARP card nor are they young enough to escape the patina of tritium or the scratches that come with non-ceramic bezels. There is no agreed definition of what timeline defines the neo-vintage era, ...
Best Of Hodinkee's Watches & Wonders Coverage
If the past two weeks have taught us anything, it's that y'all like reading about new watches as much as we like covering them. And as we say goodbye to our jet lag and Palexpo-fueled Vitamin D deficiencies, I couldn't help but wonder if this year was exceptionally fun (it was) or if every year probably feels like this (it does). ? To balance my immediate nostalgia with some long-term nostalgia and see what my coworkers got up to before my time, I've decided to round up some of our best W&W (coverage from years past. It's fun to see how what is now common was once new and exciting, a nice reminder that as slow as things can move in the watch world, chan...
A common concern people have is that their watch isn't valuable enough to insure or that they're not the type of person who needs insurance. After all, you only need insurance if your watch is super valuable or you're a mega-collector, right? Those are two of the largest misconceptions about Hodinkee Insurance and it is time to clear them up. First, let's talk about the value of your watch. Hodinkee Insurance has no minimum value for a watch to be insured. In fact, we insure hundreds of watches by Swatch, Casio, and other brands you might not think would be worth covering. However, many of those are Limited Edition watches sold by Hodinkee or others that wo...
Roger Smith Pocket Watch No. 2 To Be Auctioned By Phillips New York
Roger Smith's Pocket Watch Number Two will be sold publicly for the first time at Phillips New York Watch Auction: Eight on June 10 and 11."It's the most important watch I've made, without a doubt," Roger Smith said when we spoke about the pocket watch earlier this week. When he was just 22, Smith presented his first pocket watch to the watchmaker George Daniels in hopes of securing an apprenticeship. Daniels rebuffed the offer, telling Smith that his first effort looked too "handmade," and that it should instead look as if it had been "created" from thin air. ? Smith returned to Bolton, England, with the criticism from Daniels i...
Photo Report: A Swiss Watchmaking Museum's Reopening
My French is terrible but I certainly understood when I overheard Philippe Dufour say: "The Valle de Joux is magical." Standing in the lobby of the Espace Horloger, a museum dedicated to the horological history of "the Valley of Complications" in Le Sentier just an hour's drive from Geneva, it isn't a hard sentiment to understand. Dufour was speaking with staff from the museum and visitors who, like him, had taken a break from their jobs for a Friday afternoon visit to the soft opening of the museum's newly renovated space. I was here, in theory, for a photo report, but really I was here because of that magic and a love of watchmaking. ...
Welcome to "How To Wear It," where our Style Editor Malaika Crawford takes one beloved watch and shows you how to make it look its best C with styling tips and tricks, a delve into the current fashion discourse, some historical references, and a dash of British sarcasm thrown in for good measure. I've been a stylist for the better part of a decade, so I make my living (at least in part) giving advice on how to wear and pair accessories. And watches are the hardest accessories of all to style, because there's a lot more to choosing a timepiece than there is to, say, picking out a handbag C though the two do have similarities. Some collectors save up for years to o...