Best Super NEWS Watches
Introducing: Alpina's New Alpiner Heritage Carre And Startimer Pilot Quartz Worldtimer
With the brand's two latest releases, Alpina has highlighted both the company's long heritage and their current vision for the brand's future. Thankfully for Alpina fans, both are quite familiar.? The first two watches build off of the brand's success last year when they celebrated Alpina's 140th anniversary and released the classically-styled, tank-shaped watch with the Calibre 490. That movement dated from 1938, which was restored and presented in a silver case, and Alpina produced only 14 examples. Now, the same aesthetic is being offered by the Alpiner Heritage Carre, which is powered by a contemporary movement (the self-winding AL-530 mechanical caliber). O...
Behind The Rise In Watch and Jewelry Theft
Just about every day and twice during the summer holiday, it seems like there's a story about watch theft. In mid-August, The Watch Register, a database that tracks stolen timepieces, shared a release stating that "over 1 billion of watches" have been reported stolen to its database, totaling almost 80,000 watches. These are the type of headline numbers that generate headlines in general interest publications like Bloomberg, The Independent, and The New York Post C and they did just that.From the Piaget store in Paris to Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc, no one's immune from the rise in watch theft and it appears that the increase is driven by a combination of opportunity, awareness, and cu...
Pre-Owned Picks from the Hodinkee Shop
Each week, we present a selection of our favorite watches from the pre-owned side of our collection. Captured by our talented in-house photographers, you get a closer look at what makes these watches so special. This week we have the platinum Rolex Daytona, a TAG Heuer re-issue of the Jo Siffert, an Omega Speedmaster known as the "Chocolate Sapphire," a Tudor all the way from The Big Smoke, and an IWC Big Pilot for smaller wrists. A 50th Anniversary With Some Heft On Wrist C Rolex Daytona Cosmograph Ref. 116506 Very few watches manage to get the Hodinkee slack channels buzzing with interest, but if you want to get our crew all worked up, ...
Introducing: The New Ressence Type 3 EE In 'Eucalyptus' Green
If you know wild, creative watchmaking, then you certainly know Ressence. With its crown-free, unique distortion-busting edge-to-edge sapphire crystal and oil-filled design that won "Horological Revelation" prize at GPHG in 2013, the Type 3 couldn't be mistaken for anything else. But the Type 3 was limited to a black dial with multi-colored indices until now. Introducing the new Type 3 EE in a green "eucalyptus" dial. The watch still features the multi-rotating titanium disc display with hours on an inner dial, the minutes pointing on an out...
The Best White Dial Watches In 2023
It's Labor Day here in the United States, the three-day holiday weekend that marks the unofficial end of summer. While no one really believes or adheres to that old-fashioned rule about wearing white only before Labor Day, it does make for a nice excuse for us to feature a few of our favorite bleached-out watches.? Whether it's white ceramic, white rubber, or just a white dial, the color certainly makes a louder statement than black, more commonly found in watches. Still, some watches are so good that we can't help but think we'll be reaching for them (or dreaming about reaching for them) long after the temperatures have dropped and the pumpkin spice is hot. With...
Announcing All The Finalists For The 2023 GPHG Watch Awards
The 2023 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genve (GPHG) will be held in Geneva on November 9. This year, 90 timepieces C 84 watches and six clocks C have been nominated across 15 categories, and one timepiece will take home the "Aiguille d'Or" Grand Prix best-in-show award.?The GPHG was created in 2001 and is now run as a public interest foundation. The selection process involves the GPHG academy, a group of several hundred members (including a few Hodinkee editors) who participate in the selection process, alongside a jury of 30 members who will evaluate the final nominations in person before the GPHG awards ceremony in November.?While many of the biggest brands don't participate, the GPHG is sti...
Introducing the H. Moser x MB&F Streamliner Minute Repeater for Only Watch 2023
What happens when you put two of the most hilariously irreverent watch brands in a room together to create one watch? If you were expecting H. Moser and MB&F to make something quiet, simple, and traditional, I don't know what planet you've been living on, but it's definitely not a planet where a tiny panda would DJ a minute repeater. Thank god we're on this planet where we get to rock out with the new H. Moser x MB&F Streamliner Pandamonium. That's right, the two brands have teamed up for the second time to combine the design language of two of their most iconic watches into one release for Only Watch 2023. You get the st...
How to style a Bulgari Serpenti
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 am devoted to Serpenti. I feel an unconditional admiration bound with a giddy sense of hysteria whenever I think about it. Naturally, the best, most sacred objects of adornment provide a unique kind of visceral pleasure. Why bother wearing jewelry and watches if you are not seeking personal satisfaction? I like to gaze down at the smooth and shiny gold jewelry placed o...
Introducing: The Grand Seiko SBGJ273 GMT
While Switzerland (like much of Europe) took most of the month of August off before Geneva Watch Day's run of releases, Grand Seiko has continued to quietly roll out release after release from Japan. This time, they're back with the new SBGJ273, a Hi-Beat GMT with a red striated dial and gold GMT hand in the brand's classic round case shape with box crystal. The stainless steel case measures 39.5mm by 14.1mm and houses the 9S86 Hi-Beat automatic movement with "flyer" GMT, so you can jump-set the main hour hand to update the time in a new time zone. You get Ziratsu polishing on the faceted lugs an...
A Week On The Wrist: The Tudor Black Bay GMT
Sport watches come in many shapes and sizes. While I may love a good dive watch, or the old-school charm of a racing chronograph, for me, nothing matches the appeal of a solid GMT. A good example is built like a dive watch and wouldn't look out of place anywhere in the world. I think there is something special about GMTs, about their ethos, their simple but powerful functionality, and their ability to ground you in your roots while adapting to wherever it is you want to go in life.? This past March at Baselworld, Tudor announced the Black Bay GMT, a handsome stainless steel travel watch based on the format established by their Black Bay dive watches, while offeri...
Last week, Richard Mille released the new RM 30-01 Automatic with a declutchable rotor. A successor to the RM030, this watch comes in two case variations and features a whole lot in terms of specs, so let's begin the rundown. Both new RM 30-01s are a classic RM tonneau shape, the slightly wider variety (41.7mm width, not including the crown) with an arced case to ensure that it sits snug on your wrist (and at 17.59mm in height, this may even be snug enough to slide under your Loro Piana sleeve). Of the pair, one version features a case back, and bezel in satin-finished 5N red gold teamed with a case middle in grade 5 titanium, wh...
Announced just today and going on sale one hour later, Worn & Wound has taken the wraps off of their second collaboration with Brew Watch Co., the Metric Chrono Regulator. Offered in three distinct colors, each version is a limited edition, and each offers a slightly different take on a special functional layout for Brew's fan-favorite chronograph.? These limited edition models retain the usual Metric Chronograph sizing at 36mm wide, 10.75mm thick, and 41.5mm lug to lug. All three also come on full steel bracelets, have sapphire crystals...
Pre-Owned Picks from the Hodinkee Shop
Each week, we present a selection of our favorite watches from the pre-owned side of our collection. Captured by our talented in-house photographers, you get a closer look at what makes these watches so special. This week, we have an Omega reminding us to keep our eyes on the stars, the most Patek Philippe complication of them all, a Rolex that helped to introduce the brand's in-house chronograph movement, a Grand Seiko in a suit of armor, and a beautifully minimal Jaquet-Droz. A Zenith-Era Daytona, But Hold The Zenith C Rolex Daytona Ref. 16520 As something of an oddity from a company that prided itself on owning the patent on the ...
Introducing: Zenith Chronomaster Original, Now With A Black Dial
For the first time, Zenith has brought a black tricolor dial to the Chronomaster Original, the modern reinterpretation of the A386 El Primero from 1969. Besides the new dial color, this new addition to the Chronomaster Original collection is the same as the classic white dial: 38mm stainless steel case, 1/10th second chronograph, and the defining tricolor subdials of the original.? Until now, the traditional El Primero has always featured a creamy white dial with its recognizable tricolor subdials. Here, Zenith has reinterpreted this tricolor with a black dial and also inverted the chronograph scales, and changed the date wheel t...
The Parchie Hodinkee-Time Limited Edition
We've been big fans of watch-cool-girl Cara Barrett for just about forever now and have cheered her on as she moved from writing about watches on Hodinkee to actually making her own with the creation of Parchie C a line of playful watches made to make time-telling fun for the whole family. It isn't hyperbolic for us to say that we've been waiting for the chance to get in on the Parchie fun from the second we found out about it. That magical moment of collaboration has finally arrived C and we have to say, it was well worth the wait.When we were brainstorming about our dream collaboration with Parchie, our creativity gears started spinning at high speed. We could do one super-cool collab watc...
The Parchie Hodinkee-Time Limited Edition
We've been big fans of watch-cool-girl Cara Barrett for just about forever now and have cheered her on as she moved from writing about watches on Hodinkee to actually making her own with the creation of Parchie C a line of playful watches made to make time-telling fun for the whole family. It isn't hyperbolic for us to say that we've been waiting for the chance to get in on the Parchie fun from the second we found out about it. That magical moment of collaboration has finally arrived C and we have to say, it was well worth the wait.When we were brainstorming about our dream collaboration with Parchie, our creativity gears started spinning at high speed. We could do one super-cool collab watc...
Introducing: The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronosprint x Porsche
You know that feeling you get when you step on the accelerator of a sports car and peel out? The power pushes you back in your seat but gets easier to handle as you shift progressively up through the gears until your acceleration slows as you get closer and closer to top speed. Now, take that feeling and put it in a watch. You've got the new TAG Heuer Carrera Chronosprint x Porsche, a collaborative chronograph made with the iconic car company that sports a brand-new movement with an unexpected twist.? Let's start with the basics. The watch is based on TAG Heuer's "glassbox" design, with a 42mm by 14.9mm case and a domed sapphire ...
Swatch And Blancpain Just Released A $400 Fifty Fathoms
It's here. Say hello to the Blancpain x Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms. It's not quite as elegant a name as its hype-creating predecessor, MoonSwatch, but this new in-group collaboration C quietly called the "Scuba Fifty" at Swatch HQ C is kind of amazing and left me with one singular reaction upon seeing it: They did it. We knew that anything was possible when it came to a second collab from Swatch in Bioceramic. Most of us thought, given the anniversary year, that it would be the Omega Seamaster. But Blancpain is also celebrating this year. It's the 70th birthday of the massively important Fifty Fathoms dive watch. While we never really thought a Blancpain Swatch would come to pass they did i...
Breitling Navitimer 36mm and 32mm review
Breitling has just released a collection of smaller sized Navitimers in both 36mm (automatic) and 32mm (quartz). And there's a whole range for the C dare I say it C ladies to choose from. Obviously these work for the boys too C while this feels like a redundant comment, I thought it was worth a mention for the sake of watch-world equality / the diameter positivity movement. A handful of the new 32mm and 36mm Breitling Navitimers. The new 36mm size Navitimer is time only and comes in a trio of metallic dial colors (mint green, silver, and anthracite) with baton indexes, or with a white mother-o...
The TAG Heuer Monaco That Went To The Edge O Space
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed the "Dragon Lady," is perhaps the most famous spy plane ever built. First used in the 1950s by the United States Air Force and the CIA, it's a single-engine, reconnaissance plane capable of flying at altitudes above 70,000 to conduct intelligence gathering. Recently, the U.S. Air Force announced its plans to retire its U-2 fleet by 2026.? To help honor the decades-long legacy of the U-2, a spy plane that's spent much of its life conducting covert operations, professional photographer Blair Bunting recently took a trip in a U-2, all the way to the U-2's flying height, sometimes referred to as the "edge of space" (because the U-2 is a sp...