Best Super NEWS Watches
Introducing: The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Tourbillon x Porsche Panamericana
Hey guess what? TAG Heuer and Porsche have announced another limited edition collaboration, and this time there's a tourbillon involved.Here we have the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Tourbillon x Porsche Panamericana, limited to 255 pieces. The headline is that it's a 42mm Glassbox case with TAG's TH20-09 Tourbillon Chronograph inside. But, of course, the devil is in the details C especially with a limited edition like this one. Starting at the beginning C or towards six o'clock above the tourbillon C is the signature of the titular Carrera Panamericana road race. Run for only five years after its initial inception in 1950, the M...
Happenings: The 'Time On Show' Retail Fair In Bologna
There have been a lot of watch events lately, a testament to the strength of the watch community amid all the talk of a market downturn. But vintage watch fairs C where the public can buy some of the truly great and rare stuff C are still not as common. Sure, there's a circuit of shows that take place worldwide, but they're largely for dealer-to-dealer transactions and some have become increasingly, well, sketchy, as safety has become a concern. Time on Show in Bologna, from October 24th to 27th, is designed not just to have better vintage watches than most anywhere else, but also do so in a unique environment. Auro Montanari, Paolo Borgomanero, and Pie...
Interview With Max Bsser of MB&F
We're back with another episode of Hodinkee Radio. In addition to the podcast feed, each episode also has video, so swing by Hodinkee's YouTube channel (or watch below). Only want the audio? It's being published to the same old Hodinkee Radio feed, so check your feeds or subscribe wherever you find podcasts (try Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or TuneIn). There's no one quite like Max Bsser in the watch world. Each of his creations is so innovative, unique, and cutting edge, but also all clearly from the same mind, challenging conventions of watchmaking.Bsser got his start in watches, working with Jaeger-LeCoultre during the rebir...
Happenings: The Horological Society Of New York To Hold Classes In Toronto, Miami And Los Angeles
The Horological Society of New York's award-winning classes are on the road again! HSNY is visiting Toronto on November 2 and 3, 2024, hosted by IWC. HSNY then heads to Miami on November 16 and 17, 2024, hosted by F.P. Journe. Finally, HSNY returns to Los Angeles on November 22 and 23, 2024, also hosted by F.P. Journe.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 Ne...
Watch Time And Windup New York Return October 2024
If you're in or around the New York area, get excited because two of the year's biggest watch events are set to return. From Friday, October 18th through Sunday, October 20th, WatchTime New York and the Windup Watch Fair will take place just a few blocks apart in Manhattan.? WatchTime New York is hosted by WatchTime magazine and is once again returning to Gotham Hall in Midtown.?Meanwhile, Windup Watch Fair has moved to Center415, just a few blocks away. WatchTime takes place on Saturday and Sunday (its Friday evening cocktail event is sold out), while Windup begins on Friday and runs through the weekend.? A look at Windup N...
Introducing: Oris Refreshes The Divers Sixty-Five Into The New 'Divers Date' (Live Pics)
Oris is approaching the 60th anniversary of one of its most iconic and core releasesthe Divers Sixty-Fiveand it's doing it by making some subtle updates and rebranding as the Oris Divers Date. If you know the Divers Sixty-Five, then you will feel right at home with the new watch. The new Oris Divers Date is, of course, a classic steel dive watch that comes in three dial colors, blue, black, and beige, with a date at six o'clock and applied Super-LumiNova-filled hour markers and hands. The case measures 39mm by 12.1mm thick, with a 46.5mm lug to lug. It also features a slightly domed sapphire crystal that gives a three-dimension...
Hands-On: The H. Moser & Cie. x Massena Lab Endeavour Chronograph Compax
When I think of a Moser chronograph, I think of the Streamliner, with its flyback Agenhor chronograph movement and distinctive subdial-free layout. With both the chronograph seconds hand and minute counter on the center hand stack, it's certainly been the right contemporary way for Moser to incorporate the complication into its modern catalog. Surprisingly, the Streamliner chronograph, in its several variations, has been the only chronograph model in Moser's current lineup until today. The unashamedly contemporary Streamliner Chronograph. Massena LAB x Albishorn Maxigraph from Geneva Watch D...
Introducing: The Aera C-1 Chronograph
Aera, the microbrand founded two years ago by Olof Larsson and Jas Minhas, has stuck close to its design-led roots with a collection of a few highly distinctive (and legible) time-only watches like the P-1 Pilot and D-1 Diver. They were big and bold yet carried a certain unique softness to the design, no doubt echoing the style of watches established by design-heavy brands like Ikepod. Aera uses a few key principles and trademarks in its watches: a large yet soft pebble-like case, curved lugs, integrated straps, and what the brand calls one-piece "dished" dials. In short, Aera tries to create watches with simplicity and softness that goes against many other micro brands in the space, which o...
Introducing: The Urwerk UR-150 'Scorpion,' With An Entirely New, Bold Satellite Display
It's a big day when a small company like Urwerk releases a brand-new model, so let's hear three cheers for the new UR-150. With a slightly more curved case than I normally think of with Urwerk and a massively expanded time display, it's one of the boldest satellite displays in their entire lineup. Thanks to a new mechanism, on the UR-150 "Scorpion," the tip of a hand arcs over the minutes track, one that's been expanded from going from the brand's usual 120 to a 240 arc for a more visually accurate display of the minutes. Meanwhile, the frame around the hour jumps from 60 to 0 in 1/100th of a second. Because of the distance and...
Review Of The Formex Stratos UTC GMT Watch
Formex has built a strong reputation for technical innovation. Its sister company, Dexel, is a manufacturer and supplier for many Swiss brands. Pesky NDAs often obscure who's really making what, but Dexel's website features bracelets for Girard-Perregaux and Montblanc, cases for Hublot, and more. Much of this tech finds its way into Formex, something of an in-house brand for Dexel. While mostly known for bracelet, clasp, and case engineering, Formex recently decided to try its hand at the GMT complication. The result is the Formex Stratos UTC, a pilot's watch that's a functional take on a flyer GMT. While the design is a bit clunky, the Stratos UTC offers a fresh take on the GMT at a reasona...
Photo Report: Exploring The 2024 Audrain Newport Concours With A. Lange & Sohne
The Audrain Newport Concours d'Elegance has become one of the premier automotive events in the United States as it extends the reach of the local Audrain Auto Museum into a multi-day event with a Tour d'Elegance and a stunning concourse event. Set in the picturesque town of Newport, Rhode Island, this celebration of automotive excellence brings together car enthusiasts, collectors, and manufacturers from around the world. As with many such events, the festivities are a natural home for collaboration with high-end watchmaking, and, for the second consecutive year, the Audrain Newport Concours d'Elegance is supported by A. Lange & Sohne.? The Breakers...
In-Depth: A Tour Of Grand Seiko, Part 2
In late September, we published Part 1 of our tour inside Grand Seiko. A lot has changed since we last visited the Japanese manufacturer, but likely no change has been more dramatic and impactful than the inauguration of the brand's new home of mechanical watchmaking C Studio Shizukuishi C on?July 20, 2020. If you read the first story expecting to see inside Shizukushi, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, but the day is finally here. Part of what seems to have captivated fans regarding the new space is not just the mechanical watchmaking. Sure, that selling point for the brand has hit new heights with the new "Kodo" Constant Forc...
Photo Report: The Wonderful Watches Of UBS House Of Craft NYC
Last week, we teamed up with UBS to host the inaugural outing of a new event series called the UBS House of Craft. It was a week of amazing presentations, candid talks, special events, and, yes, a truly ludicrous array of amazing watches. From a display of past Hodinkee LEs to the watches that were worn by the many attendees (many reading this now), we had so many amazing wrist shots from the events that we figured it would make for a very fun, and very watch-focused, photo report to help recap all the amazing watches that showed up over the multi-day event.? From the entire team Hodinkee and our friends at UBS, we'd like to say a huge thank you to all who came o...
Introducing: The Patek Philippe Cubitus Collection
This isn't going to be an open letter C although it could be C because I love Patek Philippe. Truly and sincerely C it is the brand by which all other *haute horlogerie brands* are measured in my eyes for its ability to shape-shift and bring collectors exactly what they want at times and push things forward for so many years. Self-winding watches, perpetual calendars, chronographs, repeaters C effectively all contemporary complications have a basis in something that Patek Philippe was involved with in a material way. And some of Patek's watches today are exceptional C hell, I got married in a Patek Philippe. That's the type of brand that I think Patek is.Having said that, this isn't going to...
Hands-On: The A. Lange & Sohne's Datograph Handwerkskunst
The Datograph Handwerkskunst. Art of craftsmanship. That's what "Handwerkskunst" means, in all its intense glory, and a perfect example of what a beautiful language German is.? All jokes aside C and apologies to my German friends and the heritage of the many folks in Wisconsin I grew up with C I've always been a bit baffled by the Handwerkskunst releases from Lange. The things I've loved from Lange are the reserved, austere, and might I even say visually "Germanic" pieces that are quieter but hide something special under the hood. You could say that perfectly described the recent Onyx dial Lange 1 releases. Handwerkskunst watches...
Introducing: The Nomos Glashtte Tangente And Orion Neomatik Dor
Just a few weeks after Nomos unveiled maybe their most controversial watch ever, the Tangente 2Date (72 comments on that story, y'all!), the Glashtte brand is making a 180-degree turn and releasing two very conservative watches: the Tangente and Orion Neomatik Dor. Back to the more expected iterative nature of Nomos releases, the brand brings in two mid-size Neomatik (automatic winding) models, this time both with just a tiny splash of gold on the dial. The Tangente is in perfect Bauhaus-dress-watch territory, with a 35mm case and a thickness of just 6.9mm. In a design shared with other Neomatik Tangentes, the minutes track around the periphery of the galvanize...
Happy Bring A Loupe and welcome back to Friday! After a week's hiatus due to a tight schedule at our Hodinkee x UBS House of Craft NYC, we're back. Moreso than time, I found last week's watch offerings around the internet to be a bit lacking. Good news is, this edition is chalk full of gems across eBay, dealers, and even an estate auction site called Everything But The House. Did you know there are 4,194 watches for sale on shopgoodwill.com? Well, not a single one of them made this week's round-up but, I looked! Recapping results from the last, now two-week-old, edition, an astute collector picked up the CL Guinand pocket watch with Olympic Club provenance for a ...
Gatherings: Gbelin Celebrates Its 170th Anniversary With A Watch Designed By Santiago Calatrava
If you've ever been watch shopping in Geneva, Zurich, Lucerne, Lugano, or St. Moritz, you likely know Gbelin as a retailer of some of Switzerland's most coveted watch brands. For its 170th anniversary, however, Gbelin is paying homage to its legacy as a watchmaker. Earlier this month, the brand launched its own Gbelin watch designed by superstar architect Dr. Santiago Calatrava. To celebrate the occasion, Hodinkee Editor Rich Fordon joined Gbelin's President Raphael Gbelin, his father, Thomas Gbelin, Dr. Santiago Calatrava, and a select group of VIP guests including old Hodinkee friend Kristian Haagen for a seated dinner at St. Gallen's Pfalzkeller Gallery. Over dinner and drinks, gues...
All The Rare Independent Watches at IAMWATCH Singapore With The Hour Glass
What's the future of independent watchmaking? Well, if you were in Singapore this past weekend, you'd be hard-pressed to believe it's anything but strong. Just look at the folks at the table pictured below. Ral Pags, Ga?l Petermann and Florian Bdat, and Theo Auffret, all laughing, smiling, and just an hour later, all totally inundated with a mass of clients, collectors, and fans who were clamoring for a chance to look at their watches, let alone buy one. From left, Ral Pags, Ga?l Petermann, Florian Bdat, and Theo Auffret. If this is the next generation of watchmakers, we're going to be just fine. In a spacious ballroom i...
Hands-On: The Momentum UDT Eclipse Synch Solar
The world of the ana-digi watch is home to one of the weirdest and most fun niches in all of sports watches. In some ways, the ana-digi watch was the original smartwatch, combining a traditional analog time display with a screen, or screens, to display additional information. Born following the Quartz Crisis of the mid-'70s, the ana-digi watch enjoyed a period (or two) of popularity, but the format has never really achieved true mainstream success. From the Casios, Citizens, and Chronosports of the '80s to the Omegas and Breitlings of the '90s, many brands have iterated in the space. While some of those brands found considerable and long-standing success, conside...