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Best Super NEWS Watches
Introducing the Bulgari Serpenti Misteriosi Dragone. An ode to Elizabeth Taylor
It's haute joaillerie season! Let me explain: Every year, after the haute couture shows in Paris, all the major brands show VICs (very important clients) as well as a few LMPs (lucky members of the press) their latest high jewelry collections. It's like a secret little society composed of the most glamorous patrons. Not to be crude, but the pieces are designed for those who can afford them. And where there is an abundance of wealth there are far fewer creative boundaries imposed. It's not so dissimilar to haute horlogerie; it's a chance for the creatives within these brands to experiment with form, show off the best of their human craftsmanship and run free with their unbridled design ambiti...
Reading Time At HSNY: Bedinis Books
This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by HSNY's librarian, Miranda Marraccini. Sometimes a mark in a book makes you feel as if you know someone. In this case, it's an image on a bookplate of a cramped space filled with books, some splayed out, some haphazardly piled (image 1). Barely discernible behind the wings of one giant volume are the hands and cap of a man, reading. He's hunched over in concentration or absorption (his expression isn't visible). The Latin motto around the square image reads "Satis Temporis Non Est Nobis" or "For us, there is not enough time." Image 1 Be...
Introducing: Oris Turns The Divers Sixty-Five All-Black For Its 2024 Holstein Edition
Every year for the last five, on June 1, Oris has released a 250-piece limited edition to celebrate the registration of its company in Holstein, Switzerland, on June 1, 1904. So let us be the first to wish you a happy 120th birthday, Oris; I hope I look half as good as you at that age. Oris says it uses these Holstein Editions to make watches that are cool (see 2023 or 2022) but would probably never otherwise appear in their regular catalog. This year continues that trend with a new blacked-out, DLC-coated Divers Sixty-Five.? The Oris Divers Sixty-Five Holstein Edition 2024 uses the brand's familiar retro diver platform, but ever...
Introducing: The Richard Mille RM 27-05 Flying Tourbillon Rafael Nadal
Earlier this week, Richard Mille and Rafael "Rafa" Nadal marked 14 years of their partnership with a new release: The RM 27-05 Flying Tourbillon. The RM 27 series is a huge pillar in the Richard Mille legacy. The original RM 027 was launched in 2010 by way of tennis phenom Rafa Nadal's wrist, entering the brand into the field of ultra-sportswear. The series has only since continued to evolve in lightweightness, robustness, and all-round out-of-this-world-ness. For a little timeline refresher, let's consider the series' key mechanical feats. Naturally, the journey started with a very lightweight goal, and the RM 027 came in at les...
Happenings: The Horological Society Of New York To Hold Classes In Denver And Orange County
The Horological Society of New York's award-winning classes are on the road again! HSNY is returning to Denver, Colorado, on July 26 and 27, 2024, with hosts Ben Bridge Jeweler. Then on August 10 and 11, 2024, HSNY visits Orange County, California with hosts Chopard and Rezvani Motors. 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 Yo...
Hodinkee Editors Review 6 Of Their Favorite Watches
A day later because of the holiday weekend here in the States, but 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 your podcasts (might we recommend Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or TuneIn). In this week's episode, I'm running the three-man weave with Ben and James. I gave the guys a bit of homework before we recorded. Last month, Ben mentioned in his review of the Rolex "Le Mans" Da...
Gatherings: Celebrating Modern Craftsmanship With Ulysse Nardin
Ulysse Nardin has been in undisrupted business for 178 years and following a major win at last year's GPHG awards and an impressive novelty launch at Watches & Wonders Geneva last month, the Swiss luxury watchmaker feels more current than ever right now. Last week Ulysse Nardin and retail partner Wempe chose the retro-futuristic NYC gallery of avant-garde lighting designer Apparatus as the location for an intimate gathering of press, collectors and enthusiasts, including Hodinkee editor Mark Kauzlarich. Fran?ois-Xavier Hotier, President of Ulysse Nardin Americas with Ruediger Albers, President of Wempe USA, & Mark Kauzlarich, Editor of Hodinkee ...
Sylvester Stallone Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime To Be Sold At Auction
Sylvester Stallone's Patek Philippe Grand Master Chime ref. 6300G, along with a few other watches from his collection, are being sold by Sotheby's in New York this week, and any self-respecting report of this week's auctions should probably lead with this fact. It's Patek's most complicated watch (20 complications) and the first to ever appear at auction. And it comes from Stallone, a real A-lister and certified watch guy probably most known for his relationship with Panerai. It's also a coup for Sotheby's, who brought over Stallone after he sold a few watches through Phillips in 2020. It's a cool story, and Stallone speaks eloquently on YouTube about all the wat...
Introducing The Audemars Piguet Mini Royal Oak
Today, Audemars Piguet launches the new 23mm "Mini Oak" collection. Self-referential in its re-interpretation of the 20mm Mini Royal Oak from 1997, but brand new in its 2024 packaging. It comes in three iterations: yellow, pink, and white, all with the Frosted Gold finish. Inspired by an ancient Florentine jewelry technique, the frosted gold finish was previously implemented by jewelry designer Carolina Bucci and adapted by Audemars Piguet in 2016 to adorn her collaboration with Royal Oaks.? The new Mini Oak models pack a lot of design into ...
Introducing: TAG Heuer Refreshes The Aquaracer Professional 300
TAG Heuer has just unveiled the latest generation of the brand's popular Aquaracer Professional 300 diver. These new models offer the option of either a date or a GMT complication, and both function sets are now housed in a newly downsized 42mm steel case. With the continued growth of the Aquaracer, including the 40mm Solargraph 200 and the 45mm Professional 1000, the 300 has long represented the conventional core of the modern Aquaracer line and this refresh does little to disturb the status quo as the 2024 Aquaracer Professional 300 will be offered in three dial colors (black, blue, and green) and buyers have their choice of ei...
This year is Breitling's 140th anniversary. Like any decent watch brand, it's celebrating itself in a number of ways, but I was surprised and delighted when a traveling exhibit of historic Breitling watches made a stop at my local Breitling Boutique in Chicago last week. The collection includes 17 vintage Breitling timepieces, from a cockpit clock to a Breitling Emergency.?While the collection started here in Chicago, it's on a roadshow throughout the States for the rest of the year, so it might be headed your way; Breitling also has similar traveling exhibits in other regions worldwide. Since this is Breitling, the collection is...
F.P. Journe Chronographe FB Review
Earlier this year, F.P. Journe quietly announced that they would no longer doing limited edition releases C well, after one last hurrah. The brand produces around 1,000 mechanical watches and 500 quartz watches per year, putting "limited edition" somewhere on a sliding scale of rarity already. One long-standing limited series has been going for 19 years C the Tokyo Boutique Anniversaire Series C and for the 20th anniversary of the Tokyo boutique, the new hand-wound flyback Chronographe FB is Journe's grand farewell to LE's. The Chronographe FB keeps up with Fran?ois-Paul Journe's streak of creating one new caliber a year, this ti...
MB&F LM Sequential Flyback Review
In 2022, MB&F won the Aiguille d'Or at GHPG for the brand's first-ever chronograph, the LM Sequential EVO. Among top watchmakers, it's a well-known fact that creating a novel chronograph of any kind is incredibly challenging. But with the imagination of Stephen McDonnell at the helm designing the movement of the LM Sequential EVO, the brand took novel to a new level. Now it's back, with a flyback function. We covered the LM Sequential EVO extensively when it came out. The watch had five pushers, two independent yet integrated chronographs, and a sporty orange and black or just plain black look. The chronographs could be run s...
Introducing: The Citizen Attesa Satellite Wave GPS F950, Now With A Ceramic Bezel
We last discussed the Citizen Satellite Wave GPS F950 in 2020, during the 50th anniversary of the brand's (and the world's) first titanium watch, the X-8 Chronometer. Five years later, Citizen is celebrating something else: the new Citizen Premier category. This category brings together Citizen's collectionsSeries8 and Attesato highlight what they consider to be the best of their design and technology. That includes these new Attesa Satellite Wave F950 models. The Citizen Attesa Satellite Wave GPS F950 is a feature-packed model with hours, minutes, and seconds synced with the global satellite. Thanks to that same system, it als...
Introducing: The Albishorn Thundergraph, An Imaginary Take On A 1952 Mountaineer's Watch
In 1952, the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research organized two expeditions to Mount Everest, led by Dr. Edouard Wyss-Dunant. At the time, Nepal had just opened its borders to foreign climbers, and the Swiss were among the first granted permission to attempt to summit Mount Everest. They came up just 250 meters short of the summit, the closest anyone had made it along the Southeast Ridge route. Albishorn is honoring that achievement by imagining a vintage tool watch chronograph from 1952 C?granted, one made with some more modern technology. In many ways, this is the spiritual successor from the 1930s and 1940s Rolex Zerographe. I...
Introducing: The Leica ZM 12: The Brand's Biggest (Smaller) Watch Release To Date
When I heard Leica was coming out with watches three years ago, I was skeptical. Why was the maker of one of the best cameras in the world venturing into the world of luxury horology? As someone who has pined over every Leica M6 eBay listing for nearly a decade before purchasing one a few years ago, I felt an immense kinship and association with the iconic red dot and all it embodied. Perhaps I felt over-protective of the brand. I suppose I was worried that the brand's legacy would somehow be tarnished if this new launch didn't go well. Since the launch of its first watch, the ZM 1, in early 2022, Leica has continued to expand it...
Introducing: The Omega Swatch Speedmaster MoonSwatch 1965
When NASA put out a call in the 1960s asking for watches for use in spaceflight, three brands answered: Omega, Wittnauer, and Rolex. By the time the arduous testing was completed on March 1, 1965, only Omega's Speedmaster had made it through all the trials, and the rest is history. To celebrate that history, on the 60th anniversary of the tests, Omega and Swatch are launching a new, non-limited edition Moonswatch in a monochrome colorway with nods to the original reference that passed the tests. While the ref. 105.003 Speedy that underwent the tests had a black dial; this new Moonswatch flips that on the inverse and is a white di...
If there is a brand that exemplifies the German mindset of function over form, it is Sinn. The Frankfurt brand has always had a strong cult following without being tempted by the easy lucre of trends, and that takes a strong will. Balancing this, the brand ethos remains crystal clear and is reflected in six strong new releases that were recently introduced, including a trio of new and surprising U-Series divers made of an unexpected material (or maybe very expected...) and a pair of new dive-chronographs that underline what Sinn does best.? The Sinn 613St And 613St UTC Diving Chronographs The first of this year's novelties are formed aro...
Introducing: Breitling Navitimer B19 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph, Now In Steel
When Breitling's Caliber B19 debuted last year, it did so in a trio of rose gold limited editions. Creating an automatic perpetual calendar chronograph is not an easy feat, so it was unlikely the brand would leave it to just those 420 pieces. Now, Breitling is releasing a Navitimer Chronograph B19 43 Perpetual Calendar in steel and C?in addition to being more affordable than the precious metal version C it's also not limited. Featuring an ice blue sunburst dial, the new 43mm by 14.94mm stainless steel Breitling Navitimer QP chronograph is powered by the B19 movement protected by 30m of water resistance. An automatic perpetual cal...
Bring a Loupe: A Minty Rolex Padellone, A Fancy Tourneau, and A Stirrup-Shaped LeCoultre
Happy Friday, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! Sport watches are so, how do I say this, 2021, right? I kid, mostly, but the collector watch world has certainly shifted toward dress pieces over the last handful of years. And that is music to my ears! There will always be a place for sport watches vintage, pre-owned, or modern, and, ultimately, that is what most people wear on a daily basis. But oogling over amazing dress watches on the internet is a bit more fun. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, of course. Wrong or not, this week is all about dress so put on a button down shirt or at least something with a sleeve, and settle in. We have a few quick results from l...