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Interview: Patek's Thierry Stern On Green Dials, Smart Watches, And Running The Family Business
Last month, HODINKEE caught up with Patek Philippe's Thierry Stern, who talked to us remotely from Geneva about where Patek has been, where it is now, and where it's going in the future. When you run a company that makes Internet-breaking watches like the Nautilus, every take is a hot take, but the hottest take from our conversation was that while the 5711 has loomed large to the watch world in the middle of the pandemic, it's a big tree in the middle of a much bigger forest. Why is the Nautilus so desirable, even today? I think we should remember it was the first high-end watch made of steel [from Pa...
Introducing: The TAG Heuer Carrera Green Special Edition
I won't go so far as to say that I do not like green watches. That wouldn't be true. I would surely wear them in a house, though I'd think twice before wearing them with a mouse. I will say that the current green-watch trend is out of control, as documented by Cole in a great piece during Watches and Wonders. But at this point, what's one more? Taken on its own merits, the watch you see here is perfectly lovely. And it deserves to rise out of the pack. This morning, TAG Heuer released the new Carrera Green Special Edition. It's a vintage-inspired, limited edition teal timepiece paying homage to the brand's chronograph-making heri...
Interested in selling a pre-owned watch? Get your quote. Want to sell your vintage watch through the HODINKEE Shop? Click here. This Week's Pre-Owned Favorites Slowly but surely, you may start to see some loose themes emerging in our pre-owned selections. In our last drop, things skewed a touch more classical but remained well-rounded with a handful of experimental pieces. If the images haven't tipped you off yet, this week, we're highlighting color C blue and, to a lesser extent, grey. IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph Classic When it comes to color in watchmaki...
Watching Movies: Leonardo DiCaprio Wears Two TAG Heuers For The Wolf Of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) showcases capitalism at its seediest. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort, the penny-stock broker turned all-around degenerate, living his best life in greed is good America. Speaking of greed, the film features all manner of expensive things C from Belfort's white Ferrari to his lush New York estate to his interesting duo of TAG Heuer watches. Image courtesy: AF Archive/Alamy Why We're Watching I hate to be the bearers of bad news, but Monday is Tax Day. In its honor, Im? looking at a guy who goes to great lengths to avoid paying those pesky t...
Interview: The New Head Of Montblanc Watchmaking On Lasers And Lime Gold
How many independent watch brand founders go on to become upper-level executives at conglomerates like Richemont, Swatch, or LVMH? Few to none, which is why Laurent Lecamps recent ascension to the top of Montblanc's watchmaking division has us intrigued. Lecamp founded his independent brand Cyrus in 2010. I had no choice other than being a real entrepreneur, " he says. "This meant cleaning my own office and developing the logistics, the marketing, the sales, production, design, export, everything." In 2014 he decamped for Carl F. Bucherer, which he says "gave me the structure to be much more oriented toward long-term strategy. I think that Montblanc is like a m...
Et voil! YEMA Partners With The French Navy On A Range Of Dive Watches
Hold onto your berets, YEMA and the Marine Nationale are partnering to produce the first official watches of the French Navy. The Navygraf, as YEMA has dubbed it, comes in three models all sized at 39mm. There's the limited edition GMTmodel, the YEMA3000, that's limited to 1000 examples. It uses YEMA's in-house GMT caliber and features a 24-hour GMT bezel. The time-only, dive-focused version of the Navygraf powered by the YEMA2000 There's a dive-focused version, with a YEMA2000 caliber inside (spec-wise it compares to a ETA-2824) with a water resistance rating of 300m. The third model is the same dive watch with a Ronda 503.2 ...
Introducing: The Seiko Presage Style 60's
Inspiration takes many forms. In the watch world, homage often results in carbon copies of vintage timepieces. Last week, though, Seiko announced the Style 60's C a new series within the broader Presage line with an undeniable "Don Draper visits Japan" flair. These watches are a unique take on homage. In essence, they are time and date watches inspired by a chronograph model that didn't even have a date function (like I said, a unique take). There are two distinct models within this series: A simple time and date, and a skeletonized version with a 24-hour subdial. The Style 60' features, what the bran...
Interview: Mega DJ Steve Aoki On His Collaboration With Bulgari
Steve Aoki is tireless. Indefatigable. Un-slow-downable. One of the most famous DJs in the world C even if you think you dont know him, youve heard him C he was racking up over 200 shows a year pre-Covid. Along with packing dancefloors, he runs a charitable foundation, designs apparel, appears as a videogame character, and dishes up a proprietary herb-infused pizza. And now hes got a watch with Bulgari.Though EDM may not be the soundtrack in your mind when you think of Bulgari, Aokis entrepreneurial spirit and wide-ranging creativity make him a fitting choice for a brand collaboration. His special edition of the Aluminium Watch is a balance of Bulgaris techn...
Hands-On: The New Omega Seamaster 300s
Despite its aquatic name, the Seamaster wasn't always a dive watch. It debuted in 1948 in a paltry (by modern standards) 34mm case size. In 1957 Omega released the Seamaster 300 C a direct competitor to watches like the Rolex Submariner and Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, featuring a mix of Arabic numerals and painted markers and C most notably C a rotating elapsed-time bezel. The Seamaster 300 became the blueprint for all future Seamaster divers. It paved the way for the 300m line C which featured prominently on the wrist of one particular MI6 agent. When the vintage-inspired craze came to prominence in the mid-2010s, Omega released a ...
Introducing: The 17.09 MING x Massena LAB
Ming Thein, Malaysia-based photographer, writer, and former Chief of Strategy for Hasselblad, is the rare watch enthusiast who took his passion to the next level. For Thein, wearing and collecting watches wasnt enough; he wanted to make things. Ming burst onto the watchmaking scene with the 17.01 in 2017, and the brand has since gained a cult following. The case of the 17.09 bears something of a resemblance to that of the Rolex 8171 "Padellone." A Ming watch is distinctive enough to be identified from across a room C a ring many brands years older than Ming seem to reach for haplessly. Their distinctive design is characterize...
Adventure Time: How Three Avalanches And A Heart Attack Changed My Perception of Time
Time is relative. We dont remember everything equally well. The moments that etch into our beings are the ones where something changes. As climbers we hope that its the summit moment; clouds parting, a ray of sunshine beaming down and touching our foreheads as we embrace our teammates in joy. Climbing is an inherently frivolous, dangerous, and selfish pursuit C if you spend a life in the mountains and are still able to read this, you understand and accept the value set of putting yourself at risk C and we do it all for a few exultant minutes at the top. But the moments we remember arent always so happy. The reality is that people d...
Hands-On: Ruminations On The New AP Royal Oak Jumbo In Platinum, And Why Nobody Seems To Like It
Ive been writing about the Royal Oak, in detail, for over a decade. In fact, I would say that some of the work Ive done on the Royal Oak has been among my best, or at least most enjoyable to create. And thats simply because its a subject C a watch C that I love. Like, really, madly, truly, and deeply love.These stories might range from a quick blurb in GQ (in the issue currently on stands), to an exhaustive review of the then-controversial and newly introduced 41mm chronograph (with video and fairly deep analysis of AP as a brand that I think still holds true today), to a history lesson on Jay-Zs now defunct (but ahead of its time!) website Life & Times, to a story that I was extrem...
Sunday Rewind: The Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch, Possibly The Most Toolish Tool Watch Ever Made
One interesting feature of the post-quartz era of watchmaking is that watchmaking has become somewhat more of a generalist activity. The variety of watches might be broader than ever, but what they are specifically designed to do doesn't vary much from one to the other C time, date, and less often, basic timing functions like timing bezels and chronographs, with second time zone functions rounding things out. P. H. V. Weems, creator of the Seconds Setting and Hour Angle navigation watches. Before the development of multifunction quartz watches and smart watches, however, there were a bewildering variety of watches made for ver...
In-Depth: The Carl F. Bucherer Manero Minute Repeater Symphony
A lot of the time, being a fan of mechanical horology is like being a fan of classical ballet, or classical music. Absent a time machine, you do not expect anyone to make any revolutionary new contributions to the art; instead, you go to see, say, La Bayadre, to see how well someone's executed a well-known and well-established part of the repertoire. So it is with fine watchmaking C delight is often to be found less in innovation and more in how well you, as a connoisseur, can judge the execution.Both the minute repeater and the tourbillon fall into this category. While it's true that there have been a lot of innovations in minute repeaters and tourbillons over the last 20 or so years, ofte...
Interview: Elie Bernheim, The Man Refocusing Raymond Weil
Elie Bernheim is the third generation of his family to run Raymond Weil, the affordable line of Swiss watches started by his grandfather in 1976.Long popular in the United States and the U.K., Raymond Weil was an affordable entry point into the world of Swiss luxury watches in the days before the term "microbrand" was part of the horological conversation. It was among the first companies that came to mind as I clicked through to Jack Forster's recent paean to mall watches.With consumer tastes changing in all kinds of ways C what we buy, how we buy, where and when we buy C Bernheim is refocusing his family business with an eye trained on enthusiasts rather than the everyman. ...
I Helped My Friend Buy His First Automatic Seiko
Meet my friend Jon Barr. I first met Jon after he moved to Brooklyn from Manhattan. Before we were friends I was a fan of the videos he is known for. Barr is C well, why I don't I let him tell you. "I'm a travel video creator, based in New York City, but I create content all over the world. I try to focus on teaching people how to travel smarter, and how to have local experiences. I used to be a sports broadcaster for almost a decade. I moved into this new media field of content creation on YouTube," Barr says. "Even when I was a broadcaster on mainstream radio and television, I always wanted to inform the viewer or the listener about what's going on. Now in New ...
The Entry-Level Audemars Piguet Mechanical is a Royal
In Entry Level, we consider the least expensive watches from luxury watchmakers. They're still not cheap, but hey every brand has to start somewhere. One famous observation about the German carmaker BMW is that it has made the same sausage, only in different lengths. While Audemars Piguet has branched out from its most famous collection, the Royal Oak C most recently with CODE 11:59 C the Grald Genta design remains the best-known watch the company makes. The Royal Oak also represents the entry point to the world of AP. Technically speaking, the true entry point is a 33mm quartz Royal Oak in stainless steel, which comes at a cost of...
Watch Spotting: Jay-Z Flexing The New Tiffany-Blue Patek 5711 Eight Days After Launch
Ever since the Tiffany Blue 5711 dropped, we've been wondering which lucky souls were going to get a watch and how long it would take before we'd see them on the wrists of high-profile collectors. The wait is over.?Here's Hova, subtly flexing the most talked-about watch of 2021 at an event yesterday for the Netflix movie he's producing, The Harder They Fall, alongside director, writer, and composer Jeymes Samuel, AKA "The Bullits." He's sitting on the stage, listening intently to Samuel. The baby blue dial on Jay's Nautilus is unmistakable. Credit Netflix. Only 170 of the pieces were made, with 169 destined for the wrists of t...
Tudor Pelagos FXD A Second Look From Jack Forster
At 330 comments and counting on James' Hands-On from last November, plus its own episode of HODINKEE Radio a week later, you would think that there wouldn't be much left to add to the conversation about the Tudor Pelagos FXD. When I first read James' coverage, I thought to myself that the idea seemed interesting but I didn't have all that much interest in actually seeing the watch, much less taking it for a test drive. It made the same first impression on me that the 2019 Black Bay P01 did C very interesting in the abstract and with a certain quirky appeal, but perhaps a little too high-concept, too granular in its design details, for its own good, at least for a wider audience. ...
Holiday Gift Guide Pre-Owned Watches HODINKEE
Nothing says the end of the year quite like rushing around to take care of last-minute holiday shopping. Why not make it easy on yourself? For the rest of today (until 11:59 PM ET), you can take $2,500 off any pre-owned watch order over $15,000. Additionally, ending at the same time tonight is a financing offer we secured for you with Affirm for as low as 0% APR on purchases made from up to $10,000 for 12 months. Well C?what are you waiting for? Explore a few of our favorite HODINKEE Pre-Owned watches over $15,000 below, and the entire selection right here.? Make sure to place your orders before 11:59 PM ET toni...