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As part of its 250th anniversary celebration, Breguet has taken flight once more this time, over Manhattan. Following recent celebratory stops in Paris with the Classique Souscription and Shanghai with the Tradition Seconde Rtrograde, the brand touched down in New York to unveil the new Type XX Chronographe 2075BH, a pair of manually wound, solid-gold chronographs that breathe fresh life into the pilot's watch that once helped save the brand. And while 2023's steel Type 20 and Type XX marked the official relaunch of the collection, this release is something more personal less a reboot, more a love letter. The 2075BH collecti...
Introducing: Blancpain X Swatch Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms 'Green Abyss'
The Blancpain x Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms lineup just got a little bigger and a bit more verdant yesterday with the announcement that, on June 7, you can now head to a Swatch store to pick up the brand's new "Green Abyss" take on their $400 Bioceramic dive watch collab.? The rule set forth by Jean-Claude Biver at the relaunch of the Blancpain brand was that they had never used a quartz movement and never would in the future, and that still stands, with a Swatch-made SISTEM51 automatic-winding mechanical movement inside the 42.3mm by 14.4mm ...
Introducing: The Noah X Timex Lighthouse Watch (Live Pics)
The latest collaboration between Noah and Timex takes its cues from the shoreline. Inspired by the quiet symbolism of lighthouses C those stoic, rhythmic guides that once marked safe passage C the new Lighthouse Watch feels like an elevated next step in the New York-based brand's already successful foray into the watch space. Most notably, the watch introduces a new silhouette for Timex: a soft, gold-tone ellipse case measuring a very modest 31mm x 35mm. Paired with a croco-pattern leather strap, the shape feels like a clear nod to the 1970s revival that's everywhere in watches right now. Whether intentional or not, the ellipse f...
Bring a Loupe: The 2025 New York Summer Auctions And A Bonus eBay Pick
Welcome back to Bring A Loupe, and happy New York Summer auction weekend Friday! Yes, it's another week of major auction house sales, can you believe it? Phillips, Christie's, and Sotheby's do everything they can to maintain the attention of collectors during the Spring and early Summer months, touring the world and offering hundreds of watches, often heralding eye-watering results. We'll have a couple of picks from each of the upcoming sales here, along with one classic Bring A Loupe selection from eBay at a more reasonable price point. But before all that, let's recap the results from last week's column. Our lead pick, the Patek Philippe Ellipse ref. 3938/101 h...
The Richard Mille RM 59-01 Tourbillon Yohan Blake Remember last year in London,when Jamaican sprinter, Yohan Blake, was spotted wearing a Richard Mille watchduring his silver medal-winning 100 meter race? Well, today we saw the RM59-01, Blakes new timepiece. Of course Richard Mille is known for itssport-specific watches but this one really takes that to an extreme. Its notonly designed for a sprinter but for a sprinter who wears his watch on hisright wrist.The RM 59-01 has an asymmetrical case (50mm x 43mm x 16mm),shaped to be aerodynamic for a sprinter like Blake, who favors hiswatch a droit. The case is, as you would expect, a lightweight composite and the hand...
Introducing The Breitling Transocean Chronograph 38, A Significantly Smaller Breitling
Transocean 38 In Steel With Mesh Bracelet The many families of nautical and aviation chronographs from Breitling almost exclusively come in larger case sizes. But today Breitling has released the Transocean Chronograph 38, a smaller (38mm) cousin to the 43mm Transocean. Ok, so it's being marketed to women, but we think it's a cool choice for anyone who wants a classic Breitling with a little less heft.Once you get past the "First-Class Femininity" tag-line, it's tough to argue with the Transocean 38. Inside the steel or 18k rose gold case is a COSC-certified automatic chronograph movement (Breitling 41) and the aesthetic styling is extremely similar to that of the ...
Introducing The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor: Four Balances, Silicon Case, No Tourbillon
Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor Silicium Watchmakers have always tried to battle the effects of gravity on a timepieces balance assembly. The well-known tourbillon has, to date, been the de facto solution to this problem and weve seen multi-axis tourbillons, flying tourbillons, and double tourbillons. At SIHH this week, Roger Dubuis, the avant garde Geneva watch brand, has introduced an effective alternative to the tourbillon, and its a world first C a watch movement with four sprung balances.Called the Quatuor and introduced in the companys Excalibur case, the movements balances are paired, two and two, and positioned at 90 degree angles to one another, linked...
A. Lange & Sohne Grand Complication Two things A. Lange & Sohne is well known for are producing spectacular watches and producing those watches in very limited quantities. Well here they went all-out on both fronts. The new Grand Complication is a truly amazing piece of horology and only six of them will be made. Here is a first look at this new stunner from A. Lange & Sohne.Different manufactures have different standards for what they will and will not call a grand complication, but this particular watch features a grande and petite sonnerie, minute repeater, split-seconds monopusher chronograph (with flyback seconds and a minutes register), as well as a p...
Introducing The IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil - A Tribute To The Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow
Silberpfeil Chronograph With Silver-Plated Dial A while back we showed you the IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Racer and told you the special edition Chronograph Silberpfeil was on its way. Well today we've got it for you. This reimagining of the IWC Ingenieur is a tribute to the legendary Mercedez-Benz Silver Arrow, which dominated motor racing for decades.The Chronograph Silberpfeil is built on the same platform as the Chronograph Racer. This means a flyback chronograph movement housed in a 45mm steel Ingenieur case. The flyback chronograph also features its minutes and hours indicators on one subdial at 12 o'clock, which allows you to easily read off elapsed time just...
Introducing The Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Chronograph, This Time In A 44mm Cermet Case
Following the success of last year's Deep Sea Chronograph, which we photographed in detail here, comes the same classic watch, but this time in a larger Cermet case. Cermet is an aluminum matrix coated in ceramic, which is considerably more shock-resistant that pure ceramic, and 66% lighter than titanium. This a vintage-inspired watch made from cutting edge materials. This new Cermet Deep Sea Chronograph has been up-sized to 44mm, too.? We'll have more details, including live pics and pricing, in the coming days....
Big news coming out of SIHH 2013 from that force majeur that is Cartier: theyreintroducing their first in-house chronograph movement, the 1904-CH MC, in theCalibre de Cartier Chronograph. The self-winding vertical-clutch column wheelmotor is based on the brands Calibre de Cartier movement. We got our hands onit today and it is impressive in several respects.Vertical-clutch column wheel chronos are renowned for theirsmooth and instant actuation and the Calibre is no exception. Start, stop, andreset require just the right amount of pressure and offer a satisfying click that made the chronograph a pleasure to use. Cartier has made use of a linear return to zerohammer in the movement to en...
First Look: Panerai Luminor 1950 Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Titanio (PAM00526)
The new PAM00526 Regatta Flyback Chrono This new watch from Officine Panerai is certainly coolan in-housechronograph (the new P.9100/R calibre) with flyback function AND a regattacountdown function which is displayed via the overlaid orange hand and both set and operatedwith the orange-marked pusher at 4:00. A knot scale on the rehaut helpscalculate sailing speed. This model is clearly all about sailing. The titanium1950 case is water resistant to 100 meters and comes fitted with Paneraisbeefy vented rubber strap. Retail price is expected to be $11,800. Expect more on this awesome watch later on HODINKEE....
Hands-On: With The C3H5N309 "Nitro": Live Photos Of The Experimental Project Between MB&F + Urwerk
We spent today (Sunday) cruising the booths of the Geneva Time Exhibition, and while we're going to show you a bunch of stuff from there, we thought we'd show you something you've surely never seen in the metal before - the C3H5N3O9 Experiment ZR012 - or "Nitro".? If you don't know what we're talking about, view our original post here.? If you do, click on to see live photos of one of the only Nitros to have left the assembly line so far, a watch we happened to see on the wrist of a friend today.? This thing is absolutely insane, but if there is one thing this watch does, it absolutely makes a case for articulated lugs.? The giant case size is quickly brought back down to size by these hinge...
Stay Tuned For A Week Of New Releases As HODINKEE Reports Live From Geneva
Right now, two of our intrepid 'Dinksters (Ben and Jason) are packing their bags for a trip to the mecca of all things that tick - Geneva, Switzerland.? They arrive early Sunday morning and will go directly into meetings with some of the most interesting (smaller) brands in the world - those exhibiting at the Geneva Time Exhibition.? Think Laurent Ferrier, Peter Speak-Marin, and the like.? The following day, Ben and Jason will join a select group of retailers and journalists in attending the SIHH, a private salon of the latest products created by all the Richemont owned brands - plus some friends like Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille.? For three straight days, our guys will be in meeting af...
We're days away from the SIHH, which means we're about to inundate you (in a good way) with the latest and greatest from some of the world's premier watchmakers. But before we spend a solid week on the new shiz, we're gonna show you a few mega vintage pieces we tracked down for sale - and this time, we're talking absolutely killer stuff. Actually, this stuff is so good, I can honestly say that if money were no object, I would buy all three of these watches and wear each one very proudly. 1961 Omega Speedmaster Reference 2998-5 In Excellent Condition This the best looking and coolest Speedmaster we'v...
Introducing The Romain Gauthier Logical One: Complete With A Totally New Take On The Fuse And Chain
Romain Gauthier's new Logical One is one serious watch. A very modern interpretation of the ultra-traditional chain and fuse transmission system lies at the center of the Logical One, but that is far from the only interesting thing about this watch. Here's our first look at this impressive piece of horology. The Romain Gauthier Logical One in Platinum You may remember we explained the intricacies of the fuse and chain a few weeks ago with the Breguet Tradition Fuse Tourbillon, but here's a quick refresher. Essentially a chain connected to a cone places torque on the barrel to provide constant force as the power reserve runs...
A Quick Look At The Vintage Audemars Piguet Calendar Watches Of Marcus Margulies
Vintage AP is having a moment. About a month ago, we took you inside the private collection of Audemars Piguet themselves with this detailed video and break-down. Today, the folks at Bexsonn have a look at some more vintage beauties from AP, this time not from the museum collection, but rather owned by Marcus Margulies, owner of Marcus of London.Marcus's vintage AP collection is regarded as the finest in the world, and he was buying them years ago when no one else was. Here is a two-year-old look we did at some of his other pieces, but we strongly recommend you head over to Bexsonn to have a look at what are truly some of the most beautiful calendar watches we've ever seen.Read BEXSONN's Sto...
Omega Introduces World's First Anti-Magnetic Movement
Today in Geneva, Omega announced a new movement that is resistant to magnetic fields greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss). Introduced inside of a Seamster Aqua Terra, the co-axial caliber 8508 was introduced by members of ASULAB, ETA and Omega, all of whom had a hand in developing the new movement, which has numerous patents pending. How did they manage something 15x more resistant than a Milgauss and 2x more than even these Ingenieurs?Most anti-magnetic watches encase their movement within soft iron, like Rolex's Faraday cage, which distributes electromagnetic radiation in a way that cancels the field's effect on what lies inside. Omega has removed this step, however, opting instead to con...
Introducing The Gronefeld One Hertz Techniek and One Hertz Techniek Nocturne
One Hertz Techniek Nocturne One Hertz Techniek The first serially produced watch ever to include an independent dead beat seconds, Groenfeld's One Hertz has received a lot of attention in the last few years. And today we introduce you to two new additions to the One Hertz lineup, the Techniek and Techniek Nocturne, which show off the One Hertz's amazing movement through an open worked dial. A Side View Of The Techniek Nocturne We've shown you what the One Hertz looks like in action (as explained by Bart Gronefeld himself), but the workings have up to the this poin...
Hands-On: With The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Date (Live Pics)
Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Date "If I am only going to own one nice watch, what should I buy?" is a question we get asked pretty often here at HODINKEE. And while there is no single right answer, there are many good fits. This Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Date is one such watch. Here we go hands-on and show you a watch that's ready for anything.?Straightforward, classic designs are something we've come to expect from Jaeger-LeCoultre, and we're not just talking about the Reverso Tribute to 1931 here. This Master Control Date was introduced last year to celebrate the Master Control's twentieth anniversary. The steel case was brought back down to 39mm, a slig...