Autumn is here and that must mean it’s time for a Vintage Watch Market Update. In the time since I’ve started writing these, we’ve seen a lot of changes on the vintage scene. We’ve gone from highlighting opportunities on the market to discussing the craze that affects so many of us regarding collecting and how […]
Editor’s note: The Divers Sixty-Five has been a runaway hit for Oris. Now, in its second collection, it’s offered in two sizes, with an ever-increasing range of dial options (green being the latest). But the pride of place in this versatile and accessible collection goes to the bronze-cased Carl Brashear, a limited edition hit that’s completely sold out in Australia.…
French chef and “Game Changer” Jean-François Piège talks with us in Paris about the Piaget Polo S.
We were the first in the world to tell you about a Nautilus-only sale taking place this fall across four cities, and as we promised, we’re now back to tell you about the most interesting watches in that sale. To recap: there will be 40 watches in total – 10 in each city, offered at the tail end of each of four larger sales in Dubai, Hong Kong, Geneva, and New York. Let’s get into the highlights.
Gérald Genta Designs You either like them or you don’t, Gérald Genta’s master pieces from the 1970s. Genta designed Omega watches for years (i.e. Constellation and Seamaster models) before he started his own company in 1969. Although designing watches was mostly a job that people did who were on the payroll of a watch manufacturer, […]
Even for those of us obsessed with tiny analog machines, our smartphones are unavoidable and ubiquitous. Whether you swap your watch every day or have a daily driver, there’s a good chance that the gadget you actually interact with most in your life is that little slab of glass that sits in your pocket and on your desk. So today we’ve got another awesome addition to our HODINKEE iOS app: stickers. Yes, stickers. Now you can tell your collector friends about your new watch with an animated siren, show your excitement with our cartoon moonphase man, or even virtually try on some of your favorite watches.
Don’t miss your chance to enter our September 2016 giveaway for a chance to win a Damasko Timeless DB1 Limited Edition watch on aBlogtoWatch.com
Italians have the gift of making even the most common object look great. They can even make a coffee grinder with enough sex appeal to make Tom Jones jealous! For a relatively small country, Italy still has quite a few fountain pen manufacturers. And I think that I have tried products from almost all of them!
The sheer number and variety of smartwatches, connected watches, fitness trackers, and so on continues to proliferate. The biggest recent news was of course the introduction of the Apple Watch Series 2, which, with its new OS, both broadens the scope of possible applications for the watch and gives it an ability to focus more specifically on fitness and fitness related apps. The idea of making a watch that doesn’t try to be everything to everyone, but instead fills a certain purpose and appeals strongly to a certain audience, seems to be one we’ll see more of, and this is the direction in which Casio seems to be going too.
Manufacture Royale has a new version of its distinctive Androgyne watch. Behold, the Manufacture Royale Androgyne Royale Steel, which features a heavily skeletonized version of the movement that debuted in the original Androgyne 6 years ago.