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Pre-Owned Picks: Wrists Come In All Sizes, And Watches Do Too
Selections from the Hodinkee Shop to match the largest, or the smallest, wrists among us.
Results for The 2017-2022 Vintage Market Boom
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Revolution
Wei Gets a Tattoo and Talks Watches with Bradley Tan, Founder of Oracle Tattoo
Bradley Tan may only be 34 years old but he has been a tattoo artist for more than half his life. Dedicating almost two decades to his craft has resulted in him being regarded as one of the best in the world, of the black and gray photorealistic style. He is also a passionate watch […]
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Buy our ‘Koallaboration’ with Nivada Grenchen and seconde/seconde/ and save koalas until December 31
Coming up on three years ago, Australia had one of the most lethal summers for wildfires – we call them bushfires down here – on record. It was, quite literally, a nightmare. During the days, the skies would darken to a point where cars would use headlights at midday. But it wasn’t thunderstorm, or night-time … ContinuedThe post Buy our ‘Koallaboration’ with Nivada Grenchen and seconde/seconde/ and save koalas until December 31 appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Dear Santa: Peter Nievaart makes his wishlist for Christmas
Next up on our Christmas Wishlists, we have Peter Nievaart from The Netherlands, with two watches and a photography item.
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Gift Guide: It’s Now Or Never – Last Call for Holiday Delivery
Get that last-minute gift in the bag, on the sleigh, and out to that special someone.
Revolution
Unboxing Grail Watch 3: Trilobe Une Folle Soirée “Wild Night”
Join Wei as he tells the story of Trilobe and its founder Gautier Massonneau, who had a unique vision to reinterpret the telling of time on a watch. When it was launched earlier this year, Trilobe’s Une Folle Journée or “A Crazy Day” created such a stir for its inventiveness in elevating time to three […]
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In-Depth: A Visit To Oak & Oscar In Chicago
Seven years after Chase Fancher started the brand, Oak & Oscar is just hitting its stride.
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Gift Guide: Maggi Simpkins' Favorite Gifts That Spark Creativity
Our favorite artist and jewelry designer gives us the gift of inspiration for the upcoming holidays.
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Gift Guide: Gifts So Perfect They Are On Our Own Shopping Lists
These are the gifts that members of the Hodinkee Shop are giving this holiday season.
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NSFW! Holiday Hentai from a historic Swiss brand? Merry Christmas, I guess
Erotic watches have long been a controversial topic. Some praise the individuality, artistry and taboo nature of these pieces, impressed by the intricately painted scenes or complex automata depicting them. Others, however, denounce them completely for their tackiness despite the connection to the historical tradition of erotic art – something Luke Benedictus shared his thoughts … ContinuedThe post NSFW! Holiday Hentai from a historic Swiss brand? Merry Christmas, I guess appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Race over to Chadstone for an adrenaline-filled IWC experience
If you have ever binge-watched Drive to Survive, played the Gran Turismo video games, or, more plainly, are a Formula 1 super-fan, then you will probably want to race over to the IWC pop-up racing experience over at the Chadstone Shopping Centre. Not only will you be able to get hands-on with a range of IWC watches, you will … ContinuedThe post FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Race over to Chadstone for an adrenaline-filled IWC experience appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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New and reviewed: Bell & Ross BR 05 Sincere Green Steel
A collaboration with Singapore retailer Sincere Fine Watches to celebrate the opening of a new boutique, we review the new BR 05 Sincere Green Steel.
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Up Close: Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Heure Sautante Minutes Rétrograde
While Blancpain is best known for its retro dive watches and triple calendars, the brand’s catalogue includes a surprisingly broad range of complications, especially for a brand of its scale (but the fact that the brand is part of Swatch Group clearly helps). One of its most interesting recent complications is the Villeret Tourbillon Heure Sautante Minutes Rétrograde, the first Blancpain watch with either a jumping hours or retrograde display. Despite the lengthy name, the Tourbillon Heure Sautante Minutes Rétrograde, from now on simply THSMR, is a simple watch on its face, but one executed in an elaborate manner with details that speak to its quality. The dial is champlevé enamel with a symmetrical time display and “floating” flying tourbillon, while the movement has a six-day power reserve and bridges finished with guilloche. Initial thoughts Unlike most of Blancpain’s complications that formal and busy, the THSMR is an elegant watch with an almost minimalist design. The fired enamel dial has a figure-of-eight display that gives it almost perfect symmetry, except for the charmingly quirky hour window that is off-centre but just right. And up close the tourbillon appears to be “floating” thanks to a clear sapphire lower bridge. It is a fairly large watch as most Blancpain watches now are, though it’s not too thick at just over 11 mm high. But the size is grounded in its mechanics: the cal. 260MR is a sizeable movement with an impressive six-day power r...
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Watches with Tachymeters: How They Work and Our 15 Top Tachymeter Watc
It's a common refrain in the watch collector community that chronographs are one of the most popular complications while at the same time being one of the least practical in day-to-day life. Many of the most famous chronograph watches are also equipped with tachymeter scales, and while fans of these watches mostly agree that they look very cool, few of them have ever used the scale with the stopwatch function, and many wouldn't really know how. Nevertheless, the tachymeter on a watch was invented for a utilitarian, practical purpose once upon a time and it's worth briefly exploring those origins and exploring those capabilities. Essentially, a tachymeter (also called a tachometer) is a numerical scale on a watch’s dial or bezel that is used in conjunction with a chronograph seconds hand to measure an object’s speed over a predetermined distance. It is often used to determine miles or kilometers per hour and is thus a common feature of chronograph watches whose design is inspired by automobile racing; we'll showcase several icons of that category in our list below. Unlike divers’ watch bezels, which should rotate in one direction to set dive times, or other types of bezel scales used for calculations and conversions, like the circular slide rule on Breitling’s Navitimer, most of which are bidirectional, a tachymeter scale bezel should be fixed. The numerical scale typically starts around the 6- or 7-second marker on the minute track, and is usually indicated in ...
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Watches For Good And MB&F; M.A.D. Gallery Go Jurassic For Charity
You can get your hands on a dino-themed watch stand from one of the world's top watchmakers and do some good.
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Four watches you should buy instead of Portnoy’s Brick Watch – US$2.4K or less
Dave Portnoy launched Brick Watch Company, but we think there are better watches to buy for US$2,400 or less.The post Four watches you should buy instead of Portnoy’s Brick Watch – US$2.4K or less appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Revolution
A Dive Watch with a Jellyfish Glow: Jacques Bianchi x Revolution Limited Edition JB200 “Méduse”
Wei takes us through our latest collaboration with Montres Jacques Bianchi - our take on the contemporary reissue of the JB200, a “destro” dive watch originally commissioned by the French Navy and created by legendary Marseille watchmaker, Jacques Bianchi. Limited to 150 pieces, the JB200 “Méduse” features the silhouette of a scuba diver, now fully […]
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New: Seiko Presage 110th Anniversary of Laurel
Seiko releases a new Presage to celebrate the 110th Anniversary of Japan's first wristwatch - the Seiko Laurel, made in 1913.
Quill & Pad
Breguet Reine de Naples References 9835 & 9838: Declaring A Love Of Timeless Elegance
In the newly introduced Breguet Reine de Naples References 9835 and 9838, the minute hand has become a sporty, elegant declaration of love. These intriguing hands feature a unique mechanism that traces the minute track around the edge of the oval dial in a singular way, at times looking like a heart.
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Raheem Sterling lost £300,000 of watches in a robbery. How should he replace them?
Poor Raheem Sterling has endured a rough time of late. There was the familiar heartache of England being knocked out of the World Cup with Gareth Southgate’s team adopting their customary roles as plucky nearly-men destined to lose against the first decent team they face. If that wasn’t bad enough, while Sterling was in Qatar, … ContinuedThe post Raheem Sterling lost £300,000 of watches in a robbery. How should he replace them? appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Teddy Baldassarre
Why do Watches Use Sapphire Crystals? A Brief History and a Few Altern
Watches differ greatly in their sizes, designs, capabilities, straps and bracelets, and even in the materials used to make their cases. The one element that nearly always seems to be present when we peruse watches’ specifications is the use of sapphire for the crystal (for the newest of newbies, that’s the round, glass window over the dial). Over a certain “luxury” price point, a sapphire crystal is not even seen as a benefit but the baseline standard, like tempered laminated glass in a car windshield. How did sapphire come to play this key supporting role in watch manufacturing, and what did watchmakers use before it came along? For that matter, what differentiates different types of sapphire crystals from each other? Which materials other than sapphire are still being used in the watch industry, and why? And is sapphire being used for anything else in horological circles besides crystals? What are the properties of sapphire? Believe it or not, that little lens over the dial of your watch is made from one of the hardest substances on Earth. It is one of two precious gemstones from the mineral variety corundum, the other being ruby. Corundum, a crystallized aluminum oxide, is clear in its purest state; sapphires and rubies receive their blue and red colors, respectively from impurities: traces of titanium, and iron in the former, and of chromium in the latter. Sapphire (above) has a ratio of 9 on the Mohs Hardness scale. Among minerals, only moissanite, a naturally...
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Hands-On: What Do Aerial Firefighting And Swiss-German Railroads Have To Do With Watchmaking?
Oris has the answer with the new ProPilot Coulson and Big Crown Pointer Date Waldenburgerbahn.
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Hands-On: F.P. Journe's Chronomètre à Résonance Makes Me Feel Like A Dunce
F.P. Journe is a renaissance man with the most resonant take on the resonance phenomenon – and these days he offers it with a side of remontoir.
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Video surfaces proving Tudor BB58 is compatible with Ranger T-Fit bracelet
As someone who once owned the original Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight and BB58 Navy Blue, I can say they were both constant wears within my collection when I owned them. Now, to be clear, I did not “flip” the two watches. Both were lost as a result of the necessary “one in, one out” philosophy … ContinuedThe post Video surfaces proving Tudor BB58 is compatible with Ranger T-Fit bracelet appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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Huckberry's Staff Picks For Outdoorsy Watches
"To me, the perfect adventure watch is one you don’t have to think about."
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Barstool Sports “presidente” Dave Portnoy offends watch lovers with his new watch brand – then doubles down
Within basketball slang, the term “bricked” is used when someone badly misses a shot. A bricked phone, computer, or gaming console refers to when a device – typically after unauthorised modification – no longer can boot or power on. Bricked effectively means complete and utter failure, unless you add the word “up” after it – … ContinuedThe post Barstool Sports “presidente” Dave Portnoy offends watch lovers with his new watch brand – then doubles down appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
Quill & Pad
Grand Seiko T0 Constant Force Tourbillon: I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes – Reprise
As Joshua Munchow swiped through posts on Instagram one day, he was stopped in his tracks, toothbrush dangling from his gaping mouth, eyes wide, and one singular thought running through his head as he stared at his phone: Grand Seiko doesn’t make movements like this. This is an avant-garde tourbillon movement with a constant force escapement and incredible, exposed mechanics! What in the world . . .?! Meet the T0.
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Pre-Owned Picks: Underappreciated Watches That Deserve Our Love
They might not be the headliner in the watchmaker's show, but sometimes the opening act can surprise and delight.
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Confession of a terrible watch collector: Mistakes, I’ve made a few…
I am a terrible watch collector. I’ve been collecting watches terribly for about 10 years now with no end in sight. It admittedly consumes much of my free time and an embarrassing amount of the money that I should actually be socking away for the time when I can’t do my real job any longer. … ContinuedThe post Confession of a terrible watch collector: Mistakes, I’ve made a few… appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.
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New: Zenith DEFY Extreme Double Tourbillon
Zenith DEFY Extreme Double Tourbillon combines the best of complications with a 1/100th second chronograph and a double tourbillon.