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Culture Of Time: Through Watches, Those Who Have Died In Service Of Their Country Are Remembered
How I finally realized that Memorial Day is about more than parades and barbecues.
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How I finally realized that Memorial Day is about more than parades and barbecues.
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To call the Speedy “influential” is like calling Paul Bunyan “tall.” Hodinkee literally would not exist without the chronograph that went to the Moon – and then kept on flying higher and higher. There have been many iterations over the past half-century. These are the ones we love the most.
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Plus a PanoReserve from Glashütte in this week’s selection.
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The oldest WatchRecon alert that I currently have set up on my phone is for a “Zenith Retro Timer.” I also have an alert for a “Zenith Retrotimer,” because I figure if I’m not really sure how the name of this watch is stylized, maybe a potential seller isn’t either. I think I added this watch to my list of alerts sometime in 2018, or thereabouts. I was falling in love with Zenith as a brand, discovering all kinds of weird Defys from the 1970s and ana-digi watches from the 80s, but the novelty of the Retrotimer loomed especially large. This is Zenith’s continuously running, monopusher flyback execution of their famous El Primero chronograph movement. A push of the button near 4:00 sets the minute totalizer and chrono seconds hand immediately back to zero, but it just starts right up again. Zenith apparently didn’t make many of these (it’s kind of the definition of a niche product) and it seems like the kind of thing WatchRecon was invented for. I’ve always felt that we can learn a lot about ourselves, and our watch collecting friends, if we stop to consider our WatchRecon alerts. This simple app crawls over the most popular watch trading forums (Reddit’s r/watchexchange, WatchUSeek, Rolex Forums, etc) to find listings matching a search term. It takes the leg work out of searching every forum individually, and when you make use of automated alerts that tell you when something hits, you theoretically have a leg up on the competition, and can fire off a...
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Not every watch is sexy, and not every sexy watch is sexy in the same way.
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From branded baseball caps to cell phones – and everything in between.
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We’re adding another 10 to the 10/10 fun, for your viewing pleasure.
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These clips are everywhere online right now. Almost unavoidable. And the questions they raise are thornier than you might expect.
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Two chronographs – one bought, one military-issued – make a collection fit for a king.
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Classic automobiles abound, but so do classic timepieces.
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Your mind is not your own.
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"The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans." -Croft M. Pentz
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Horology hit the silver screen at last night's premiere, and HODINKEE was there.
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The red carpet was ablaze with top-shelf timpieces.
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Why we need these so-called toys now more than ever.
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Two-timing has never looked so good.
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Swing into Masters weekend with our style columnist.
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All the minute details fit to print – and view.
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A watch 140 years in the making.
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Open-source software + 1,440 literary quotes = a clock, and a plot.
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