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Staff Picks: The Watches We Wish Were Our Dads
Imagining watches as our father figures, and our father figures as watches.
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Imagining watches as our father figures, and our father figures as watches.
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Breitling and Partners Group acquire the historic watchmaking brand, say it will relaunch "fully aware of the task at hand and the profound heritage we are set to uphold."
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Less than 10 Film Compax examples are known; this week, another one appears.
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Well, despite ever-present COVID, the war in Ukraine, and a property crash in China, the world’s economy has held together enough to make 2023 a fantastic year for fine watchmaking. Here are Ian Skellern's predictions for the watches to win prizes at the 2023 GPHG.
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Ask any watchmaker about the Rolex 31 family of calibers and the story will be the same: it has stood the test of time. Ashton Tracy hasn’t met a single watchmaker who doesn’t love working on these workhorse Rolex movements. They are easy to service, keep great time, and stand up to abuse. Put simply: they work. So how does it stand up to big brother, Find out right here!
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You've never seen this many insane watches in one place.
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As GPHG Academy members, GaryG, Joshua Munchow, and Ian Skellern have been asked to nominate watches for consideration in the 2023 GPHG. And while they spend much of our lives immersed in the world of watches, they don’t know of everything out there and there may well be, and are likely to be, gems that they are not aware of. So please send us your suggestions and recommendations for watches in the 15 categories listed.
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Led by a stunning time-only Audemars Piguet, this week's drop is our best in December by far.
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From the ref. 1675 GMT "Batman" to a 36mm Sky-Dweller, hop in the Hodinkee time machine (aka Photoshop) because this is a fun one.
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And gosh knows, we've needed them lately.
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What a pleasure to find a majority of real diver's watches in the GPHG shortlist this year. While they can be worn without any worries behind the desk, as they most likely will be in 99.99 percent of cases, they are also up for some serious diving. Here is what our peanut gallery had to say about the nominees.
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Ask any watchmaker about the Rolex 31 family of calibers and the story will be the same: it has stood the test of time. Ashton Tracy hasn’t met a single watchmaker who doesn’t love working on these workhorse Rolex movements. They are easy to service, keep great time, and stand up to abuse. Put simply: they work. So how does it stand up to big brother, Caliber 3235? Find out right here!
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There's more to life than steel sport watches.
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Five of the six watches in this Tourbillon category are either openworked or dial-less, so their visuals are not dissimilar. Five of the six are also one-minute tourbillons. One-half of the finalists have flying tourbillons, while another boasts a cylindrical tourbillon, and yet another has a constant-force tourbillon. How will our panel ever choose a winner?
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The best thing about these six GPHG 2022 Ladies’ Complication watches is the variety of complications. Yes, we still have two traditional tourbillons, but the other four complications are anything but traditional. But, our panel asks, why are the tourbillons for ladies not competing in the main tourbillon category?
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Let's be Sinn-cere, Patek Philippe might read clunky but it really Rolex-es off the tongue.
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Highlighting the newest ten additions to the Vintage Watches section of the H Shop.
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For under $300 is Scurfa Watches the full package? Get all the facts, details, and unique photos you need to make the best choice right here!
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Get all of the latest H Shop vintage watches right here.
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For a limited time, pre-owned watches $10,000 and up are $1,000 off.
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Where Seiko wears its hearts on its sleeves (and dials).
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Kick rocks, porch pirates.
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Seventeen new watches in the HODINKEE Shop and plenty of variety within.
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