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Vintage Watches: A Guide To Collecting The Patek Philippe 5970 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph
The "last of the Lemanias" remains the king of contemporary Patek complicated collecting over a decade removed from its discontinuation.
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The "last of the Lemanias" remains the king of contemporary Patek complicated collecting over a decade removed from its discontinuation.
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We didn't think this stainless steel Patek could be any more of a grail. Now it's even grail-ier.
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Want a Patek, but don't want to sell your car to pay for it? Find yourself an Aquanaut, if you can. Though you probably can't.
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Calling all lefties: This is not a drill. Patek just dropped an entirely unexpected complicated calendar.
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Three words that will make any Patek collector's heart race: titanium unique piece.
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Syringe hands! Smooth bezel! Black and tan! And a new home for Patek's traditional hobnail decoration.
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Are you a hardcore Patek collector suffering Nautilus fatigue? Then get a load of the new Perpetual Calendar 5320 and Chronograph 5172.
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In the annals of A. Lange & Söhne history, the Double Split was one of the most widely celebrated releases. It introduced the idea of a split-second and split-minute chronograph allowing the wearer to time at least two events lasting up to an hour. The Triple Split is the inevitable progression of it, adding a split-hour function to allow timing two multi-hour events up to 12 hours.
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In order to understand watches, I knew I had to understand Patek. So I went to Geneva for a tour of the brand's mothership museum. Lesson one: Don't show up late to a place that's all about timekeeping.
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Three contemporary takes on some of Patek's most patrician watches – including a steel 5905.
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With the Nautilus being essentially impossible to buy at retail in certain references, Patek makes the Aquanaut even harder to ignore.
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Watches we love, the second time around.
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Watches we love, the second time around.
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Turns out Patek did release an all-steel, blue-dialed number for 2021.
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Patek's latest technical tour-de-force comes in a collector-favorite case as well.
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This previously unknown cloisonné enamel world timer is estimated to sell for approximately $3.8 million at the Geneva Auction in May.
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Now's the time to put in the request.
The first-ever stand-alone grande et petite sonnerie from Patek.
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Fifteen years after its original launch, the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 Time Zone gets a mechanical upgrade in the form of a new caliber that includes a daylight savings time indication among other new features. Elizabeth Doerr looks at the Lange 1 Time Zone's evolution and what's so very special about this new model.
A classic Patek caliber is reworked to become a museum on the wrist.
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Some new blue for Patek, too.
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It's about time!
Patek's first new watch of 2020 is a steel celebration of the new HQ.
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The Bovet Virtuoso IX combines a (double-face) flying tourbillon with two time zones, large date, an impressive power reserve of ten days, plus the brand's patented Amadeo convertible case. What more need we say?
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A cherished watch lost on a motorcycle trip finds its way back to one of the greatest drummers of all time.
Wei Koh creates a unique version of the Cornes de Vache with Vacheron Constantin’s design team - a watch originally released in just 36 examples in 1955 as the ref. 6087.
Revolution
Jaeger-LeCoultre crowns the Geophysic collection with its first flying tourbillon worldtimer: The Geophysic Tourbillon Universal Time.
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Visit the world's largest Hublot Pop up Store: Still on at Ngee Ann City in Singapore till 26th August.
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No foolin'! The Hodinkee edit team will be in Geneva to bring you stories, videos, podcasts, and more.
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Looking at the state of airplanes and travel fashion today, you’d be forgiven if you forgot that air travel was once seen as glamorous. Like the luxury sleeper trains that came before it, the jets of the mid-20th Century were not only a way to get from point A to point B, but to appreciate a level of style and service that has diminished over the last few decades. Fortunately, Timex is here to remind us of the golden days of jet-setting with their reissue of their Model 41, now redesigned as the World Time 1972 Reissue. Looking back through their archive, Timex has recreated a decidedly groovy watch for a modern audience. With its unique barrel-shaped stainless steel case and geometric red second hand, it’s a play on retro without looking dated. Most noticeable on the Timex World Time 1972 is the rotating bezel, which features 24 cities from around the globe. Originally designed for world travelers, the listed cities are marked by Greenwich Mean Time, and one has to simply rotate one’s current location with the hour hand, making the wearer able to traverse time zones easily to know if it’s lunchtime in Buenos Aires or aperitivo o’clock in Rome. You’ll notice that the spellings are in French as well, as this watch was originally made specifically for a European audience. Très chic. The watch’s case is a friendly 39mm with vintage-inspired integrated, downward-facing lugs. The Timex World Time 1972 Reissue is a quartz-movement watch and affordably priced a...
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