Watch Spotting: Eddie Murphy Wearing A Rolex Day-Date In Yellow Gold (1987)
A week’s worth of retro watch spotting begins with the ’80s comedy king and a watch fit for a president.
G-Shock And Swatch: The Two Most ’80s Watches Of The ’80s Came Out The Very Same Year
Over the past few decades, the G-Shock and the Swatch have gone from cult to classic – and cast an unexpectedly long shadow in high end-watchmaking.
This tale of an octopus wrestler’s Rolex Explorer worth $126,000 will change the way you view your watch
Question: How do you catch and wrestle a giant Pacific octopus? The answer, of course, is very, very carefully. That’s according to the Canadian Television Network who reported the extraordinary tale of a veteran octopus wrestler whose 1953 Rolex Explorer sold at a New York auction house last month for $126,000 USD. Bill Hook is a Vancouver Island resident who dropped out of high school at 15 to become one of the first scuba divers in British Columbia. His Rolex Explorer was a gift from his first wife and he wore the watch while taking part in spearfishing and octopus-wrestling competitions in Victoria and Seattle. As Bill explains in the story, timing is vital when you’re wrestling a giant Pacific octopus. “You go out and dive down and look at the rocks and if you could see some crab shells out in front, you had an octopus den,” Hook told CTV News. “When it came out, the one who found it gets first chance at catching it. Then when you catch it, you can get your arms around it and it will have its arms around you, and you swim to the surface,” he explained. “They did that in Victoria…
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Editors’ Picks: Our 10 Favorite Watches Of The 1980s
Totally tubular timepieces that represent everything we love about watchmaking’s most infamous decade.
Welcome To ’80s Week!
A five-day celebration of an unfairly maligned, chronically misunderstood, and frankly fantastic decade in watchmaking.
Introducing – The Chronoswiss Opus Chronograph Flag
Chronoswiss is best known for its vast portfolio of regulators, a style pioneered by the brand with the first serially produced wristwatch launched in 1987 – the Régulateur. While I’m a big fan and even went in-depth with the evolution of Chronoswiss regulators, there’s another pioneering style that helps define the brand. In 1995, Chronoswiss […]
How Richard Mille’s new partnership with Ferrari is shaking up Formula One sponsorship
As the 2021 season of Formula 1 revs up to get started, the drama and speculation around the 10 teams continues to grow with each passing day. With a newly introduced cost cap regulation, the way in which F1 teams spend their fat stacks of cash is under a harsh spotlight. But the way they earn their money has always been a backdoor affair. Sponsorship is perhaps the greatest guessing game of all and Richard Mille are no strangers at stirring that pot. With gargantuan names like Aston Martin joining the grid and Honda leaving at the end of the year, little attention has been paid to some of the subtler changes to the 2021 livery launches so far – namely, the watch companies. It has recently been announced that Richard Mille are partnering with Scuderia Ferrari on a multi-year deal, to both bear the watchmaker’s name on the SF21 racecar, and further develop wristwatch technology in the same cutting-edge manner as a premiere motorsport squad. As exciting as that news may be, it does raise a lot of questions. Richard Mille are surely one of the most prolific F1 watch sponsors, having now sponsored 40% of the current F1…
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Introducing – The William Wood Triumph Chronograph Collection
I’m definitely a fan of themed watches such as Hamilton’s Jazzmaster Regulator Cinema or Raymond Weil’s Freelancer AC/DC Limited Edition, and William Wood collections have an intriguing, ongoing British firefighter theme. We looked at the William Wood Valiant Collection last year and the attention to detail was impressive with a host of firefighting elements throughout […]
MICRO MONDAYS: The William Wood Triumph collection is a set of chronographs ready to catch fire
William Wood is known for their well built and accessibly priced timepieces, all of which are inspired by fire rescue and the brave people who put their lives on the line every day. We’ve covered the full backstory of the brand and its name before, but just to recap: William Wood was the name of brand founder Jonny Garrett’s late grandfather. For more than 25 years, William Wood served in the British Fire Service, winning commendations for his acts of bravery. Sadly, he passed away in 2009, but his legacy lives on through Jonny and the William Wood watch manufacture that upcycles rescue service materials into beautiful timepieces while donating to international firefighting charities. Today the William Wood collection expands further, introducing their first ever Swiss chronograph watches with the William Wood Triumph collection. Each of the new trio are inspired by the three elements required to start a fire: fuel, oxygen, and heat (seen below from left to right). The 316L stainless-steel case of each Triumph watch is 40.5mm in diameter, 15.5mm thick, and 100 metres water-resistant (admirable for a chronograph watch). The watch has a common lug width of 20mm, which means if for any reason you…
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The 140th Anniversary Limited Edition Astron SSH093 (Live Pics, Pricing)
Frequent flyers, start your engines.