Recently, a good friend and avid collector gave me the mouth-watering opportunity to photograph two splendid Patek Philippe minute repeaters: the 5074P and 5078P. If you’re one of those people who believe in wearing a watch with your tuxedo, I don’t think you’d ever go wrong in pulling the 5078P out of the safe to wear. What else is interesting about it?
As you may have heard, my colleague Cara (aka @its.cara.time) is leading a HODINKEE pop-up shop this weekend in Soho in New York City. We’re doing it one of the most beautiful and interesting retail stores in New York – the hidden gem that is Material Good. If you haven’t heard about it, check the NY Times for a quick glance at what they do. In addition to the incredible selection of vintage Hermes bags and Basquiats that Material Good always has in stock (oh, and full ranges from AP and Richard Mille), HODINKEE is bringing an incredible colleciton of vintage watches – and this time we haven’t forgotten the ladies.
Crafted for adventures. Panerai’s history was shaped by the needs of the Italian Navy, that it has supplied with precision instruments and watches for years. Designing tool watches, robust products for facing the most extreme situations, is the brand’s raison d’être. This rugged character made Panerai the perfect companion for Mike’s Horn expeditions. Following Arktos (2002-2004), the North Pole Winter expedition (2006) and Pangea (2008-2012), Panerai will be a partner of the Pole2Pole expedition. In this new enterprise, the South African-Swiss explorer circumnavigates the world from pole to pole with a new special edition Panerai strapped on his wrist, the PAM00719.
H. Moser & Cie. will release the Venturer XL Concept Dubai Edition to commemorate its partnership with luxury retailer Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons. This edition joins the H. Moser & Cie. Concept Series that was first unveiled in Baselworld 2015. The Concept series was famed for its daring ‘unbranded’ dial,…
Conceived by IWC and Dubai retailer Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, the Portugieser Chronograph Edition “Seddiqi – Al Jalila Foundation Dubai” is a familiar watch with an unusual dial in a first for the watchmaker. All the numbers on the dark blue dial – from the hour markers to chronograph registers to the seconds on the flange – are in Eastern […]
For those of us who have not studied the art of watchmaking and repair, knowing what is going on inside the movements of our mechanical watches can be daunting. That is, until a tidy tool came along in the form of the Lepsi Watch Analyzer that attaches to a watch, measures important indicators of its health and performance, and tracks it handily on your smartphone.
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS AT – PHILLIPS (BACS & RUSSO), CHRISTIE’S, SOTHEBY’S & ANTIQUORUM Chart – RECAP ON NOVEMBER 2016 WATCH AUCTIONS – GENEVA AUCTION HOUSE TTL LOTS* QTY SOLD SOLD % TOTAL VALUE AVG. PRICE PHILLIPS (Bacs & Russo) 191 177 93% CHF 27.513.625 CHF 155.444 Christie’s 323 276 85% CHF 14.702.500 CHF 53.270 Sotheby’s […]
‘Black’ is a term that has come to denote the best in luxury. Anyone who has either accidentally, and I’m looking at myself here, or intentionally ordered an Uber Black knows that to be true. Hublot’s All Black event, to mark 10 years since the first All Black model was released, and showcasing all the ensuing models in a glistening volcanic rock display centrepiece, did not challenge the modern logic that when it comes to luxury, and to taxis, black is better than platinum. Hublot has never done things by halves. When the brand chooses ambassadors, they choose the fittest, the fastest (of all time) and the foxiest (hello Bar, if you’re reading). When they present at Baselworld, it’s in a towering booth with eye-popping visuals cascading down every surface, crafty watch podiums that seem unprotected until you try swiping one, and a seemingly endless supply of Chairman Mr Biver’s homemade cheese inside. The same pattern holds for Hublot events, which in recent history have included a sunny day on Sydney Harbour, with the same Mr Biver and our very own Michael Clarke and an intimate night with one of the biggest soccer clubs in the world. As an opener, let’s just…
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The last few days were high auction season in Geneva. Just one day after Phillips’s two-day sale that included the stainless steel Patek Philippe 1518, now the most expensive wristwatch ever sold, Christie’s offered nothing less than 320 watches, and with impressive results. At the end of the day, the Rare Watches sale had netted 14,702,500 CHF (approximately $14,864,227 at time of publishing), selling 88% of the lots. Both the best performing watches and the few unsold lots allow a number of interesting insights into the current state of the vintage market, some very much aligned with the main takeaways from the Phillips auction too.
Even before either of us touched down in Dubai, Arthur and I knew there was one can’t-miss stop we’d have to make away from the Dubai Watch Week fairgrounds: MB&F’s M.A.D. Gallery. The third outpost of the company’s combination watch boutique/art gallery concept, the Dubai M.A.D. Gallery opened earlier this year in Alserkal Avenue, a hip art and design district that was born out of some derelict industrial space. It’s literally a bunch of warehouses on the side of a major highway, but it’s some to some of the best galleries in the Middle East, and the M.A.D. Gallery fits right in.