Join Topper Fine Jewelers to celebrate our expanded in-store OMEGA Shop-in-Shop in Burlingame, CA. In collaboration with Omega, we have built a luxurious home for our extensive OMEGA inventory.
I’d bet that it was ten years ago that I found myself looking at pictures of a vintage Doxa Sub 300T and the brand’s newest offerings on the company’s website. There was something so cool about this watch that hadn’t really changed since its mid-1960’s introduction. Perhaps it was the then rudimentary website that hasn’t […]
If, at the start of 2016, you’d have told me my favourite Omega of the year would be a two-tone Speedmaster (yellow gold no less!) with a green bezel, I’d have enjoyed a good laugh at your expense. I like a Speedy as much as the next guy, but I like them in the straight-up classical format, a la NASA. Well, fast forward a few months and you’ll have to excuse me as I wipe egg off my face, because here it is, my pick of the Omega 2016 litter – the Speedmaster Co-Axial Master Chronometer Moonphase Chronograph in steel and yellow gold. For me, the real lesson here is to never truly judge a watch until it’s on your wrist. The crush I had on this watch was instant, and real. Earlier this year, I’d seen blue and black versions of the model that were the Baselworld centrepieces, and I liked them. But this was different. There was an immediate, almost visceral reaction as I strapped it to my wrist. The grey sunburst dial, emerald green bezel insert, and yellow gold crown, pushers and bezel all work amazingly well together, adding up to a hefty dose of flash on the wrist, without being…
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You longtime HODINKEE readers might remember the original Autodromo Monoposto, which debuted back in 2012. It was the company’s first automatic watch and was a limited edition of 500 numbered pieces. They’ve all been sold out for a long time now, but for the fifth anniversary of the brand, founder Bradley Price wanted to bring the Monoposto back in some way. So, he went out and found a quality chronograph movement, adapted the original design, and brought us the watch we have here today. The new Monoposto Chronograph is not a straight reissue, but rather the next member of a family.
Congratulations to the lucky winner of our Tissot Heritage 1936 Mechanical watch giveaway. Find out who it is & enter each month’s awesome aBlogtoWatch watch giveaway!
The second edition of Dubai Watch Week opened yesterday November 15 and it is fantastic! Organized at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and The Dubai Mall by Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, this global annual non-commercial event was created in 2015 to bring the watch industry to the public
A few weeks ago we announced that we would be hosting our first ever ladies’ watch-focused pop-up shop at Material Good in SoHo. Well, the time is now, and the watches will be available for purchase this weekend, November 19-20.
When it comes to unique displays of the time, you though you’ve already seen everything: wandering hours, chains, magnetic balls, liquid-filled capillary, rotating prisms… Then, in terms of complications and construction of the overall watch, you thought the same. Well, you’d better look at this watch, the Ressence Type 3, simply because it has both a very special display and an almost unique construction. Certainly, the Type 3 doesn’t have the visual flamboyance of a MB&F, the bold high-tech design of an URWERK or the apparent complexity of an HYT. However, under this restrained attitude and this relative discretion hides a watch filled with oil and that does not use hands to display the time. And that makes the Ressence Type 3 very special to us.
While there may be other categories in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) with more complicated watches and more sparkling watches, the category that the still predominantly male mechanical watch buying public pays most attention to, is “Best Men’s Watch”. And in 2016 that prestigious award went to the Grönefeld 1941 Remontoire.
Despite the tough economic climate, Asia, specifically Hong Kong and China, remain two of the biggest markets for Swiss watch brands. And to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which will be in late January, 2017, Vacheron Constantin is introducing two new and extremely limited watches.