Watch Dandy

Earlier this year, in New York and Miami, we partnered with premium tequila maker Dobel to create On Dobel Time – events focused on the similarities between fine-crafted tequilas and vintage timepieces. Both take a lot of care, patience, and, for lack of a better word, time to produce. In order to reflect this partnership, we paired vintage watches from the HODINKEE Shop with different types of Dobel Tequila, including the Maestro Dobel Silver, Maestro Dobel Reposado, Maestro Dobel Añejo, Maestro Dobel Humito, and the Maestro Dobel Diamante.

There are a lot of different pleasures to be found in watchmaking, but one of the best is when you find a watch that knows exactly what it wants to be.  Mühle-Glashütte (or to give the company its full name, Nautische Instrumente Mühle-Glashütte) is a company that makes watches in a variety of styles, but its most iconic timepiece is probably its SAR Rescue-Timer, which was designed in collaboration with the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service. A tough, instantly readable watch with the sort of naturally achieved aesthetics that comes from real, uncompromising adherence to practical considerations, the Rescue-Timer is in its own way as much a classic of the tool-watch type as, say, the Submariner or the Mark XII, and it sets a high benchmark for other tool watches from Mühle-Glashütte. I’m happy to say the ProMare Chronograph is up to the challenge of meeting the standard set by the Rescue-Timer.

The Speedmaster might be the watch that took man to the Moon, but it’s not the only wristwatch with a connection to the Final Frontier. Watches are part of real space exploration, of course, but they’re also part of imaginary space travel as well. For the ODC X-03, Hamilton has teamed up with Nathan Crowley, a three-time Oscar nominee and the production designer for the sci-fi flick Interstellar to create a watch centered around traveling a little further out into the solar system.