Watch Dandy

At Baselworld 2016, Glashütte Original release a simple three-hand watch called the Senator Excellence as a home for its new high-performance automatic movement, the caliber 36. Now the German watchmaker has released two new watches additions to the Senator Excellence collection, adding some complications to the caliber 36 base. The Senator Excellence Panorama Date and the Senator Excellence Panorama Date Moon Phase start the same way as their predecessor, just bringing a little more to the mix.

Habring² is the brainchild of husband and wife Richard Habring and Maria Habring. Based in Austria, they have since 2004 concentrated on making sturdily-built, no-nonsense watches of high technical quality and solid chronometric credentials, often taking outsourced base movements and introducing unusual complications like the foudroyante (lightning seconds) and deadbeat/jumping seconds. The Erwin, however, is the duo’s first jumping seconds watch based on their own in-house Caliber A11.

It’s no secret that team HODINKEE are big fans of Seiko. From Grand Seiko to Credor to Prospex, the Japanese watchmaker is doing some of the most under-appreciated work in the entire industry and we’re always up for changing that. Last week we gathered a group of enthusiasts at Stanton Social in New York City’s Lower East Side to get a hands-on look at the latest collections.