Watch Dandy

Even for those of us obsessed with tiny analog machines, our smartphones are unavoidable and ubiquitous. Whether you swap your watch every day or have a daily driver, there’s a good chance that the gadget you actually interact with most in your life is that little slab of glass that sits in your pocket and on your desk. So today we’ve got another awesome addition to our HODINKEE iOS app: stickers. Yes, stickers. Now you can tell your collector friends about your new watch with an animated siren, show your excitement with our cartoon moonphase man, or even virtually try on some of your favorite watches.

The sheer number and variety of smartwatches, connected watches, fitness trackers, and so on continues to proliferate. The biggest recent news was of course the introduction of the Apple Watch Series 2, which, with its new OS, both broadens the scope of possible applications for the watch and gives it an ability to focus more specifically on fitness and fitness related apps. The idea of making a watch that doesn’t try to be everything to everyone, but instead fills a certain purpose and appeals strongly to a certain audience, seems to be one we’ll see more of, and this is the direction in which Casio seems to be going too.

This week we have a very diverse selection of watches in the HODINKEE Shop. The timepieces range from elegant dress watches to sporty chronographs to affordable complications, with brands like Rolex, Movado, Breitling, Universal Genève, and Wakmann all represented. Read on to see the full selection.