Earlier this week we announced that we will be back in London to host a pop-up shop at Harrods December 1-4. To celebrate our return, we are hosting a meet-up on Tuesday, November 29, and you are all invited. Most of the gang will be there – Arthur, Cara, Louis, and Stephen, along with a couple others, and we can’t wait to meet you.
One thing that watch companies don’t think enough of is the used watch market. And in this round-up, we are going to take a closer look at how we could be on a cusp of a pre-owned watch sales boom.
The Mori Art Museum has organized a special exhibition on Versailles starring Marie Antoinette. This is the very first retrospective exhibition on the life and times of the young queen to ever take place in Japan, and it does so using more than 150 items from the French castle. Additionally, two beautiful unique piece creations were launched in celebration.
A well known watch collector whose ownership adds significant cachet to a timepiece, Eric Clapton has never spoken publicly about his watch collection. But several of the musician’s watches have come up for sale in recent years, indicating he is fond of Rolex and Patek Philippe. Several of Clapton’s Patek Philippe watches that have come to market […]
Today, our readers on the other side of the Atlantic are celebrating Thanksgiving, and while this day doesn’t make a lot of sense for those in Old Europe or Asia, it however opens the festive season. And who says festive season says Christmas and our usual buying guides – and also an overview of the best watches we’ve seen this year. After long debates and fights at the Monochrome-Watches headquarters (not literally, no worries), here are our 5 Best Dive / Sports Watches of 2016, for all budgets and tastes.
This Christmas Wish List list consists of some of my favourite watches this year, but not limited to this year’s models. They span a variety of brands, but share similarities in style and function. In essence, my watch choices are elegant and classic designs, with simple dial layouts with a few complications thrown in for good…
With the just announced Frederique Constant Analytics device, a small, easy to use, and relatively affordable watch accuracy measuring device, the promise is that checking your watch’s accuracy has gotten a whole lot easier and more convenient.
This has been a major year for us at the HODINKEE Shop. In March, we re-launched with an entirely new way of shopping for watch accessories and for vintage watches. In the spring, we launched a pen in collaboration with no one short of Marc Newson and Montblanc. This fall we worked with Zenith and then NOMOS to create products that we thought represented the very best of what they had to offer, with you, our readers in mind. As it stands, we have over 1,000 people on the waiting list for those two watches combined. We now know that there is real appetite for products that respect their origins while putting a twist on the status quo, and it is with that in mind that we are proud to launch the 2016 HODINKEE Holiday Gift Collection.
Mechanical watch timing is now democratised with Frederique Constant Analytics, a small, clip-on sensor that monitors the beat of a mechanical watch, from the same company that brought us the smartwatch which resembles a traditional analogue wristwatch. Traditionally a job done by a desktop watch timing device (often know by the trade names Witschi or Vibrograph) that typically […]
Some of you might be like us, quite bored sometimes by the concept of the traditional watch, with traditional 3-hand display, on the traditional central axis, running on a traditional round dial. This is not a big issue, knowing that many watchmakers offer other displays of the time. However, not all of us can afford a MB&F or a MCT. This is why MeisterSinger, with their offer of single-hand watches (Circularis, Phanero, Neo…), might be under your scope already. Well, not bad already but you can even have more, as the brand introduced a watch that both features a single hand and a jumping hour (not that usual) and that features a sapphire dial to expose all the mechanics: the MeisterSinger Salthora Meta Transparent. Ready for the horology lesson?