John Cleese and his cheery plastic Swatch
Last night one of the elder statesman of comedy, John Cleese, appeared on Channel Ten’s prime-time news panel show The Project. Ostensibly Cleese was there to discuss a new stage version of Farty Owls – sorry, Fawlty Towers – but things got a little off track when one of the presenters asked him about his brightly coloured Swatch.…
Drive de Cartier- Mens Only Cartier Last January when Cartier presented the ‘Drive de Cartier‘ watches at the 2016 SIHH in Geneva, there was a lot of traffic at the Cartier booth. Almost every journalist talked amongst each other about this new watch, in the corridors. Cartier is always presenting quite a few watches at […]
The latest and greatest steel Daytona is here, and everyone loves it. The only problem? Getting your hands on it.
It’s hard to know where to start with a review of the most coveted watch of the year (and we suspect for many years to come).…
On November 10, 2015, Nu Couché by Amedeo Modigliani sold for just over US$170 million at Christie’s in New York, making the painting of a female nude the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. That record was set despite mixed results at the season’s headline art sales in New York, which drove a […]
By Victoria Townsend
“I wish I were a woman so I could wear a Serpenti!” Overhearing these words as I entered the Bulgari booth at Baselworld 2016 on my way to meet with the Director of Bulgari Watches Design Centre, Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, I was surprised that the esteemed watch editor who pronounced them (and later confirmed to me) would cite a timepiece known more for its distinctive feminine design than for what makes it tick. My surprises were not over, as I discovered during my time at the booth.
If you’re a fan of vintage watches, and you happen to be on Instagram, then you likely know the username “HKendrick47.” You might not, however, know who this vintage-watch-loving, Leica-shooting man really is. Howie Kendrick, or Howard Kendrick, as his friends call him, is truly one of the friendliest guys you’ll ever meet, inside or outside of watches. After spending nine years with Major League Baseball’s Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels, he moved across town to join the Dodgers in 2014. He’s a fan favorite in Los Angeles for his always-positive disposition, family-first mentality, and his genuine interest in interacting with baseball, photography, and watch lovers all over the world. Howie Kendrick is also, as far as we know, the only professional baseball player to truly collect vintage watches. This is your official HODINKEE Talking Watches with Howie Kendrick of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Despite all its scholarly technology, I find Antoine Preziuso’s Stella Polare Tourbillon Muonionalusta to be far more wearable for slimmer wrists than some of Antoine Preziuso’s other creations. And a meteorite on the wrist is the culmination of Preziuso’s journey to capture a shooting star.
In June of 1920, a semi-obscure retired Royal Navy officer working on a book covering the history of marine chronometers ran across something remarkable at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich: the clocks known as H1, H2, H3, and H4, which had been built over the course of a lifetime by John Harrison. But what he found horrified him. Four of the most important clocks in the history of horology had laid ignored for so long that they were not only in a state of complete disrepair, but also extremely filthy. The man in question was Lieutenant Commander Rupert T. Gould, who was later to write, “All were dirty, defective, and corroded – while No. 1 (H1) in particular looked like it had gone down with the Royal George and been on the bottom ever since. It was covered – even the wooden portions – with a bluish-green patina…I could not bear to see them in this condition. It seemed to me such a futile, tragic ending to a great adventure. They were the first accurate marine chronometers ever made – the life work of an original genius who was also an Englishman…surely they deserved a better fate.”
As an independent brand in the world of watch making, AkriviA has always given us works that are entirely unique and novel in nature. This is not surprising due to the fact that they are not restricted to certain design principles or rules much like other established watch brands or house. Also, a possible downside of being independent is the…
Last week we showed you Panerai’s new dress watch, the Luminor Due, and today we’re going to look at all the other novelties that were presented to us during the recent presentation in Amsterdam. First there’s an important update to the Luminor 1950 and there’s a new Luminor 1950 Carbotech. Let’s have a closer look of …