Picture yourself sitting patiently at a junction, daydreaming if you want to go left or right in your 30-year-old or so Land Rover Defender. You hear birds chirping, children playing in the park, and people chatting on the pavement. And nothing else. No rattling, no rumble from a smelly old diesel engine, no whining from […]
Montblanc flexes its Minerva movement muscle with a rich red rattrapante chronograph.
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Thirty years after his death, one dad’s old watch taught his son the most-important lesson about fatherhood.
In watchmaking, few complications command such reverence as the perpetual calendar, and few brands have woven it into their identity as thoroughly as Audemars Piguet. While the brand’s mastery of this calendar complication dates back to the early 20th century, its true renaissance came through a most unexpected path: the Royal Oak sports watch. Let […]
This one is for you, Dad.
Frederique Constant has a 40mm steel perpetual calendar watch with a radiant salmon dial and in-house movement under US$10K. How?
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All that and more in this week’s edition of Hodinkee’s What’s Selling Where column.
Eska may not be a well-known brand, but this revived Swiss watchmaker is gaining attention among enthusiasts. Initially founded in 1918 by Silvan Kocher (whose initials inspired the brand’s name), Eska built a reputation in the mid-20th century before succumbing to the Quartz Crisis in the 1980s. Reborn under the direction of Christophe Chevreton and […]
Seiko show off a sense of humour with a diver commemorating a movie that’s done more to put off people from ocean swimming than any other.
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The title Just Because says it all… because today we’re not talking about the latest release of a brand for sale the next day in stores, waiting for you to spend your money. Today, we are publishing a story for a good cause, to benefit those in need, those who have fewer opportunities than many […]