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HODINKEE Radio: Making Sense Of The Tiffany Patek Philippe 5711 With Ben Clymer
Discussing the swan song of the haute and hyped 5711.
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Discussing the swan song of the haute and hyped 5711.
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Haters gonna hate. But the proceeds all go to charity.
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Ken Gargett set out to review a wine that has been called an Australian First Growth, the Wynns Black Label Cabernet, and its flagship, the John Riddoch Cabernet. But it became clear to him that without providing some context and history in relation to Coonawarra that anything on those wonderful wines would be incomplete. And here he does just that.
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Ken Gargett takes a look at the new Bollinger Blanc de Noirs one-off, the B13 from the (unusual) 2013 vintage. And decides that this is no shrinking violet and that no one is going to taste this and start thinking how delicate, how elegant. It is a big, bold, full-of-flavor champagne.
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History’s most famous reversible wristwatch would never have been invented were it not for Joseph Ford Sherer, then a lieutenant in the 44th Regiment of Sylhet Light Infantry of the East India Company’s army. The story begins in the middle of the 19th century in Manipur, a state in east British India, where Lieutenant Sherer observes locals play a game known as sagol kangjei. Translating as “horse hockey”, the game was long played by local royalty. The game has players on horseback wielding sticks to hit a ball across a rectangular field. The Lieutenant reported his observations to his boss, Captain Robert Stewart. The two men eventually began to play the game, which evolved into what is now known as polo. In March 1859 Sherer and Stewart established their own polo club, Silchar Kangjai Club, and four years later the earliest written rulebook for polo was. With that, the pair started a long tradition of polo-playing among British soldiers in India. And soon polo would find its way around the world with polo-playing soldiers across the Commonwealth – the first polo match was played in Europe sometime in the late 1860s. Lieutenant Joseph Sherer, Assistant to the Superintendent of Cachar (second from left), with his bearers, Manipur, 1861. Image – National Army Museum As the game grew in popularity, a problem arose: polo players would often damage the crystals on their wristwatches, sometimes with errant mallets. During a visit to India in 1930, César de Trey ...
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Lighter on quantity but heavy on quality as always, HODINKEE Vintage is back.
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As this is a roast, the humor may be slightly dry.
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And how he lost it ... and got it back (sort of).
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Like every industry, ours is trying to improve. Where does greenwashing leave off, and real change begin?
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A clock that truly rocks.
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Liberté! Égalité! Temporalité!
In the smartphone age, it's often said, nobody needs a watch anymore. This avant-garde design challenges us to consider all the reasons we might want one anyway.
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Not zero, comrades, not zero.
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Both sneakers and watches happily break the rules when it comes to monotony in color and hue.
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The Florentine watchmaker offers its signature Blu Notte dial paired with the unmistakeable Luminor formfactor in of Panerai’s own propriety composite carbon fibre material, Carbotech.
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To this day, when most people think about luxury watches they picture a wizened, white-haired man in a white lab coat bent over a workbench against the backdrop of snowy Alps busily filing away at watch parts. It’s a lovely picture, but not very representative of the modern – or even necessarily traditional – watch industry as Elizabeth Doerr explains here.
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Logan gives the lowdown on his seven selects from launch week.
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Trilobe, in collaboration with French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, created a clock with an aesthetic designed to jar you awake for the Only Watch 2021 charity auction. And Trilobe's Nuit Fantastique, currently competing in the Petite Aiguille category of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, represents the next step in aesthetic direction for Trilobe. Joshua Munchow takes a closer look at both.
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And it's not a limited edition, thank god.
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Is there one watch to replace them all?
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He's an explorer, and he also plays one on TV.
I needed a watch that could help me do the impossible. My Casio 'Easy to Read' did just that.
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Green is the new blue.
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At least there's no more waitlist?
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Watches & Wonders' heaviest-hitting watches are also some of its most interesting.
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How the first modern tank inspired the last word in elegance.
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A huge result, but peak Crash is likely yet to be seen.
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All the vintage opulence, utility, and funk you could ever ask for.
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Piaget is the king of ultra-thin watches and for its 140th birthday is treating us to something special.
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