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Staff Picks: We Picked Watches For Our Valentines – And Got Their Honest Reactions

An imaginary $5,000 budget put to use with varying degrees of success.

Excelsior Park Introduces “The Soda Fountain” for Perpétuel

Since it was founded three years ago, Dubai-based retailer Perpétuel has released a number of well-applauded limited editions focused on up-and-coming independents and micro brands. It first began with the French brand Baltic through a limited release of the HMS and Bicompax, and more recently, the MR-01 Perpétuel, their spin on the brand’s best-selling micro-rotor wristwatch. The retailer has now tapped the services of Excelsior Park, a legacy brand that is based on the former watch company known for producing chronograph movements for the likes of Gallet, Girard-Perregaux and Zenith. After numerous failed attempts at reviving the brand in the 1980s and the 2000s, it was relaunched by watch industry veteran Guillaume Laidet who previously spearheaded the resurrection of legacy brands Nivada Grenchen and, more recently, Vulcain. After releasing a limited edition with a salmon dial that immediately sold out last year, they have teamed up once again to debut their latest collaboration in The Soda Fountain Edition, a limited release of the Excelsior EP95004 chronograph featuring a vibrant blue dial completed with applied Eastern-Arabic numerals. Initial thoughts The relaunch of Excelsior Park two years ago was kind of a godsend for vintage watch enthusiasts, given its long and rich history as a renowned movement maker. Since its rebirth, the brand has been carving itself a niche market catering towards a younger demographic who desire that vintage-styled watches but a...

Announcements: The Horological Society Of New York Introduces Three New Financial Aid Opportunities For 2023

Honoring innovation in horology, watchmaking students and school watches.

There’s Something Very Strange About the New Timex Collaboration with Pop Trading Co.

When you were a kid, did you ever attempt that prank where you’d move the clock in the classroom ahead in an effort to trick the teacher into letting you out of class early? I feel like that’s a thing that almost every kid has tried, or at least it feels that way. It’s one of those activities that’s burned into our collective consciousness from sitcoms, comic strips, and stories told in the school cafeteria whether or not you were an active participant. This is what the latest release from Timex immediately made me think of. It’s playful and almost subversive in the way it taps into your inner juvenile delinquent.  The new watch is a collaboration with Pop Trading Co., a Dutch apparel company I was heretofore unfamiliar with that is deeply rooted in skateboarding culture. The watch, dubbed simply the Timex MK1 x Pop Trading Co. takes the familiar 36mm Timex field watch design and shifts the hours such that the “1” is at the 12:00 position, “2” is at 1:00, and so on around the dial. Pop’s unique wordmark, a grouping of the letter “P” in a square with an “O” at the center, is recreated on the dial with the hand stack standing in for the “O.” A black resin case matches the tone of the dial and keeps the focus on the unusual layout.  There’s no other way to say this, but looking at the dial of the Timex x Pop collab is an immediately disorienting and disconcerting experience. It really reminds you, if you look at watches everyday, like we do...

Pre-Owned Picks: Collectible Watches For Those In The Know

Recent arrivals to the shop that deserve a moment of your attention.

In-Depth: MB&F; Just Made The World’s Most Ambitious Watches For Women

The latest Legacy Machine Flying T is a partnership with hotshot jewelry designer Emmanuel Tarpin (the man behind Rihanna's earrings). And it provides an important lesson in how to make gem-set watches with rigor and imagination.

Dear Santa: Peter Nievaart makes his wishlist for Christmas

Next up on our Christmas Wishlists, we have Peter Nievaart from The Netherlands, with two watches and a photography item.

Dear Santa: Robin Lim Makes His Christmas Wishlist for 2022

In today's article, Deployant's Robin shares his horologically-themed Christmas wishlist with the three watches that he dreams of.

Dear Santa: Chester Lau Makes His Christmas Wishlist for 2022

It’s the jolly time of the year and our writers share their personal grails and their Christmas Wishlist. Chester starts us off!

Hands-On: Panda And Reverse Panda! Baltic Delivers The Chronograph You've Been Asking For

Expanding on an earlier limited release, Baltic's newest watches are a value in black and white (okay, beige).

Year In Review: It Was Another Boom Year For Independent Watchmaking

Logan Baker looks over 2022's buzziest and most captivating indies – and celebrates a segment of the industry bursting with imagination.

Pre-Owned Picks: Six Pre-Owned Watches With Blue Dials For Every Occasion

It's a dream come blue.

New: NOMOS Glashütte Tangente 38 for Doctors Without Borders

Nomos Glashütte supports the 50th anniversary of Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors Without Borders with a new Tangente 38.

Just Because: In Which I Dream Up Vintage Rolex Watches That Never Existed

From the ref. 1675 GMT "Batman" to a 36mm Sky-Dweller, hop in the Hodinkee time machine (aka Photoshop) because this is a fun one.

Up Close with the Nivada Grenchen Depthmaster ‘No Barracuda’ for Revolution and The Rake

We are proud to present our first collaboration with the revived Nivada Grenchen, an all blacked-out version of the historic Depthmaster, one of the first dive watches to be rated to a depth of a thousand meters! Shop the Nivada x Revolution & The Rake Depthmaster “No Barracuda”

The Spec Sheet: Strap In! The Hamilton Khaki Field Is On A Bracelet And Ready For Anything

The Khaki Field sang on a strap; with a bracelet it soars.

The Spec Sheet: We've Ignored The Cartier Ballon Bleu For Far Too Long

Blowing air into one of the most popular watches floating around.

Auctions: Our Favorite Independent Watches Up For Grabs At Next Week's Auctions In Geneva

F.P. Journe unique pieces, De Bethune prototypes, and so much more.

Introducing: G-Shock Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary With The Release Of Some Fiery Red Watches And An Artful Dose Of Haze

The company brings the heat with new Flare Red watches and balances it all out with a cool collaboration with artist Eric Haze.

Too cool for school: Six interesting watches that you might not know existed

Beyond the usual suspects, in this week's article we are looking at six interesting watches that most collectors might not know that they even existed.

Which Rolex Movement Takes The Top Spot? A Watchmaker’s Comparison Of Rolex Calibers 3135 And 3235, And Which Is Better? – Reprise

Ask any watchmaker about the Rolex 31 family of calibers and the story will be the same: it has stood the test of time. Ashton Tracy hasn’t met a single watchmaker who doesn’t love working on these workhorse Rolex movements. They are easy to service, keep great time, and stand up to abuse. Put simply: they work. So how does it stand up to big brother, Caliber 3235? Find out right here!

Vintage Watches: A 1994 A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1, A 2013 F.P. Journe Chronomètre Bleu With Full Set, And A 2001 Patek Philippe Aquanaut

The Vintage Team dances into "Neo-Vintage" and beyond in this exceptional Wednesday drop.

Weekend Edition: A Primer on Dress Watches (Which Are Coming Back In Style Right About...Now)

There's more to life than steel sport watches.

Announcements: Introducing Hodinkee's 10/10 Event: A Celebration For Our Community

Ten percent off, site-wide. The 10 best videos we've ever published. And, oh yeah, 10 pre-owned Rolex watches at their original retail price.

Our Predictions In The Tourbillon Category Of The 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG): To Win This The Tourbillon Needs To Be Very Special

Five of the six watches in this Tourbillon category are either openworked or dial-less, so their visuals are not dissimilar. Five of the six are also one-minute tourbillons. One-half of the finalists have flying tourbillons, while another boasts a cylindrical tourbillon, and yet another has a constant-force tourbillon. How will our panel ever choose a winner?

Four + One: Legendary Photographer Max Vadukul Once Put His AP Through The Washing Machine

It survived. See it here, along with three other watches in his collection – plus the camera he loves the most.

A prodigious collector talks about his love for independent watches

We caught up with Deployant friend and collector Jack Wong. Jack has a prodigious collection but in this episode, we focus on his independent watches.

Buying, Selling, & Collecting: I'd Trade My Own Brother For One Of Grand Seiko's Hand-Wound Spring Drive Watches

Confession: I don't actually have a brother. (But Grand Seiko doesn't need to know that.)

Maurizio Pisanu, Worldwide Managing Director For Gucci Watches And Jewelry

In Praise of Anglage: Exceptional Hand-Finished Anglage Is Difficult, Slow, And Expensive So The Big Brands Have Given Up And Few Seem To Have Noticed (Or Seem To Care) – Thank God For The Indies!

Big brands are now making beautiful, reliable, and relatively accurate “traditional” mechanical watches, but the handcrafted work many of us value is disappearing. Highly skilled watchmakers and artisans are rare and expensive: there just aren’t enough of them available to churn out the large quantity of nice watches now being sold. And why bother when nobody seems to have noticed?