Introducing: The Rolex GMT-Master II Ref. 126720VTNR: A Left-Handed Model With A Green And Black Bezel
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Southpaws rejoice as the Crown delivers a destro surprise.
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Watch and wonder at our newest vintage pieces in the HODINKEE Shop.
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Seventeen new watches in the HODINKEE Shop and plenty of variety within.
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The cream rises to the top in the first Vintage drop of 2022.
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When he started to become successful, the restaurateur found a watch that was almost perfect – it just needed one little adjustment.
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An out-of-this-world watch for an out-of-this-world adventure.
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Lighter on quantity but heavy on quality as always, HODINKEE Vintage is back.
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Bust out the Pizza Tracker and stay away from The Noid, it's Domino's Air King time.
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He wore a different watch (can you remember which one?) for the first three seasons. But Magnum became Magnum when he busted out the GMT.
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In a week where new watches are the talk of the town, consider this a part of the "& More."
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There's nothing more comforting than a vintage watch on a cold winter day.
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Twenty vintage watches just landed in the Shop, need we say more?
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It's all treats and no tricks in this week's selection of vintage watches in the HODINKEE Shop.
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Five video stories from HODINKEE readers.
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The Silicon Valley star is a watch guy.
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Olivier Rousteing brought out a classic to end the Balmain show.
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Bling is king.
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Your weekly round-up of vintage watches from around the web.
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We asked for a sale, and for our sins they gave us one.
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Your weekly round-up of the best vintage watches from around the 'net.
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This is better than Disneyland.
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The thought-to-be-lost watch has resurfaced and will hit the block in New York City.
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This week's round-up of vintage watches from around the world.
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Audemars Piguet launched its first [Re]Master model with the recreation of a superb chronograph from the 1940s. For the second chapter of this historical collection, the brand reimagines one of its most expressive designs from the 1960s. A model of brutalist inspiration, the reference 5159BA stands out with its yellow gold asymmetrical case and eccentric […]
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The Rolex GMT-Master II is one of the most popular timepieces in the world, and the "Batman" and "Batgirl" versions, with their alluring black-and-blue colorways, are on many a collector's wish list. But what makes a Batman a Batman, and a Batgirl a Batgirl, and what exactly differentiates these two watches, so similar at first glance, from each other? Here we explore what makes "Rolex Batman vs. Batgirl" such a compelling matchup, and why the debate on the nicknames themselves is so intriguing. Lead image by Bonhams and Sotheby's Before Batman: A Brief History of the Rolex GMT-Master When it hit the market in 1955, one year after its unveiling, the Rolex GMT-Master was both trend-setting and genre-defining in its now-iconic conception. The original GMT-Master (Ref. 6542) was the first watch capable of displaying the time in two separate time zones thanks to the clever addition of a fourth, central 24-hour hand and a bidirectional rotating 24-hour bezel. The initials in the watch’s name signify “Greenwich Mean Time,” the system of world timekeeping based on the calculation of mean solar time from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. This dual-time functionality was an innovation devised for, and developed in cooperation with, the original watch’s intended users: pilots for Pan American Airlines, at the time one of the U.S.A.’s leading commercial carriers. In that so-called Golden Age of commercial aviation, the growth of long-haul and international flights...
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