Friday, Jan 30 2009
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BaselWorld 2009: Omega Speedmaster Professional 40th Anniversary 02:56 GMT
Some pre-Basel 2009 news from our friends in Bienne, Switzerland. Every 5 years, Omega introduces a tribute Limited Edition Speedmaster Professional for the original ‘Moonwatch’ that landed on the Moon 21 July 1969, on the wrist of Buzz Aldrin. This coming July 21st, it …
The Breitling Spatiographe: For When You Really Need To Count To Ten
The Breitling Navitimer is a classic watch, and also one of our favorites here at Hodinkee. It's great looking, highly functional, appropriately priced, and has a great story behind it. It is rare however that we come across a vintage Navitimer that we've never seen …
Jaeger leCoultre "Navy Seal Diving Alarm"
There is no sense hiding that Jaeger leCoultre are amongst my favorites. This year instead of presenting a battery of ultra complicated and expensive pieces Jaeger have decided to go with the lover range and p 58a roduce an offer that will work quite well in these times.The …
Jumping the shark: Hublot Big Bang King Power
When Hublot first launched the Big Bang I was When Hublot first launched the Big Bang I was totally down with the watch. It had a unique style and size as well as a nice pedigree and cost about $15K, not horrible for a watch of this caliber. Now they’re just getting greedy. …
HD3 Bi-Axial Tourbillon Watch + Video
This new TheTimeTV video from HD3 featuring watch designer Fabrice Gonet offers a very interesting glimpse into the origin and philosophy behind HD3, and watch brands like it. The focus of the video is the pictured HD3 Bi-axial Tourbillon watch. This watch is important to …
The Tourneau Warehouse Sale Returns (And We're Telling You About It Before It Begins This Time)
Back in September, we gave you an analysis of the Tourneau Warehouse sale. Our conclusion? It was pretty, pretty good. In fact two of our close friends got tremendous deals, one on a limited edition Speedmaster Torino and the other on a Cartier Roadster. Our readers …
Panerai
Some so much and others so little... Panerai, unlike Lange, have got their press kit completely wrong. Two discs, one USB key and a whatever gift (that I gladly passed on to my neighbor). No pictures of their two new calibers and many pictures of stuff that looks all the …
Seiko SBBN00E — New 1000m Quartz Professional Diver’s Watch @ $4,600
Post by: bryanandersen Looks like reports from Japan that you’ll need to sink big coin into a new 300m or 1000m Seiko Professional Quartz diver’s watch aren’t all wet. Yesterday Seiko Japan announced model SBBN00E will come out in April and retail for ¥420,000. Sure this …
Omega Speedmaster Plaisted Polar Expedition: The Speedmaster Goes To The North Pole Before Its Trip To the Moon
The Omega Speedmaster Professional is known by many as the moon watch, after making the now legendary trip into space on the wrists of the Apollo astronauts (and we have featured a few). But is it possible that this Omega actually bore witness to another great exploring …
A. Lange & Soehne
I must say that Lange made first place in the best/smartest/useful/intelligent press gift/kit this year. Unlike the useless garbage and tons of paper that you are given at the end of the product presentations (really convenient if you still have miles to walk and seven …
FERRARI by Panerai
Now, this could be just another chapter of the X-Files. Taneenoneenoneee... After THREE, yes THREE previous and unsuccessful attempts (Longines, Cartier, Girard-Perregaux)... somebody decided that they HAD to give it another try. What in the name of good would lead one to …