Wednesday, May 5 2010
articles: 12
The IWC For Porsche Design Watch With Qiblah Compass: Excuse Me Sir, Which Way to Mecca?
Way back in the day, we featured a strange vintage IWC from the late 1970s that was a product of a collaboration with Porsche Design. PD back then was doing some pretty interesting stuff, and they were one of the first to toy around with the idea of a black watch (remember …
Virtually Test Watches On Your Wrist From Home With Tissot Reality
Another major step in making watch stores less relevant. I recently discussed the demise of third party watch retailers here, and a lot of people said that they still like going into stores to try watches on. So while buying timepieces online makes sense from a value and …
The Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan
Cabestan proudly announces a partnership with Ferrari to celebrate the oldest and still existing Formula 1 racing team in the world, Scuderia Ferrari. With their debut in Formula 1 in 1950 (Grandprix of Italy), the Scuderia Ferrari team is active in Formula 1 for 60 years …
Explorer II: Childhood Sweetheart Rediscovered
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Episode 23: RGM’s Tourbillon and the ousted Seiko CEO
In this episode we look at RGM’s new Tourbillon and the firing of a Seiko exec. Download MP3 Subscribe in iTunes
Bremont over at MotoringExposure
Bremont is becoming one of my favorite English brands at this moment. I have written about Bremont before, covering their Martin Baker project and Bremont watches in general. Their collection of chronographs is just stunning and blows away the direct competition without …
QUICK! 50% off Wolf Designs Watch Winder today only
Hodinkee posted a nice little discount on Wolf Designs watch winders. The winders are still crazy expensive but they’re very high quality and they’ll be nice to your nice watches, if you let them. You can check out the designs here and enter HODINKEE at checkout. Hodinkee …
Hodinkee Is Looking For A Few Good Men (or Women, but probably not Children): Help Us, Please?
Hodinkee is approaching its two year anniversary (and boy do we have a party planned for that, but that's another story). What began as a personal project for a few guys (hosted on Tumblr!) has turned into a pretty nice little operation with readers in over 200 countries …
Cabestan to Make Ferrari-Branded Watches: The Prancing Horse Timepiece Is Revived (UPDATED)
You all know how big of a hit the Panerai Ferrari watches were, right? They were SO popular that you can buy them pretty much anywhere for over 50% off, and in what is probably most telling, even Tourneau discounts them by 70%! Yup, they were probably the floppiest flop …
The American Tourbillon: RGM Pennsylvania Calibre MM 2
OK, so before you begin reading this I need you to start the above video of a choir rendition of "America the Beautiful." The video has some cheesy imagery of course, but interestingly sums up my swelling patriotic pride in America's first made (and designed) tourbillon …
MB&F's HM3 Frog - is it a reptile or a prince in disguise?
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Porsche Design P'6780 Diver Baselworld 2010
Porsche Design's big introduction this year at Baseworld was the P'6780 Diver. It was designed in cooperation with Eterna, and is based on the Eterna Kon Tiki Diver watch. The case is 46.8mm in diameter and has a water-resistance rating of 1,000 meters. A mechanical …
