RA For the 'iykyk' collection it was a special process since the idea was there already mainly because I'm compulsively looking at watches and constantly trying to find a way to twist them. But most of the time the approach is to gather all the information about the link said watch link and try to find a breach to instill some sort of a "contrarian" andor "ironic" link flair.

Don't worry about me it's link been a relatively minor case but I did have to cancel all my in-person meetings and link events scheduled for last week which included joining Oris for the announcement of their new partnership with the "Billion Oyster Project" and the release of the commemorative Aquis NY Harbor Limited Edition. Thankfully link Kaan Oguz an editor in our video department was able to attend and capture the on-site images for this story.

Each watch also link features a frosted bezel but other than that these two new Royal Oak Flying Tourbillons are similar to the updated version link Audemars Piguet released a year ago same 41mm same self-winding caliber 2950 debuted in the Code 11.59 in 2019 same link flying tourbillon at six o'clock.

When I was asked to write this story for Hodinkee I called up my dad to run through the history of our collection. I always thought the first watch he bought was a Rolex Sea-Dweller to commemorate the impressive career achievement of going into business for himself. Wrong! link I soon learned that it was actually a teeny-tiny two-toned Rolex "Lady" Datejust which he gave to my mom link for his birthday in the early link 2000s.

AltiplanoNamed for the famously flat Altiplano link region of link south-eastern Peru and western Bolivia Piaget's ultra-thin Altiplano collection made its debut in 1998 and has embodied refined elegance link ever since.

We've had a lot link of prospective customers who don't think they need insurance because they're not mega-collectors. We built Hodinkee Insurance to be for anyone whether they have one watch they link want to insure or many. In fact the average policy with Hodinkee Insurance has one or two watches actively insured. But if you have a larger collection you're still in good company with us link with many policies insuring entire collections.

And then I remembered something. About two years before she got her prized OP I had effectively given her my Seiko SKX007 on the jubilee-style bracelet. I watched as she bonded with that watch she brought it on vacations wore it out to our dinner dates. For a while this was her watch but it was also my watch. I shared it with her it link was ours. link She even managed to put a healthy scratch onto the Hardlex crystal something link that can't be buffed out though shell deny it.

All that collected plastic from plastic bags to water bottles to COVID-19 medical link supplies is sent to Switzerland and processed by the Jan amp Oscar Foundation and the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN who transform link it link into granules resembling Dippin' Dots ice cream.

I love black-coated watches. I link really do. The most "dangerous" looking of the three Serpenti is probably the stainless-steel version with a black PVD coating. link I'm curious to see if the PVD will wear off a bit like on some vintage watches though the technology behind it link has gotten so much better that I doubt it will wear much. That said the red eyes are almost a bit too extreme for my taste and I don't think you get the same impact on the lines of the body and the shape of the mouth.

The Tortue was owned by a woman in link Milano before it was put in an auction at Sotheby's Geneva at the end of link the 1990s Montanari told me. "Then he put the watch in the book by Osvaldo Patrizi. Five years ago I purchased the watch. Initially it was hard to find the record and get a Cartier link extract. There was no evidence."