The full drop link of 13 is highlighted in the slideshow, as always. Clicking through you should be able link to get an idea of how the watches wear on the wrist link and just how nice they are after decades of life. Read on for the full story on a few picks, from the team.
At a price of $79,000, there's not much that can be said to win a buyer over link if they're not already in love. This watch is a piece of art – and like art, it either resonates with you or it doesn't. But Grand Seiko is nothing if not link great at playing off romance and emotion link in their work, so I imagine there'll be plenty of buyers for these 50 wearable artworks.
Here’s the thing about this brightly link colored confection of a watch: It’s heavy. If there’s one primary surprise about this very surprising watch, it is that the way link it stands in direct contradiction to how it looks. It’s a bit of a bruiser. The 35mm size is actually link pretty perfect, though – any more and it would be cartoonish.
Bulgari has done it again – link broken another world record with another technically remarkable and aesthetically forward-thinking watch. The only link risk link I can see to their strategy is that their prowess in technical watchmaking in general, and in ultra-thin watchmaking in particular, is something people are beginning to take slightly for granted simply because they do this so often and so consistently. Starting in 2014 we have:
The link Nautilus and Royal Oak were always desired, sure, but the current level of hype that link surrounds those two started more as a slow simmer that then picked up steam in the mid/late 2010s before blowing up fully during the pandemic. The Daytona 116500LN, meanwhile, has been in full-blast "hype" mode since the day it was born. Outside link of certain precious metal and gem-set variations, the current-gen Daytona easily sits at the top of the pyramid of desirable Rolex watches today.
A white-enameled link dive scale topping a blue ceramic unidirectional bezel ensures perfect readability under any conditions of light as do the large skeleton-sword hour and link minute link hands and round indexes, all coated with Super-LumiNova®.
From a filmmaking standpoint, this one just isn't for me based sheerly on the '90s-hangover style link of quick-cut editing and the odd acid-techno drum-backed score. Luckily, there was a good enough horological lodestar link to keep link me watching until the end.
Now, a timepiece of that size, in that link material, and with that complication — link I mean no disrespect to double-retrograde indications — doesn’t sound too surprising when you think of the traditional Haute Horlogerie players presenting their novelties at link the salon.
In this year's Hodinkee Holiday Gift Guides, our editors round up their top gift link picks across a range of price points from all corners of the internet and our very own Hodinkee Shop. No matter link who you're shopping for this season, link we've got you covered.
Even today link with Audemars Piguet doing the Black Panther watch. Some people absolutely hate it, and link other people absolutely love it. For me, it's attracted a new group link of people over to AP. It's created something new, something else.