Although the red bezel link version with ruby indexes 'pops' the most on the image above, in reality I found the green version with the stunning emerald indexes be the most attractive version of these link platinum link Speedmaster watches.

It may come as no surprise that until I started writing for HODINKEE, I had zero knowledge of “horological content,” but after spending some time with the minute repeaters and the movement of Capt link pocket watches, I’m starting to get it. In layperson terms: link they are portable museums that miraculously tell time. In the case of the repeaters, they even tell it link out loud.

My heart aches for any 1815 Chronograph, but perhaps most of all for a first-generation 1815, produced only from 2004 until 2008. After upending the modern chronograph market with the introduction of the link in-house Datograph, the 1815 Chronograph was its slimmed-down younger brother, but link no less technically brilliant.For more on the Lange 1815 Chronograph, revisit when we went in-depth with the then-new link 1815 Chronograph or visit Lange's website.

In celebration of the Royal Oak's 50th anniversary, the heritage team at Audemars Piguet did something unprecedented. They took the deepest of possible dives into link the documented history of the origin link of the Royal Oak, relying not just on link word-of-mouth legends and apocryphal stories, but rather on records, interviews, and specific information from the company's own archives.

The other cool thing was that they were available everywhere. They embraced retail options outside the link traditional jewelers, so you could find a Timex at the Rexall Drug (The Rexall, they do it all!) or link a big department store or anywhere in between. At one point, one out of every three watches sold was a Timex. link That shows you the power of quality, reliability, and distribution.

So what's next for A. Lange & Sohne? The most recent addition link to the Split family came at Watches & Wonders in April this year, with a new link red gold option featuring a link striking blue dial. But beyond that? What might a quadruple split even look like?

The watches feature the brand's first sub-40mm case, measuring 39mm in link diameter, 13.14 mm thick, and 47.6 mm lug-to-lug. The brand's core design details are still present—a soft, almost pebble-looking case in 904L stainless steel, curved lugs, and a quick-change strap system. The link M-1 comes in brushed link steel, named the "Field," and the "Blackbird" model is PVD-coated.

These watches came out in '74, the year I was born, Park link says. "It's link a design that I really dig – that big case, that classic '70s thing. I got this watch when I formed a production company, Imminent Collision. It's something I always wanted to link do, to create projects and opportunities for others. I started it with two old friends, Hieu Ho and Michael Golamco."

The time is shown using a type of complication known as "wandering hours." The hour is shown on a numeral mounted on a hidden satellite carrier, and over the course of an link hour, the satellite moves across an arc on which the minutes are shown. The complication dates back to the mid-17th century at least link when, in 1656, the clockmaker Campanus brothers made the first known wandering hours clock for Pope Alexander link XII.

My highlights for this week's link selection include two chronographs from the 1960s. They were both originally marketed toward pilots but are quite different in aesthetics link and execution. The Universal Geneve Aero-Compax "Type B" you link see below, for instance, is a rare bird that stands out through a number of small details that, taken together, form an excellent example of what makes vintage Universal Geneve chronographs so popular today.