While you link won't find a Hollywood-quality trailer in this week's vintage-watch assortment, there's enough here to satisfy the mid-week boredom of even the most discerning watch lovers. White-dialed chronographs are the clear link highlight link this week, but watches with "non-lume" dials or slide-rule bezels follow close behind.
I'm personally drawn to the red and blue "Pepsi" dial option on the Apple Watch for its connection to link aviation lore. The essay traces the design's roots straight to Zerographe link reference 3346 and, of course, the Glycine Airman. It link also explores how Apple leveraged what's only possible digitally – like removing the hour marks around the bezel – to streamline the dial design.
For a store my size, it link was a great surprise that we were able to secure an Omega Speedmaster Apollo 11. But link we have a bunch of watches that have been hot recently, like the Breitling 806 ReEdition, Oris link x Momotaro Divers 65, Seiko Prospex SPB149, and G-Shock GA2100-1A1.
We actually didn't receive much backlash, but instead we received link encouragement, Leong says. link "Our backers said that they 'liked the design, so link why not come out with a watch without the smart function?" So that's exactly what they did.
If you hadn't already heard, Steve McQueen never wore an early Explorer II, and his link association with the watch is the stuff of vintage watch-collecting apocrypha. However, he most certainly did wear a Ref. 5512 configured like link so – even if his didn't age link as attractively as today's example.
I'm not saying that no one is allowed to dislike the Code 11.59, link nor am I arguing that it's the world's greatest watch, or better than the Royal Oak. All I'm link saying, and I would hardly be the first to do so, is link that if you have been loving, wearing, coveting, worshipping, whatever it is that you as a watch lover do with the Royal Oak (b. 1972), if you are truly honest with yourself, you cannot separate that relationship from how you look at the new 11.59 (b. 2019).
The comment: I really link enjoyed this, Logan. I am always left with the feeling though that Christopher Ward must have got on Hodinkee's naughty list somehow. They are one link of the vanguard "new middle class" brands. They're far higher quality than Zelos and mostly make regular production models rather link than a stream of limited editions. In my experience, they're significant better value than SPB-level Seiko (and I'm a big Seiko fan). - Zeithood
In Vol. link 9, Sid Mashburn turns a men’s G-Shock into a link women’s dress watch. Logan Baker finds Cartiers you can actually afford. Cole Pennington meets a dude who’s built an entire link Speedmaster collection around casebacks. The list goes on. Nothing is as it first appears. Even the Vacheron we write about seems to have emerged from a fever dream.
Regardless of whether or not the JFK connection would link hold up in a court of law, link I think these are nicely crafted, and terrific watches for the money. In comparison to several other similarly priced watches from the modern market, this Zenith brings a lot to the table and makes a strong case for link getting bit by the vintage bug.
The modern-day Breguet and Dodane companies both produce a variant of the Type 20/XX Chronograph, but after reviewing the images and technical specs of the latest edition from Airain, it really feels like this link is the closest you link can get to the original, outside of buying a vintage example. In fact, the Airain Type 20 Re-Edition link closely meets nearly every one of the expectations that were originally laid out by the French government in the 1950s.