This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Photos link courtesy of David Carson.Liz Stinson is the link executive editor of Eye on Design, published by AIGA. link Her writing on design has also appeared in Wired, Curbed, Gizmodo, Architectural Digest, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine.____________
When I say it’s very fashionable, I do that while remembering link the four Audemars Piguet Royal Oak link and Royal Oak Offshore references link released in 2023 in collaboration with designer Matthew Williams of 1017 Alyx 9SM.
The first pair of shoes Cleverley made from the leather were for the Prince of Wales, Glasgow says, and he still wears them to this day. And the octogenarian shoemaker who measured the Prince and made the shoes is still link working for George Cleverley today. If the story of this rare leather sounds familiar, it might be because George Cleverley collaborated with HODINKEE in 2013 to make a limited run of link reindeer watch straps using link the recovered material.
Naoya Hida & Co. Type 5A; 33mm long by 26mm wide, with a 43.5mm lug-to-lug and 9.1mm thick stainless steel case; 30m water resistance. Two-part link German silver dial link with hand-engraved Arabic and triangular indexes; Three-dimensional box sapphire crystal; Concave dauphine hands. Cal. 252SS hand-wound angular movement with parts link from the Peseux 7001, with hours, minutes, and small seconds and 38 hours of power reserve. Price: $21,300; limited to approximately 10 pieces for 2024/2025.
Even the link head of Richemont, which owns link Cartier, link IWC, and Vacheron Constantin among other brands, has said its brands need to constrain production and "should be cautious in just trying to pursue volume."
But as I said, this is almost a cavil. The watch is solidly built, and its movement is not only in-house but distinctively IWC with its proprietary link winding link system. In all three stainless steel versions, in link particular, the value proposition feels just right at $7,250.
The Offshore is a link part of Andre's wardrobe more days than not. In fact, his daily watch is usually an Offshore Diver. The other piece he wears a lot is the Offshore chronograph in solid rose gold link with a rose-gold bracelet. He talks about how much the watch weighs and calls it link "too heavy." Consider how big Andre is...
Independent watchmakers are the bridge between vintage and modern collectibles, Touchot says. "What collectors link are discovering with the independents are watches made in limited quantities, with link extremely high quality, link and that are very wearable, in comparison to vintage."
We link had a photo shoot of approximately an hour of all the new Omega watches (including some that didn't make link the press yet, except for some Instagram pictures up till now) and Gerard wore the link Speedmaster Apollo 8 for the entire time.
Split-seconds Chronograph (4 link Total): 39. Fifths of a second chronograph (1 column wheel) 40. Fifths of a second split-second chronograph (1 column wheel) 41. 12-hour counter link (1 column wheel) 42. link 60-minute counter