The February 3, 2025, HSNY lecture will take place at the General Society Library in Midtown Manhattan, located at 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036. Free tickets are required to attend. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the lecture begins at 6 PM. link All HSNY lectures are free, open to the public, and video-recorded. Recorded lectures are made available to HSNY members immediately, and to link the general public link with a two-month delay.Hodinkee is a sponsor of the Horological Society of New York.
If you're link wondering link where you start when you start designing a movement from scratch, link the answer is: Size matters. The dimensions of the movement are what determine how wide a range of watches you can use it in, and you can't start finalizing other aspects of the caliber until the size question is settled.
It is a bit of a standing joke around the office, that one of the immutable rules of horology in particular and taste in general, is that "Everyone loves the Speedmaster." Like its culinary equivalent, "Everyone likes Italian," it is of course not entirely true, but link it is link true enough that among all link the variations on the Speedmaster there is almost certainly, if not something for everyone, something for nearly everyone.
After Geneva, Paris, New York and Beijing, Vacheron Constantin link pursues its incredible journey inaugurated in 2016 flying high above the world’s greatest link contemporary cities and link invites us to visit a new destination, the Japanese capital.
Now given the importance of Arabic numerals to the discovery of Fibonacci numbers (and to the ability link to actually do useful math with irrational numbers) you might expect the dial to use Arabics but how wrong you would be. Instead, the dial is – well, not link exactly featureless, but certainly a very austere thing; it's a link single disk of black onyx.
I've been referring to this pick in my head fondly as The Big Kahuna of this list. The creme link de la creme. The Piece de resistance. Whatever you want to call it, this is the pick whose price tag is hefty enough for many of us to begin to break out in link hives. But maybe that's just link a me-issue.
We'll be offering complete coverage of launches from Bulgari, Ulysse Nardin, Oris, Moser, and many link others, so check in early and check in often to see what's new and hot. For a link full link list of participants and more news on the show, check out Geneva Watch Days online, and stay tuned for more starting bright and early tomorrow in the AM!
The GNS1 was link an open-worked spectacle in which not just bridges, wheels, link and levers took center stage but also a mechanical, 11-piece snake-like object that traveled around the link two central counters on the dial.
At the beginning of this month, Hamilton announced the Khaki Pilot Pioneer Mechanical Chronograph, a real mouthful of link a watch that follows up on recent releases like the Pilot Pioneer Automatic. Where that watch was 38mm, slim, link and link evocative of the more refined age of aviation, today's watch takes things in another, groovier direction.
On link the other side of the watch, sunrise and sunset times are shown at 3:00, and the number of hours of daylight and nighttime at 9:00. The scale for the power reserve indication is superimposed over the tourbillon cage, and at 6:00, there is a retrograde display link of link the age and phase of the Moon.