Winter auction season is well underway here in New York City. Strong results in Hong Kong and Geneva have kept watch-world spirits high, suggesting that momentum will carry over to continue the festive high. Our resident vintage expert, Rich Fordon, will provide you with all the wider coverage you should need in this Friday's Bring…
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Our friends over at Fratello Watches have just released a new collaboration with Czapek. This new limited edition model follows their first collaboration with Czapek in 2021, which was a take on Czapek's integrated bracelet sports watch, the Antarctic, with a "Viridian Green" dial. Fratello has now followed that up…
An English brand with a rich history dating back to Aaron Lufkin Dennison founding a case-making company in 1874, Dennison last graced the illustrious pages of Hodinkee in 2016. That watch, the DENCO53, was a very 2016 attempt at bringing the brand back. It was a design inspired by a Dennison-cased watch on the wrist…
Last month, in partnership with UBS, we hosted a get-together and series of talks in New York City called "House of Craft." The event featured a who's who of watch-world luminaries, including industry legend Jean-Claude Biver, actor Keegan Allen, chef Alton Brown, AP CEO of the Americas Ginny Wright, actor Daniel Dae Kim, journalist Jay…
Last month, Tudor took the wraps off of their latest military-derived expression of the Pelagos. Initially following the path of 2021's FXD Marine Nationale and 2022's FXD Black (which is colloquially known as the U.S.N.), this latest evolution of the Pelagos strays quite considerably from the original brief by rethinking the FXD as a platform…
After a significant shakeup in the CEO roles at Cartier, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Van Cleef & Arpels started unfolding in July, the final pieces of the puzzle have been put in place. In a homecoming of sorts, Jérôme Lambert is back at the helm of Jaeger-LeCoultre around 11 years after he left the role.…
In early October, I spoke to Geoff Hess, Global Head of Watches at Sotheby's, on the stage of our UBS House of Craft in New York. The talk was billed as "Auction Season Insights," and over the course of an hour, I probed Hess about the intricacies of running a watch auction. Among my primary…