This week on The Business of Watches, a Swiss brand that resonates with much of the Hodinkee community, Doxa. Founded in Le Locle, Switzerland, and now based in Biel/Bienne, it has more than a century of history and is responsible for designing and producing some of the most iconic dive watches ever built. With links…
It's not always easy to find a new watch design that feels truly refreshing these days. Attempts at originality are not always successful, and successful watches are not always original. But amid the overwhelming inundation of watches I saw during New York Watch Week last October, De Rijke & Co.'s then-unreleased prototype of its new…
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If it has felt like your ears were ringing, it wasn't someone talking about you. It's the fact that minute repeaters are apparently the highest of high horology du jour, and Girard-Perregaux is next to follow suit, launching their new, in-house GP9530 minute repeater movement with the Minute Repeater Flying…
Here in London, we've just had one of the biggest watch events of our calendars: British Watchmakers' Day. Running from 10:00 to 19:00 on March 7, 2026, the single-day gathering saw 1,850 watch-obsessed people pour through the doors of Lindley Hall in Westminster for some prime hands-on time with many of the most popular and…
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One of our favorite accessible brands, Paris-based Merci, is back with a new sextet called the Beaumarchais collection. The form factor might look familiar—you've maybe seen it in our Merci Instruments Beaumarchais H02 Limited Edition for Hodinkee. Now, the very geometric cushion-shaped case, inspired by 1970s design, is back in…
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Since its beginnings as a Covid-era side project by three veterans of the watch industry, Kollokium has aimed and succeeded in being different. Its first watch, the Projekt 01, was a lumetastic, pin-dialed treatise on doing things not like the others. Now the follow-up Projekt 02 Variant B is doubling…
While I might be the number-two GMT fan here at Hodinkee, I do try to keep up with my favorite type of watch. But there are so many releases, and it's hard to track every brand. With some upcoming travel, however, it was good timing to take a look at some new offerings from Citizen.…