Last month, I spent a weekend with A. Lange & Sohne in Newport, Rhode Island, to attend the few days of festivities that make up Audrain Newport Concours & Motor Week, for which Lange is the title sponsor. Since 2019, it's been a yearly gathering in the picturesque New England town, filled with enthusiast and…
James Lamdin is a sage voice of reason and experience in the vintage watch market. He's earned those titles through his years in the business. A co-founder of the OG collector meetup RedBar Group, Lamdin went on to found Analog Shift, the vintage and pre-owned dealer acquired by Watches of Switzerland,(also the parent company of…
Designed as a platform for dialogue and discovery, UBS House of Craft invites guests to engage with true masters of craft through intimate events with the goal of fostering meaningful exchanges. At the most recent event, a small group of UBS guests joined IWC North America Brand President Stanislas Rambaud and Hodinkee Senior Editor Mark…
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Project Recover is a non-profit whose mission is to locate, recover, and repatriate American service members still missing in action from past conflicts. In collaboration with Mk II watches, they are releasing a special edition called the Hellion-BAKU. The watch honors the missing members of Underwater Demolition Team-10—Black, MacMahon, and…
When Blancpain began developing what would become the Grande Double Sonnerie, the plan was not to build the brand's most complicated wristwatch; that designation came later. What started eight years ago was something Marc A. Hayek, President and CEO of Blancpain, refers to as an adventure–a project to push the idea of a wearable chiming…
I've never owned a steel watch.
Not because I don't admire a steel watch, but the decision to be a gold guy was made for me decades ago when my mother purchased a Jade Buddha blessed by a monk, which she then chose to hang on a 24-karat Cuban link chain with a…
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Movado is an old soul. Founded in 1881 and shaped by steady design shifts throughout the twentieth century, the brand has long returned to the same ideas of geometry and proportion. When I visited the company's headquarters this fall to see the new 1917 Heritage Collection—shown alongside early wristwatches, stepped…