I wore my Panerai Submersible to ride the Ducati XDiavel V4 thinking it’d be fun, maybe a little clever, but what I didn’t see coming was the deeper synergy between these two products.
Panerai and Ducati – What Is Italian Style, Exactly?
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How Hublot Won Me Over With its Cat Ambassador, Choupette
With it’s new ambassador, a cat named Choupette, Hublot is showing all of us how to loosen up and playfully embrace loud luxury.
Hands-On – Panerai Radiomir Quaranta 40mm
It’s a dress watch, full stop. Yes, mine is rated to 50m of water resistance (previous versions were marked at 30m, much to the chagrin of forum-dwellers who like to bitch about nothing remotely important), but it has, and will always have, a leather strap, so it’s not for swimming or showering or anything wet. It’s just 10mm tall, elegantly appointed, and the ever-present leather strap goes great with dressy attire. Again, this is a dress watch, and even the lovely sales-dude in Milan said so.
Hands-On – Oris 38mm Big Crown Pointer Date Manually-Wound Caliber 473 – A Timepiece for the Democratically Minded Connoisseur of Horology
If you’re browsing hands-on reviews and considering this watch, I hope you’ll side with me in declaring this Oris 473 as decidedly not following a trend, but Going It’s Own Way, as the Oris creed dictates.
Hands-On – Bulova Hack 38mm Reference 96A259 Special Edition Field Watch (Supports Veteran’s Watchmaking Initiative)
So how does one come to decide which of the many recreations of mil-spec field watches to get? Unless you’re a connoisseur of some specific model or era—which would seem to lead one to vintage anyways—I had found it quite daunting to know where to begin.
Hands-On – Bremont Fury 40mm Pilot’s Watch
The movements in the Fury models I tested ran well within COSC specifications (-4 to +6 sec/day). Bremont tests in-house using its own H1 chronometer protocols, which differ from COSC in that the movements are tested inside the watch they’ll ship in. This is conceivably a better standard, as the actual context of the movement is being tested as well, not to mention there’s no need for regulation after installation into the case as there is with COSC. The crown and setting of the watch felt as good as you would hope for in the price point. This is definitely a quality timepiece.
Curating the Collection – How The Vacheron Constantin Reference 92239/000P-4 Cooled My Passion for Watches
Can falling deeply in love, like never before, with one watch cause us to fall out of love with our other watches?
Iteration Tracker Modern Zodiac Super Sea Wolf (2015-present)
Originally a Swiss watch company, Zodiac issued the Sea Wolf in 1953, tying Blancpain and beating Rolex with the first commercial release of a dive watch. Zodiac puttered out during the Quartz Crisis, but in 2001 Fossil Watches bought the Zodiac name and prepared for a relaunch. The revived Zodiac released the first modern Sea Wolf in 2015. Fossil owns and operates Swiss Technology Productions (STP), which builds the ETA/Sellita-equivalent movements used in the modern Super Sea Wolf
Iteration Tracker Tudor Pelagos (2012-Present)
A unique and indispensable resource, our Iteration Trackers provide chronological information on all iterations of a specific watch model. Model Overview The Tudor Pelagos is meant for professional SCUBA diving. It takes features from vintage Tudor models, including the square markers and “snowflake” hands, but its construction is modern in titanium and with exceptional water… Read more »
Insight From Virtual to Real to Vintage How the Tudor Ranger Reissue of 2022 Lead Me To A Vintage Field Watch
Contributor and photographer Gareth Munden ponders his experience of virtual representations of vintage-inspired recreations, those recreations in person, and then asks how they stack up against vintage watches. Images by Gareth Munden. Tudor Ranger on loan from Stuart Young. Encountering The Virtual Tudor Ranger Via Social Media On Friday July the 8th 2022, I was… Read more »