Auction houses love their superlatives. So much so that most people – including myself – are often dismissive. Now that fall auction season is approaching and the houses are releasing their marquee lots for the year, my skepticism is naturally high to keep my latent enthusiasm in check. But, it’s hard for me to disagree…

This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, it’s a full house with Rick, Ariel, and David at it for another hour of horological shenanigans. To start, there’s a quick pop-in from Paul at Farer, and then things get going properly with the news that the massive OAK Collection is coming up for auction and that people…

The new Longines Spirit Flyback Titanium is a really attractive watch. It shows how Longines, with each release, is becoming more of a force to be reckoned with. As prices from Omega and others have moved upmarket, Longines is seemingly positioned to take on the likes of Tudor, and the brand has started bringing the…

Although there are still legions of new watches released every year designed to look aged right out of the box, very few of these releases ever actually capture the look and feel of true patina. This is especially true for tropical dials, where the application of even, pale khaki-tone Super-LumiNova simply fails to evoke the…

There are 94 watches in the current Roger Dubuis lineup. Say what you will about them, but in any case, they’re remarkable and unmistakable. Since vanilla is not a favorite flavor at Roger Dubuis’s HQ in Meyrin, all 94 watches in the “RD” catalog are polarizing creations — or are they? The new Excalibur Monobalancier…

Fifty years after Sir Roger Moore’s first appearance as secret agent 007, Bonhams auctioned off some of his belongings in the “Sir Roger Moore — The Personal Collection” auction. Among them was a mohair dinner suit jacket he wore in Octopussy, a personal Gucci notebook, his Olympia SM3 Deluxe typewriter, his passport (from 1991 to…

This year, Zodiac celebrates 70 years of the Sea Wolf, one of the very first dive watches as we know them today. But it’s not the only thing the brand can be proud of in 2023. Expanding the range of materials that Zodiac uses in its watches was also a major touchpoint. We’ve seen ceramic,…

Heads up! We’re about to publish our 80th episode of Talking Watches, and it’s nothing short of something major. It’s over one hour long and exceedingly nerdy, and – plot twist – it’s also the first episode in our history that isn’t hosted by a Hodinkee editor. To celebrate our biggest episode in the history…