It’s Friday on Hodinkee.com, welcome back to Bring A Loupe! Next week, I will be on the ground in Geneva to bring you a special edition of this column after viewing many of the watches up for auction in person. I’ll have picks across the spectrum of price and brand, all informed by the watches…

Another Friday, another list! This week, we look at the Rolex Milgauss, the oddball engineer’s watch that first came out in the 1950s, just like many of The Crown’s classics. But unlike the Submariner and the GMT-Master, the Milgauss hasn’t always been part of the brand’s collection since then. It’s part of the reason we…

Schadenfreude is a German word that combines schaden, which means “damage,” and freude, which means “joy.” Thus, schadenfreude is the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s misfortune. According to Britannica, some psychologists describe a category of schadenfreude in the context of justice, where watch enthusiasts people feel pleasure when they observe punishment in…

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ariel, David, and Ripley, as per usual, and they start things off by discussing, um, time. How unusual! Well, the subject is the time changes in Europe and the U.S., which marginally has to do with watches, although, honestly, there’s no segue except for a brief foray…

Last month, I met Lilian Thibault, the founder of Awake Watches, at an event in London. We’re used to the brand’s sporty, frequently space-themed limited editions. However, I saw an upcoming release that was very different. The new Sơn Mài collection brings two forms of Métiers d’Art together in an affordable package. Since its launch…

For the 20th Anniversary of Greubel Forsey, the brand is back with their 10th “Fundamental Invention:” the Nano Foudroyante EWT, and it’s a doozy of a watch. If you know the brand, you’ll know their inventions, and the “Invention Pieces” that have celebrated these achievements have often iterated on the tourbillon, and this is no…

At the beginning of this year, Piaget already spoiled us with its re-edition of Yves Piaget’s Polo Watch. But when your brand turns 150 years old, you don’t limit yourself to just one celebration. That’s why Piaget proudly presents another re-edition based on one of its biggest icons, the cushion-shaped Black Tie. For the occasion,…

November 2024 is here at last, and although Halloween may be over, we still have one more disguise for the aBlogtoWatch community: it’s time for another aBlogtoWatch mystery giveaway! While the rules might be the same as our normal giveaways, we aren’t revealing all the details of the prize just yet, meaning one lucky winner…