Atelier Nossedh (passing time in the Sámi language of the Northerners) is a new microbrand created by a Swedish designer, Alexander Gimell, who sought to build the watch he couldn’t find: small, classically proportioned, inspired by some glorious vintage chronographs and made with the kind of restraint that earns wrist time. The debut piece, the […]
I guess this is a first… a proper documentary series on some of the best-known, most successful and coolest Independent watch brands. Industry veteran Wei Koh, founder of Revolution Magazine (among others), presents eight episodes featuring visits to watch brands and collectors, offering a glimpse into what these brands do and how collectors appreciate the […]
Pardon me for saying what everyone else has been saying lately, but Breguet is on a tear this year. It's a great time to do it, too, being the brand's 250th Anniversary and all, but you have to give credit where credit is due. For the true deep-cut watch lovers, the return of Breguet's groundbreaking 10Hz movement, featuring a more historically minded design, is pure fan service. Even 15 years after the first magnetic balance movement from Breguet, it remains incredibly impressive.The Breguet
It’s easy to almost exclusively think about Longines’ Heritage or Spirit models, for them to be visually attractive, vintage-inspired models with a lot of arguments for a seasoned crowd. Recent watches, such as the Ultra-Chron Classic, the Spirit Pilot Flyback or the Conquest Heritage Central Power Reserve, have somehow stolen the show. There’s (much) more […]
In 2009, A. Lange & Söhne unveiled a timepiece unlike any other in the brand’s collection – past or post-resurrection. With no hands and a digital display powered by a mechanical heart, the Zeitwerk, translated from German as “time machine”, was the first mechanical wristwatch to feature a jumping digital display for hours and minutes. […]
If we had to name the one model that defined the concept of a dress watch, it would undoubtedly be the Patek Philippe Calatrava 96. This watch, when launched in the early 1930s, was rather revolutionary and has ever since been the blueprint for anything dress watch. Watch enthusiasts have long recognised its beauty and […]
Awake has built a clear identity around thoughtful materials and craft, moving from early eco-focused projects to last year’s Son Mai lineup, watches that brought traditional Hanoi lacquer work and silver-leaf dials into a permanent, Swiss-powered collection. The Fragments series is the next chapter: three limited editions that fuse Vietnamese Son Mai lacquer with mother-of-pearl […]
What We KnowThis past year, I've been keeping an eye on Awake, a microbrand founded in 2019 focusing on metiers d'art at a competitive price point. When Awake's founder, Lilian Thibault, stopped by the Hodinkee office a few months ago, he showed me many of the brand's current editions, as well as some things coming down the pipeline. Amongst it all, there was one set of watches I couldn't stop looking at, and this week Awake has released them in the Fragments collection.This new trio of watche
What We KnowNow, we all know the crazy pizza watch that Studio Underd0g did with Time and Tide a few years back. Certainly one of the most whimsical chronograph designs ever released, it was a popular chronograph that reminded us how much fun watches can be. For the brand's latest collaboration, Studio Underd0g introduces its newest chronograph design, with a whole different price segment of culinary inspiration, thanks to William Massena of Massena LAB. Here, Domino's is swapped for Dom Périg
Hanhart’s roots run deep in the history of mechanical chronographs. Founded in 1882 in Germany’s Black Forest, Hanhart became a mid-20th-century reference for timing instruments. Its stopwatches and pilot chronographs set benchmarks for robustness, legibility, and ergonomics, a legacy carried forward by today’s collections, most notably, the 417 ES. First developed for the German armed […]
What We KnowLess than a year after introducing a trio of Polerouter Tribute watches, Universal Genève—now ramping up for its 2026 revival—is back with six new Tribute to Compax chronographs. The designs draw heavily from the 1960s Compax famously worn by Finnish model Nina Rindt, the late Formula 1 driver Jochen Rindt's wife. From dial details to case materials to what's inside, the brand has pulled out all the stops to honor one of the most important models in its history.These six watches ar
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Media OutReach - 22 May 2023 - Prince Horology had the honor of hosting Mayor Sokhary Chau of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first Cambodian-American mayor in the United States.
Dressed in all black, the Type 3 BB2 is the perfect representation of what independent watchmaker Ressence is all about. Founded in 2010 by industrial designer Benoit Mintiens, watches by Ressence are pretty much incomparable to anything else on the market thanks to the brand’s out-of-the-box thinking, technical innovation and no hands or crowns. In […]
Swiss business leaders, including the Chief Executive of Rolex, the Chairman of Richemont, and the co-founder of the private equity firm that controls Breitling, met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week to pledge support for ongoing trade talks between the two countries. The Swiss executive group, including Rolex CEO Jean-Frédéric Dufour, said they met with the President at their own initiative to underscore the longstanding economic ties between Switzerland and the U.S. "W
At MONOCHROME, we have a soft spot for… well, monochrome. The balance of light and shadow on a dial, the quiet elegance of a perfect photograph… something about removing colour to reveal form, texture, and contrast that we find so immensely appealing. So when we learned that Elka Watch Co., the young Swiss brand known […]
This year's Dubai Watch Week will be the biggest yet, not just as a celebration of watch collecting in the Middle East but also as a 75th Anniversary celebration for Ahmed Seddiqi, the retailer behind the event. As further evidence, I've been hearing from many friends who are visiting for the first time and have had questions about what to expect, do, and see while in Dubai. Our Dispatch from two years ago is a good guide for what to expect, but the venue and format have changed slightly. The
In early September, Ferdinand Berthoud announced something remarkable in modern watchmaking: a fully handmade watch. The growth of passion and interest in independent watchmaking over the last few years has created a somewhat muddy description of both the word "independent" and what makes some of these watchmakers so special. Ferdinand Berthoud's Naissance d'une Montre 3 (or "Birth of a Watch") is both self-explanatory in its tremendous quality and yet hard to comprehend in its nature as somet
Most of us associate Hamilton with robust military field watches employed by the US Army during WWII and their successful second lease of life in the Khaki collections. One of the quirkier models to emerge from Hamilton’s American era was the Ventura, the world’s first publicly available battery-powered watch, with a crazy, futuristic, asymmetrical case […]
This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by its librarians. Today's post was written by Miranda Marraccini.If you're familiar with our library at the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), you might not be surprised to learn we have books in our collection about lathes, sundials, and mechanical singing birds. Maybe you've seen other articles where I even mention some of our more offbeat offerings, say, a volume about jukeboxes or a study of the Loch Ness Monster. But what
Few objects can inspire a confederation like this. A Patek Phillipe reference 1518 in stainless steel is one such example. On the eve of Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo offering for sale one of just four known steel examples of the first serially produced perpetual calendar chronograph, the auction house convened a nearly hour-long discussion featuring some of the marquee names in the world of watch collecting. Phillips has released a video documenting the gathering, produced in