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In todays show, John starts us off by not talking about a watch, we discuss Hublot’s Magic Gold, John decides he is jonesing for an Omega Ploprof (a vintage or current version – whatever anyone will give him) and we finish off the year with the A. Lange & Sohne Datograph Up/Down watch.
Another day, another Tokyoflash watch. This one, the On Air, has an LCD screen with backlight and you tell time by reading the numerical minutes read-out as it rotates around in place of the hour hand. It is, to be fair, pretty darn ingenious.
The watch is another fan submission created by skender Asanaliev & Adilet Asanaliev, from Kyrgyzstan. Tokyoflash liked the idea so much that they actually designed and built the working watch.
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This week, John channels his inner wookie when discussing the Jean Dunand Shabaka, decides theCabestan Trapezium Watchis less than useful, thinks theJaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Chronograph GMT Navy SEALs name is entirely too long and that the Hublot Big Bang Watch For Architect Oscar Niemeyer is better than an orange hat.
Planning a trip around the world in 80 days? Spending some time with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? You’re going to need this $149 Tokyoflash, touchscreen pocket watch that, is as far as I can tell, unreadable by mere mortals.
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Today we speak on Nivaroxand their min-opoly on the watch-part market, the Hydro Mechanical Horologists and their use of green goo in a watch, the Parmigiani Toric Minute Reaperter (ding) andmaybe finish our ‘Holliday watch guide – oligarch edition’.
Come on, just sell your house and buy one – you know you want to.
In the strange, small world of watchmaking, there’s lots of money to be made on items that we would call, at best, totemic. To make those items, you still need small mechanical parts. That’s where Nivarox comes in.
UPDATE – Just realized Patrick already wrote his, but I’ll leave this up for Twitter folks. Also, Patrick: Double-post! JINX!
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In this weeks show, Ariel introduced ‘ Watch What If ‘, we re-visit Omega (Ariel literally visits them) and the continuation of this years ‘Holliday watch guide’.
So who did they name? Ball, Bathys, Baume & Mercier, Sinn and Maurice de Mauriac just to name a few.
I’ve just found a box of watches I collected during my early Seiko days and I wanted to see if any of you guys wanted to pick one up. They’re in excellent, if used, condition and all are working. They need a good lube, obviously, but these are some classic pieces.
I wrote about all of these guys five years ago and, sadly, they haven’t seen much wrist time since then. I need to get them out into the world to breathe.
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Time Piece – Switzerland from HODINKEE on Vimeo.
It’s not hard to make watchmaking look good but this film takes the cake. It’s by Kat Mansoor and features two master watchmakers, Vianney Halter and Philippe Dufour.
I was just poking around when I noticed that WWR was born in June, 2006 and, having missed the big day, I thought I’d celebrate now.
It’s been a long couple of years, many of them dry and desiccated thanks to my many intervening gigs including EIC of Gizmodo and now TechCrunch. But I founded this site to learn more about watches and now, it seems, that I’ve gotten my money’s worth. I’ve written nearly a thousand posts on this site and also written 100,000 words on watches for other sources. I’ve also recently started working with Ariel Adams and we’re already at episode 86 of the Hourtime Show. Pretty nuts.
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This week, John makes it through the entire show without a single rant while discussing Omega and the start of this years ‘Holliday watch guide’.
So who did they name? Seiko, Citizen, Luminox, Hamilton, Prometheus, just to name a few.
Note: For some reason, Tumblr is no longer embedding podcasts. You can pop over here to see the post on the site. Not sure what the heck is up.
We first talked about the Wimm One in August, noting that no wearable device has ever made sense to me, at least in watch format. I believe I may need to eat my words. The Wimm is a clever little module – the watch band is removable – that runs simple applets. It runs a stripped down version of Android and includes a fairly complete SDK for programming little widgets. In this incarnation, it includes a stopwatch, worldtime clock, and a few other treats. The watch drops into transflexive LCD mode when it needs to conserve power.
Welcome to the HourTime show, the best 30 minute (+/-) hour podcast on the web
This week John makes it extra ranttastic (for your pleasure) when they discuss the Dream Watch 4 iPhone case, that Hublot is the “Official Watch Maker & Timekeeper Of Ferrari”, Ariel’s visit to the Blancpain Haute Horology Watch Manufacture and the difficulties of buying a good used watch in China.
I bet you thought a modern watch was made by a gnomic little man with a tiny hat on a wooden bench. Nope. These are high-tech factories and could probably double as iPad manufacturing plants with a bit of retraining.
Phosphor has just announced a new world time/dual timezone model, the World Time Sport. The company is well-known for their e-ink watches (we reviewed a few here) and this one uses a touch interface to scroll through multiple timezones as well as various screens including a dual-time screen for travelers.
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