Category: Luxury Accessories

Christopher Ward, the biggest U.K.-based producer of Swiss-made watches, says it will cut prices for U.S. customers hit by weighty tariffs on Swiss imports by shifting its corporate and distribution structure in its biggest market. The company, best known as a direct-to-consumer brand making design-driven, value-priced models including the Bel Canto, Twelve, and Loco, has…

The PanoMaticCalendar also feels still quite slept on in Glashütte Original’s catalog, and I think it should be talked about way more. The movement is truly impressive, especially given the retrograde month indication on the annual calendar, and I think the skeletonized dial design strikes a good compromise between some of the more conventional Pano…

Known for its capable, functional, robustly built, and accurate luxury timepieces, Breitling watches have been the choice of astronauts, athletes, and adventurers, from CIA operatives to private security forces and militaries. Kern says Breitling pursued the multi-million dollar NFL agreement to reinforce its Anglo-Saxon style as a Swiss watch brand.  The NFL is the number…

Since its introduction in 2021, the Zenith Chronomaster Sport family has rapidly established itself as an enthusiast favorite from the brand, flexing Zenith’s horological muscle in a sleek, contemporary (and slightly Daytona-esque) design. On paper, it should be a straightforward crowd-pleaser for the brand, but despite core collection offerings connecting well with fans, the company’s…

  If independent watchmaking had a poet laureate, it might just be Vianney Halter. The French master watchmaker made his name in the late 1990s with the Antiqua, a steampunk-inspired perpetual calendar that looked like it was a piece taken off Captain Nemo’s Nautilus. A graduate of the Paris watchmaking school, Halter honed his skills…

The picture heard around the internet—the one Swifties worldwide have been waiting for—Taylor Swift has announced her engagement to Travis Kelce. Our eyes here at Hodinkee immediately gravitated to her wrist, where another piece of jewelry caught our attention: a yellow gold diamond-set Cartier Santos Demoiselle in the small size. This particular Cartier, discontinued for…

As shown above, the new M.A.D.1S “Grow Your Dreams” takes inspiration from Ilori’s signature bright color palette and explores three themes, with each watch to match: Sun, Nature, and Water. These comprise three limited editions of 400 pieces each, and according to the brand is “a call to nurture our ambitions like seeds, to believe…

The movement looks stunning in the way that only vintage time-only movements can. Large, swooping bridges with Geneva stripes, anglage, black polishing, and features the original movement numbers and Minerva signature. There’s the light addition of a double emblem with the insignias of both Vianney Halter and Massena LAB. The watch is cased in platinum,…

As a first-generation watch enthusiast from a solidly middle-class background, I don’t have many memories of watches from childhood, as I didn’t cross paths with that world particularly often. There is one major, vividly memorable exception, though: the Blue Angels collaborations from Citizen. Nearly every shopping trip with my parents and countless magazine ads showed…