VIDEO: Design Agency Demonstrates Innovative Touch Sensitive Filming Using 1960s Rolex Oyster Precision

Remember when we showed you what was probably the very first Lytro photograph ?? Well London creative agency Berg has taken existing cinematic techniques and produced a similar result to a Lytro photograph, but with a much more detailed and exact interface.?... 

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Timekeeping: How to Change a Watch Strap

Let’s face it, times are tough and it’s not just European governments that are implementing austerity measures. Let’s face it, times are tough and it’s not just European governments that are implementing austerity measures. A lot of guys can’t... 

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Hourtime Episode 101 – BR and S. and R.

Welcome to the HourTime show, the best 30 minute (+/-) hour podcast on the web. In this weeks episode we discuss: General watch talk and the presumed value of a mechanical VS quartz movement.? The? Rolex Deep Sea Challenge watch – rated to a ridiculous... 

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IN-DEPTH: The New Rolex Submariner No-Date Reference 114060 (Live Pics, Specs, Pricing, Video)

The Rolex Submariner.? Arguably the most recognized, respected, and clandestinely reproduced wristwatch of the 20th (and 21st) century. Wthin the almost 60 year span of the ultimate dive watch’s reign as the king of cool (yes, the actual king of... 

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IN-DEPTH: The New Rolex Submariner No-Date Reference 114060 (Live Pics, Specs, Pricing, Video)

The Rolex Submariner.? Arguably the most recognized, respected, and clandestinely reproduced wristwatch of the 20th (and 21st) century. The Rolex Submariner.? Arguably the most recognized, respected, and clandestinely reproduced wristwatch of the... 

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Just Because: Two Iconic Tudors Of The 1970s

While most of you are spending today gawking at our new strap collection over in the HODINKEE Shop , we thought we’d divert your attention to two just fantastic sport watches of the mid-1970s, and both of them come not from Rolex, but from Tudor.?... 

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Timekeeping: Audemars Piguet Celebrates 40 Years of the Royal Oak

The concrete canyons of Manhattan are pretty far away from the wooded alpine serenity of Switzerland’s Vallée de Joux, but it was on Park Avenue that Swiss watch company, Audemars Piguet, decided to kick off a celebration tour for its mightiest creation:... 

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Introducing The HODINKEE Shop: Hand-Made Straps, Pouches, and Travel Rolls For Sale, Just For You

Today is an exciting day for us – it marks the opening of the HODINKEE shop , hosted right here on our fair little website.? You see, a watch is a great thing, and we have always enjoyed customizing our pieces with different straps depending on... 

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The Girard-Perregaux Sea Hawk 1000 “Green Auction”: To Be Auctioned Off For Charity (Hopefully To A Frogman)

We’ve seen a lot of dial colors for dive watches – yellow, orange, blue, white and, of course, black. But, you rarely see green dive watches.? Sure, Rolex does it, but anybody else We’ve seen a lot of dial colors for dive watches –... 

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Timekeeping: Rolex Deepsea Challenge

Yes, they’re doing it again. Are we surprised? Yes, they’re doing it again. Are we surprised? Not at all. In 1960, Rolex created the Deep Sea Special with the express purpose of joining Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh on their record-breaking... 

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