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‘Yves Klein’ 25820ST Audemars Piguet Royal Oak QP
About five years ago, I encountered my first Yves Klein Royal Oak at a collector meetup in San Francisco. I made an all-too-obvious…
Mk3 A386 Zenith El Primero
Whoever came up with idea to make the three subdial registers of the A386 tri-color is a genius. In watch design, the gold…
1991 Cartier Paris Crash
The Crash is that sole watch whose trajectory best encapsulates the last two decades of watch collecting as a whole. In the year…
‘Milspec 1’ Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
There is no greater tell that a watch is firmly in the collector zeitgeist than when Hodinkee writes a guide on its genealogy.…
Step-Case ‘Tasti Tondi’ Longines 13ZN
Round pushers on a 13ZN and you’re definitively in the cognoscenti, no matter where you’re turning up. Raj Chaudhuri wrote an exceptional article…
3508 IWC Ingenieur 500000 A/m
If you’ve been shopping for a toaster recently, you’ll know most people buy a Cuisinart. Alternatively, you could buy a 600 USD Wolf…
‘Soirée’ 113.029 A. Lange & Söhne Little Lange 1
It’s a bit bizarre how a single material change can elevate an entire watch: a steel Patek, Sodalite Daytona dial, tantalum JLC (long…
UAE Ministry of Defence 1675 Rolex GMT-Master
UAE dial Rolexes are about a desirable as it gets, in any context. But the vast majority of signatures are on Datejusts and…
Slate Dial 2960 Cartier Santos Carrée
Before Cartier became fully married to quartz in the late 80s and well before the CPCP-era that resurrected their mechanical watchmaking, one or…
Mido Multi-Centerchrono
The first time you lay eyes on this Mido, it’s almost as if it’s playing a trick on you like some punk kid.…
Tropical, Gilt Dial 1675 Rolex GMT-Master
At a collector meetup last year, I encountered a very tan, thin, well-dressed Italian man. He had the kind of skin that let…
6005ST Audemars Piguet Rectangular Royal Oak
To some, this is one of the most blasphemous watches to come out of Le Brassus. It wears the name Royal Oak, but…
‘Orange Boy’ 11630 Heuer Autavia
In watches, as most luxuries, there is often an asymptotic relationship between the amount a watch commands and the extra value you receive.…
