A few weeks ago, Hodinkeehosted a dinnerwith Cartier. In attendance was the Tank Cintrée given by actor Fred Astaire to his friend Felix Leach Jr. At some point over the past few decades, Cartier acquired, and eventually, restored this watch. We know this because it first appears...
One night back in October, I was roaming around Ginza alone. I had spent the day at the Seiko Watch Museum looking at some of the most important watches in their history. The overarching theme was this: Grand Seiko is built to a higher standard than required by anything Swiss, and when...
The Tank Cintrée is about near a perfect watch. Admittedly, this is a mildly selfish inclusion for the series because, well, good luck getting your hands on a Cintrée. So, for those of us not lucky enough to have a Cintrée to style, you could likely sub in any other classic and be...
shaving hours off of the flight time. It was "the first new route to Europe in a thousand years" and because the watch would be worn over the North Pole, it had to be strongly anti-magnetic and shock-resistant. LaterPolerouterswould use one of the earliest micro-rotor system ever develo...