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Welcome to a special Watches and Wonders edition of Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world. As the show takes place in Geneva, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the biggest makers’ biggest releases of 2024.Strolling past the Panerai stand on day one of Watches and Wonders, you’ll have no trouble guessing the main theme of the brand’s 2024 collection. Strung up above the hospitality space is LEQ12 Luna Rossa, the latest prototyp…
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Welcome to a special Watches and Wonders edition of Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world. As the show takes place in Geneva, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the biggest makers’ biggest releases of 2024.The hot news topic (among many we will get to) on day one of Geneva’s Watches and Wonders is a series of four green-dial Overseas watches from Vacheron Constantin. The lineup, all in pink gold, includes a 35mm gem-set version…
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.Swatch has had a relationship with artists longer than pretty much any watch brand. Sure, there were watches made for—and worn by—artists before them, but Swatch has since the 1980s offered something unique in watchmaking: the creative blank canvas offered by its plastic cases and straps, an obvious vehicle for artistic expression. One of the most collectible amongst these…
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If the latest menswear from Giorgio Armani feels familiar to you, that’s proof of concept. When the Milanese designer introduced his radically reimagined interpretation of traditional tailoring in 1975, he established a design language that was both comfortable and impressively durable. Nowadays you see it everywhere. But no one executes it quite like the maestro himself.The key in all of this is softening things up while stripping them down. Armani’s clothes are defined by movement and ease—a t…
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.Sinn is a name well known in the nerdier parts of performance watch circles. Founded in 1961 by Helmut Sinn, a veteran pilot and flight instructor in Frankfurt-am-Main, it specialized in its early years in cockpit clocks and chronograph wristwatches with a rugged built-for-purpose demeanor, including the iconic Bundeswehr 155 Bw Chronograph. Selling direct to consumers befo…
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When the Swiss watchmaker Tudor reappeared in the U.S. market in 2013 after an 18-year hiatus, it did so with the heritage Black Bay dive watch front and center among its selection of rugged, retro-inspired watches. The quintessential beater had been launched just a year earlier—but its rooted in the very first dive watches created by Tudor in 1954.Back then, its divers had a rotating bezel for dive timing, cathedral hands, and a big crown for ease of use. It and subsequent iterations proved a h…
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.Up until relatively recently, watches made by fashion brands weren’t taken seriously by collectors. Even when real efforts were made to put proper movements behind the dials, they lacked the sort of horological wizardry that would get watch nerds salivating. But in a world where corner-cutting is simply not done, some of those fashion brands had bigger ideas—much bigger. En…
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.Multi Grammy-winning musician John Mayer’s relationship with watches goes far deeper than your average celeb horologist. He’s been a collector of watches since 2001 (very early in his musical career) and his passion for and critically deep understanding of high-end watches has paralleled his musical success ever since. It’s also made him something of an oracle for collecto…
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire’s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.Hamilton has a long history of working with Hollywood to supply watches to characters in the movies. It’s not something the brand crows about, but to date, its timepieces have popped up in more than 500 films.This isn’t a pay-to-play situation, though. Instead, Hamilton works closely with costumers and directors to supply or adapt watches from its production catalog, many o…
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire’s regular column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world.For the first act in celebrating its 150th year in business, Piaget chose to revisit its funky, chunky Piaget Polo, a watch that typified the bold aesthetic that sports watches from high watchmaking houses adopted in the 1970s and in which Piaget was a leader. It wasn’t always so. Polo, both the sport and the lifestyle around it, inspired Yves Piaget to launch the P…
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The world of watches made by designer labels used to be a place where watch hounds would venture with trepidation—if at all. With so much to choose from by specialist watchmakers, fashion brands rarely offered collectable appeal. That’s changed. The past decade or so has seen those same brands invest heavily in watchmaking while previously skeptical collectors became converts.Dior started making watches earlier than most, in the 1970s. But it really entered the game with the launch in 2004 of th…
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