Arrivals in 2025; Advice for 2026 — Tell Your Friends that You Love Their Watches

It was a New Year’s tradition back in the days of the discussion forums. Collectors would publish detailed postings describing the watches they acquired during the preceding year, the near misses, the ones they had sold, their “Most Wanted” watches for the coming year, etc. For 2025, I’m going to take a simpler approach, describing
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Introducing the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph x Fragment Limited Edition

In his book, How Banksy Saved Art History, Kelly Grovier presents 43 works by the street artist, Banksy, and for each of the Banksy works Grovier presents a “classic” work that the Banksy work references, re-interprets or reimagines.  For example, we see Girl with Balloon (Banksy, 2002) paired with Joan Miro’s Dancer II (1925) and
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A Topographical Tour of the TAG Heuer “Glassbox” Carrera (Second Generation)

TAG Heuer introduced its “Glassbox” case for the Carrera in 2015 and produced 10 versions of the Carrera using this case, the last one coming in 2023. Here is our posting that provides an overview of all 10 first generation Glassbox Carreras — Retrospective — The “First Generation” Glassbox Carrera Chronographs (2015 to 2023) After
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Hodinkee Magazine — A Medical Student and Her Rolex on Everest, 1988

It was probably around the year 2005 when our friend Mimi Zieman joined us for dinner and I noticed that she was wearing a Rolex GMT-Master II, not exactly standard equipment for a suburban Atlanta OB/GYN, especially one who didn’t seem to be particularly interested in name brands or luxury accessories. But there it was,
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Introducing the Monaco Chronograph “Stopwatch” LE — TAG Heuer Captures the Best of Its Heritage

It’s an old question for those who collect vintage watches and many in the community are tired of even talking about it – “How should a modern brand use its heritage models to create new watches for today’s enthusiasts?”  At one extreme, a brand can create new models that are almost one-to-one copies of the
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