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In the blink of an eye, we’ve now entered March. Bulgari, Hublot, Zenith and TAG Heuer had given us a taste of what’s to come for this year during LVMH Watch Week in January. And Watches & Wonders, to be hosted digitally this year, is just around the corner. What can we all expect?
We ask our industry experts to give us their take on what happened last year and what watches they’re hoping to see in 2021. Carson Chan, Consultant for FHH for Greater China; Barbara Palumbo, a veteran watch journalist; and Peter Speake, an independent watchmaker and founder of The Naked Watchmaker, share their outlook.
The 48 Best Watches for Men 2021
Our editors pick their favourite new and upcoming watches from big Swiss brands and under-the-radar newbies 27/01/2021
2021! The beginning of a brand new era which. feels a lot like the last. Your enervation is warranted. But empty fuel tanks aren t universal. In Switzerland, those big-ticket watch brands don t let a little pandemic get them down. On the contrary, our 2021 is already shaping up to be a banner year for great new watches.
Granted, said watch brands plan and schedule their big releases years in advance. And the Swiss are nothing if not punctual (it s not an unusual sight to see every single lab-coated watchmaker at their workspace at 9am on the dot), so it comes as little surprise that they ve got good stuff lined up – really, actually, genuinely good stuff from Rolex, Tag Heuer, Breitling and so on.
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire s weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020.
The story of the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional is such a well-trodden path from “one small step” to “Houston, we have a problem” that even casual watch fans have likely heard of “Speedy Tuesday.” Certainly, the Speedmaster is in the top five on the bucket list of most watch collectors, so they
should have heard of Speedy Tuesday
. The name was coined one Tuesday in 2012 by Robert-Jan Broer, founder of Amsterdam-based watch fan site Fratello Watches, and it caught on like a meme. Currently there are 259,000 #speedytuesday hashtags on Instagram alone. Lord knows where else it crops up. But it seems only fitting that we should take this Speedy Tuesday as the suitable moment to unveil a major development in the long arc of the Speedy’s lifespan since 1957.
Joe Biden, Watch Geek in Chief
Recent presidents not named Trump have tended to wear Everyman timepieces such as Timex and Shinola.
Fancy or not? President Biden wore a Rolex Datejust watch, which retails for more than $7,000, to his inauguration.Credit.Alex Wong/Getty Images
By Alex Williams
President Biden may cast his arrival in the White House as a return to business as usual at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but there’s at least one way he’s breaking from prevailing presidential tradition: he wears a Rolex.
At his inauguration, Mr. Biden laid his hand on the family Bible wearing a stainless steel Rolex Datejust watch with a blue dial, a model that retails for more than $7,000 and is a far cry from the Everyman timepieces that every president not named Trump has worn conspicuously in recent decades.