3-Watch Thursday #42

Good morning team,

Happy Thursday!

Lots to get through this week (more than 3 things!!!), so let’s get straight into it.

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Highlights: Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Watches Online

I have a habit of recommending auction catalogue highlight articles, but given I don’t work in watches I think often it’s best left to the professionals.

That said given it’s not quite the run-up to auction season yet, I was surprised to see this article over at SJX by Russell Sheldrake on the highlights of Sotheby’s Hong Kong.

Articles such as these provide a great learning opportunity for things I haven’t seen before, particularly given this is a Hong Kong auction there is a tendency for more modern pieces (as shown by @siemswatches).

Personally, I’m excited to see the Vacheron Constantin Mercator (top right) as a few have sold recently over at Subdial and Watch Brothers London.

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May, Clarkson, Hammond Poorly and Well Aged Moments

Ok hear me out here.

Somehow I ended up on this video down a massive YouTube rabbit hole. I’m not a huge Top Gear fan so this is a bit odd.

But at 7:40 they start talking about the Bugatti Veyron and joking about how a watch for it was released before the car.

I didn’t recognise the watch as a Jacob & Co as the one that is often seen, so I did some searching and found it was made by Parmigiani.

The more you know I guess.

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An Earnest Exploration Of Hublot, The World’s Most Polarizing Watch Brand

I don’t know how I missed this article a month or so ago over at Hodinkee, but given a Hodinkee X Hublot collaboration is set to release today (13/07/23) I can’t help but feel a bit cynical about the article.

I personally believe it’s an excellent piece of writing with lots of great photography and hats off to Sarah Miller for it, but releasing an article hyping a brand that many many people dislike right before releasing a collab with them? Kinda sus.

Ultimately, this line from the article holds true:

Hublot does not give a shit about someone not liking one of their watches.

And to that I say, fair enough.

Go give it a read. I certainly learnt a lot.

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Watch Spotting At The 2023 Henley Royal Regatta

As mentioned in last week’s issue, I was in attendance at Henley Royal Regatta the week before.

The result was this watch spotting article over at Wind Vintage with a running commentary of my favourite interactions.

The watches were an interesting mix and the blazers were on point as well.

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Thanks a lot for reading this week. You may have seen I posted on Threads asking if anyone has good resources on Must de Cartier watches after I watched a reel with some stone-dial Must de Cartier tank watches.

If you do know anything, your support would be hugely appreciated!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend when it comes around.

See you next week,

Owen