The Bronze Age
What's on your wrist?? Safe bet is that it's stainless steel, but who among you are the adventurous type? The ceramic pioneers, titanium warriors, carbon fibernauts, and tungsten tanks. Among each of the previous case materials mentioned there is a game of one-upmanship in being more heat-, corrosion-, bang-, bump-, bruise-, and scratch-proof than the next, but what about copper?Enter the Bronze Age��of watches that is. If you're a watch collector, you likely already own your arsenal of timepieces to survive sub-zero temperatures, reach water depths inaccessible without a submarine, and have enough shock absorption to withstand a five story drop (hopefully without you wearing it). Bronze watches certainly aren't those watches, nor do they all try to be.I’ll be the first to admit that they are not for everyone. Browse Internet watch forums and you’ll find all the proof you need of that. Rarely does a watch collector enter their local AD and request, "Show me only watches made

YOU'RE INVITED: Celebrate Baume & Mercier's 2014 Collection With HODINKEE This Wednesday
We're all about bringing the watches to the people, and the people to the watches. Tomorrow night, we're giving some of our NYC-based readers the chance to check out the brand new 2014 Baume & Mercier in the metal at a private club in downtown New York. You'll see the entire range of new products including the new Clifton Chronograph, Triple Calendar with Moonphase, and Retrograde Date Automatic.Cocktails will (absolutely!) be served and we are opening this up to the first ten people who respond to Events@hodinkee. The entire HODINKEE team will be there to help answer questions, as well. Hope to see you there!

Positve stories of your AP's
We have heard some bad stories on AP's lately and its a bummer, hope everyone get their issues resolve soon.How about some positive stories?

Moon watch and water
So, just how waterproof is the Moon watch?I don't mean personal use, such as I never go near water with mine etc. I mean genuine information with regards to showers, swimming, and 24/7 all conditions wearability? Do Omega guarantee it's use in these conditions? I know they are waterproof to 50M but how does this translate to the real world?Thanks for any input Toby.

Orange PO, orange Croc
Hi All, just got this orange croc strap for my PO. what do you fellows think?