Richard Mille Forms Polo Team
Richard Mille enters the world of polo with the introduction of the first Richard Mille Polo Team. The team's four players are Argentinean Pablo MacDonough, who ranked number one on the 2010 World Polo Tour; fellow Argentinean Alejandro Muzzio; Prince Bahar from Brunei; and the UK-born Max Routledge. The team made its debut at Cowdray Park Polo Club and is now preparing for a season that includes some of the most prestigious international high-goal tournaments. In the UK, the Richard Mille Team will compete for The Harcourt Developments Queen's Cup at Guards Polo Club from May 17th to June 12th, followed by the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup at Cowdray Park Polo Club June 21st to July 17th. In Spain, the team will vie for the Gold, Silver and Bronze cup at Santa Maria Polo Club in Sotogrande, July 27th to August 29th.This new venture allows Richard Mille further opportunities to test new watchmaking solutions under difficult real-world conditions. As with Felipe Massa, Rafael Nadal and Bubba

Alain Silberstein Tourbillon Black Storm Watch Available On James List
Are you ready for a watch like this? Is anyone ever really ready for a watch like this? Among his many watches, Alain Silberstein offers some tourbillon models. Less popular today, a few years ago these iconoclastic tourbillon timepieces really offered something very different. Take this Black Storm model (ref. TS511) that combines his playful French design, an interesting tourbillon movement, and urban toned camouflage.The idea is really when you get to a watch like a tourbillon reason loses a lot of meaning. Art is what makes sense and here Alain Silberstein is having fun (like he always does). Not everyone is a fan of his aesthetic - that is OK. I believe design aesthetics such as his are meant to be polarizing. In the Black Storm watch is a manually wound tourbillon based movement that I believe are exclusive to his pieces. He doesn't make the movements, but no one else has them.The tourbillon is a flying tourbillon, and done in a manner that I find interesting. The lower part of t

Saturday Morning Rewind: One Year Ago This Weekend, We Went Inside Rolex, And Boy Did You Guys Like It
The goal with HODINKEE was always bringing you guys into a world that is, at times, seemingly surrounded by a cement wall of European conservatism and secrecy. Whether it's sitting down for a beer with an NBA all-star or silicon valley visionary, witnessing how one of today's modern masters make his masterpiece , or an in-depth, hands-on with the man who designed the most complicated wristwatch in Patek Philippe's history, I feel pretty good about saying we're doing our job. Still, one story in this category rises above them all to take you someplace where few have ever or will ever have access – inside Rolex. It was this weekend one year ago where I published the 10,000 word story that takes you, the HODINKEE reader, inside incredible, clandestine world of the most important watch brand in the world. 1 OF 1 HODINKEE is one of a small handful of outlets ever invide its Bienne facility, where movements are produced. If you missed it, check it out

Omega Experts - How does this Seamaster look?
Give me your opinions. It looks good to me, but I don't know Omega's like I know other brands.Thanks!

At 1605Z, the doorbell rang and . . .
the FedEx guy handed me a box containing this: