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Audemars Piguet & Omega Just Reinvented Modern Classics – And You Should Be Excited

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Watches, Paul Newman, Talking Watches, Hodinkee Radio, Leisure, Podcast, Omega, Radio, Society & Culture, Ben Clymer, Wrist Watch, John Mayer, Arts, Horology, Hodinkee, Rolex, Daytona

4.7960 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

From new takes on the Royal Oak Offshore Diver & Chronograph to a thorough refresh of the Seamaster 300, two watchmaking titans are updating the tried and true.

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0:00.0

I think that there is a little bit of AP that like often just kind of

0:04.4

ruffle the feathers of purists and I don't think the brands afraid to do that

0:09.4

occasionally there in not in any way that would threaten their core of course but I think with something like this

0:14.8

they're kind of saying like hey we say what the Royal Oak is. Oh, Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Polverin and this is Hodincky Radio.

0:45.0

Over the last week both Audomarpigae and Omega have dropped their 2021 collections

0:50.1

or at least the starts of those collections,

0:52.5

and we have a lot of thoughts on the matter.

0:55.0

So I grab John and James,

0:57.0

and we're going to talk about what these collections tell us

0:59.0

about the brands overall,

1:00.5

as well as all of our nitty gritty thoughts on the specifics of each of the

1:04.2

individual models. We've got new seamasters, we've got new offshores, there's a

1:08.6

ton to cover. So without further ado, let's do this.

1:13.0

Hey guys, how's it going?

1:20.0

Hey guys, how's it going?

1:21.0

Hey, pretty good. How's it going? Hey pretty good how's it going guys good it's things are

1:26.4

heating up aren't they watches and wonders on the horizon and what we're here to

1:30.8

discuss this week is we got both AP and Omega dropped their

1:36.2

2021 releases in a span of like what three or four days something like that I mean

1:42.1

just to me like the top line with AP is that this like that

1:43.4

the top line with AP is that this year feels like they've taken stuff they do well and they've just

1:48.2

refined it like they've taken all the hits and just made them a little bit better rather than trying to introduce some like new crazy over the top thing right?

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