Stephen Pulvirent

2 weeks ago | sothebys.com | Stephen Pulvirent

If you ask 10 collectors what to look for in watches, you’ll likely get 10 different answers. But regardless of personal preferences, collecting habits and budgets, most collectors agree on one thing: condition is king. Whether it’s your first watch or the grail you’ve been hunting for decades, a good rule of thumb is to buy the highest quality example of the watch you want. But what does that mean in a community that prizes patina, character and other tasteful signs of wear?

3 weeks ago | revolutionwatch.com | Katherine Arteche |Felix Scholz |Cheryl Chia |Stephen Pulvirent

IWC is implementing a cohesive strategy across the Ingenieur board by introducing new sizes, diverse complications, and the use of ceramic and precious materials to appeal to a broader audience. This approach is similar to the expansion seen in the Pilots and Portugieser lines over the past five years. In many ways, it also recalls the GST collection introduced in the late 1990s, which featured case sizes ranging from 39mm to 43mm, and gold, steel and titanium models.

4 weeks ago | gq.com | Stephen Pulvirent

It’s easy to forget now, but getting on an airplane was a big deal in the 1950s. Legendary modern architect Eero Saarinen was designing airports, first-class meant a steak dinner and a Manhattan at 10,000 feet, and the idea of hopping from New York to Paris for the weekend was only a step or two less incredible than a day trip to the moon. In our current era of TSA PreCheck and boarding passes on your phone, that romance might be mostly gone. But luckily not entirely.

1 month ago | sothebys.com | Stephen Pulvirent

An emblem of the Jet Age, the Rolex GMT-Master is one of the most recognizable watches in the world, giving birth to an entirely new class of travel complication. Yet none of its many imitators come close to matching its status among collectors. At the end of World War II, advances in aviation saw the advent of the Jet Age, an era defined by optimism and excitement. Rolex played a crucial part with the introduction of its GMT-Master – a watch designed for pilots and jet-setters alike.

Nov 25, 2024 | sothebys.com | Stephen Pulvirent

Sometimes a watch is just a watch – and other times it’s a time capsule with something to say. One of the great joys of collecting vintage watches comes from the lives these small machines live before they make their way onto our radar and, eventually, our wrists. For some watches, their pasts are full of mystery, as they seemingly appear out of nowhere in an auction catalogue or the collection of a friend.