Hodinkee’s Latest Limited Edition is a Collaboration with Bamford Featuring Everyone’s Favorite Cartoon Beagle
With Watches & Wonders behind us, we?re now well into new release season. Many of our favorite brands have revealed their hottest new watches already, with a near certainty that there are many more to come. A lot of these watches are stylistically daring and technically impressive, representing the absolute peak in horology for many of the brands we?re concerned with. What we wind up with, then, are a lot of watches that are nice to ogle but not necessarily wearable and fun in the traditional sense. It?s a lot of high end luxury, and watches that reside squarely on earth are the exception and not the rule. So it?s somewhat refreshing to see that the latest Hodinkee limited edition, a collaboration with Bamford, is so unpretentious. Consider this your Watches & Wonders palate cleanser.Â
What we have here in the Bamford x Peanuts ?Joe Preppy? GMT Limited Edition for Hodinkee is a fresh take on the character watch, with a helpful complication thrown in along with plenty of charm for the Peanuts connoisseur. Most readers will recognize Snoopy on the dial right away (the cartoon beagle appears more frequently on watch dials than in comics these days), but where he?s often shown in flight gear or a space suit for projects with Omega and Timex, this Bamford edition finds Snoopy in his ?Joe Preppy? guise, one of the many ?Joe? personalities the character adopts throughout the history of the long running comic strip. ?Joe Preppy? is a more sophisticated Snoopy, cl...
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