In honor of '90s Week, I thought it would be fun to get a few folks from the HODINKEE team and ask them to complete a little bit of the favorite watch from the nineteen nineties. Many of us are '90s kids – or look back on the decade with rose-tinted glasses – while it comes to the many great watches of the decade.

So , take a tour down memory lane with IWC chronographs, the youthful side of Patek Philippe, two-tone Datejusts, democratizing divers, high school G-Shocks, and the birth of a special series from Chopard – we've got nine of the best watches from the '90s.

What did you wear or love in the '90s? If we missed your fav, be sure to let us know within the comments.
The '90s must have been a weird period for horological industry and, well, the world (not to mention an abnormally quiet, polo-shirt-and-glasses-wearing middle schooler named Ben in upstate New York). But , that's not to say some cool stuff didn't get made. THE watch of the '90s i believe is the IWC 3705. It's just a perfect thing and launched ceramic into the mainstream, and further authenticated the Valjoux 7750 as a remarkably versatile and important caliber. The fact that this view came out the same year as the Mercedes E500? Man, talk about an ideal partnering.

Similarly, some years later, I think the actual Patek 5070 really feels '90s to me. It was Patek's first solo chronograph inside the better part of thirty years. It was enormous as well as weird, and just cool. And a year later on, it got absolutely destroyed by the Datograph. It was, in my belief, the last time Patek could certainly say there was no competition from anyone else. See Mark's '90s pick, below, for more on that.
If you ask Philippe Dufour what the best serially produced wristwatch is, he will take out his own A. Lange & Söhne Datograph, and I will not argue along with him. It also happens to be from 1999, the final year of the decade which saw the first grand complications in wrist watches, the first annual calendar, the very first OMEGA co-axial escapements, and also the first Seiko spring drive movements. In a decade that was a renaissance for mechanical watchmaking, the particular Datograph and its L951. 1 movement stand above the rest.
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Pricey exercise within futility to explain the architectural beauty of this movement, it might be like trying to take a picture of the Grand Canyon that will captures its true awe-inspiring details. Issues you just need to see in person. If holding typically the Datograph does not get the blood flowing, then you need to see a cardiologist immediately.
The '90s was a time of innovation and invention for the enjoy industry inside so many ways. New companies were created, new conglomerates had been formed, and also countless brand new calibers along with watches have been born from the decade. One such watch in addition to movement through the '90s that has always fascinated me with its aesthetic discretion and mechanised ingenuity is the Chopard L. U. C. 1860, outfitted with the beautiful self-winding micro-rotor-equipped caliber 1 . 96. Michel Parmigiani, one of my personal favorite watchmakers of the era, was totally involved in the creation, u have a deep appreciation for the quiet excellence the entire package exudes.

Steve Westphalen highlighted the watch for HODINKEE a few years back in a must-read piece, and our friend Tony a2z Traina of Rescapement recently spotlighted often the series, as well. Of course , the ultimate story within the Chopard T. U. D. 1860 plus caliber one 96 was penned by Mr. Walt Odets, who memorably described the caliber 1 . ninety six as "among the finest - if not simply the finest -- automatic quality and reliability currently manufactured in Switzerland. "