Hanhart

And so how do you manage that and maintain pricing and those types of things? That's something that I feel many of the European brands, or I should say non-US brands, Was there a lot of brands not selling because of that? Right.

So most notably, I would say Hanhart, our friend Andy's watches, released a video and it's kind of gone pretty viral.

I've

briefly seen something on that.

And then showing them to people and having people be able to really take the time, try them on, talk to the people and really get that sort of the message across.

I think the final one that I'll give a little shout out to was from Hanhart, the 417 ES.

Yes.

which is a collaborative model with Ciro 260 and Bait, which is kind of a nice reinterpretation of the 417 chronograph with a sort of different kind of an Art Deco, like Bauhaus-y numerals.

And I'm just trying to think, uh, MBNF was there with the mad three and wind up and they were MBNF at watch time, which is quite interesting.

Um, Hanhart also for the first times I've seen them a few weeks ago, of course.

And, um, I realized that they also were at a wind up, um, which is also cool.

Laco from Germany.

King of cool

... for a lo- nu- yeah, king of cool, uh, bought and wore for himself for a number of years a Hanhart, and, uh, they decided to do a limited edition.

Uh, he wore it in multiple movies, I think most famously in the movie Bullitt, and so this limited edition has a strap which is meant to sort of replicate, uh, the strap, um, that Mr. McQueen wore.

Again, he personally chose it and wore it, and it's very well documented.

Uh, what is interesting is that the origins of his actual Hanhart are totally unknown.

No one has any idea where Steve McQueen's actual Hanhart...

His family doesn't have it.

No one knows where it is, so it's this lost thing.

[laughs] Uh, but yeah, uh, what are your feelings on this one?

Do you know, it reminds me a lot of the Hanhart.

I would always opt for a Hanhart over, uh, this if I'm going chronograph.

Uh, yeah, I, I think it just looks like watch to me.

Like, you know, it's a watch.

Okay.

So the next watch we're looking at is the Steve McQueen Hanhart limited edition.

Um, Chris, I'll let you start on this.

What do you think?

Built as a tool watch for precision, it couldn't have been more suited.

It couldn't have suited anyone better.

This limited edition reflects the special connection between Hanhart and McQueen, a piece of history on the wrist.

300 pieces worldwide, 39 millimeter in case armor, just like the historical original.

Yeah.

Hanhart chronographs, right? Historically, you know, Second World War, yeah, questionable history, but it's part of the history.

And then Bundeswehr watches.

When they do these divers and whatever, it's also not really their thing.

Okay.

So, well, interesting.

So you've got a piece of news you shared with me before you talk about your Hanhart trip.

Why don't you talk to me about how someone believed they could fly?

I mean, it's quite interesting is that.

But one thing I do know, one watch I intend buying... is I've always liked Hanhart which was I've always been told it was the watch Steve McQueen to return to him he wore those by choice but that is a retro watch I mean is there still a market for retro watches I personally have a watch that's based on a 1930s design a zenith pilot And I think that's stunning.

Is there still the liking for retro, or do people, especially people into motorsport, prefer modern watches or modern-looking watches?

Oh, there's a huge market for...

in

terms of style of what really, but absolutely huge.

Whether it's, as you say, people like Hanhart in Germany making watches inspired by aviation themes from pre-war um whether it's people reissue restarting defunct brands that were popular in the last century with updated materials but identical aesthetics then you've got

reissues of longines do an amazing range of