Hodinkee “sale” mistake

That is cool. I used to cover the waterbury area and drove by that darn timex museum 1,099 times. Finally stopped in about a week after they closed it. Shoot I forget the year but I walked into a bar saw a table with a number of people I went to school with they were having a get together as they just got the announcement they were losing their jobs at the last timex manufacturing plant in CT. I guess it must have been a good place to work as there were a lot of tears at the table. Timex did a cool collaboration with “holy land” which is a big beautiful cross on top of a hill overlooking waterbury. I bought a few some nuns were selling gave them away as gifts as I thought I could find them and replenish but it didn’t happen.

I’m tempted to get that waterbury but my car got broken into three times working in that damn city I actually try to bypass it when possible. I do gotta meet the captain of police in September to review overdose policies as that city also soaked with fentanyl but that’s just a yearly thing and tbh we don’t seem to accomplish anything. But yeah blah blah hodinkee bad.

Just received my Timex and for $60, I’m really quite pleased with it. The original strap is unsurprisingly horrible, though I admit I was hoping for a little better. No big, I have plenty of other straps on standby. For me, at 42mm, it’s not unfamiliar as I have my Speedmaster and Brosnan SMP but this would have been better sized around 39mm. The bezel has a robust tactile click when rotating it that both sounds and feels pleasing. The dial texture is fun and far more pleasing in soft light. I like it in hard sunlight but on camera it’s looking a bit busy. It has a solid build quality that easily make this a great beater or excellent gift. At the original MSRP I would have spent more to buy a Seiko. At $60 this was a great/fun buy that I would do again.

Agree with your assessment. I find the leather strap moderately acceptable; leather sourced from the Red Wing plant in Minnesota, though manufactured in china...I think a dab of leather lotion would improve it/prevent it from cracking, but will see how it holds up. Looks better on your nato!
Interestingly the noisy rotor seems to be variable...I ended up getting 6 of them as gifts for my brothers and found that only 2 were really noisy, the others were fairly quiet.
$60 is more than fair.

Looks like they finally did it. All 10,000+ "limited" pieces are--after numerous final sales, flash sales and final flash sales--sold out. Allegedly.

It will be interesting to see how long this will last:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/watches-switzerland-group-buys-online-070501741.html

Well as for now Hodinkee insurance remains the same: