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The company sells HODINKEE-branded accessories, and also hosts pop-up events, with the goal of being a one stop online and offline shop for anyone with an interest in watches. HODINKEE operates the website, providing editorial content related to watches, and HODINKEE shop, an ecommerce platform for watch enthusiasts and collectors interested in new and used luxury watches. In February 2021, HODINKEE announced it had acquired pre-owned luxury watch specialists Crown & Caliber.
The company also raised $40M in a series B round, with American investment advisory firm TCG as lead investor, and other investors including French luxury giant LVMH's LVMH Luxury Ventures subsidiary, True Ventures, Grammy-award winning musician John Mayer and six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. In December 2020, Toby Bateman, the former managing director of fashion company Mr Porter, joined the company as its new CEO, and Clymer became Executive Chairman. In November 2019, HODINKEE Japan was launched in partnership with Hearst Fujin Gahō, as a Japanese language version of the website. In 2019, technology business magazine Fast Company named HODINKEE as one of its most innovative companies in the media sector. That year, the company also expanded to include pop-up stores, with a total staff of 25. In January 2018, the company launched HODINKEE Shop, an ecommerce site selling watches. In April 2017, Rose stepped down from his role as the CEO of HODINKEE to become a partner in a start-up venture firm, True Ventures. In July 2015, a news aggregation app focused on wristwatches called Watchville merged with HODINKEE, and its internet entrepreneur founder Kevin Rose became the chief executive of HODINKEE. Clymer used Google Translate to find the most whimsical translation of "wristwatch" to deal with perceived pretension in the watch industry, and settled on a variation of the Czech/Slovak word for watch, "hodinky".
He credited his lifelong passion for watches to his grandfather's Omega Speedmaster that he loved and his grandfather let him wear. Benjamin Clymer started the watch website HODINKEE in 2008.
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