Keep your eye on the watchmaking industry long enough, and you’re surely going to notice a pattern of trends that appear each year. Sometimes it was an abundance of watches with bronze cases, or sometimes it was blue dials. This year however it is unmistakable that it was the year of the green watch. From […]
An annual calendar is a complication that tracks and displays the day, date and month on a timepiece. It automatically adjusts the date for months with 30 or 31 days but unlike the perpetual calendar complication it needs to be corrected once a year at the end of February. Fun fact: it was actually the […]
This new Hodinkee Eight-Day Travel Clock is exactly what happens when the biggest watch nerds on the planet (probably) gather in a room and decide to make desk or travel clock. It is a fantastic mechanical, hand-wound instrument that takes its inspiration from the travel clocks of old. With the Hodinkee editorial team being one […]
To the uninitiated, the Tissot PRX just looks like a stylish timepiece with a great 1970s vibe. To watch enthusiasts, however, we finally have a Royal Oak-esque watch that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, comes with an incredible integrated steel bracelet and most importantly comes with all the provenance that a brand within […]
When it comes to dive watches, Doxa is a brand that knows what it is talking about. Where some brands add on a dive watch to their collection for marketing purposes, Doxa built one from scratch, specifically designed for the growing community of underwater explorers. With the help of professional divers like Claude Wesly and […]
The deeper you fall into the rabbit hole of serious watches, the harder it often becomes to appreciate one with a quartz movement. However, I believe this Tissot Heritage Visodate Quartz deserves a mention for one simple reason; I think it is a great watch for those looking to find a gateway into the weird […]
When Maurice Lacroix unveiled to the world the brand new Aikon in 2016 (which took its design cues from the very successful Calypso collection), they did so with references that housed a quartz movement. Then, when they debuted an Aikon with an automatic movement the following year, this showed that the collection was here to […]
Farer is one of those brands that even though they started small, over time, they quickly shed the notion of being a microbrand in the watch industry. To me, even though they are a relatively new company and operate on a smaller scale, it’s hard to peg them as a microbrand per se. They feel […]
With the update of 2019’s Rolex GMT-Master II 126710 BLNR “Batman” we saw a sudden resurgence of interest in the blue and black colour scheme. And in true Rolex fashion, this watch remains as elusive as ever either through the barrier of price or scarcity. So, if you can’t seem to get your hands on […]
I remember as I was growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s, that the Casio G-Shock was the epitome of a tough watch. I had a friend who had one in secondary school and we’d always ask him to let us throw it out the second-floor window just to test out Casio’s claims. […]
If like me, you grew up in the 1990s, the newly launched collaboration between the Seiko 5 Sports and Street Fighter V will be something that inspires a bucketload of nostalgia. The six variants launched may be designed based on the latest Street Fighter game but the characters that they chose reminded me of the […]
Over the past few years, Seiko has been resurrecting iconic models from their past, offering faithful reissues and a modern reinterpretation of said watches. Two that caused quite the stir when they were announced were Seiko’s first diver’s watch from 1965 and another from 1970. There isn’t anything new about the design of the watch […]
The revival of the Omega Calibre 321 is one that is immensely exciting, particularly so for the watch geek. A brand digging into its past for inspiration is not exactly novel in the watch industry but usually brands tend to reissue a certain historical piece but give it a makeover for the modern consumer (usually […]
Stick in the watch industry long enough and sooner or later you’ll start to see the brands evolve. Most of the time brands change incrementally with each year’s novelties, but sometimes, like in the case of Maurice Lacroix, they come up with a collection that completely reinvents the company. And that is exactly what the […]
