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Last Week In Watches: Blancpain Returns to 1968, Norqain Goes Titanium, Czapek Turns Aqua Blue and more

New releases from Czapek, Alexandre Martin, Wren and more

A week defined by big moves being made by small independents has brought us some unexpected hits in mid-August.

First Look - Cleaner and More Compact, The new Glashütte Original Senator Chronograph

Glashütte Original has a long history with chronographs, going back more than 80 years to the development of wristwatches for short-time measurement in the Saxon watchmaking town. Among the important chapters in that history was the UROFA calibre 59, developed in the early 1940s as one of the first modern Glashütte wristwatch chronographs. The contemporary […]

The Man Who Made Time His Own: George Daniels and the Birth of Independent Watchmaking

Last Week In Watches: IWC Mercedes-Benz 140th Anniversary, Total Solar Eclipse MoonSwatch, Zandvoort TAG Heuer and more

CIGA design’s EDGE Collection puts exposed mechanics front and centre

The CIGA Design EDGE Collection puts mechanical architecture centre stage with six new skeletonised models led by the Hunter Tourbillon.

Quiet Luxury: Six understated and excellent timepieces to add into your watch collection

Looking for a timepiece that embodies the concept of quiet luxury? We have selected a series of six watches for your consideration.

Buying Guide - Two-Tone Charm, with Five Effortlessly Cool Steel-and-Gold Watches

There are plenty of ways to stand out from the masses when it comes to watches. You can go for a bold design, a unique dial material, flashy colours or a mesmerising complication. Or you can opt for a combination of materials that brings together the coldness of stainless steel with the warmth of gold. […]

Introducing - Round Two of the Albishorn Marinagraph Classic and Classic Fumé

Albishorn, an independent Swiss brand founded in 2024 by Sébastien Chaulmontet, focuses on “imaginary vintage” watches, “what if” models that are visually grounded in the past – but which never existed. A year after its debut, Albishorn released the Marinagraph, a robust skin diver with a patented 10-minute regatta countdown function that “could have” been […]

7 Of Our Favorite Skin Diver Watches (And What Is A Skin Diver, Anyway?)

Skin diver watches are more everyday style dive watches that are intended for hobbyists, here we go through 7 of our favorites.

Selten and Watch Ho & Co(mmunity) are back with a new steamy-dialled watch

The new Watch Ho & Co(mmunity) x Selten Yum Cha (飲茶) celebrates the notion of family with a steamy amber, hand-engraved enamel dial.

The Cartier Tank Look Comes to an Affordable Timex in Steel and Blue

Timex brings the 1976 Lexington back in polished steel with blue alpha hands. At $149, it's the most affordable honest take on the Tank look we've seen.

Omega Speedmaster Today: Moonwatch, Snoopy and Dark Side of the Moon

Grand Seiko Masterpiece SBGZ011 Review: Fluid Artistry And Feather-Thin Engineering

The "Mystic Waterfall" SBGZ011 combines a hand-engraved platinum case with one of the thinnest Spring Drive movements to date. More

Last Week In Watches: Grand Seiko, TAG Heuer, MING and more

The Bovet Family: Pascal Raffy on Craft, Integrity and the Human Hand

Dive Watches Under $2,000 We’ve Reviewed and Recommend

After years of hands-on testing, these are the dive watches under $2,000 that impressed us through real ownership, not just specifications

Moser’s Repeater is Cosmic, Cylindrical, and Skeleton

While most Swiss watchmakers are taking their summer holidays, H. Moser & Cie. has unveiled the Endeavour Minute Repeater Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Cosmic Rain — the latest variant of the brand’s most complicated movement platform. The Cosmic Rain takes its name from its dial, which features mother-of-pearl inlays on an aventurine glass dial base. Devoid of a brand logo or wordmark — a long-running Moser motif — the dial effectively evokes a night sky filled with streaking comets. Initial thoughts H. Moser & Cie. is probably best known for its minimalist designs, but the Cosmic Rain’s openworked construction reveals another side of the brand. So, too, does its raden dial, which is dressed up with shimmering strips of mother-of-pearl. The Cosmic Rain is quite compact for such a complicated watch at 40 mm in diameter and 14.4 mm thick — barely larger than some time-only watches. These wrist-friendly dimensions, combined with a lightweight titanium case, should make for a comfortable wearing experience. The calibre HMC 909 features an off-centre time display that reveals both the strike train and the tourbillon, which has been elevated — literally and figuratively — with a cylindrical hairspring. Unfortunately, the vestigial centre wheel pinion is unnecessarily exposed, revealing the calibre’s roots as a movement designed for central hour and minutes hands. There’s a lot to like about the Cosmic Rain, but it’s hard to find justification for the CHF...

Inside Naoya Hida & Co.: Luxury, Restraint, And Japanese Craft

If you value traditional Japanese lacquer over mass-market specs, check out Naoya Hida watches.More

The Latest Watch Releases: Parmigiani Fleurier, Breitling and H. Moser and more

Faux-tina or no-tina? Andrew and Justin dive deep into the Omega Speedmaster FOIS

Every Omega Speedmaster collector knows the Moonwatch. But what about the watch that started it all?

Introducing - The Lebois & Co Heritage Atelier with Clous de Paris and Stroopwafel Dials

Lebois & Co, an old name revived by Tom van Wijlick, a Dutch native, has steadily built a collection of classically styled, vintage-character watches. Last year’s Heritage Small Seconds introduced a compact dress watch series inspired by the brand’s mid-century archives. Now, two new references are launching the Heritage Atelier collection: the Small Seconds Clous […]

The New Seiko 5 Sports Field GMT Offers the Perfect Mix of Charm and Function

Breitling reunites the Top Time and Aston Martin DB5 with three automotive-inspired limited editions

Breitling introduces a limited-edition trio of Top Time 41's dedicated to Aston Martin's most iconic car of all time, the DB5.

New releases from Nomos, Maurice de Mauriac, Krayon and more

With Wimbledon having concluded just last week, the tennis inspiration is still strong in our minds. Maurice de Mauriac expands its Rallymaster collection with a new colourway celebrating Swiss tennis. NOMOS introduces two models whose crisp, clean dials would perfectly echo the tournament’s all-white dress code. At the same time, Krayon offers an escape from … Continued

Orlando Bloom and Porsche Design: Two Brits Take on Manhattan

Introducing - The Panerai Luminor Luna Rossa Chrono PAM01768 and Luna Rossa GMT PAM01791

As the countdown to the 38th America’s Cup in Naples continues, Panerai is once again turning to one of its most successful partnerships of recent years. Since teaming up with Luna Rossa in 2019, Panerai has made the partnership into a proving ground for its modern sports watches. That has given us a series of […]

Christopher Ward and The Dial Artist turns the Twelve into a hand-painted work of art

The Dial Artist is back again with what could be his most ambitious work yet, applying his graffiti style to a skeletonised movement.

Introducing - 1776 Atelier Celebrates Independence of the United States and Watchmaking with the Liberty 250

The resurgence of watchmaking in the United States is real. But not through what it used to be in the past, when American watches were produced in large quantities on an industrial scale. Should we complain? Absolutely not. Thanks to names such as RGM (a veteran compared to the rest), J.N. Shapiro or Keaton Myrick, […]

Hands-On: The Greubel Forsey Balancier 3 Blue And An Intro To Bonniksen

Double tourbillons, quadruple tourbillons, movements assembled with such three-dimensional ambition that they sit like sci-fi architecture on the wrist, every time I have a Greubel Forsey in hand, I'm reminded just how much the brand operates in its own lane. Yet there has always been something faintly contradictory about the Balancier 3, the model the brand first introduced in 2023 as its most moderate, most structurally legible entry point. With three bridges, a clean balance, no tourbillon, and no theatre, the Balancier 3 on paper is reserved. And yet my first thought with this recently released version on the wrist is that even a restrained Greubel Forsey is a startling object. Balanced beautifully between spotlighting its technicality and marrying that with a new execution, this might be the brand's simplest watch on paper, but it is not, by any reasonable measure, a simple watch. The Balancier 3 has been with us for three years now, and with this latest edition, the large central bridge has been hand-frosted across its entire curved surface. The result is a deep, matte texture, the kind of pronounced surface that a machine couldn't lay down convincingly on a shape this complex, running from the edge of the movement between one and two o'clock down to the seconds between seven and eight. Around it, the balance and barrel bridges remain in a bright, polished titanium, producing an incredibly captivating contrast of reflection and depth. Then there is the blue, worked i...