Long-form notes on the watches worth following, the pieces I collect, and the craft behind them — written between sessions at the bench.
Vulcain adds three colours to the Skindiver Nautique GMT — turquoise and pink in 100 pieces each, green in just 50. Underneath it is unchanged: a 38.3 mm steel…
Pequignet drops a genuine black onyx dial into the 39 mm Attitude, with 5N rose-gold indices and the in-house Calibre Initial — 72% French-made, 4 Hz, 65 hours…
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Toledano & Chan have engraved dazzle camouflage across the case, bracelet and dial of the b/1 in grade 5 titanium. The standard Dazzle is 188 pieces at USD…
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TAG Heuer marks a decade with Oracle Red Bull Racing by putting the team's blue, red and yellow on a 38 mm sandblasted steel Formula 1. The TH50-00 Solargraph…
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Raymond Weil closes its 50th-anniversary year on the date its founder would have turned 100. The Freelancer World-Traveller puts a relief Mercator world map…
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Depancel strips the dial off its rectangular Serie-R chronograph. The skeletonised Peacock SL-4802 - column wheel, vertical clutch, 55-hour power reserve - is…
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Mido brings its Day of the Dead series to the square Multifort TV for the first time, trading the plain calavera for Pedro Linares alebrijes engraved in…
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Two Saxon manufactures, one dial. Glashutte Original's Senator Meissen Cherry Blossom pairs a 0.8 mm hand-painted Meissen porcelain dial with the 100-hour…
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Angelus follows the Chronographe Telemetre with a tachymeter-scaled trio of monopusher chronographs. Same compact 37 mm x 9.25 mm case and hand-wound…
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Armin Strom pushes its entry-level dress watch to the opposite extreme. The Tribute3 Au750 puts 18k rose gold into the case, the dial plate and all three…
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Wren's second act abandons the dive watch entirely. The Vessel is a 39 mm square cushion in 904L steel, 10.6 mm thick, built around a custom sapphire crystal…
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Nomos finally fixes the Metro's one real annoyance. The Metro Date Power Reserve Ice Blue debuts the in-house hand-wound DUW 4701 with a patented quick-set…
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RGM puts a perpetual calendar on its 501 platform: 39mm steel, white Grand Feu fired enamel dial, moon phase, and an RGM-modified ETA 2892-A2 with a custom…
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Bremont builds the Supermarine as a blue ceramic shell over a titanium inner case: 43mm, 13mm thick, 500m water resistance and just 74 grams. Calibre BB64AH…
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Baltic takes the Hermetique to Iceland with a forged carbon outer track, a fully luminous white centre and applied 0.5mm solid lume blocks in two colours -…
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Moser rolls its sportiest complication across three families at once. Pioneer Skeleton (3251-1200), Streamliner (6252-1200) and Endeavour (1252-1200), all 40mm…
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The 2014 watch that first gave Jacob & Co. a voice comes back as ref. PT500.40.NS.AC.ABALA. A 43mm rose gold case, red transparent mineral dial, one-minute…
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Timex gives the Marlin its first cushion case. 36mm wide, 12mm thick, 44.5mm lug-to-lug, a Miyota 8215 automatic behind a display caseback and applied…
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Hamilton revives its 1920s cushion case as a six-reference collection in 30mm and 34mm, powered by the hand-wound H-42 (Peseux 7001) with a 57-hour reserve. At…
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