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How Much Would You Pay For Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko?

How Much Would You Pay For Freddie Mercury’s Plastic Seiko?

A prime example of a niche Seiko with unmatched provenance is blowing its estimate out of the water. It’s been a bit of a quiet summer in...

Rediscovering A Revolution: Unconventional Watch Design

Rediscovering A Revolution: Unconventional Watch Design

Is the pendulum ready to swing back to watches that are anything but ordinary? Tastes in watches currently heavily favor conservative, an...

Who Says A Summer Watch Has To Be A Sports Watch?

Who Says A Summer Watch Has To Be A Sports Watch?

Because life’s not always a beach. The minute that Memorial Day rolls around (at least here in the United States) watch writers imm...

The Bombshell Vs. the Bomb: Barbie and Oppenheimer

The Bombshell Vs. the Bomb: Barbie and Oppenheimer

When worlds collide and atoms split, there’s only one thing to do — talk watches. There are moments in history that are clear dividing li...

The Calculated Chaos Of The Cartier Crash

The Calculated Chaos Of The Cartier Crash

Watchmaking’s happiest non-accident. Writing about something that’s a cultural institution comes with certain philosophical p...

We may not want to admit it, but quartz is here to stay — and that’s a good thing. When we talk about watch enthusiasts, what we usually ...

The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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The Tourbillon In The 2000s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tourbillon evolution, fast forward. The tourbillon, as we’ve seen, was for the most part a device used quite rarely in watchmaking ...

A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

A Purely Personal Take on Watches & Wonders 2023

Refreshes, Reboots and Disruptions from Rolex Watches and Wonders 2023 is the last remaining instance of a kind of event that used to d...

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

Standouts From Watches and Wonders 2023

High notes from the biggest industry event of the year. One thing that makes watch collecting an absolute joy is diversity of opinion. ...

The Cartier Tortue Monopoussoir, Collection Privée Cartier Paris

The Cartier Tortue Monopoussoir, Collection Privée Cartier Paris

Although the Collection Privée Cartier Paris (CPCP) watches were produced for a relatively short period of time, from 1998 to 2008, the w...

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

Jack’s Picks: The Astonishing World of Horological Gem-Setting

There is among watch enthusiasts a tendency to dismiss gem-set watches as purely decorative objects whose primary function is to act as a...

In The Details: The Case for Tonneau Cases

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In The Details: The Case for Tonneau Cases

The vast majority of watches are round—quite simply because that’s the shape of their main component, the wheel. In addition to this prac...

The Evolution of the Cartier Santos

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The Evolution of the Cartier Santos

Rugged, oversized, round, complicated: these are all common characteristics of a typical pilot’s watch. Rarely do complication-free, squa...

Yellow Gold’s Comeback

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Yellow Gold’s Comeback

Yellow gold was a classic from the 1960s to the 80s, after which it was considered old-fashioned, garish, and outmoded. By 2020, 80s-insp...

The Top Ten Pilot Watches

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The Top Ten Pilot Watches

Ready for take-off? Authentic pilot watches are still quite a rarity. Here’s our Top 10. 1. The most popular: Rolex GMT-Master II Does th...

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

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Limited Addiction: The Best of Limited Editions

Let’s face it, acquiring a watch that only a select few others will own is always an appealing proposition. We live in an industry satura...

8 Things to Know About IWC

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8 Things to Know About IWC

There’s a lot we all know about the beloved International Watch Company. Famed for their iconic pilot’s watch collection, the longstandin...

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

Diving Deeper: Dive Watches For the Record Books

When it comes to dive watches, depth rating is always a talking point. Though recreational divers never breach the 100m mark, every dive ...

The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

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The Power of Necessity | Innovation in Watchmaking

As the world remains at home, we are forced to come together—remotely, of course—to find a new way to work and solve novel problems. The ...