In my nearly 25 years of watch-collecting experience, I’ve gone through various phases as an adult. When I became seriously interested in watches, I was still discovering myself. Being social,
In my nearly 25 years of watch-collecting experience, I’ve gone through various phases as an adult. When I became seriously interested in watches, I was still discovering myself. Being social,
One of the newer collections of diver-style enthusiast watches from Italian Out Of Order (OOO) is the Diverissimo Azteco (Aztec) model family. Out Of Order currently produces the Diverissimo Azteco
In the exciting world of patent law, “trademark policing” refers to the active maintenance in which a brand engages to prevent a product from suffering “genericide” — the dreaded late
Reviving The U.S. Watch Industry Since April’s tariff bedlam, American watchmaking has received more attention than usual. For Los Angeles-based haute horology brand J.N. Shapiro, the timing was fortuitous (even
For its latest release of 2025, IWC has unveiled a limited-edition version of the Portugieser that is equipped with a tourbillon, a flyback chronograph, and retrograde date display. While this
Over the course of the last several years, Norqain has been steadily building out its catalog with different sizes and variations of its most popular models. Originally launched in 2021,
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, the conversation kicks off with a round of applause for Tudor (applause is the new clap-in), followed by an examination of whether the watch industry
The term “Black Bay” is now synonymous with the Swiss Tudor watch brand, but it wasn’t always that way. For most of Tudor’s history, it was the baby sibling of
Following the success of their original collaboration series, Louis Erard and Konstantin Chaykin have teamed up once again to create a new duo of limited-edition “Time Eater” watches. While previous
For the last few years, Toronto-based Marathon Watch Company has released a special timepiece for the occasion of Canada Day (July 1st). The 2025 edition of the Marathon Canada Day
In the world of independent watchmaking, few brands have captured the poetic side of time quite like CIGA design. With the release of the Blue Planet II, Atlantic, the brand
When Tudor first launched the Pelagos FXD Chrono “Cycling Edition” as one of its releases for 2024, most of us thought the model would be somewhat of a one-off creation,
A steel-cased Greubel Forsey wristwatch without a tourbillon? Is this new limited-edition Balancier Contemporain timepiece a relative deal? Not exactly. Even though the comparatively mechanically simple timepiece is basic compared
Founded in 2021, Mu:n (pronounced “moon”) is a French independent brand, and just as its name suggests, Mu:n specializes in moonphase watches. The company’s latest creation is known as the
Kaenos — derived from the Greek kainos — describes something new or fresh. And the MeisterSinger Kaenos certainly is that. Debuting just in time for Watches and Wonders 2025, MeisterSinger’s