Some Haute Horlogerie creations can have a deterring effect. Sometimes it’s the price, sometimes it’s the style, sometimes it’s the materials used, and most often, it’s a combination of the
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Would you believe that a new Rado Over-Pole has been a long time coming? We’ll get to that in a moment, but thankfully the watch is here. How did Rado
MHD Watches are the brainchild of car designer Matthew Humphries. Getting his start in the world of automotive design (like, real deal, cars-driving-on-the-road auto design), he turned his car-inspired design
BY ERIK SLAVEN When watch brands are young these days, they’re often referred to as microbrands as they leverage crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, rely on outside vendors and have relatively low
The ‘active’ watch genre is gaining momentum. It’s a far more apt description for the types of general tool watches we often talk about, while at the same time encompassing
Yes, at 44.5mm the new Vero Workhorse is a large watch. I did try, but no shirt cuff will accept this big boy except my unbuttoned denim shirt. But despite
In the 1970s, Hamilton supplied British Royal Air Force pilots with hand-wound chronographs. The new Hamilton Khaki Pilot Pioneer Mechanical Chronograph is a tribute to the watches used by Lightning,
A German watchmaker building its name around a concept of imprecise time telling seems like a rather interesting paradox. The company espouses a watch to “keep time in a highly
I don’t know about you, but I feel like 2022 is turning into the year of collaborations. Months of internal turmoil and potential instability left many brands leaning on contemporaries
The Sherpa Ultradive and Sherpa OPS are two of the most intriguing watches I’ve laid eyes (and hands) upon recently. There’s far more to these watches than looks, though. If
During the Watches And Wonders hubbub a couple of weeks ago, you may have missed a rather compelling release — the 39mm Aquastar Deepstar Chronograph. I wrote a “hot take”
I’ve always been a fan of panda-dial chronographs. Although I’ve never actually owned one, whenever there’s one in the office, it immediately grabs my attention. And that’s exactly the case
One of my biggest fears is that I take things for granted. And by “things”, I mean both immaterial and material ones. Let me focus on the material side of
Some 50 years after the launch of the original, Doxa, along with retailer Watches of Switzerland, is bringing back one of their most distinctive designs in a re-issue of the
At my niece’s birthday last year, the news finally broke that I had become a total watch nerd. I finally showed my family the Instagram account I had been running
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