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Even in a watchmaking world filled with rare, exotic materials, nothing is as rare or exotic as elements sourced from outer space.

I hope it doesn’t become a trend, but for 2026, Tudor released a new watch in the form of the Tudor Northflag M9140G1A0U, outside of the typical Watches & Wonders new product launch period, which has traditionally been when Tudor and sister brand Rolex de…

While wristwatches and timepieces are indeed machines with technical parameters and performance differences, choosing a watch is a uniquely human task.

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel is away, which leaves Rick, David, and Ripley to make sense of a watch market in which price and positioning seem increasingly difficult to untangle.

Founded by fourth-generation watchmaker Sebastien Muller, Brellum is an independent Swiss brand that adheres to a strict output of just 299 watches per year, with every single one being an official COSC-certified chronometer.

If there were a city in the United States that could best be compared to the Swiss watch brand Tudor, it would probably be San Diego, California.

In the highest echelons of luxury watchmaking, sapphire cases are nothing new.

At some point or other, we’ve all dreamed of what our ideal watch would look like.

For the seventh consecutive year, Swiss watchmaker Mido is celebrating Mexico’s Día de los Muertos with a special-edition timepiece that brings the holiday’s distinctive artistic traditions to the wrist.

Eric Wind is often referred to as “the watch dealer to the stars,” and his company Wind Vintage specializes in high-end timepieces that range from contemporary luxury sports watches to rare vintage pieces with co-branded dials.

This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast, host and aBlogtoWatch founder, Ariel Adams, is joined by Lilian Thibault, founder of AWAKE Watches.

Distinctive independent British watch brand Bamford London has no shortage of unique, diverse releases in its back catalogue, but the marque has never produced its own dedicated, fully purpose-built diver until now.

Originally launched last year at Watches & Wonders 2025, the Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer is one of the most compelling new NOMOS models to debut in recent years, pairing the sporty ethos of the German brand’s Club collection with a practical and innova…

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I might be overthinking this, but you know me for doing that already.

Officially launched last year in 2025 as a premium sub-brand, Timex Atelier produces Swiss-made watches that continue the design language established by Giorgio Galli (Timex’s Chief Creative Director) in his eponymous series of timepieces.

The latest major timepiece collection release from Swiss Zenith is the Chronomaster Solo Sport watch collection.

I’m going to open this column with a dose of complete honesty: Rolex has never really resonated with me as a watch enthusiast or as a collector.

Originally introduced in 2019, the Shinola Detrola collection exists as the American brand’s entry-level timepiece offering, and the series has steadily expanded over the years.

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, David, and Ripley are back with an episode full of watches that are cheaper, pricier, and considerably weirder than expected.

We here at aBlogtoWatch are glad to announce Nick F. of Chippenham, UK as the winner of our Vostok Europe Jurgis Kairys Limited Edition watch giveaway.

The last time I reviewed a LUM-TEC Combat series aviator-style sports watch was back in 2010.

The Donut Watch Company is to Ming what the MAD Editions watches are to MB&F — a technically separate marque, but really a platform for lower-priced playfulness from the same people who bring you the Ming timepiece brand.

Backes & Strauss has announced a new partnership with professional tennis player Elina Avanesyan, bringing together the London watch and diamond house with an athlete whose Armenian heritage provides a particularly meaningful connection to the brand.

Within the context of watches with luminous tritium tubes, one of the most important models of all time is the Traser P6500 Type 6, which was created to fulfill a request from the United States Department of Defense.

Pilot’s watches and field watches are among the oldest types of purpose-built timepieces, and the differences that separate these two popular genres of tool watches are largely related to the style of their dials and hands.

This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast, host and aBlogtoWatch founder, Ariel Adams, is joined by longtime watch industry veteran Gary Girdvainis.

Over the past few years, it seems as though the esoteric, funky side of vintage watch collecting has permeated into the larger enthusiast discourse.

There are few places in the world of horology as renowned as the tiny Saxon town of Glashütte.

The go-anywhere, do-anything (GADA) watch is a byword in enthusiast watch culture, the Platonic ideal of a one-and-done watch collection.

Over the last several years, Jack Mason has been steadily redefining what it wants to be.

Can a brand whose motto is “Very Rare” have an entry-level watch?

Today, I’m starting a new column called Nobody Asked.

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ariel, David, and Ripley are back to tackle watches that dazzle, watches that feel like furniture, and watches that might be listening to everything you say.

Funny, right after typing that title, my immediate thought was: Has it ever cared?

It’s been a banner year for watches in video games.

Just off the coast of Miami sits the Florida Reef, a sprawling 350-mile-long barrier reef system comprising thousands of smaller reef clusters.

Luxury Swiss watchmaker Chronoswiss is giving one of its most unconventional watches a colorful new treatment with the Neo Digiteur Pastel Code, a trio of limited editions in Rose, Mint, and Sky.

Images by Ariel Adams The Baume & Mercier Riviera collection has always had something of an identity crisis in the modern era.

Ever since I first saw the Citizen L Rainell watches, I’ve wanted to feature them on aBlogtoWatch.

William Massena, the founder of the eponymous Massena LAB, first met Atelier Wen co-founders Robin Tallendier and Wilfried Buiron in New York in 2023.

Few, if any, brands can match Glashütte Original’s blend of under-the-radar sleeper appeal and sheer Teutonic build quality.