It’s OK; you don’t have to like the Patek Philippe Cubitus — ever. You can carry your vitriol around like a badge of honor and scream to the heavens. That’s fine, but if you choose to do so, you’ll miss a pretty damn decent watch. We can agree that the 45mm original was and is…

I must confess that I am not a big gamer, so I had to brush up on my knowledge of Death Stranding to create a bit more context before putting the Hamilton Boulton Death Stranding 2 Limited Edition on my wrist. The watch was created to celebrate the release of the hit game’s sequel. As…

Offering an overall appearance that could best be described as a Cartier Santos combined with one of the robots from Michael Bay’s Transformers films, the Hublot Square Bang collection takes the fundamental DNA of the brand’s signature Big Bang timepiece and expresses it within the context of a square-shaped profile. Since debuting in 2022, Hublot’s…

The Tudor Black Bay 58 (formerly “Fifty-Eight”) was a smash hit when it debuted in 2018. At Watches and Wonders this year, the winning formula received an update. For that reason, now is as good a time as any to consider picking up one of the previous versions on the used market. Tudor’s Black Bay…

The VicenTerra AstroLUNA collection of watches is the most recent collection of timepieces from the boutique Swiss watchmaker founded by Vincent Plomb. The AstroLUNA is offered in two case styles, both in grade 5 titanium metal. The smaller VicenTerra AstroLUNA case is known as the “Classic” and is more traditionally round and 41.5mm wide. The…

Another Sunday morning, another showdown. Grab your hot cup of coffee and get ready to vote! This week, it’s all about popular retro dive watches. One is the recently released white-dial Longines Legend Diver. It was met with much praise from media and fans alike as a brighter alternative to the black- and blue-dial options.…

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick starts the show with a question about Ariel’s recent column about luxury watch pricing and its downstream effects. Ariel has much to say about this topic beyond the obvious. Who knew this was a can o’ worms? Leave it Ariel to dig up questions in a space that seems…

Limited-edition watches come in many shapes and sizes. And numbers. Almost every brand active in the luxury watchmaking sector makes LEs for countries, cities, retailers, car brands, sports teams, individual athletes, pilots, significant events, bands, fictional characters, artists, etc. Yes, the list of reasons to create a limited-edition watch seems unlimited, and that can hardly…