As Nacho pointed out a few weeks ago, 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of NASA’s qualification of the Speedmaster for use in space. As you’ve probably noticed, there’s no new Omega Speedmaster Professional to commemorate this qualification by NASA. Instead, the folks at Omega chose to discuss the Speedmaster’s qualification on the brand’s social media…

The all-new MB&F Special Projects Collection and its SP One debut watch might just be the first release in my 12 years of covering the brand where I did not immediately know what to say about it or how best to approach it. While the MB&F Horological Machines used to be bombastic, futuristic and/or organic…

What happens when one of horology’s most radical voices tries its hand at something classically elegant? You get the MB&F SP One. At just 38mm across and 12mm thick, it’s the smallest and slimmest watch the brand has ever made. But don’t let that fool you. This might be a more compact, dress-watch-adjacent MB&F, but…

What We Know MB&F just launched its slimmest and smallest watch ever, and it’s a dress watch. No, seriously, a pair of time-only watches with a 38mm case offered in two metals. Now, of course, this is MB&F we’re talking about, so the term “dress watch” is used very differently than how most other brands…

Although Serica first and foremost produces watches for the general public, the French independent brand also creates custom-order pieces for different law enforcement and military groups. Most of these special-order pieces are never formally offered to individuals outside of the specific organizations that have commissioned them, and some of these watches are kept entirely classified,…

Sometimes less is more, and among the less complex timepieces that Vacheron Constantin unveiled this year at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2025 are a two anniversary-edition models from the brand’s Traditionnelle collection that feature simple time-only displays. Available in either pink gold or platinum with each produced as a limited edition of 370 examples, the…

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick starts the show referencing an experiment regarding ABTW’s 1,110+ pages and a gazillion-ish reviews over 15 years, which prompts Ariel to wax nostalgic about the watches of yore. But there’s a point, and that’s Ariel’s thesis that, “Once you begin collecting watches, you can’t go back.” This has multiple…

To celebrate World Oceans Day in 2023, Citizen created the UNITE with BLUE collection, which consisted of five limited-edition models with dials that showcased a unique pigment-free structural ink. Rather than using pigments to achieve their colors, Citizen’s structural ink dials produce a dynamic range of hues by reflecting light off the surfaces of microstructures…