The introduction of the Tudor Black Bay 58 with a new burgundy dial and bezel was an “aha” moment for me that closed the loop on an exciting moment early in my watch writing career. But more importantly, it was a nice bookend to an idea that Tudor had 30 or so years ago but…

April 2025 is well under way, and as the dust settles from another exciting edition of Watches and Wonders, it’s time for us to return to one of our time-honored traditions – the watch giveaway. Our partner this month is OCTO, which will offer one lucky winner a classic daily-wear three-hander dripping with ’70s charisma.…

The Cartier Santos medium represents, to me, some of the best the brand has to offer. Recently, I spent some quality time with the Santos. Here are my thoughts. Cartier is a watch brand that represents many things to many people. Like Rolex, it has developed a little baggage simply because it has been so…

Watches and Wonders may have drawn most of our attention last week, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening elsewhere in the watch world. Baltic, one of the young guns making waves in recent years, announced a new limited edition. I got the chance to try it out. This is the new Baltic Scalegraph Tour…

The team at IFL Watches loves urban art. Quite a few of the brand’s hand-decorated dials are inspired by the colorful art that has graced New York City’s buildings, bridges, and metro trains through the decades. The iconic street art found its roots in NYC in the early 1970s and, from there, spread all over…

Cartier’s custom watch program, known as NSO, will end – at least in the way that we know it – as the vaunted French brand restructures how it makes unique timepieces for top clients. Cartier’s new Chief Executive Officer, Louis Ferla, who grew Vacheron Constantin into a $1 billion brand and among the top four…

Sometimes, it’s not the big flashy pieces that capture your eye. There’s plenty of that at Watches and Wonders, with high-end brands introducing super-limited watches that no one will ever see in real life except for the five diehard collectors to whom they were pre-sold. Even among other brands that don’t officially limit their production,…

Another historic French watch brand has been revived, and this time, it’s in a way we’ve never seen. Chronofixe, initially founded in the 1850s, became a well-known altimeter and Type 20 chronograph maker in the 1960s. After that, though, the brand went quiet. A virtually unknown Chronofixe watch, model Flight 1952, already surfaced a few…