In April 2024, Zenith introduced the Defy Extreme Diver, a bold and modern dive watch. The brand is most famous for its chronographs, so a new diver is big news. The initial release brought a pair of black- and blue-dialed watches. Today, an icy silver version joins the lineup as a serial-production model. This year’s…

The Somerset is the first model from the new watch brand Tennet. The company is based out of the small Asian city-state of Singapore: a hot spot for watch collecting and enthusiasm. There have been a number of start-up watch companies from Singapore over the years, and the results are typically very interesting, ranging from…

Welcome back to another Sunday Morning Showdown! Grab a coffee, take a nibble of your croissant, and warm up your voting finger. Daan and Thomas are back at each other’s throats this week. Today’s theme? Casquette-shaped watches with roots in the 1970s. How about that for a niche? Don’t go complaining that this is apples…

The 2024 Winter Auction Season in Geneva took very little time to warm up. Only the 14th lot of the over 1,600 on offer has made headline news. Friday afternoon Geneva time, F.P. Journe’s second wristwatch ever made, a Tourbillon Souverain à Remontoire d’Egalité from 1993, hammered for CHF 6,000,000, with an all-in price tag…

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick is joined by Ariel, David, and Ripley (is Ripley sipping Scotch?) on U.S. Election Day. The subject of watches is more of a balm than surveying the political landscape, alas. Ripley is happy that he can now wear his Mondaine Stop-to-Go watch since most U.S. states have “fallen back” to…

It’s been about five years since German watchmaker Glashütte Original introduced the SeaQ dive watch collection, inspired by the 1969 Spezimatic Type RP TS 200 watch made during the company’s Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe (GUB) era. As is customary with any newer range, the brand spent the next few years expanding the SeaQ lineup, including adding a…

The world of microbrands can be weird. The industry’s logic only applies to some of these brands. What should not work does, and what is supposed to be a hit is often a flop. But it’s also a wonderful world because exceptional timepieces like the Albishorn Type 10 are occasionally released. When a genuinely exceptional…

We are back with another installment of Back to Basics, the series aimed at newcomers to our beloved hobby. This time, we focus on watch etiquette. What are the rules of engagement when it comes to watches? Of course, you can do whatever you like. Rules are there to be broken, right? Still, it is…