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…

For the 25th anniversary of Formex, the Swiss company has decided to release its first full-ceramic watch. This timepiece is known as the Formex Essence Ceramica 41mm. It comes in a few styles, and it’s honestly quite lovely to wear on the wrist. As the name of the watch implies, the Ceramica is based on…

Though it’s quite easy to forget this when looking at the watch world, sometimes less is more, and simpler is better. Simpler, however, is often much harder to get right. Poor design is easily covered in layers of otherwise unnecessary embellishments. The Rolex Oyster Perpetual presents simplicity at its very finest. Rolex added two new…

Back in March, just days before the organized chaos of Watches and Wonders, I spent a few days in Biel — or Bienne, depending on which language you speak there — getting acclimated to the Swiss time zone with plenty of döner kebabs and Haribo Goldbären along the way (trust me guys, they’re way better…

There are two things that I wear every day—my watch and my glasses. While my clothes always change depending on the day of the week—most concerning, whether I will be wearing a tie or not—my watch and glasses are the two things I always have on. Now, it should come as no surprise, given my…

For its latest release of 2025, Certina has expanded its popular DS Action Diver series with a new lineup of 40.5mm watches that occupy the space between the brand’s existing 38mm and 43mm Powermatic 80 models. At a quick glance, the new Certina DS Action Diver 40.5mm appears to be little more than an additional…