During Geneva Watch Days 2024, Gerald Charles announced the exclusive Maestro 4.0 Ducati 30° Anniversario 916 created in collaboration with Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati. The watch celebrates the 30th anniversary of the legendary Ducati 916 motorcycle. It features Gerald Charles’s well-known Maestro case with a ruby-red vulcanized rubber strap for the occasion. Gerald Charles Maestro…

Ayrton Senna da Silva (1960–1994) was much more than a brilliant Brazilian racing driver. He was a unique talent with a particular character and an inspiration to many. This year marks the 30th anniversary of his tragic death following a crash at the Imola circuit. Later this month, the six-episode Netflix series Senna will come…

Just a month or so ago, a brand — high on hype and no stranger to marketing mishaps — announced an objectively beautiful watch with what it called a “new old-stock” movement. It even went so far as to put it in the model’s name. Up until that point, I had been under the impression…

IFL Watches keeps surprising us with creative new artwork gracing the dials of watches from various makers. With the Stockholm-based brand’s newest customized dial, we are transported to the world of Arabian Nights. The canvas for this creative journey is the black-dial version of the quartz Tissot PRX. It forms the perfect backdrop for IFLW’s…

Over the past year, I’ve collected watches from the ’40s and ’50s. Watches with Dennison cases are impossible to avoid when focusing on this early period. The Birmingham, England-based company was a notable case maker for Omega, Longines, and more until its closure in 1967. Today, the name returns with a very different set of…

The lethargic days of summer are now fully in the rearview after a somewhat sleepy September. October 2024 was chock full of headlines from the watch world, the biggest of which was Patek breaking out its first new collection in a quarter-century. It ignited a firestorm that our friends at Horlonomics and Fratello counterbalanced, explaining…

Around this time two years ago, Seiko introduced its first trio of Speedtimer Solar Chronograph models. The series combines vintage-inspired looks with modern technology at an affordable price, making it a tempting proposition that many watch enthusiasts embraced. Since then, the line has been slowly expanding with variations in different sizes and colorways. The newest…

While there are a number of different companies that make watches with tritium-tube displays, Traser is the house brand for MB-Microtec, which is the Swiss manufacturer responsible for producing the luminous gas-filled tritium tubes that are used throughout the industry. Given that Traser was originally created in 1989 following a request for a new mil-spec…