Since 2019, BA111OD has offered edgy, affordable Swiss timepieces. The brand from Neuchatel offers a tourbillon, manufacture complications, and several avant-garde mechanical watches. The models even have chapter names, and today’s piece, the Chapter 7, is the first to receive a chronometer certification. With rising prices from many traditional “high street” brands, smaller independent watch…

Despite being one of the most popular segments in modern watchmaking, the “integrated sports watch” is as often as not a misnomer. Certainly, these watches carry on the avant-garde, holistic integrated design philosophy that launched the category in the ‘70s, but far too often the sporting component of these designs is only skin-deep. Low water…

Here’s a question that might surprise you: who’s your favorite Bruce Wayne? Your answer doesn’t necessarily also mean he’s your favorite Batman. So, who is it? Is it George Clooney because of his undebatable good looks? Perhaps it’s Robert Pattinson, although, in The Batman, there are just a few scenes in which he plays the…

This is an article written out of love, I swear. And it’s one that’s a long time coming (actually, I started outlining this over the summer of 2024!) – because many of these thoughts (or, er, grievances/gripes) have been in the back of my mind for years. YEARS. These are things that, today, in 2025,…

What We Know We’re starting to glimpse at the release cycle for the “new” Louis Vuitton. The brand is balancing out the Tambour one year with the Escale the next, then back to the Tambour with the Taiko Spin Times this year. While those Spin Times captivated people’s attention during LVMH watch week, a whole…

Japanese movement manufacture MIYOTA’s history began in 1959 when Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. established a factory to manufacture movements for its own watches. MIYOTA movements are now used in a wide array of luxury watches, and MIYOTA’s analog quartz Caliber 20 Series and mechanical Caliber 80 Series, both of which have over 40 years’ history,…

What We Know Today, G-SHOCK launched a new addition to its flagship, high-end MR-G series: the MRG-B2100R-2A. While the rectangular G-SHOCK icon of the 5000 series received the MR-G treatment a few years ago, last year marked the first time the highly popular 2100 series received a luxury makeover, with two examples in titanium and…

Of course, you are familiar with Omega and, most probably, Armin Strom as well. But did you know that Armin Strom, founder of the eponymous brand, was once the artisan doing all the skeleton work for Omega in the 1990s? Skeleton watches The art of movement skeletonization is old, and we still see it today…