Today, we are in Montecito, California, for the unveiling of a collaboration from two brands we didn’t necessarily predict would collaborate – but maybe we should have? Louis Vuitton Watches, spearheaded by Jean Arnault, and Rexhep Rexhepi’s Akrivia have come together to create a profoundly complicated timepiece that fuses the sensibilities (in both style and…

On October 23, 2023, Zodiac Watches will unveil the latest wristwatch design collaboration with aBlogtoWatch founder, Ariel Adams. The new watch will be called the Zodiac Super Sea Wolf Pineapple Dream and is a companion product that was originally conceived along with the first wristwatch collaboration between Zodiac and Ariel Adams. In 2021, Zodiac and Adams…

Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch advertiser  Having served some 70,000 customers in 110 countries around the world with their affordable and elegant watches and accessories, the three brothers behind Waldor & Co. are launching their first automatic watch, the Continual 39 Amalfi. Waldor & Co. is a Swedish watch brand founded in 2012 by three…

The world’s watery depths are some of the most remote and hazardous places to explore.  Deep-cave diving, then, is perhaps an extreme sport within an extreme sport. Fratello speaks to one man who has set world records for diving in these forbidding places and who relies on Casio watches for life-risking work underwater. He has…

The Watch Library is a new charitable foundation “commited to preserving and promoting the world’s watchmaking heritage.” In September, it introduced a new digital platform that allows the public access to more than 320,000 archival documents. These come from sources like Europa Star, the International Watchmaking Museum (MIH), HSNY, and others. The Watch Library Foundation…

This week on the Superlative Podcast, host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by another return guest, Barry Cohen, the CEO and Founder of ProTek Watches and Managing Partner of Time Concepts, LLC. To start the show, Ariel and Barry talk about how ProTek is doing currently and the changing dynamic of retail that has occurred…

In the very last paragraph of the introduction article for the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 70th Anniversary Act 3, I asked you to let the watch and its price sink in. I also wrote that I would do the same and return with a follow-up article in which the Fifty Fathoms was put in its natural…

While I love mechanical watches as much as the next enthusiast, I will freely admit that solar quartz movements are the superior option when it comes to flat-out practicality. Quartz watches are inherently more durable and accurate than their mechanical counterparts, and once you remove the need for routine battery replacements, you are left with…