The team at aBlogtoWatch is excited to announce Robert M. of Sarasota, USA as the winner of our AVI-8 Flyboy Tuskegee Airmen Meca-Quartz Limited Edition watch giveaway. With its bold colors and its thoughtful nods to aviation history, this should be a handsome reminder of some of World War II’s most heroic aviators for years…

Not every watch we write about has to be high horology, after all. At $179 for a quartz watch, you know exactly where you stand with the Timex World Time. It’s a watch that leans heavily on design rather than complexity and that unique throwback of design language is what garnered a lot of attention…

With Tiffany & Co. now in its LVMH-owned era, we’ve been keeping an eye on what new watches will be released by the brand. Back in the spring of this year, a collection of Union Square Limited-Edition watches were released to celebrate the reopening of the Tiffany & Co. flagship boutique on Fifth Avenue in…

Oscar Wilde once said: “When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money.” I think you can swap the word “artists ”for “watch aficionados”, to paint a pretty accurate picture of the state of the watch world nowadays. Talking watches has more and more become talking…

What We Know The countdown to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris has officially begun. With one year until the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad officially begin on July 26, 2024, Omega has launched the Seamaster 300M “Paris 2024” Limited Edition. For now, Omega says it’ll only be available at Omega boutiques in Paris. The…

In 2022, Swiss watchmaker Cuervo y Sobrinos debuted the first pieces in the Historiador Ernest Hemingway collection of watches. The Ernest Hemingway collection began with two simple limited-edition three-hand models to celebrate the famed American author. The success of the initial Hemingway timepieces allowed Cuervo y Sobrinos to develop more Ernest Hemingway models, including this…

More often than I would like, I find myself in a discussion about the resale value of a watch. I’d rather discuss why someone wants a watch. To understand where their connection and attraction to a specific timepiece comes from. But perhaps, for some people, the resale value is one of their reasons. Another topic…

This Historiador Hemingway Iconico is one of three new Ernest Hemingway collection watches launched by watchmaker Cuervo y Sobrinos in 2023. It also happens to be what the winner of Key West’s 2023 42nd Annual Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike contest is wearing. (I must admit the likeness was uncanny, and the watch was presented by Ernest…