Ever since I started intensively learning about watches in the early 2000s, one fact was abundantly apparent to me: I wasn’t going to be able to afford most of this stuff. Like many other watch lovers out there, my interaction with this hobby is one of both patience and abstinence. I simply cannot have much…

Sometimes, you just need a watch that’s ready to roll. Maybe you’ve got your hands full with the kids, you’re in a hurry because the rain is about to come down any minute, or you simply forgot to put on a watch that day (hypothetically speaking, of course). In all those cases, it would be…

Whenever we look back on a significant watch fair, whether Watches and Wonders or Geneva Watch Days, we tend to look for a pattern: in what direction is the industry heading? Is it about specific colors or materials brands are using? I feel that in the last few years, perhaps since COVID-19, pinpointing those things…

This is how to launch a dive watch — by diving with it. After all my years of waiting for a watch brand to take us diving with one of its new wristwatches, it was Geneva-based Tudor who finally managed to make it happen. The well-paid Rolex lawyers made sure we signed the politest of…

In this Sunday Morning Showdown, we will do things a little bit differently than we usually do. We want to put a neo-vintage Panerai — or at least nearly neo-vintage — up against a modern Panerai. Both are from the Radiomir collection but with a nearly 20-year gap in production date. We see that the…

In a world where luxury watches abound, standing out is no small feat. Yet every two years, brands assemble for the Only Watch auction, flex their creative muscles, and allow themselves to go wild. The result is a collection of fantastic, unique pieces that never cease to amaze me as I scroll through the catalog,…

After years of me harassing them with emails and phone calls, IWC has finally answered my prayers and released a duo of Big Pilot’s watches inspired by the Mercedes G-Class SUV! Continuing its partnership with Mercedes, which more popularly involves the automaker’s Formula 1 team, IWC has debuted two new versions of its Big Pilot…

When tracing the roots of the modern pilot’s watch, all roads inevitably lead to World War II. It’s no secret that today’s pilot template has its origins in the flieger designs produced by brands such as Laco, A. Lange & Söhne, and IWC for the German Luftwaffe during that conflict, and to this day there’s…