I was in Italy a few weeks ago working on a piece for Hodinkee Magazine Vol. 12 (coming soon!), but one watch I saw there was so special I had to share it now. It’s a Cartier I didn’t even know existed, and I’d bet a lot of others don’t know about it either. This…

The 2023 Boulton Quartz is a watch from Hamilton’s American Classic collection. Indiana Jones can be called an American classic too. The two pair up in the fifth and final adventure movie starring the whipping archeologist, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. It’s a movie that takes place in 1969 with, for the first…

It’s no secret that the watch industry is currently trending toward smaller, more demure models across nearly every product line, and the enthusiast public’s response to this wave of compact, reserved designs is largely positive. Despite the success of these less extravagant, more conservative designs, however, there’s still room in the current watch landscape for…

I’m lost trying to pick my GADA watch. It’s another incredibly difficult task from the editorial team in The Hague, probably conjured up to test us non-Dutch editors to see who cracks under pressure. And it worked by giving me a panic attack for about 30 seconds (that felt longer). Any story about one favorite…

Omega had quite a busy day in Mykonos where it unveiled 11 new watches to commemorate the Seamaster’s 75th anniversary (we wrote about it here, here, here, and even here). It teased these new models throughout the last few days with many speculating that new case designs and bracelets were on the horizon.  Instead, Omega…

With a day of releases that seems to have touched nearly every part of the Seamaster lineup, of course the brand couldn’t leave out its two deepest-diving watches, the Planet Ocean 600M and Seamaster Planet Ocean 6000M Ultra Deep. These two watches are built to withstand serious pressure and both have gotten a new –…

You may be noticing a trend in today’s coverage – a lot of Omega releases. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, the reason for so many releases is the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the entire Seamaster line which dates back to 1948 (…which was 75 years ago). Now that we’ve cleared…

For the summer of 2023 and to celebrate the collection’s 75th anniversary, Omega launches 11 new Seamaster Summer Blue watches — 11 new references spread across seven collections that the brand lists under the Seamaster category. Specifically, it is the Omega Aqua Terra, Worldtimer, Seamaster 300, Seamaster Diver 300M, Planet Ocean, Ploprof, and Ultra Deep…