It’s Sunday morning, so it’s time for a cup of coffee and a new installment of Sunday Morning Showdown. This week, we continue the series with another watch unveiled during Watches and Wonders. The most talked-about Tudor release was, without a doubt, the new Pelagos Ultra. This new beefed-up and modernized version of the regular…

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel gets right to his most burning question: Why is everyone still so worried about tariffs? Because he isn’t. In contrarian fashion, Ariel is worried about other things, like the watch industry eating its own tail. What does he mean by this? Tune in to find out. On the various…

Asymmetrical-shaped watches are having a moment. But if you ask the two founders behind the new Hong Kong-based brand Nectere, they’ll be quick to point out that they have been thinking about them well before this current wave of funky-case fever. Enter the Nectere Order from Chaos watch collection, a limited series of manually wound…

There were plenty of standout releases at Watches and Wonders 2025, but one watch keeps coming up in my memories. The Arnold & Son Constant Force Tourbillon 11 was a delight in the metal. Plus, the reason for the watch centers on a story with actual meaning. Watch companies indeed find a reason to celebrate…

As a watch brand, tying oneself too closely to a single niche is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, becoming the company synonymous with a given type of watch is a fantastic marketing opportunity. However, it can also severely limit the sort of creativity the company can engage with moving forward, as fans view…

You’re probably aware of the butterfly effect. It’s the idea that small, seemingly trivial events may ultimately result in something with much larger consequences. But what does that have to do with watches? Well, the principle inspired a new collection from a new brand initiated by James Wong and Tony Yip from Hong Kong. Yesterday,…

The Neistat Brothers, an HBO series from the early 2000s, put Casey and Van Neistat on the map over a decade ago, but since then, both brothers have taken different paths, ultimately making their careers on YouTube. Casey, first, with his viral daily vlogs catapulting him to one of the most famous people on the…

What We Know Four years ago, Furlan Marri scratched the right itch at the right time with a Kickstarter star of a series with MechaQuartz-powered Tasti Tondi-inspired chronographs at an affordable price. It was the kind of thing that could have just been a Covid-era flash in the pan, but Furlan Marri turned it into…