The latest major timepiece collection release from Swiss Zenith is the Chronomaster Solo Sport watch collection. At launch, four models of the three-hand, high-beat automatic mechanical watches debut on the market. More than likely, additional cosmetic variations of the watch will trickle out over the next few years. The Chronomaster Solo Sport is a three-hand […]

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I’m going to open this column with a dose of complete honesty: Rolex has never really resonated with me as a watch enthusiast or as a collector. Maybe it’s my sense of contrarianism, maybe it’s my chronic, unrepentant hipster streak, or maybe it’s the psychological effects of collecting on a writer’s pay, but there are […]

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Originally introduced in 2019, the Shinola Detrola collection exists as the American brand’s entry-level timepiece offering, and the series has steadily expanded over the years. Earlier this year in 2026, Shinola added a duo of “Color Theory” models to the Detrola lineup that feature dials with a multi-color triangular pattern printed across their surfaces. While […]

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This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, David, and Ripley are back with an episode full of watches that are cheaper, pricier, and considerably weirder than expected. The guys start with H. Moser & Cie. going digital before turning to the state of watch marketing and why so many brands seem to have forgotten how to […]

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We here at aBlogtoWatch are glad to announce Nick F. of Chippenham, UK as the winner of our Vostok Europe Jurgis Kairys Limited Edition watch giveaway. Designed for the extreme rigors of aerobatic aviation and featuring a vibrant, proudly Lithuanian colorway, this is a modern pilot’s chronograph capable of handling anything in the sky. Your continuing participation […]

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The last time I reviewed a LUM-TEC Combat series aviator-style sports watch was back in 2010. At the time, I looked at the LUM-TEC Combat B7 watch. Today, 16 years later, I review an updated limited-edition model known as the LUM-TEC Combat B70 Automatic. The Ohio-based American watchmaker originally debuted the Combat series with the […]

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The Donut Watch Company is to Ming what the MAD Editions watches are to MB&F — a technically separate marque, but really a platform for lower-priced playfulness from the same people who bring you the Ming timepiece brand. Ever since SevenFriday debuted on the scene years ago with a Swiss-designed, Asian-made timepiece created with exciting designs […]

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Backes & Strauss has announced a new partnership with professional tennis player Elina Avanesyan, bringing together the London watch and diamond house with an athlete whose Armenian heritage provides a particularly meaningful connection to the brand. And this is more than an ambassador announcement: The partnership will ultimately result in a dedicated “Elina for Backes […]

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Within the context of watches with luminous tritium tubes, one of the most important models of all time is the Traser P6500 Type 6, which was created to fulfill a request from the United States Department of Defense. Beyond just being a pioneer in the use of tritium gas-filled tubes, the P6500 Type 6 also […]

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Pilot’s watches and field watches are among the oldest types of purpose-built timepieces, and the differences that separate these two popular genres of tool watches are largely related to the style of their dials and hands. For its latest release of 2026, the Swiss brand Formex has taken the foundation of its popular titanium field […]

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This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast, host and aBlogtoWatch founder, Ariel Adams, is joined by longtime watch industry veteran Gary Girdvainis. Drawing on a career that stretches back to the early days of International Watch magazine, Gary reflects on decades spent inside the watch business and how dramatically the relationships among brands, media, retailers, and […]

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Over the past few years, it seems as though the esoteric, funky side of vintage watch collecting has permeated into the larger enthusiast discourse. Beyond just the desire for smaller, more vintage sizes, collectors who only a few years ago would turn up their noses at buying anything but new production from established brands are […]

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There are few places in the world of horology as renowned as the tiny Saxon town of Glashütte. Though home to fewer than 7,000 residents and only a handful of brands, this mining-village-cum-watchmaking-mecca is synonymous with watchmaking excellence. Amidst this small fraternity of watchmakers, only a select few have roots that stretch all the way […]

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The go-anywhere, do-anything (GADA) watch is a byword in enthusiast watch culture, the Platonic ideal of a one-and-done watch collection. It’s at home in any situation, from poolside to boardroom, and whatever other clichés you want to throw at it. The Doxa SUB 200 T-Graph II is the exact opposite. Bold, brawny, and unconventional-looking, it […]

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Over the last several years, Jack Mason has been steadily redefining what it wants to be. The Dallas, Texas-based brand has moved well beyond its earlier fashion-watch roots, with watches like the Strat-o-timer GMT, Pursuit Pilot, and Canton establishing a catalog aimed squarely at enthusiasts. The Canton was an especially important step, arriving in its […]

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Can a brand whose motto is “Very Rare” have an entry-level watch? The question itself feels a bit like a paradox, particularly for a brand as committed to scarcity as H. Moser & Cie. With an annual production number that tops out in the thousands, and price tags that require a very understanding partner and/or […]

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Today, I’m starting a new column called Nobody Asked. It’s lighthearted, fun, and inconsequential. In it, I pair watches with things have few if any inherent horological indicators. To kick things off, I’m going to pick a team watch for each of the 32 teams in the National Football League. That’s American Football for our […]

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This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ariel, David, and Ripley are back to tackle watches that dazzle, watches that feel like furniture, and watches that might be listening to everything you say. The crew starts with a look behind the curtain at Dexel and the manufacturing capabilities that help make Formex such an interesting value […]

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Funny, right after typing that title, my immediate thought was: Has it ever cared? To be clear, the immediate answer in my mind was: I think, yes, it has cared before. If in no other ways, it cared about how people perceived it and perhaps also about how people felt when entering, purchasing at, and […]

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It’s been a banner year for watches in video games. More brands than ever before are embracing the power of digital product placement, resulting in partnerships that would have seemed impossible even a few years ago — lest we forget, the latest Bond watch debuted in a video game. Hamilton is a pioneer in this […]

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Just off the coast of Miami sits the Florida Reef, a sprawling 350-mile-long barrier reef system comprising thousands of smaller reef clusters. It is the only living barrier reef in the continental U.S., and like other coral populations around the world, it has suffered a precipitous decline over the past few decades due to the […]

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Luxury Swiss watchmaker Chronoswiss is giving one of its most unconventional watches a colorful new treatment with the Neo Digiteur Pastel Code, a trio of limited editions in Rose, Mint, and Sky. The new models retain the Neo Digiteur’s distinctive rectangular case and entirely mechanical digital time display, but pair that technical architecture with pastel […]

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Images by Ariel Adams The Baume & Mercier Riviera collection has always had something of an identity crisis in the modern era. Despite standing as an often overlooked entry-level luxury option in the ever-increasing integrated bracelet sports watch arms race, virtually no other model except for the Royal Oak itself can lay a better historic […]

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Ever since I first saw the Citizen L Rainell watches, I’ve wanted to feature them on aBlogtoWatch. This is a great-looking and original light-powered women’s watch with a blend of functionality and style. “Citizen L” presumably stands for “Citizen Ladies,” and the Rainell is currently one of its most popular models. Citizen first released this […]

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William Massena, the founder of the eponymous Massena LAB, first met Atelier Wen co-founders Robin Tallendier and Wilfried Buiron in New York in 2023. By then, Atelier Wen had spent years challenging assumptions about what “made in China” could mean in contemporary watchmaking, pairing a distinctly Chinese design vocabulary and traditional decorative arts with increasingly […]

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Few, if any, brands can match Glashütte Original’s blend of under-the-radar sleeper appeal and sheer Teutonic build quality. It’s a combination that makes for a plethora of tastefully restrained, brilliantly finished, and slightly offbeat designs, and its entry into the hotly contested integrated sports watch segment is no exception. While previous generations of the 70s […]

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All that glitters is not gold, and the marketing of modern watches is an excellent testament to that. We’ve all seen a watch online that looks absolutely stunning, only to have it fall unbelievably short when we finally see it in person. God help us if we’ve only gotten far enough to see it because […]

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This week on SUPERLATIVE, Ariel Adams is joined by Thomas J. Sandrin, founder of WatchDNA, to discuss what defines a watch brand and how consumers navigate an industry with more choices than ever. Thomas shares his journey from more than a decade with the Swatch Group and Hamilton to earning his MBA and launching Northern […]

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They say time is a flat circle… but does it have to be? For Ikepod, the brand’s design language was built upon the circle — from the original Seaslug to the iconic Hemipode, a lugless, circular form has been a hallmark of the brand. Yet, Ikepod is, above all else, a design house and in […]

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The cheerful Happy Diamonds collection of women’s watches from Chopard is where I first learned about the brand. Today, Chopard is extremely dynamic and impressive across a range of watch styles. One of the company’s sources of success has been its sharp focus on women’s watches, as much as men’s watches. That said, if you […]

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