Buying Guide – Six Watches with Very Appealing Gradient Dials

Dials can come in all sorts of colours and decorative patterns, but one specific style that always seems to stand out more is the gradient dial. Also referred to as fumé or dégradé, the concept is fairly simple. You start with a certain colour in the middle and gradually darken it towards the edge. More often […]

3 months ago

Recap – The Best Pilot’s Watches of 2023

It might not be the most productive of categories, but the pilot’s watch remains one of the all-time important watch styles, even though its real-world relevance is more limited these days due to flight management systems. Nevertheless, nostalgia and vintage inspiration are still important drivers of the watch industry’s creativity, and for that reason, some […]

3 months ago

Buying Guide – Embracing the Winter Cold with Six Icy-White Watches

For a large part of the world, the cold season is setting in. Temperatures are dropping, daylight gets pushed back by darkness, snow and ice are grinding cities and towns to a halt and so on. To turn things around and embrace the cold, why not opt for a cool white watch for the winter […]

3 months ago

Introducing – The Wildly Reflective Surfaces of the Zenith Defy Extreme Mirror

Camouflage dials have been a big hit in the past couple of years, and we’ve covered several combat-ready models. Zenith pushes the camouflage concept to the extreme, giving its Defy Extreme a radical makeover with a reflective mirrored surface. Undoubtedly the boldest take on its high-performance 1/100th-of-a-second chronograph, the latest manifestation blends into its surroundings […]

4 months ago

Buying Guide – Some Of The Best Collaboration Watches We’ve Recently Come Across

“Put two creative people in a room, and watch the magic happen.” While it might not exactly work like that, a joint project between two designers, artists or brands can lead to wonderful new things. It happens in art, it happens in fashion, and as you’ve guessed it, it happens in watchmaking. Over the years, […]

4 months ago

First Look – The Zenith Defy Skyline Skeleton Night Surfer for Time+Tide

Whenever a movie is an absolute smash hit at the box office, a sequel is likely to follow. The same analogy can be made when it comes to (limited edition) watches. So when Time+Tide partnered with Zenith for the rather cool Defy Classic Night Surfer, and it proved a smash hit, a sequel was expected […]

4 months ago

Introducing – The Very Green Zenith Chronomaster Sport Aaron Rodgers Edition

Zenith teams up with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers for its latest version of the Chronomaster Sport. Decked out in the livery of the New York Jets, the Chronomaster Sport is equipped with the latest generation high-frequency El Primero chronograph calibre displaying 1/10th of a second. Designed by Aaron Rodgers, who also happens to be a […]

5 months ago