HANDS-ON: The Tusenö Windseeker is a handsome watch with 1970s swagger
These days it’s not as impressive as it once was to have a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign. If you have a watch with an original design that offers good value for money, then you’ve got a great chance of hitting your goal. What’s not as easy to do is become your country’s most funded watch … Continued
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While some are finally shaking the sentiment off, it is no secret that watch snobs love to dismiss and knock quartz watches. And, I get it. The quartz crisis nearly rendered the mechanical timepieces we all love extinct. So it is easy to understand why horology lovers are so protective of mechanical watchmaking. That being … 
Since I first wrote about the French brand Yema in 2020, they have come a long way in both their catalogue and their audience. New in-house movements, bronze cases, and expansion of their core ranges are all effects of their vast popularity and brand status beyond the micro. Although some of those new releases have … 
In late 2020, in the midst of a pandemic, Benrus released the Type 1 diver. Two years later, they followed up with the Type II. These watches were faithful reissues of the ’70s originals the brand created for the U.S. Military, with both offering a straightforward, no-nonsense militaristic vibe that Benrus has quite a claim … 
As prestigious as the tourbillon is, the watches that include them can often suffer from an air of pretension, as if the complication is all they need to represent the pinnacle of horology. For those watch enthusiasts who prefer more substance, the Horage Lensman 1 merges horological significance with a genuine passion for film photography … 
Rolex and Omega are the Coke and Pepsi of the watch industry. As two of the biggest brands in the world, they are constantly pitted up against one another head to head. Since the brand’s inception, Rolex has been known for incremental progress and updates. Omega, on the other hand, has taken more risks and … 
It’s been a good couple of years for Zenith (waiting lists and all), and they’re off to a blazing start for 2023 with the release of the new Defy Skyline Skeleton at LVMH Watch Week in Singapore. This integrated model has been a popular pick since it was introduced, and the new version features some … 
The idea of a re-edition within the watch market is nothing new. Many brands have woken up to the huge demand for revivals, recreations, or remixes of their lauded vintage references. But when these designs date to the specialist era of watchmaking, where multiple brands turned to the same dial, case, and movement manufacturers, there … 
Hublot is known for going wild. Coloured ceramics and sapphires, extreme material exploration, and crazy cool collabs. But this past LVMH Watch Week, amongst the neon-sapphire tourbillons and rainbow-bedazzled Big Bangs, a stand out for me personally was their new Hublot Classic Fusion Original collection. The range, at times, hides in the shadow of their … 
How would you celebrate your 60th birthday? Go skinny dipping? Maybe skydiving? Break 100mph on the speedometer? Though all those things sound intriguing, they are not really celebratory options for a watch. Well, one of them could be if we’re talking about the latest release from TAG Heuer. And that would be the new Carrera …