Absolute Beginners: Start your watch collection with these 5 stylish pieces that street for under US$50 each
In a recent pitch meeting, Zach our editor was slightly (OK, quite) dubious when I proposed the idea that a legit timepiece could be had for less than US$50. Sure, reams of plastic digital watches can be found for less than that price point from the rotating watch display of your local big box discount … Continued
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Welcome to this new weekly column! Each week, we will recap some of the best watch releases of the previous seven days. Whether novelties they’re novelties we have had the good fortune of going hands-on with, introduced, or even releases we have yet to cover in full on the site, we aim to recap the … 
Only Watch is probably my favourite endeavour within the watch industry. It is the ultimate horological win-win-win scenario. First and foremost, the charity auction raises a ton of money for a great cause. Only Watch was founded in 2005 by Luc Pettavino to raise funds for research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (a genetic disease that … 
Rolex upped the ante in the deep sea arms race in late 2022 with their first production titanium watch, the insane Deepsea Challenge Sea-Dweller, boasting a water resistance rating of 11,000 metres. There have been others that breached the bounds of rational thought (like the bonkers Swiss Military CX 20,000, a 6,000 metre beast with … 
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Building a fantasy watch collection is a fun game many watch collectors play. With so many watches to choose from, and so many collector-personalities to make these choices, it is always interesting to see which watches people select in these horological fantasy drafts. Often, because there are so many options to choose from, parameters are … 
Even though the classic blue dial has lost some ground in terms of popularity due to the rise of other colours, most notably green and pink, it is still arguably the most popular choice for any watch. This of course excludes black and white, but since they’re not actually colours, my point stands. Within the vast … 
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All the way back in 1707, a gentleman by the name of Dr John Floyer, renowned for treating asthma (probably with leeches), developed the first-ever watch with a scale that would help him measure the pulse. Thanks to his pulsometer, Floyer became the first physician to study the rhythm of the heart in his clinical …