Author: Blake Buettner
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Seiko Introduces New Marinemaster References HBF001 & HBF002
Seiko is expanding their flagship Marinemaster collection this week with the addition of two new references, which include a limited edition collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), as well as a standard production reference that will serve as a new core design of the collection. The new watches are the…
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Christopher Ward Introduces In-House True GMT Movement in New C63
Christopher Ward is introducing a new in-house movement today within a C63 that will sit atop the Sealander collection with a watch called, quite literally, the C63 True GMT. In a case of ‘does what it says on the tin’ (as well as potential SEO gold?), the newest watch boasts a true GMT movement developed…
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King Seiko Vanac Welcomes Trio of Titanium References
In 2025, Seiko brought back their King Seiko name with a new Vanac collection recalling a design of the same name first released in 1972. The angular, integrated case tapped into a new design language from the brand, and while it doesn’t shy away from the retro details, it also feels strangely relevant in a…
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Dominique Renaud Launches Brand with Pulse60
Dominique Renaud is formally launching a brand bearing his own name this week, and along with it, a new 1Hz movement, the BUA2024, residing within a watch called the Pulse60. While many new brands are launched with a great idea or slick design, few carry the pedigree that we find in Dominique Renaud. Oh, and…
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Girard-Perregaux Pairs Flying Bridges with Minute Repeater & Tourbillon
Girard-Perregaux are pulling out the big guns leading into release season with a new Minute Repeater Flying Bridges design that doesn’t hold back. This watch represents the brand’s first take on a minute repeater using an automatic movement with the new caliber GP9530, the third new movement to be introduced by Girard-Perregaux within the past…
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Kollokium Projekt 2 Goes Dark with Variant B
Kollokium is one of the most conceptually interesting young brands operating today, with watches that challenge our perceptions of how we read time against a dial under a crystal. After the release of the Projekt 01 in late 2023 and a subsequent array of variants, Kollokium followed it up with, well, Projekt 02 in 2025,…
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Review: The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Seafarer
Prior to the proliferation of digital instruments, the world relied on mechanical tools for even the most niche of activities. Watch manufacturers developed a plethora of dial configurations and unique complications to track everything from decompression times for divers, to a deadbeat seconds hand for doctors to track a heart rate. In the late 1940s,…
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Unimatic x Nigel Cabourn Collab Delivers New Modello Cinque UT5-TAN Pair
Unimatic are teaming up with world renowned English designer and vintage collector Nigel Cabourn for the first time since 2019 to release a pair of Modello Cinque field watches. While the design brief talks pitches the idea of form over function, and exploration over ornament, the unique design and color palette at work here certainly…