Author: Blake Buettner
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Longines Hydroconquest Celebrates Commonwealth Games with Special Edition
Longines has a longstanding relationship with the Commonwealth Games as official timekeeping partner, and for this year’s games being held in Glasgow, the brand is releasing a colorful expression of their new Hydroconquest diver. The new dive watch has quickly found an audience thanks to the toned down design that taps into more comfortable genre…
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Baltic Does Dashboard Timing for Tour Auto 2026
Baltic is returning to Tour Auto to sponsor the 2026 event featuring five legs across six days beginning at the Grand Palais of Paris and ending at the coast in Biarritz. This will be the French brand’s fourth year of involvement with the event, and to mark the occasion they are releasing a pair of…
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Zenith Chronomaster Revival A384 Goes Tropical
The Chronomaster Revival series has been a perennial favorite since its debut in 2019 to celebrate 50 years of the El Primero. The collection has been fleshed out with some of the brand’s greatest hits seen throughout the 1970s, (with a few modern takes along the way) and the old-school proportions are just as compelling…
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Retro Review: Omega Seamaster 120M Plongeur de Luxe ‘Jacques Mayol’
In 1980, Omega released the Seamaster 120, a refined take on the collection that was meant to accomplish two things: bring an air of luxury to the Seamaster; and formally reconnect the name with actual diving. Those two goals may seem diametrically opposed on the surface, but Omega would manage to do just that with…
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Farer Pilot’s Watch Collection Gets Titanium Makeover
Farer has redesigned their Pilot watch with a new Series II collection featuring four references that make use of an earthy color palette and titanium cases. The watches build on Farer’s playful design language while echoing classic pilot watch architecture resulting in watches that boast a unique personality while remaining comfortably familiar. These watches feature…
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Rolex Celebrates 100 Years of the Oyster Case
The oyster case turns 100 this year, and Rolex found a subtle way to acknowledge the milestone at Watches & Wonders with the release of a yellow Rolesor Oyster Perpetual. The watch is, for all intents and purposes, a modern Oyster Perpetual rather than a bespoke recreation of a watch from 1926, as was shown…
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Ressence Debuts Type 11 Featuring New Movement
Ressence is introducing a new Type 11 this year featuring for the first time, a movement developed and designed by Ressence. It’s called the Werk RW-01, and it integrates the brand’s ROCS (Ressence Orbital Convex System) directly into the architecture of the movement. This represents a milestone for Ressence and opens the door for a…
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Introducing: Manually Winding Richard Mille 55-01
Richard Mille is taking a reductive approach to a new collection of hand wound references that bring back the classic RM 55. That means no gem settings, no crazy complications, and no wild color schemes. Rather, all the drama is provided by the unique architecture of the openworked movement and that case it’s set within.…