Category: News
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MB&F & Bulgari Present New Take on Serpenti
MB&F are the original collaborative brand (Friends is right in the name), and this week, we’re seeing their latest efforts with a slightly unexpected partner: Bulgari. This is the second time working with Bulgari, having released the Legacy Machine FlyingT Allegra in 2021, and this time, the collaboration takes the Horological Machine route to create…
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Zenith A3818 ‘Cover Girl’ Returns in Full Carbon Getup
Zenith is introducing a third modern A3818 Cover Girl reference this week in collaboration with Revolution, who helped bring their first two iterations of the charming chronograph to life back in 2020 (in steel) and 2022 (in titanium). This time, it’s the Cover Girl Carbon, and this execution pushes the throwback design well outside of…
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Omega Looks to Winter Olympics with New 37mm Seamaster Milano Cortina
The 2026 Winter Olympics are just one year away from commencing in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy, and will be known as Milano Cortina 2026. Omega will be continuing their support as the official timekeeper of the games, a role they’ve held since 1932’s games in Los Angeles, and as usual, they will be…
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Porsche Design Drops New Chronograph 1 F.A.T. 2025 Edition with Lume Dial
As the annual F.A.T. International Ice Race gets underway at the Zell am See Airport in Austria, Porsche Design is releasing a new Chronograph 1 that celebrates the group’s history. What began as a logistics company that set out to win Le Mans with the Porsche 962 (which they did in 1994 with drivers Mauro…
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Fears Teams Up with Studio Underd0g To Create Stunning New Gimlet
Two British brands known for the collaborative spirit are coming together this week to release a thoroughly unexpected watch called The Gimlet. The brands are something of a young meets old situation, with Studio Underd0g coming together with Fears, and while it might sound like an odd pairing on paper, the results work way better…
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Timex Introduces New Giorgio Galli S2Ti in Titanium
Timex is pushing their Giorgio Galli collaboration into new territory this week with the release of the fully titanium S2Ti, further building on the conceptual framework that began with the original S2 released in 2023, and the S1 released in 2019. This watch represents a return to Swiss watchmaking for Timex, but more than that,…
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MKII Fulcrum Returns in New 39mm Case
The micro-brand space was very different in 2013. Far fewer brands were working to define the landscape that’s fully blossomed into its own segment today. One of these brands was MKII, known for their careful, methodical approach to capturing vintage military watches in modern guise with top notch build quality. While some would scoff at…
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Hands-on with the Aquastar Benthos H2 – A Modern Take on an Archival Design
When Rick Marei, the current owner of Aquastar, reached out to me about the release of a new Benthos model – I was anxious to learn more. The first thought that sprang to mind was, “What more is there to do with the Benthos?” This is a range from Aquastar’s original playbook that boasts serious…