Category: News
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Citizen Celebrates 50 Years of Eco-Drive with New Photon
In 1976, Citizen introduced the Quartz Crystron Solar Cell, a wonderfully funky design that housed what would evolve into their Eco-Drive technology. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that momentous watch, and Citizen is celebrating with a unique new pair of Photon watches constructed from the brand’s proprietary Super Titanium material. The Photon represents…
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Squale Captures Classic Skin Diver Magic in New Sub 37
Squale is releasing a new Sub platform this week with a 37mm silhouette meant to recall “the original size of serious diving.” Hyperbole aside, this is a tidy representation of the brand’s most distilled take on the genre, bringing a welcome dose of focus to a stable that includes over a dozen collections of divers…
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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,…