Mediterranean Sundance. Man, we don’t know what’s happening with these kids at the moment, but we’ve been seeing some outrageously young upstarts releasing watches in the UK microbrand scene. BVOR blew us away with the Vision recently, and Provoque Watches are doing crazy things with their modular watches. And all these guys are in their…
We went on quite the journey. When I was fannying about at the start of my collecting journey and trying to figure out what I actually liked about watches, I picked up a Phoibos, and it was my favourite watch for well over a year (not so much on a technical level, although it was…
To boldly go where no watch has gone BVOR. As a fully ensconced member of Gen X, this writer is in an interesting position when it comes to seeing how all the other generations are observed. The Boomers are constantly taking a cultural kicking for checks notes being able to afford to buy a house,…
Mezei bringing all the smoke. Is it just us, or is the humble dress watch making a bit of a return to popularity? Sure, dive watches continue to dominate both sales and social media. Don’t get us wrong, dive watches are great, but there’s such a glut of them that they struggle to stand out…
Watch collecting is a hobby that evolves. There’s a journey that’s almost a cliché now. You get your first watch, you like it, but it doesn’t do things that other watches do. Maybe it’s quartz, maybe it’s missing a complication that you’d like. So you add something else to your collection. Maybe it’d be nice…
Crowns to the left of me, a Joker to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle of a review. England’s own Golby Watches have been making a name for themselves in their home country, but also in the global microbrand scene. They’re fully involved. Attending events across the world and posting on social…
In an age where watch lovers are looking for ever bolder and brighter dials and statement pieces, one man who really gets that is Mikel Coffee. He started out as an independent watch modder, creating one-of-a-kind modded watches. And while he’s not a traditional watchmaker, it was his eye for design that allowed him to…
There’s something about nailing it on your first try that can be both a blessing and a curse, and when Rob McQuaide, the founder of the McQuaide watch brand, released his first watch last year, the Q1, his debut timepiece hit it out of the park. A bold spec-monster of a dive watch, the Q1…
Confidence is a thing that shows up in the world of watches more often than other characteristics, and it shows in a myriad of ways. Can you rock a Snoopy Timex in your 40s? Are you up for walking around Central London with a Rolex (and without a bionic, machete-proof arm)? Can you sit in…
When it comes to a watch like the Astro by R. Day Watches, looking at it is almost like looking at a Rorschach Test. By that, I mean you can almost see what you want to see from it. Those of you with a more artistic, romantic personality will see the history of it, a…
The Heritage, best pronounced with your best GCSE French accent (Heri-tij), is a classy-looking dress watch from Paris-based microbrand Belvans, who are making a name for themselves in the watch-collecting scene thanks to some slick and very active marketing. But does the watch live up to the hype? Well, Belvans were kind enough to send…
As a watch fan/addict and a long-time guitarist, I can tell you that there’s quite a lot of crossover between the two hobbies. Collecting for either is an endless pursuit. Just as there are acoustic guitars, hollow bodies, baritone, shredding guitars with 24 frets and whammy bars, jazz guitars and everything else, in watches you…
There are many types of watch enthusiasts. Some just want that one grail piece, those who collect within a specialised niche, be it a brand, a style or even a model of watch (like those folks who have twenty versions of an F-91W for example) or people like us who want the most diverse collection…
Say the words ‘digital watch’ to a watch enthusiast, and their mind will most likely go to a Casio and, more often than not, that Casio will be an F-91W. And with good reason. The F-91W is the world’s best-selling watch, with at least three million units being produced annually. That many people can’t be…
The microbrand scene has somewhat exploded in recent years with new companies springing up all the time and while certain manufacturers, like Studio Underd0g and Christopher Ward, have placed themselves at the head of the scene, there are still smaller companies that are able to generate a bit of buzz amongst all the noise. Malaysian…
Despite being around since 2019 and offering some decent lines in analogue watches, with the automatic Seaplane, quartz Wayfinder, and solar Vice ranges all looking to be very capable and well-designed timepieces, Illinois-based watchmakers Farr + Swit seem to be best known for their quirky, ultra-affordable digital pieces at the moment. Their Retro Digital Mixtape…
While watch collecting can be a lot of fun and a great hobby for the well-adjusted adult, it can also be a horrible addiction that sucks up money like you’ve discovered butterscotch-flavoured cocaine. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve blocked every news/humour/sport/media/miscellaneous bit of content on social media so all I see is…
As a UK-based website, we’re always keen to see what watch designs and innovation our fellow countrymen-and-women come up with and when strap-maker turned watch-maker Craig Golby, of Golby Watches (at last, a microbrand you can actually pronounce confidently), first revealed the Coastal range, we were very intrigued. They had already released their first watch…
While we don’t tend to review Chinese watches often, specifically those that tend to sell via AliExpress, we have dabbled in that market a couple of times. Our very first review on here was the Proxima PX1701, a rather unique dressy diver with a translucent dial that really highlighted the date wheel, and prior to…
Collecting watches is a fun hobby, right? Finding that next piece that speaks to you, searching for that exact combination of style, colour and complications that’ll have you dumbly smiling at your wrist for the next few weeks, months or, hopefully, years. But when you’ve got a little collection going, you need to start asking…
While it often seems like all of the good, quirky and fun ideas in watches come from the Microbrand scene, it’s easy to ignore the larger, more-established brands. Casio are a case in point. Their G-SHOCK range comes in roughly a billion different hues and styles but it was the 2100 Manga series that really…
We recently reviewed another watch by the American timepiece manufacturers Bulova, their famous Lunar Pilot and while we loved a lot of things about the watch – that true lunar history, the gorgeous inverted panda layout and the wonderful blue chronograph pushers – there were three main things that we didn’t care for. The first…
We don’t know if you’ve ever noticed something about Omega but very, very occasionally, like once in a while, they’ll mention that they made the watches that went to the moon. Yeah, I know. They’re very subtle about it. But what if we were to tell you that Bulova (Bull-over? Bullo-va? Bully’s Special Prize?) also…
Brew are an American microbrand, founded by Jonathon Ferrer, with a philosophy based around savouring (hey, we invented these words, we’ll use our spelling) good times and good company, but with a design aesthetic based on a good, old-fashioned coffee break. Their watches generally favour (again, our language, buddy) a squared-off, retro-inspired form factor, inspired…
The Citizen Perpetual Chrono A.T is, to put it lightly, quite the watch. I found it last year when looking to spend some vouchers at a major department store in the UK. I’d been window shopping for a couple of days, trying to find the right watch to mark a landmark birthday (I won’t say…