The State of the Collection
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…
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…
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…
The MTD-130D-1A3V is a cheap-but-classy field watch from Casio that arrived last year in 2024 and caught a little bit of attention because of similarities to Seiko’s Alpinist range. And it’s probably the watch that we can most credit with getting us back into watches generally. That’s because at the time our search criteria was…