You C1, you buy it. Twelve reviews ago, back in April (when did we get prolific?!), we took a look at the prototype of the McQuaide C1, and promptly lost our minds over it. After being wooed by the Tissot PRX in Damascus Steel but being put off by the weirdness of the integrated leather…
Are YÖ experienced? Galvin Watch Company might be as Australian as Bea Smith at a barbecue, but this brand was founded by Swedish-born Susan Galvin, who was raised in Finland and graduated from the Finnish School of Watchmaking before eventually going on to work at Tag Heuer and Omega. However, in 2020, just as she…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the world of watch collecting, there’s a lot said about your grail watches. That one piece that you wait and save for, the end boss of the videogame so to speak. For normal collectors that usually means upping your game price-wise. Stepping into the luxury market with something like your first Omega or stepping…
We’re big fans of Revelot (Revel-oh, Reve-lot, Reverend Horton Heat?!). They’ve been on a super-hot streak of putting out watches with really striking looks. We started with the Mecadromo (we’ll review that one soon) and then picked up two of their gorgeous Hexmariner 39 range. But as soon as the Hexmariners launched and went through…