watch releases

Although Rolex’s slate of novelties for 2021 is somewhat smaller than the previous few years, the brand’s crop of new models released at this year’s Watches & Wonders still contains some genuinely striking offerings for…

1791 was an eventful year in world history. The United States ratified the Bill of Rights, the French Revolution raged on, Haiti began its fight for independence, and famed classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed…

Over the years, the standard procedures used to test the shock resistance of any watch and its fully cased movement have tended to vary from brand to brand — from the classic “hammer test” deployed…

Just released is the Urwerk UR-100V P.02 in partnership with Horology Collective, as well as the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. This is the second release in private collector community Horology…

By and large, vintage racing can be less a true motorsport than a parade, with wealthy car collectors delicately marching priceless classic race cars around a circuit at low speed for fear of damaging a…

Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch by advertiser Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing into the 1960s, the proliferation of skin-diving and ultimately SCUBA-ready watches led to a multitude of novel design choices and interpretations.…

Just released by Parmigiani are the Tondagraph GT Steel Silver Black and Tondagraph GT Rose Gold Silver Black — two new Panda dial variants of last year’s Tondagraph GT sports watch collection. I went hands-on…

With their familiarity, functionality, and simple forms, classic dive watches make an ideal jumping-off point for stylistic experimentation. Within the basic confines of waterproofing, legibility, and a unidirectional bezel, there exists a myriad of options…

Color, in many ways, is the current frontier of watch design. As brands across the industry are releasing designs with more dial colors than nearly any other time in modern watchmaking history, advancements in materials…

Under the direction of current CEO Georges Kern, Breitling has largely moved away from the chunky, aggressive aesthetic that defined the brand in the 2000s and much of the 2010s in favor of a smoother,…