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Watching the Web for January 16, 2015

By Matt Himmelstein January 16, 2016

Welcome back to our weekly Saturday feature, Watching the Web, where we highlight interesting watch related posts that we come across on other sites, as well as take a moment to look back at our own popular recent articles. From across the vast collection of watch blogs, I thought I would highlight a reworking of the Urwerk UR110, a review of the Steinhart Ocean One Titanium, and a very sporting looking Grönefeld Parallax Tourbillon. From our own site, we have reviews of the Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon, the Moto Koure MK I, and the Deep Blue Master 1000’ Automatic.

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The Tissot NBA Roadshow is Coming to Chicago

By Patrick Kansa January 14, 2016

I like talking about local watch makers, and I also like bringing you word of cool watch-related events that are coming to my neck of the woods. Tissot is making a lot of noise around their new partnership with the NBA. At the moment, we do not have much in the way of new designs or team-specific watches, but they are working to get the word out about the relationship.

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Patrick’s Top 5 Watches of 2015

By Patrick Kansa December 28, 2015

A little bit earlier this month, Matt brought you his thoughts on what the top 5 watches of 2015 were….

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Diving For The Skies with the MEW Depth Pilot

By Patrick Kansa December 18, 2015

After dive watches, I would hazard a guess that pilot watches are the next most popular style – in general – of watches. And if they aren’t, they have to be in the top 5, just based on the sheer number of models that I have seen released. A lot of these tend to come from the more established brands, or those with a particular history with aviation watches. What I have not noticed near as much are pilot-style watches coming from independent brands, especially those using Kickstarter to get the ball rolling. As you might guess, that’s where we find the MEW Depth Pilot.

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Watch Video Rewind for December 6, 2015

By Matt Himmelstein December 6, 2015

Welcome to our regular Sunday feature, Watch Video Rewind, where we post watch related video from the web to highlight interesting watches or interesting aspects of watch making. There are a lot of start-up companies that talk about bringing watchmaking back to the US, and a couple of smaller brands that are already doing just that, but I thought I would share a few video from when the US had a large watch manufacturing presence.

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Watching the Web for October 31, 2015

By Patrick Kansa October 31, 2015

Hello and welcome to our weekly Saturday feature, Watching the Web. Here, we take a moment to look at some watch reviews and watch related news we find outside our own site, and then we highlight a few of our most popular recent posts. This week, we have an Indian watch, and new watches from HYT and Harry Winston. From our site, the readers found the articles on the Defacto Kinetic, Icon Automatic, and Matt’s editorial on crowd-funded watches to be rather interesting. On with the show!

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Introducing the Corniche Heritage 40

By Patrick Kansa October 30, 2015

While watch shoppers are certainly spoiled for choice these days, there are also quite a few “me too” brands out there starting up that rehash the same tired and uninspired three-hander design. So, when we have a company that we’ve never heard of before contact us about their watch, we are understandably a bit cautious on what it is we going to be taking a look at. Fortunately, we do have some gems popping up when we have these sorts of contacts, and that leads us to running into pieces like the Corniche Heritage 40.

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Introducing the Nite Icon Automatic

By Patrick Kansa October 26, 2015

If you are a fan of watches that light up the night, you have plenty of options. There are the heavily-lumed watches to go for (such as the Seiko Monster), or you can go in a different direction, with watches that rely on tritium tubes for their illumination. One of the brands we have featured in the past with these tubes is British company Nite Watches. Until now, all of their watches have featured quartz movements. That changes with the launch of the Nite Icon Automatic.

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Swatch Touch Zero One, Set – Spike

By Matt Himmelstein October 16, 2015

When the biggest name in the watch industry decides to get into the smart watch/fitness tracker business, you expect a watch that is made for the masses. What you don’t expect is a watch made for a niche sport; but then again, Swatch does not do things in the normal way. The Swatch Touch Zero One is, as the name implies, the first watch in a planned ecosystem of fitness watches tied to the sports that Swatch supports.

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G. Gerlach ORP Orzel 85A: Dive! Dive! Dive!

By Matt Himmelstein October 9, 2015

When is a dive watch not a “dive watch?” Well, when it pays homage to the submarine service, as the G. Gelach ORP Orzel 85A watch does, now available from this Polish watch maker. The watch commemorates the ORP Orzel, a modern (by WWII standards) submarine from the Polish Navy that escaped from the Baltic Sea at the onset of WWII and found service in the British Royal Navy until her sinking in 1940 (her short history on Wikipedia is worth a read).