Watch Guy

The Worn & Wound podcast hosts react to the ceremony, focusing on price-segmented categories with Ming, Christopher Ward and Otsuka Lotec.

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The Pinion Firestarter pairs a red agate dial and blue lume with 100m water resistance in a 38mm case, priced at £690.

• Independent build: Piers...

• Krayon's catalog is small, with only three models, so each variation stands out.
• The 15-piece Magnolia has an onyx dial and hand-painted petals,...

Singapore-based indie Horologically Unique has turned Robert Cart's Art Deco Chronoscope, most famously seen in a Breguet pocket watch, into a...

Awake's Silver Leaf dials pair pure silver leaf with roughly 12 layers of pigmented lacquer, and each dial requires more than 10 hours of work. The...

The Halo's technical choices are clear and specific:

• Case: 37mm grade-5 titanium, vacuum-heated at 1,200°C and acid-etched, with a 5N rose-gold PVD...

Behind many contemporary watches is a specialist most buyers never see. Concepto, a La Chaux-de-Fonds movement maker, is celebrating its 20th...

MB&F's LM101 Gabriel Colliard turns a Legacy Machine into a canvas, with three jungle scenes in cloisonné enamel. Thin gold wires are bent by hand,...

Yema is known for tool watches, but this contemporary dress watch marks its first moonphase model and launches a new collection.

• Movement: The...

This article is mostly about the caliber, and its listed specs are clear:

• Build: manual-wind, 35.9mm diameter, 5.16mm height, 187 parts, 28...

This is a design-led update to Louis Vuitton's existing Tambour line, not an independent release. The article offers no basis for a Rolex...

Ming's Halo dresses up its experimental material. Grade 5 titanium is heated to 1,200°C and acid-etched, producing a marbled matte finish that looks...

This release leads with nostalgia: a 42mm square stainless steel case inspired by the console, priced at $320.

• Playful details: an Atari rainbow...

For Jean-Claude Biver, watch passion started with a gift: at eight, his grandfather gave him an Omega Constellation engraved with his name. His...

Spinnaker's Dumas GMT keeps Ben Li's ballpoint-and-marker artwork, with his hand kept in the result. The drawing shapes the dial itself:

• Visible...

Ateliers Associés, launched by William Massena and Louis Westphalen-Lemaitre, gives four new independent watchmakers a year money and a team.

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The article doesn't compare the Chrono with Rolex, so any Rolex comparison here is unverified.

• In-house movement: Designed and assembled in-house,...

Three design points stand out:

• Sculpted case: Newson draws an elliptical form that wraps the dial.
• Moving discs: ROCS 3 discs rotate beneath the...

Urwerk's Time Quantum is an unconventional alternative to a traditional Rolex. Its satellite hour display uses a 'T'-shaped set of modules that jump...

Andersen Genève's Communication 45 Supersonic London Edition is a 20-piece worldtimer made with journalist Justin Hast and celebrating Concorde. It...