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This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, David, and Ripley are back with an episode full of watches that are cheaper, pricier, and considerably weirder than expected. The guys start with H. Moser & Cie. going digital before turning to the state of watch marketing and why so many brands seem to have forgotten how to […]
The Donut Watch Company is to Ming what the MAD Editions watches are to MB&F — a technically separate marque, but really a platform for lower-priced playfulness from the same people who bring you the Ming timepiece brand. Ever since SevenFriday debuted on the scene years ago with a Swiss-designed, Asian-made timepiece
Backes & Strauss has announced a new partnership with professional tennis player Elina Avanesyan, bringing together the London watch and diamond house with an athlete whose Armenian heritage provides a particularly meaningful connection to the brand. And this is more than an ambassador announcement: The partnership wil
Pilot’s watches and field watches are among the oldest types of purpose-built timepieces, and the differences that separate these two popular genres of tool watches are largely related to the style of their dials and hands. For its latest release of 2026, the Swiss brand Formex has taken the foundation of its popular t
The latest major timepiece collection release from Swiss Zenith is the Chronomaster Solo Sport watch collection. At launch, four models of the three-hand, high-beat automatic mechanical watches debut on the market. More than likely, additional cosmetic variations of the watch will trickle out over the next few years. T
I’m going to open this column with a dose of complete honesty: Rolex has never really resonated with me as a watch enthusiast or as a collector. Maybe it’s my sense of contrarianism, maybe it’s my chronic, unrepentant hipster streak, or maybe it’s the psychological effects of collecting on a writer’s pay, but there are
Originally introduced in 2019, the Shinola Detrola collection exists as the American brand’s entry-level timepiece offering, and the series has steadily expanded over the years. Earlier this year in 2026, Shinola added a duo of “Color Theory” models to the Detrola lineup that feature dials with a multi-color triangular
We here at aBlogtoWatch are glad to announce Nick F. of Chippenham, UK as the winner of our Vostok Europe Jurgis Kairys Limited Edition watch giveaway. Designed for the extreme rigors of aerobatic aviation and featuring a vibrant, proudly Lithuanian colorway, this is a modern pilot’s chronograph capable of handling any
Within the context of watches with luminous tritium tubes, one of the most important models of all time is the Traser P6500 Type 6, which was created to fulfill a request from the United States Department of Defense. Beyond just being a pioneer in the use of tritium gas-filled tubes, the P6500 Type 6 also […] The post
This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast, host and aBlogtoWatch founder, Ariel Adams, is joined by longtime watch industry veteran Gary Girdvainis. Drawing on a career that stretches back to the early days of International Watch magazine, Gary reflects on decades spent inside the watch business and how dramatically the rel
Over the past few years, it seems as though the esoteric, funky side of vintage watch collecting has permeated into the larger enthusiast discourse. Beyond just the desire for smaller, more vintage sizes, collectors who only a few years ago would turn up their noses at buying anything but new production from establishe
The last time I reviewed a LUM-TEC Combat series aviator-style sports watch was back in 2010. At the time, I looked at the LUM-TEC Combat B7 watch. Today, 16 years later, I review an updated limited-edition model known as the LUM-TEC Combat B70 Automatic. The Ohio-based American watchmaker originally debuted the Combat
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