Welcome to 2022 from Wrist Game Or Crying Shame! This year, things are gonna be great - I can feel it! We will kick off this year hot on the heels of an Omega release from just yesterday! The five-year-old Omega Speedmaster 60th Anniversary is in play. Before we get to it, though…Travel back to late 2021 with me when I showed you the Cartier Ballon Bleu 36 automatic. I really had no idea how

Let me start by stating the obvious: it’s always exciting to add a new watch to the collection. Regardless of the price, scratching that proverbial “itch” is satisfying. It’s even more exciting when you get a new watch with a feature you’ve wanted to have for a while. In this particular case, I am referring to the moonphase. It’s a bit of a useless complication

The first Frenchman shot into space was Jean-Loup Chretien, and on his wrist was a Yema Spationaute 1. The watch was designed in 1982 in collaboration with France’s Space Agency (CNES). That same year, the Soyuz T-6 mission carrying two Russian cosmonauts plus Chretien was shot out of the earth's orbit to board the Salyut 7 space station. Chretien returned to Earth after spending 7 days, 21

When I was writing the article on the best Seiko watches from the 2000s for our weekly Buying Guide series, I came across a special Seiko collection. The Seiko Historical Collection was a special series of seven watches released to celebrate the new millennium. At first, I wanted to include them in the article, but I soon recognized that this would double the length. On top of that, the collection

This is the story of how I went from collecting everything I liked to a commitment to focus more on one brand in 2023. To frequent #TBT readers, the brand will be no surprise. It is one I hold near and dear to my heart - Gallet.I had a different watch story to share today, but a few hours ago, I got a message from Nacho asking me if I would like to share my watch resolutions for 2023 in this week&

In this article, I won’t be waxing poetic over our beloved space-flight-qualified chronograph, the Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch. That may well be the lowest hanging, possibly even ground-dwelling fruit for an article on Fratello. Instead, this article is about a watch made by a brand directly related to our esteemed Swiss luxury titan. I’ll be sharing the Flik Flak 3-2-1 Li

As the new year kicks off, I've had an Omega Seamaster on my mind, so I thought I'd put together an article to showcase a handful of the models that I've been lusting after. Who knows? Maybe you'll discover a model you didn't know existed or even find a new favorite to add to your list. Either way, when it comes to making a solid dive watch, Omega cracked the code decades ago. And although the cur

Well, this is a first for me. Honestly, I have never set definitive watch goals and written them down. Maybe that’s an aspect I’ve never considered when it comes to being determined to get the watches I want. So for 2023, let’s start the right way. I agree with Lex that it all begins with one thing and one thing only - writing it down! These watch resolutions will help me set goa

Lex, Nacho, and RJ discuss their watch resolutions for the new year. We look back at the watches we purchased in 2022 and discuss what we have on our wishlists for 2023. This week, Nacho already made his first purchase of 2023 to celebrate his upcoming 30th birthday. As a bonus, we also have a small contribution from Sinara.

Another Friday, another Top 5! It might be a new year, but our weekly lists are going nowhere. We completed our Best Of 2023 series last week with our top dress watches of last year. This week, we move on to our regular series of lists covering various topics. In this first Top 5 of the year, we will look at what we feel are the best mechanical watches under $1,000. What five watches would we buy

It's a small world. No, I'm not starting a Disney song; I'm simply stating a fact. The world is a village. In other words, the two most recent Seiko 5 Sports GMT watches - the Ice Blue SSK029 and the Passion Red SSK031 - might be Asia-only limited editions, but if you set your mind to buying either one of these creations while living in, say, Bulgaria, that should not pose an insurmountable proble

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I missed out on our “Most Worn Watches Of 2023” article. Furthermore, at the beginning of last year, I didn’t publish my watch resolutions. But let me correct both issues now and explain my intentions for 2024 simultaneously.Although I didn’t make it public, my idea for last year was to downsize my watch collection in numbers and cons

Hunting for vintage watches is a wonderful pursuit, but it can be full of pitfalls. A mechanical object that is decades old can have all sorts of problems that may be hard to diagnose from an online listing. That is why many of the vintage watches I like to peruse in my spare time are not particularly expensive. I call these “value in vintage” watches. Today, we’re looking at one

The 2021 GPHG-winning CIGA Design Blue Planet is a unique take on time telling. Its domed dial with an engraved depiction of the earth tells time in a novel way. A good design firm rarely rests on its laurels, though, and the Blue Planet II brings subtle but positive changes.I remember the original CIGA Design Blue Planet from our review in 2022. Early in the text, the Seiko Think The Earth Wn-1 w

Starting on the 19th of January, the annual SIHH is being held in Geneva. The SIHH, Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, represents a number of fine watch manufacturers like Audemars Piguet, Officine Panerai, Jaeger LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin and a few more. One of them is Cartier. Cartier once started out as a jeweler and in the 1900s, it was one of the first to create a wrist watch. I

Have you seen our GMT-Master History article last week? Besides a lot of GMT-Master watches, an airplane and a pilot there were also a leather pilot jacket (by PME) and a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator?sunglasses included in some of the pictures.We are GIVING THEM AWAY for FREE! Thanks to??PME Legend?(Bataviastad)?and?Bon Art opticians?(Houten).The Ray-Ban Aviator pair of sunglasses are considered to be

The 1980s could not be described as the decade with the epitome of good taste. Today’s Speedy Tuesday subject is a typical product of the 1980s, a bi-color Omega Speedmaster Professional DD145.0022. Although the case design, dial and bracelet are those of the typical Speedmaster Pro, the use of materials and colours could be defined as ‘1980s’.Personally, I would not mind owning

The one watch in the world, that has probably been the most wanted, ?most loved, most hated and most copied watch for decades, is without any doubts the Santos’ from Cartier. Of course there have been other famous models by other companies, but no brand has been in the spotlight for so long, with just one model.Cartier Santos Story– Santos 1979 –Cartier’s decision, now 37 y

The Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean collection is over 10 years old. In this article we already gave you some background on the Seamaster and Planet Ocean in particular. A fact you should know is that in 2007, the models were slowly upgraded to Omega’s in-house calibers (8500 and later on, in 2011, 9300). Other improvements were the use of ceramic for the uni-directional diving bezel. Last year

Last October, Chopard introduced their Alpine Eagle, a new watch with a familiar face. We decided to use our hands-on experience with the Chopard Alpine Eagle for an episode of our 52Mondayz feature.To be honest, I was a bit surprised to see the return of Chopard’s 1980s model called St. Moritz. The Chopard St. Moritz was a watch designed by the then 22-year old Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, now