Citizen Pixar Lamp and Ball – $200 New watch alert! Citizen and Timex are going full Marvel, Disney and Peanuts, luring buyers with otherwise dull watches festooned with characters from well-loved comics and movies. The Citizen Pixar Lamp and Ball also features an iconic (if obscure) cartoon character: Luxo. That’s the desk lamp featured in the first animated short from then Apple-financed, now Disney owned […]

Vianney Halter DEEP SPACE RESONANCE LE – $972k plus tax Play the video. Otherwise, you might conclude that spending a million bucks on a watch is a tad extravagant. Dance monkey, dance! After 25 years of development, Mr. Halter has released unto the world a triple-axis tourbillon with an acoustic coupling mechanism linking two balance wheels. quillandpad.com explains the […]

Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute Crystal Rock LE – $16,900 Nope. Not “rock” as in crystal meth. And not actual rock either. New watch alert! The Laureato Absolute Crystal Rock’s case is made from carbon glass which is, you guessed it, a mixture of carbon fiber and fiberglass. The resulting striations – grey in the upper layer and black […]

Panerai Radiomir Venti LE – $6500 Panerai’s relationship with the paneristi.com reminds me of the Joker’s comeback to Batman: “I made you, you made me.” No question: the brand’s online fanbase elevated the once-Italian-now-Swiss brand into the realm of expensive luxury watches. New watch alert! Panerai’s released a “tribute” to their cult with a retro cushion-case special edition. The […]

TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph – $6750 New watch alert! TAG Heuer Finally Equips Its Iconic Monaco Chronograph With a Bracelet After 20 Years hypebeast.com pronounces. Uh guys? There’s a reason for that. Steve McQueen’s dopey-looking time machine looks even dopier on a steel bracelet. That said, buyers will glom onto the Monaco’s re-entry  into the luxury steel sports watch category, elegance […]

OMEGA Speedmaster Moonwatch Silver Snoopy Award 50th Anniversary – $9600 OMEGA makes more Moonwatch models than there are stars in the sky. More or less. New watch alert! The latest model celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Silver Snoopy Award NASA gave OMEGA 1970, when Apollo 13 astronauts used an Speedmaster to time the 14 second burn that […]

Glasshutte Original Alfred Helwig Tourbillon 1920 LE – $137,224 New watch alert! It was 1o0 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. No wait. Let’s try that again. “2020 is the 100th anniversary of one of the most sophisticated inventions of haute horlogerie: the design of the Flying Tourbillon by Glashütte master watchmaker Alfred […]

Tudor Royal – $2,325 New watch alert! The just-released Tudor Royal puts the brand back where it began: as a Rolex for buyers who can’t afford a Rolex. For a watchmaker with a “Born to Dare” motto that’s found success stepping out of the shadow of its world-famous corporate stablemate with the Black Bay 58, offering a Rolex […]

Fortis Flieger F-39 – $3400 “This is not a pilot’s watch,” Fortis proclaims on its website. “It is a piece of time.” It’s pizza time? But seriously, why call the F-39 a flieger and flee from the facts? Sure, fliegers have two dots on either side of the 12 o’clock triangle, but who’s zoomin who? Anyway, new […]

BALL Engineer II Timetrekker – $2,430 (Pre-order) I’ve chronicled my difficulties buying a BALL watch. New watch alert! The next day, I received an email asking if I wanted to review a BALL watch. So someone at BALL is on the Ball. Meanwhile, the new BALL Engineer II Timetrekker is a GMT for dummies. The second time zone […]

Rolex Sky-Dweller Everose Gold on Oysterflex Bracelet – $41,500 New watch alert! Actually, new bracelet alert! Actually, new Rolex – bracelet combination alert! Wait. Has Rolex become so important to the watch world that attaching an existing Oysterflex bracelet to an existing Sky-Dweller passes for news? Obviously. So I’ll just say one word about the result: donk . […]

Seiko Presage Sharp Edged Series – $1000 New watch alert! Seiko’s moving up in the world – away from the smartwatches eating their lunch at the bottom of the market. To that end, the Japanese watchmaker’s pumping up the volume on their Presage line. The Sharp Edged Series ditches the [non-diving] watches’ stubby lugs and meh cases for a  case […]