Zenith Elite Classic – $12,600 “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star,” Texaco used to tell drivers. I don’t trust my car to anyone but I would trust Zenith to make a dress watch. And so they have. Why anyone would buy the Elite instead of the strikingly similar, fanatically perfect $7600 Grand Seiko SBGY003? New […]

Raymond Weil Tango Bob Marley Limited Edition Men’s Quartz GMT LE – $1150 If ever there was a watch for well-off rastafarians, Raymond Weil’s Bob Marley homage is it. That said, I think this 42mm timepiece is aimed at the kind of music fans who’d mistake Haile Selassie for an Arabic greeting. Let’s take a closer look and check out […]

IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph Edition “Orlear Brown” – $12,500 Orlebar Brown makes athleisure clothing for men with killer abs. IWC makes watches. New watch alert! There’s nothing brown about IWC Orlebar Brown timepiece. It’s a 44.6mm Portugieser in OB’s colors: a marine-blue dial, rhodium-plated hands and a red chronograph seconds hand. Before we move on to […]

Richard Mille RM11-05 LE – $215k New watch alert! Regular readers know I’m no fan of Richard Mille’s illegible, sandwich-thick watches. But there’s no faulting RM’s technical excellence. Same goes for the majority of all new watches, of which we have eleven more to share. But first, more on the RM 11-05 . . . The case is […]

New watch alert! The new blue dial Tudor Black Bay 58 is a sensation! It’s got more Instagram likes than Rachel Cooke. Not really, but it is a watch. We’ve got the lowdown on eleven more new timepieces clamoring for your attention. Let’s not keep them waiting . . . Tudor Black Bay 58 Navy […]

For The People of the Watch, staying new watch alert distracts us from the chaos hitting us from all sides. We forget our day-to-day cares in the silent contemplation of horological design, utility and engineering – pretending that financial constraints are not a factor. For several of this week’s picks, they aren’t. But for others, […]