When it comes to truly functional analog tool watches, the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T stands alone in the rarified air for which it was designed. Inspired by the cockpits of fighter jets, the Navihawk series packs serious functionality into a robust, aggressive package meant to meet the...
With a history of chiming watches dating back more than two centuries, the minute repeater complication is especially important to Girard-Perregaux, and the Swiss brand has just unveiled a new highly complicated chiming watch for its latest release of 2026. Featuring a minute repeater,...
I will begin this discussion about watch brand CEOs and timepiece company leaders by stating two important points immediately. The first is that there is no definitive educational path to becoming the leader of a watchmaking company. Watch brand CEOs are made as a result of working enough...
One of the most popular business topics around the world is to guesstimate what traditionally human-performed jobs will begin to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It is a fair question because, like the personal computer and calculator before it, AI is a powerful...
Welcome back to The Flyback! We’ve got another spectacular roundup of new releases for you, including questionable watches from Bremont and Kurono, funky futuristic work from Ressence, and some crowd pleasers from Parmigiani and Raymond Weil. Check them out and let us know in the comments what...
Here is a high-end triple-axis tourbillon watch from Girard-Perregaux that you probably didn’t know existed: the Girard-Perregaux Planetarium Tri-Axial reference 99290-52-451-BA4A in 18k pink gold. It is a fascinating, luxurious, quite compelling, and also very weird ultra-luxury timepiece...
Watch enthusiasts tend to associate Ceratanium with one particular corner of IWC’s catalog: the pilot’s watch. Of the last nine or so IWC Ceratanium references, all but one have been pilot watches (shout out to the lone Aquatimer, which holds the title of IWC’s first-ever watch made from the...
Eight years ago, I backed a watch on Kickstarter. It arrived months later, as such things are wont to do. I enjoyed it for a time, tried to swap the bezel and failed, and eventually sold it off. That watch was Stockholm-based Maen’s breakout watch, the Hudson, in its original form. In the time...
“Grande Complication” — it is only now that I realize how long it’s been since I last read these words. Thanks to the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Grande Complication — yep, the official name is actually that brief — it is now back in my life. We saw the basis of this watch, the Excalibur...
This watch is known as the Louis Erard 2340 x Astro Boy reference 35123TA23.BMT12, a limited edition made in collaboration with Japan’s Tezuka Productions (which owns the rights to the Astro Boy entertainment franchise). To my knowledge, this is the first “character dial” watch (at least...
Like a dim light coming upwards slowly from the deep, the Zodiac watch brand emerges from a plunge. The company, owned by the Fossil Group here in the United States, stopped importing new watches into the United States (the products are Swiss-made) for a period of time. This was motivated by...
Both as a watch media professional and as a private collector, I’ve never personally been fond of the concept of a “grail watch.” The idea that there’s one true watch out there that scratches the collection itch permanently, stands above all others, and signifies the end of an enthusiast’s...
