Founded in 2020, Marco Lang is the eponymous brand of the Dresden-based watchmaker by the same name, who originally built his reputation as one of the founders of the popular German brand Lang & Heyne. For 2026, Marco Lang has unveiled its second timepiece as an independent marque. The Marco...
I’ve never properly reviewed a watch with a tourbillon. Sure, I’ve done hands-on pieces for a number of them, but the time spent with those pieces is relatively fleeting compared to a full-fledged review. I’ve handled plenty at shows, meetups, and such. I’ve written up many releases in addition...
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ripley, and David kick things off with an unexpected deep dive into one of the most overlooked topics in watchmaking: comfort. From clasp design to strap stiffness and why so many high-end watches still feel terrible on the wrist, the team breaks down why...
My favorite high-end Citizen watch with a quartz electronic movement gets a new limited-edition reference with the AQ4091-56W “The Citizen” Chitose Midori Green timepiece. Produced as part of Citizen of Japan’s celebration of 50 years of light-powered watch technology (now known as Eco-Drive),...
For the past several years, Seiko has been creating modernized expressions of its most famous dive watches. The Japanese manufacturer has just unveiled a premium rendition of the Marinemaster as its latest release of 2026. Officially known as the Seiko Prospex Marinemaster 1968 Heritage Diver’s...
For its latest release of 2026, RZE has reimagined the Type A pilot’s watch to bring one of the industry’s oldest purpose-built designs firmly into the modern era. Originally created in 1940, the Type A dial was designed to provide military pilots with at-a-glance access to the time. However,...
Since its revival in 2022, Seiko’s King Seiko sub-brand has had a bit of an identity struggle. Wedged between the affordable accessibility of mainline Seiko and the truly upscale refinement of its Grand Seiko sister brand, King Seiko faces the challenge of finding its own voice without...
Inspired by the “purposeful clutter” of 1970s skin diving chronographs, the Dryden Chrono Diver Gen 2 offers the promise of vintage dive chronographs without the traditional hassle. Dryden is part of the recent resurgence of American watchmaking, assembling each watch in Kansas City. The...
In 2026, Citizen Watches of Japan will celebrate 50 years of producing timepieces with electronic movements powered by light. To commemorate the occasion, Citizen has introduced the Citizen Eco-Drive Photon collection and will hold a gala event in New York City’s beautiful Guggenheim Museum....
Milan-based UNIMATIC has a very specific design DNA, but within its timepiece collections is a lot of variety in terms of colors, sizes, and market price positioning. It can be rather difficult from afar to understand how its various products relate to each other, and if the features of a more...
Sometime around 2023, the Tissot Visodate just disappeared. Before then, if you got into watches when I (circa 2015), and you started asking around for the best entry-level mechanical timepieces, you’d almost always be given the same few options. Among them would be the Seiko SKX, the Orient...
Over the course of the last few years, there have been several different watches that appear as though they have been lifted directly out of a comic strip. The most recent are a duo of Casio G-Shock models produced in collaboration with the famous graphic artist Joshua Vides. While this...
