I am compelled to restrain myself each time I embark on reviewing a watch from A. Lange Sohne. The brand is so deeply appealing almost universally to serious watch enthusiasts that it can become a daunting task to fully capture the entirety of any given model in a watch review. I will do my best to spend most of my time on the watch itself, which in this cas [...]

High on my list of favorite watches from Baselworld 2016 is the Oris Divers Sixty-Five 42mm (aka Sixty-Five 42). Sharing a few common traits with the previous smash-hit Divers Sixty-Five, this new 42mm model is a bit bigger and has an entirely different dial, with a more traditional dive watch layout and a lovely gradated blu [...]

While the integrated bracelet, Gerald Genta-inspired sports watch trend is currently dominating the upper echelons of the luxury watch market, the style has only recently begun to wend its way into more affordable price brackets. Maurice Lacroix is something of an early trailblazer to this trend, with the stylish integrated Aikon forming the backbone of its lineup [...]

You have probably already read the important news?here that, from?2017 onwards,?Grand Seiko?is?being presented as a separate brand from Seiko. On that note, our editor David wanted to make a couple of points before Kenny gives you all the details on the watches. There are a bunch of things to be expected from Seikos news, [...]

Boy, what do I even say about this one? Jacob Co.s new ultra high-end, non diamond-studded watch for 2011 is this Cyclone Tourbillon. The watch has a large escapement which is actually on the front-mounted automatic rotor. Having things on the rotor is sort of a trend this year as Cartier did something similar with their Astroregulateur watch and Blancpain has [...]

The luxury watch industrys love affair with vintage-inspired sports designs shows no signs of stopping in 2022, and while this years-long trend has produced a sea of direct vintage reissues, it has also given rise to a whole subgenre of sporting timepieces that capture the spirit of years gone by without directly referencing any one historic timepiece. The Longines Spirit [...]

Breitling has expanded their Transocean Chronograph line, with the introduction of a GMT version into the range. The new Breitling Transocean Chronograph GMT makes for a practical and no-nonsense addition to this range of vintage inspired watches. The Transocean has been a successful line for Breitling, offering their well [...]

Tiffany Co. Streamerica Watch. Credit: WatchUSeek member slin-nycIf there has been one major theme to recognize over the last five or so years in the watch industry it is the rise of the retro-revival watch. What does that mean? It means that a love of vintage and celebrating tradition has swept over the ent [...]

I am, it would appear, a sucker for a well-done dial.?To put an even finer point on it, if the dial treatment-matte vs gloss, smooth vs textured, flat vs dimensional, and so on-can manage to pull the entirety of a watch together, I am drawn in. Frankly, thats the closest Ive ever come to putting that sort of?je ne sais quoi into words.?Perhaps its si [...]

The Casio G-Shock range is one of the broadest and most diverse of any brand, delivering bulletproof durability and multi-functionality to a variety of market segments. The premium MT-G line, however, is where the brand truly gets to flex its creative muscle in combining advanced materials and finishes with the signature blend of rock-solid capability and toughness. The [...]

Watch What-If is a special column on aBlogtoRead.com that asks the playful question what if an iconic watch you know and love was offered in a different style? The idea embraces a good timepieces core design and has fun by offering new colors and material concepts to stimulate your senses. These ideas may be provocative, artistic, or just plain silly. This is about fun, Photoshop, and the celebration of wrist watch design and exp [...]

I have noticed a trend: luxury watch brands are pairing off with other brands to create new versions of their existing watches. Now, this is by no means a new trend, but it is one that seems to have had an appreciable uptick as of late. Unsurprisingly, these collaborations focus in on other accouterments of a luxury lifestyle. When it comes to status symbols, owning your own plane [...]

Boat races and watches-a weird and yet?seemingly ever-green combination. A few years ago, IWC joined the craze and has?chosen to sponsor the Volvo Ocean Race, a remarkably challenging, round-the-world race that starts this October in Alicante, Spain, and termin [...]

A new piece for 2016, the?Hublot?MP-05 LaFerrari Sapphire dresses Hublots Ferrari engine-inspired movement in?an all-sapphire case. Several years ago, Richard Mille was a pioneer in sapphire, releasing a timepiece produced from a single monolithic piece of this super-hard?crystal. It cost over $1,000,000, and since then Richard Mille has followed up with a few more sapphir [...]

Sponsored Content specially produced by for Glashutte Original.Introduced in 2019, the Spezialist collection brought a new breed of highly capable sports watches to Glashutte Original. The collection is split between vintage-inspired pieces with the SeaQ and SeaQ 1969, and contemporary references within the SeaQ Panorama Date series. Today, we tak [...]

Today, Montblanc unveiled six models in its new Heritage collection. While the four non-limited models are definitely interesting, I found the real stars of the show to be these two limited-edition models. These are the Montblanc Heritage Manufacture Perpetual Calendar and the Mont [...]

Swiss Breguets top new watch for 2019 is the Breguet Classique Tourbillon Extra-Plat Squelette 5395 which takes the willing in-house made and decorated caliber 581 and presents it in an incredible skeletonized form. It isnt cheap, but Breguets new easily wearable masterpiece is a satisfying combination of modern watchmaking technical prow [...]

Having been a life-long fan of Formula 1, I cannot help but get excited about any and all times when I see a watch brand get involved in my favorite car race. Continuing?on that personal note, for?twenty years, what Formula 1 meant to me was that goose bump-inducing, screaming sound of V10 car engines revving to over 19,000 rpm as I witnessed these?vicious [...]

With the competition out there for the luxury buyer, watches dont always just sell themselves, even if they are really beautiful. Sometimes a bad sell can cast an pale yellow light on an otherwise excellent timepiece. Let me tell you what is wrong with this approach:The Good: It is a video, and it shows the watch clean and from most angles. [...]

If there was one refrain echoed around Baselworld 2018, it was that far too many brands were playing it safe, hedging bets on the vintage re-issue trend with forgotten, back catalog editions. Blancpain sort of did this last year with the Milspec, but that watch was tied to a very specific vintage Fifty Fathoms model, and didnt feel like too much of [...]