
Japan’s Casio and Pokémon have once again collaborated for a special edition G-Shock timepiece that celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first Pokémon video game, which was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1996. This colorful and well-designed collaboration watch is the…

Few watch brands are as closely intertwined with the world of professional diving and military maritime service as YEMA. Founded in 1948 in Morteau, France, the brand has spent decades building purpose-driven tool watches for divers, aviators, racing drivers, and military pers…

For 2026, Swiss Jaeger-LeCoultre releases a new limited-edition version of the Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual that originally debuted in 2024 (aBlogtoWatch hands-on with the original gold model). The new model is the reference Q6206150 Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual Pl…

We recently had a press release come through for a brand selling a tourbillon-equipped watch for $25,000. The copy was exactly as ridiculous as you’d expect, the kind of bloviating a grade school bully does about how much their dad makes, but about technical prowess and such.…

After an impressively strong suite of releases in the first half of 2026, independent French marque Baltic seems poised to capture a broader swath of the enthusiast market. Instead of a bombastic, exotic spectacle, though, the brand’s latest offering treads more familiar groun…

It has been a long time since I’ve reviewed a Seiko chronograph watch. Most of the chronograph complication timepieces produced by Japan’s Seiko are quartz (solar-powered or otherwise), but the company is, in fact, a juggernaut of modern wristwatch mechanical chronograph movem…

The precision that goes into manufacturing a mechanical watch movement and that precision is what truly defines a caliber’s quality. Without absolute precision at every step, the heart of each watch would fail its purpose of keeping time. It powers everything and influences it…

Successful fashion brand Rowing Blazers and Seiko have teamed up again for a limited edition watch collection for 2026. This is the fourth major collaboration between Seiko and Rowing Blazers, and again, it’s proved a commercial success because all of the 5,000 pieces of this…

For years, watch enthusiasts have pieced together their online communities across Instagram, Facebook groups, Reddit, Discord servers, and other forums. Each serves a purpose, but none was designed specifically around the way collectors want to engage with the hobby — sharing…