Category: Wearables
The King of Affordable Automatic Watches Drops Its Best Daily-Wear Design
There is no shortage of affordable automatic Orient watches perfectly suited for daily wear. In fact, that is what the brand does best — maybe better than any other watchmaker. But it is still worth mentioning an addition to the Japanese bargain brand’s lineup, especially because it is not another diver or Bambino…. Check out…
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Did Audemars Piguet Just Unveil the Ultimate Royal Oak?
Audemars Piguet has been pulling out all the stops throughout 2025 as the brand celebrates its 150th anniversary, and unsurprisingly, the Royal Oak has been getting a lot of love. So far this year, we’ve seen the brand introduce two revolutionary new perpetual calendar movements to the Royal Oak family, launch a retro Royal Oak…
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The Year’s Best Travel Watch Now Looks Even Better
One of the most impressive new watches I’ve seen this year is the Nomos Glashütte Club Sport Neomatik Worldtimer. The watch debuted at Watches and Wonders in Geneva back in April, which is where I originally went hands-on with it and was left thoroughly impressed. Debuting a new movement, the in-house Calibre DUW 3202, the…
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This Sub-$500 Sports Watch Totally Reinvents a Classic 1980s Feature
For what seems like forever, the watch industry has been caught up in a never-ending cycle of nostalgia where brands continually look to vintage watches for inspiration. Most often, this results in rehashed takes on divers from the 1950s and ’60s and racing chronographs from the ’60s and ’70s. But sometimes, a brand will use…
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This Seiko-Powered, Travel-Ready Tool Watch Mixes Affordability with British Motoring Heritage
Unimatic is known for its sturdy, affordable tool watches and distinct minimalist design language. But a simple combination of a radiant dial and a luxurious strap transforms the same watch into an elevated travel accessory. This elegant refinement comes courtesy of a partnership with Morgan Motor Company, a small, century-old British car manufacturer…. Check out…
Grand Seiko’s Affordable Cousin Has Never Made a Watch This Good-Looking Before
Orient is the gateway watch to many budding enthusiasts thanks to the brand’s near-singular focus on mechanical watches, its broadly attractive takes on several popular watch styles and, most important of all, its ultra-affordable prices. But Orient isn’t just a bargain brand. Like its fellow Seiko Epson subsidiary, Seiko, Orient is a Japanese watchmaker that…
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Apple Watch Can Now Rate Your Rest With A Sleep Score – Here’s How It Works
We all have days where we wake up after clocking the usual sleep hours, but still feel fatigued and wonder if there was something wrong during the rest hours. For such situations, the sleep tracking graphs don’t usually offer any concrete help. You’re left wishing for a science-backed scoring system that could grade your sleep…
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17 Watches You Missed from Timex, Tudor, Grand Seiko and More
From afar, the watch industry may seem unhurried. But every passing day brings about new timepieces from brands big, small, new and old. Below, find more than a dozen new releases from the likes of Grand Seiko, Timex and others…. Check out the original article: [Gearpatrol] 17 Watches You Missed from Timex, Tudor, Grand Seiko…
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The First Commercial Space Station Just Got an Official Watch. It’s Not an Omega
The Omega Speedmaster is by far the watch most associated with outer space, and it remains the only watch authorized by NASA for use during extravehicular activity (AKA space walks). But dozens of other watches have ventured outside Earth’s atmosphere, from early astronaut favorites like the Rolex GMT-Master to Fortis’s continuing flights with various space…
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Stay Travel-Ready With Victorinox’s Air Pro GMT Automatic
Welcome to Talking Points, a series that looks at what makes certain products worth talking about, brought to you by Gear Patrol Studios. Before modern flight technology, there was a time when pilots relied on GMT watches to keep track of global time (aka ZULU or UTC time). GMT watches were useful for planning and…
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Field Watches Aren’t Supposed to Look This Good. Especially for This Little Money
Even in the overly crowded market of watch microbrands, Los Angeles-based Nodus stands out for its unique tool-watch designs and its commitment to keeping prices low in an industry that’s gone mad with greed. I am used to seeing attractive, dirt-cheap, well-specced watches from Nodus, but the brand’s latest limited edition — a tropical-dialed variant…
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Timex’s New Diver Is Its Most Impressive Watch Ever. It’s a Sign of Things to Come
Throughout the course of its 170-year history, American watchmaker Timex has largely been known as a producer of absurdly affordable watches. Even today, a large swath of Timex’s catalog — well over 100 references — consists of watches costing less than $100, a boast few other major brands can make. But over the past couple…
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This Minimalist Masterpiece Reinvents a Classic Watch Style
Last month, Malaysian independent brand MING debuted the 57. 04 Iris, a destro monopusher chronograph with stepped lugs and a color-changing dial. The wild watch introduced the brand’s radical new 57-series design language, which is quite a bit more complex than its masterfully minimalist 37 series…. Check out the original article: [Gearpatrol] This Minimalist Masterpiece…
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