Functionality between smart watches and fitness trackers increasingly overlaps these days. If you have a watch with the various sensors to pick up your step counts and Bluetooth to send the data to a phone, it is not that far of a leap to blow things out to a full smart…
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Below, we take a look at seven of these “extreme” dive watches and what sets them apart from the pack. Some of these divers’ watches, however, go the extra mile (or fathom), with cases that can descend to 3,000 or even 4,000 meters, chronographs operable at incredible depths, or high-tech…
If there’s one thing Oris is good at, it’s to create interesting and nicely designed limited editions, especially of dive watches. This time, Oris teams up with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, to create a volcano-inspired version, the (of-course) black and red Oris El Hierro Limited Edition. We’ve seen for…
Breitling goes “back to black” with three new line extensions of its Colt Chronograph Automatic, Navitimer 46, and Avenger II Seawolf models, all in cases made of “Blacksteel,” a metal with a layer of highly resistant carbon-based treatment that Breitling first starting using for its watch cases in 2012. Here’s…
Easily the most popular steel-cased (or otherwise) luxury diving watch, the Rolex Submariner sets the bar in many ways when it comes to timepieces of its type, at its price point.With that said, the Rolex Submariner isn’t for everyone, and a lot of people who already have a Rolex Submariner…
The modern Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar shares plenty of similarities and differences with the vintage models. The overarching design codes have more or less remained the same, with an octagonal Royal Oak case, crown, and perpetual calendar function, but even these are with slight changes. The now 41-mm case (previously…
Acquisitions are rarely a surprise in this day and age, and especially in this industry, but we’d be lying if we said we weren’t at least a bit surprised to learn that the majority stake of Glycine Watch S.A. has just been sold to the Invicta Watch Group. As pioneers…
The new 2016 Heuer Mikrograph 100th Anniversary from TAG Heuer commemorates the 100th anniversary of the “Mikrograph”, the world’s first stopwatch with a precision of 1/100 seconds that Heuer presented in 1916. Thanks to this patented stopwatch, Heuer became the official timekeeper of several editions of the Olympic Games and…
The Zelos Hammerhead is expected by the end of 2016. Zelos have forgone a crowdfunding option and are instead taking pre-orders directly on their site. Zelos has had a pretty good run since its first Kickstarter campaign that launched the Helmsman in 2014. The brand has since released a total…
As the watch world prepares for the release of the new products introduced at Baselworld 2015, we revisit my year-end “Top 10” lists for 2014, all originally posted on my blog, Watch-Insider.com. We have already looked at my favorite chronograph watches. This time, the focus is on last year’s top…