Introducing: M.A.D.Editions x Yinka Ilori M.A.D.1S ‘Grow Your Dreams’ Limited Edition

As shown above, the new M.A.D.1S “Grow Your Dreams” takes inspiration from Ilori’s signature bright color palette and explores three themes, with each watch to match: Sun, Nature, and Water. These comprise three limited editions of 400 pieces each, and according to the brand is “a call to nurture our ambitions like seeds, to believe…

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Hands-On: Citizen Promaster Navihawk Blue Angels Watch

As a first-generation watch enthusiast from a solidly middle-class background, I don’t have many memories of watches from childhood, as I didn’t cross paths with that world particularly often. There is one major, vividly memorable exception, though: the Blue Angels collaborations from Citizen. Nearly every shopping trip with my parents and countless magazine ads showed…

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The SUPERLATIVE Podcast: Inside The World Of Watch Repair And Restoration With Barry Cheung Of Classic Watch Repair

This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast , host and aBlogtoWatch founder Ariel Adams is joined by Barry Cheung, better known on Instagram as @BearWrist, and the managing partner of Classic Watch Repair in Hong Kong. Together, they trace Barry’s journey from an inquisitive watch enthusiast in university to his role in launching Hong Kong–based customization…

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ABTW Weekly Podcast #185: Watch Giant Blows His Big Launch, Swatch Ad Scandal & Ariel’s Haunted By Oldsmobile Hell

This week’s aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast illustrates that watch talk is never just about watches. The team opens up with its trademark mix of banter and sharp observations, spotlighting the eccentric world of auctioning watch memorabilia — equal parts fascinating and absurd. The conversation shifts to Frank MĂĽller and Swatch, as the team dissects advertising missteps as…

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Introducing: Ming Celebrates A Dazzling Eighth Birthday With The New 57.04 Iris Monopusher Chronograph

Accompanying the new, more flamboyant case design, the 57.04 Iris comes with an equally attention-grabbing new dial finish. What might be familiar are the laser-cut indices on the underside of the top sapphire crystal, filled with Ming’s proprietary Polar White lume compound, as well as the shape of the blue hour, minute, and central chronograph…

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Actually Affordable: Armitron Knox Watch With Genuine Diamonds

Once emblematic of luxury and exclusivity, diamonds have become significantly more accessible over the last decade due to the increasing availability of lab-grown options. Although diamond-set watches still largely exist within the luxury-oriented side of the industry, it is no longer just the diamonds themselves that make these timepieces expensive, and the Armitron Knox is…

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Auctions: Exclusive: The Pinnacle Of Holy Grails, A Patek 1518 In Steel Is Coming To Auction In November

Indeed, what makes the 35 millimeter diameter steel case 1518 so remarkable is that it represents the first and only time that Patek produced a perpetual calendar chronograph using the lowly metal alloy, known for its durability. None of the 1518’s Patek successors, from the 2499, which is most desirable in platinum, to the later…

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