In this episode of Superlative, host and aBlogtoWatch founder Ariel Adams sits down with professional big-wave surfer and TAG Heuer brand ambassador Kai Lenny for an in-depth conversation about risk, preparation, and what timing really means when nature is in full control. Growing up in Hawai’i...
Best Of The Best: 2025 Roundups What’s better than an end-of-year roundup? A roundup of the year’s best roundups. As the watch world enters its slumber starting around late November, the people who write about watches prepare for hibernation as well, neatly categorizing the news from the past...
Among the various companies that offer watches with luminous tritium-tube displays, Traser is unique. This is the house brand for MB-Microtec, which is the Swiss manufacturer that actually produces the tiny tritium gas-filled tubes. Among the more interesting additions to Traser’s catalog is the...
While it may be a sister brand to H. Moser & Cie., Hautlence doesn’t get nearly as much attention. That is slowly changing as Hautlence has been managerially reinvigorated, and is working towards making products more people want to wear. A great example of this new generation of products is the...
The Atelier Wen Inflection is a highly ambitious horological product. It is a nearly $30,000 USD luxury watch from a brand that is just a few years old, one that built a company based on the idea of merging European design refinement with Chinese aesthetics and cultural values. Atelier Wen...
This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Rick, Ariel, Ripley, and David stumble headfirst into a horological fever dream that begins with their favorite Christmas gifts and quickly escalates into “God complex watches,” starting with Vacheron Constantin’s wildly unsettling Métiers d’Art creations that...
Watch brand Maen has invested a lot of time and effort into its “Manhattan” collection of timepiece products. The company currently makes at least four versions of the Maen Manhattan, and each version comes in a number of different dial colors. The Maen Manhattan is an enthusiast bracelet watch...
January 2026 is underway! As we here at aBlogtoWatch welcome a new year, we’re celebrating the way we know best: offering one lucky member of our community a brand-new timepiece to start 2026 off right. We’ve partnered with Traser to bring one of its most rugged, innovative new releases...
Three years ago, Bell & Ross introduced its new manufacture movement, the BR-CAL.323, in the model that was newest at the time, the BR-05 series. It was dubbed the BR-X5, and while I understand the synergy of pushing the new movement in the newest model line, it made an already chunky watch even...
What a year! In 2025, aBlogtoWatch published over 1,100 articles, including more than 350 hands-on reviews, more than 550 new releases, more than 80 episodes of our two podcasts, and over 40 editions of our editorial columns. We take pride in covering an unparalleled breadth of watches, from...
Our aBlogtoWatch team is pleased to announce Ethan Z. of Princeton, USA as the winner of our Heinrich Helicoprion Amethyst watch giveaway. With an evocative stone dial, a brightly finished bezel, and a deep, icy purple colorway, it’s sure to stand out at any watch gathering. Your continuing...
What makes everything here at aBlogtoWatch worthwhile is our readers. The comment sections, while not always the friendliest place for brands, are almost always entertaining and seem filled with people who genuinely love watches. Things are almost always kept civil (thanks in no small part to...
