Mezei Watch Company Arctic Blue, £395 Mezei Watch Company was founded by Sandor Mezei, a man with a decade on the front lines of watch sales, experiencing what collectors and customers are truly looking for in a watch. Their debut collection consists of the London Smoke, Arctic Blue and Racing...
Good morning, Fratelli, and welcome to another Sunday Morning Showdown. Today will be a fully digital installment. When Seiko introduced the “Rotocall” re-editions, many enthusiasts got excited. The original ’80s watch, also known as the “Astronaut,” was used on many space missions, and its...
The Quartz Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s was a defining moment for the industry, to say the least. Following Seiko’s Astron in 1969, the first quartz watch to hit the market, a huge swathe of traditional brands closed down as cheap, extremely accurate and virtually maintenance-free Japanese...
Why Special Operations Forces Trust Digital Tool Watches from G-Shock, Garmin, Timex, & Suunto Given the content at W.O.E., it’s easy to get the impression that every “operator” is running around with a Rolex, Omega, or Seiko, as there is a clear selection bias for the stories we tell. While...
Although fresh independent brand Schaefer and Companions has gained an enthusiast foothold with its art dial-focused Solune watch series, the brand’s angular, intricate case design admittedly isn’t a fit for all tastes. For its second-ever case offering, the young brand aims to address this,...
Vacheron Constantin unveils a new Overseas Tourbillon model with a captivating deep red sunburst dial. The aperture at 6 o’clock provides an unobstructed view of the tourbillon regulator, with the 22K gold peripheral rotor allowing light through the case back’s sapphire display. This model is...
The mad scientists of Donkervoort, the only active Dutch sports car manufacturer, have done it again. They have raised the performance bar set by the already razor-sharp F22 even further. Although it looks vaguely the same as its predecessor, the new P24 RS is almost entirely new, featuring the...
Five years ago, none of us had ever heard of a watermelon watch. Think about that for a second. In the timeframe in which most watch brands are still finding their footing, Studio Underd0g has gone from plucky newcomer to one of the poster boys of British watchmaking. Their drops cause the kind...
Founded by the team at RZE to serve as a creative outlet for products that don’t fit into its outdoor/adventure world, Vostra is a brand that purely exists to have fun. While ring watches are the definition of a novelty that hardly embody RZE’s function-forward ethos, they also provide...
Let bygones be bygones. When the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet collection debuted in January 2019 at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), the reception was mixed, to put it mildly. Since then, the collection has evolved and become increasingly refined. The upgrade that won me...
There are certain “easy wins” with watch enthusiasts that brands rely on. Put a line of red text on a black dial diver, and you’ll get some smiles. Add a micro-adjust to your clasp, and you’ll avoid some angry emails. Drill your lugs, and… well, I at least will be excited. And when it comes […]...
Inside the cockpit of a Formula 1 car, temperatures can climb beyond 120º F and braking forces routinely reach 5 Gs. A driver’s heart rate can sit north of 170 bpm for nearly two hours. In a sport where thousandths of a second determine grid positions, F1 drivers operate in a world defined by...
