One of the first hurdles to clear for newcomers to watch appreciation is the clarification of two very common horological categories: chronograph vs. chronometer. Quite simply, a chronometer (from the Greek chronos , meaning time, and meter, meaning measure) is any watch or clock that keeps...
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...
Well, it’s time for our last article of 2025 and, naturally, we asked members of the entire team here at Teddy to share the watches they wore the most this year. These aren’t our favorite watches from 2025, but rather our personal choices for the pieces that took up the most time on our wrists...
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...
