Every serious collector has at least one watch in their box that makes visitors pause mid-sentence. You know the one. They glance at it, tilt their head slightly, and then ask the inevitable question. What on earth is that? The Seiko Fieldmaster Contra 2C21- 0800 lives for that moment. It is not...
Maybe it’s because I used to own a clean, crisp, white-dialled Brunswick, but I always imagine Fears watches with this elegant, restrained minimalism. They’re the kind of watches you pair with a serious navy suit and a stiff upper lip. It’s those 1930s sensibilities coming home to roost. But as...
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...
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...
The 1970s is the decade that just keeps giving. But rather than just drawing from the same Genta-shaped well, some intrepid brands have started aesthetically branching out, and not just towards other watches of the era. Architecture, for example, is a bit of a favourite and that’s precisely...
