Earlier this summer, Longines introduced a new colorway to the 39mm Legend Diver series, and it's so perfect for the model that it's a wonder it took this long to arrive. The resized 39mm version of the Legend Diver, first launched in 2023, has gone through its fair share of colorways. From the original blue…
Last summer, Uncle Jeff came to town and thudded an old Ziploc on the table. "Brought some of your dad's old stuff," he declared. A single hand hovered over the bag. "Got it from your aunt." In the thirty years since my father was killed in action, many similar bags and boxes have been handed…
The watch world runs on tradition. Ask any collector how they got started, and nine times out of ten, you'll hear, "My dad got me into watches." (The other one out of ten? "I got into them after I started reading Hodinkee.")* With Father's Day approaching this weekend, we decided to flip the script. Instead…
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Last year, we covered the revival of the Cornell Watch Co., a relatively short-lived 19th-century American brand from Chicago that was brought back to life by Cornell collector John Warren. Today, the brand is launching another take on envisioning what the brand may have been able to make if the…
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For more than two decades (lest we forget the smoldering image of Pierce Brosnan from the original 2002 launch campaign), the Aqua Terra has served as Omega's go-anywhere, do-anything sports watch. And now, for the first time, the collection gets a dedicated 30mm case size. And, more importantly, two brand-new…
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If you've taken a look at the Timex Q collection, you'll know that there isn't a coherent design language across the board. Rather, the Timex Q name serves as a sort of historical playground for the designers at the brand, where vintage Timexes can be resurrected or new homages created…
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It's only been about a year since the revival of the 1970s retro-futuristic brand Amida, with their "casquette" style watch called the Digitrend. The watch and its design – featuring a digital display rendered through a prismatic crystal to display the jump hour and wandering minutes – are so iconic in…