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Watches

The best in watches and timepieces: Editor reviews, new releases, limited editions, and the latest news.

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Is NORQAIN The New Favorite Watch Brand for Hockey Fans?
By Beau Hayhoe
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This Watch Microbrand Has a Two-Year Waitlist, Was It Worth It?

A $380 watch with the same wait list as a $10,000 Rolex Sub.

By Amos Kwon
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty

The brand that invented unbreakable style just made its two most iconic watches even sharper.

By Cool Material
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Sheffield Revives a Classic: Crafting Quality, Technology, and Affordability Into Every Timepiece

The microbrand making watches the old-fashioned way. By overdelivering.

By Cool Material
Fashion
Timex + Todd Snyder MK1 Steel Watch Collection

Frequent collaborators Timex and Todd Snyder are back with another new collection of updated vintage watches that will look great on any wrist. The Timex + Todd Snyder MK1 Steel Watch Collection contains six different timepieces all based on an "extremely rare and highly coveted military spec watch produced by Timex…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
6 Classic Watches That Won’t Cost You a Fortune

When it comes to timepieces, you have a lot of options. Do you want a watch that just tells time? A watch with a computer built-in that can give you altitude, notifications and everything else you used to rely on your phone for? Or, do you want something stylish, unique…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Timex and Todd Snyder Maritime Sport MS1 Watches

When you're talking collaborations, few are as consistently excellent as those between Todd Snyder and Timex. The two iconic brands have once again teamed up to release a watch, but this time they're shooting for contemporary and original as opposed to something archival. The Timex + Todd Snyder MS1 Maritime…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
adidas Archive_M1 Watch

Drawing inspiration from the dawn of the digital era, a time when adidas was crushing the sneaker game, the new adidas Archive_M1 is dripping in old school cool. Billed as "an antidote to today's gadget-fueled age of information overload," the Archive_M1 is both simple and nostalgic. Simple because it features…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
HODINKEE Made a Watch With Swatch

HODINKEE has long been one of our favorite watch sites. The brand is increasing its portfolio of products/partnerships with the new Swatch Sistem51 HODINKEE Vintage 84 watch. HODINKEE describes it as "combining the best of vintage design with the most unconventional take on what mechanical watchmaking can be in the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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