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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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Why The Field Watch Is The Ultimate Spring Watch
By Beau Hayhoe
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Is NORQAIN The New Favorite Watch Brand for Hockey Fans?

The NHL’s first official luxury sports timepiece partner just dropped a new watch at center ice.

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
Fashion
Nixon The Gunship Collection

Nixon watches. You know them; you love them. Now there's more. The Gunship Collection consists of The Banks, The Player, The Sentry, and the 51-30 Chrono - all decked out with a unique gunmetal finish and red targeting matrices... err hands. Supposedly this finish is designed for wear and tear…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Diesel Digital DZ7172

DZ7172 is perhaps the most evocative, poetic product name ever devised. As you can see, the watch is equally as poetic in form. It has lots of curves, perhaps recalling a Degas nude, a blown glass vase, or maybe just a circle. Ok, so we're bad at sarcasm. But we…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Reveal Bamboo Watch

Bamboo has come to the fore on the wave of green trends. It's that wood that's readily abundant, pretty to look at, and has many applications. And now we can add watchmaking to them: Reveal's Bamboo watch uses the wood in the housing and band, creating a look that's decidedly…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Fashion
Lum-Tec Combat B4 Watch

Lum-Tec Combat B4 may sound like a fictional gun from a James Cameron movie but it's a watch. Before you're disappointed, have a look--all their watches feature a luminescence technology that blows Indiglo out of the water. They use "superluminova photoluminescence" (yay syllables!) in their MDV Technology, which produces an…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Diesel Sandstorm Watches

Today's lesson in how to write marketing copy to make your product sound f'ing amazing comes to you from the good people at Diesel. Their two new Sandstorm Watches (DZ1349 and DZ1350) have descriptions that start exactly the same. "Sandstorm. It's a steel mesh throwdown cased in strong lines and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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