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Watches

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

The Rolex That Survived a Fighter Pilot Ejection
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The Rolex That Survived a Fighter Pilot Ejection
By Beau Hayhoe
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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

By Cool Material
The Cool Shop The Cool Shop
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The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

Summer calls for lighter materials, brighter colors, and watches that can go from the beach to dinner without missing a beat.

By Amos Kwon
Fashion
Seiko Men’s SNDA65 Chronograph Strap Watch

Watches, like everything in fashion, can go terribly wrong. We need only reference the watches of rappers and compensating celebrities, adorned with enough diamonds to have tangible impacts on Antwerp economy. In the end, all watches do one thing and one thing only: tell time. Seiko, forever the maker of…

By Wylie Overstreet
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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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Fashion
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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