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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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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500
By Amos Kwon
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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

Weiss Watch Co. is doing things a bit (or quite a lot) differently with its remarkable USA-made timepieces.

By Beau Hayhoe
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The Best Tank Watches For Men Are Wearable History for Your Wrist

The retro style and its “hip to be square” ethos add distinguished flair to your timepiece rotation.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in June 2026

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

By Cool Material
Fashion
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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Fashion
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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Fashion
Diesel DZ4187 This Is My Time Watch

For most men, birthdays are irrelevant from the ages of 21 - 40. 21 is the start of everything awesome and 40 is the end. Everything in the middle is just a collection of stories you'll tell your grandkids if you manage to live to the top of the hill.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Bas and Lokes Custom Watch Straps

If you haven't jumped on the changing out your watch strap to spice things up (without having to shell out for a new watch) bandwagon yet, now is the time and Bas and Lokes are the people. They have over thirty different straps available in 20mm - 26mm lug widths.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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