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Watches

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

This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000
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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000
By Amos Kwon
What It’s Like to Wear an $85,000 Watch What It’s Like to Wear an $85,000 Watch
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What It’s Like to Wear an $85,000 Watch

I spent some wrist time with the Ulysse Nardin Freak ONE Gold, a wonderfully strange feat of watchmaking with no dial, hands or crown.

By Beau Hayhoe
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10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About

Forget the usual suspects. We found worthwhile deals on menswear, watches, luggage, design, fragrance, books, and more.

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Black Book: 12 Products Our Editors Loved in August 2026

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

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Hamilton Time Player

Hamilton is a company that has been making waves in the watch community since they started in the lat 1800s. Even though they're more well known for their vintage and pocket watches, every once in a while they release a watch that makes everyone take notice. The Time Player is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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TSOVET SVT-NM85

It's no secret that we have a sordid love affair with watches, especially hot black-on-black diddies like the ones from Vestal, Burberry, Nixon, and Welder. Now TSOVET is joining this pseudo-exclusive boys club with what we're affectionately referring to as the Midnight (SVT-NM85 just doesn't roll off the tongue quite…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nixon The Chronicle Wood

Nixon is always on the cutting edge of Men's watch fashion, even if that means it's the business end of a industrial bandsaw. Men - for whatever reason - have a strange fascination with wood and now Nixon is catering to this fetish too, much like they did with rubber.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Watch3 by Steven Götz

While analog is in a whole different class of cool above digital we will admit that it's not quite as black and white. Watch3 by Steven Götz simplifies a face full of names to just the relevant one. The numbers are printed in white on the underside of the sapphire…

By Cool Material Guest
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Brera Militare Watch

Brera watches have a certain way of saying "I mean business, but I came to party." It could be the combination of their huge faces and rubber straps, or their contrasting number colors and crown guards, but one thing's for sure - these watches are cool. The Militare watch in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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