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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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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
By Cool Material
The Somms of Watches: I’m Timepiece Certified and You Could Be, Too
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The Somms of Watches: I’m Timepiece Certified and You Could Be, Too

Coolest resolution, unlocked.

By Karlton Miko Tyack
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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
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Nixon’s Latest Watch Collection Bends, Freezes, and Wobbles Time

What happens when a watchmaker decides to take time into a new dimension?

By Cool Material
Fashion
Urwerk UR-112 Aggregat Odyssey

It takes some testicular fortitude to pull off an Urwerk timepiece on your wrist. To wear one is tantamount to strapping on a tiger's head as a bike helmet. The new UR-112 Aggregat Odyssey is an updated version of its super-complex UR-112, this time in titanium and steel, a tad…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
Rec Watches Latest Masterpiece Is Made From the Icon 1000 Triumph Speedmaster

When it comes to impressive timepieces that tell a story, you won't find better than the REC Watches that combine bulletproof Swiss watch-making with recycled iconic vehicle hardware. Their latest is the REC Watches TTT ICON1000, a 262-piece limited-edition timepiece made with the stator cover from ICON1000 Motorsports Triumph Speedmaster…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Aera D-1 and P-1 Watches

Copycat derivative dive and pilot watches are everywhere. It's also not exactly a breeze to design modern interpretations of either type without looking weird and/or polarizing. UK-based Aera has done a bang-up job of creating its own fresh versions of both of them in the D-1 Diver and the P-1…

By Amos Kwon
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Unimatic X Esercito Italiano Collection

The Italian microbrand watch company is on a rampage, issuing special edition watches that sell out quickly. Its latest collab is with Esercito Italiano, otherwise known as the Armed Forces of the Italian Republic. Three watches comprise this limited edition series: the U1-PA, U1-PAN, and the U4-TA. Each watch is…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
Girard-Perregaux Casquette 2.0

Whoever said digital watches were for nerds never laid their eyes on the original 1976 Casquette, a watch that oozed all kinds of futuristism. Now, the luxury watch brand has reinterpreted the original for the 21st century, and it's murdered-out cool. The case is constructed with ceramic and grade 5…

By Amos Kwon
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