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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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Is NORQAIN The New Favorite Watch Brand for Hockey Fans?
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
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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
Fashion
Wear a Piece of the Greatest Movie Motorcycle on Your Wrist Every Day

What's the greatest motorcycle in a movie? Many--including us--would say it's the 1962 Triumph TR6 Trophy 650cc used in The Great Escape. After four decades in a barn, the bike ridden by McQueen has been recycled into a line of limited-edition timepieces by REC Watches that allows the wearer to…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Fashion
Isotope Hydrium Blue Night

This fresh and very modern take on the dive watch comes from London-based Isotope. The overall look of the watch is subdued with the minimalist matte black and blue dial and bezel and micro-blasted 40mm case. But the huge knurled crown and the nearly 15mm case thickness give this timepiece…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
The Best Microbrand Watches Under $500

Anyone who says you need to spend thousands of dollars on a premium brand name wristwatch to get quality and style clearly hasn't gotten his hands on a great microbrand timepiece. The world of excellent watches is deeper and wider than you'd expect, and microbrand watches are surging. What you…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
Timex Waterbury Traditional Day Date

Timex has been bringing the vintage style like nobody else in the watch world today, and they all come at truly attainable prices. Their latest is one that nods to the company's 1854 origins, when it was known as the Waterbury Watch Company. The classic and eye-catching two-tone dial is…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
Hamilton PSR MTX Limited Edition for The Matrix Resurrections

The Hamilton PSR is a sweet reissue of the original LED Pulsar digital watch, and now the brand has created one with a green readout to coincide with the release of Matrix Resurrections, the fourth installment of the Matrix movie franchise. It also happens to celebrate the 50th anniversary of…

By Amos Kwon
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