
A Guide to Common Watchmaking Materials
From precious metals to the latest groundbreaking alloys, these are the materials used to craft watch movements, cases and more.

From precious metals to the latest groundbreaking alloys, these are the materials used to craft watch movements, cases and more.

The IWC Portugieser HandWound Monopusher Edition “Laureus Sport for Good” features a blue sunburst dial and special case back engraving.
By Zen Love

The watch world will go without Watches & Wonders and Baselworld, its two most important events of the year.
By Zen Love

Following the cancelation of other major and minor watch industry trade shows, the largest of them all, Baselworld, is the latest victim of the coronavirus.
By Zen Love

Bear Grylls is a legendary outdoor adventurer and survivalist.

With Watches & Wonders Geneva (formerly known as SIHH) canceled due to health concerns, will Baselworld 2020 be next on the chopping block?
By Oren Hartov

The new “seat belt” NATO strap from Marathon is available in three colors and features a comfortable nylon weave and stainless steel hardware.
By Jon Custis

Zenith’s latest in its winning series of El Primero Revival watches is a modern remake of the chronograph known as the “Cover Girl.”
By Zen Love

Never mind that you can’t dive thousands of meters below the waves — the robustness of these watches alone is worth the investment.
By Zen Love

These watches will give you the most bang for your buck.

Two new Alpina Alpiner watches add GMT functionality, but remain relatively affordable due to the use of Swiss quartz movements.
By Zen Love

We’re flipping our lids over a Universal Genève chronograph, a digital world timer, a simple Rolex dress watch and more.
By Oren Hartov

The Nomos Tetra Symphony adds four new options to the brand’s distinctive square-shaped watch collection, complete with in-house movements.
By Zen Love

When the Straight Edge movement gained ground in the 1980s, its adherents quickly adopted an affordable watch whose symbol matched their ideology.
By Scott Ulrich

Rado has introduced a new 42mm Captain Cook in bronze with a deep green dial and ceramic bezel.
By Zen Love

Three awesome new automatic Presage watches reference the design of vintage chronographs, but they’re far less expensive.
By Zen Love

We explore the history of the world’s most popular watch case material, which was once relegated to the fringes of horology.

This week we’ve got an iconic Hamilton, a stylish, affordable diver and a watch a particularly badass name on the dial.
By Zen Love

A collaboration between Triple Aught and knife maker Todd Rexford has resulted in a totally badass strap called the Quantum.
By Zen Love

The Sinn 158 brings back an important mechanical chronograph from the 1960s that was originally issued to the German military.
By Zen Love