Timex’s Coolest Affordable Dress Watch Ups the Ante with a New Patek-Inspired Silhouette

There is an argument to be made that the watch industry’s hottest creative partnership of the past two years is also one of its most affordable.

For the third time this year, and the fifth time overall, Noah and Timex have outdone themselves with an absolutely stunning dress watch that looks like a couple of zeros are missing from the end of its price.

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Noah, a New York-based clothing company founded and run by current J.Crew Men’s Creative Director, Brendon Babenzien, first teamed up with Timex in the summer of 2024. The collaboration began with a quartz-powered classical rectangular dress watch featuring a 24-hour sun and moon complication.

The release was a smashing success, leading to a follow-up in November 2024, which improved the design with a proper moonphase complication. It retained the leaf hands and Cartier Tank-style Roman numeral hour markers, framed by a railroad minutes track.

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After delivering two of the year’s best-looking dress watches in the sub-$500 range, Noah and Timex took a daring approach the third time around. Released this past June, the ongoing collaboration’s Lighthouse Watch featured a gilded oval case similar to the Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse.

The dial was decorated with what appeared to be a pencil sketch of a lighthouse on a beach, set against a cloudy sky. It had no indices or complications, just an hour hand, a minute hand, the Noah logo at three o’clock and the Timex logo at six o’clock.

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After reintroducing the Moon Phase in August with a more wearable steel case alongside the original gold-tone finish, the much-hyped partnership has outdone itself once again with the Oval Moon Phase Watch.

For its fifth act, Timex and Noah combined the oval case of the Lighthouse Watch with the moonphase and date complications of the Moon Phase Watch for an absolutely stunning classical dress watch that has no business costing $228.

Bring it back around

The framed rectangular case, reminiscent of old grandfather clocks, that began the Noah x Timex collaboration, is beautiful, but somewhat overdone.

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Switching back to the Patek-inspired oval case and giving it a conventional dial is refreshing, but that detail is only the beginning of why the Oval Moon Phase blows away its predecessors.

The titular moonphase window is the only dial feature copied directly from the Moon Phase Watch, retaining the crescent-shaped window and blue moonphase disc with printed moons and stars.

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Noah and Timex opted for beveled dauphine hands this time — my personal favorite choice for dress watches — with a pin seconds hand and applied, faceted, pointed dash indices.

One of my favorite updates is that Noah’s logo, which has been present on all previous dials, has been replaced with the brand’s name written out in script above the date window.

The dial is a beautiful creamy off-white color, and the minute track is a simple series of dots framing the whole thing.

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The perfectly wearable 31mm-wide by 35mm-long case is available in the same gold-tone steel or polished steel options as the collaboration’s previous release, complemented by hands and hour markers that match the case finish.

Every watch in the series has come on leather straps embossed with a faux alligator texture, but Timex and Noah switched it up this time with pebbled leather. The gilded option comes on a black strap, and the steel option comes on a brown strap.

Availability and price

The Timex x Noah Oval Moon Phase Watch is available for pre-order now exclusively from Noah for $228.

Judging by the speedy disappearance of every previous entry in this collaboration, I wouldn’t hesitate if you want to own this ridiculously affordable dress watch.

There is a substantial lead time, with orders not expected to ship out until May 2026, and all pre-order sales are final.

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Noah x Timex Oval Moon Phase Watch

Specs

Case Size	31mm x 35mm
Movement	Quartz
Water Resistance	30m

• $228 at Noah

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