
Review: The Perfect Summer Beater Watch
A great summer watch should be more than just cheap and tough.

A great summer watch should be more than just cheap and tough.

10 watches that pack equal parts brains and brawn.
By Gear Patrol



Changing your watch band is an easy way to refresh your watch; mesh just happens to be the best way to do it.


You don’t have to spend thousands on a classic chronograph.

You’d be surprised what kind of watch $1,000 buys you on the vintage market.

Shedding light on a remarkable movement.

Guilloche is a dying art, but results are absolutely stunning.

Hublot’s proprietary “Magic Gold” is an astounding product of bat-shit metallurgy.


Bell & Ross watches are traditionally chunky and square.

It’s got a gorgeous 39mm rose gold case, a white-lacquer dial and a moon indicator made out of a goddamn meteorite.

The new Zenith El Primero can measure time to a hundredth of a second.

A whole new system for starting and stopping a chronograph.

Watch nerds have a lot to be excited about.

A throwback from 70 years ago has a gorgeous, brushed copper dial.

Grand Seiko is now independent.

It’s truly monstrous: 52.5mm diameter and 21.4mm thick.