Satire title and no F150. Got gifted a Duro for my wedding present from a close friend and actually really enjoy the fit and feel more than some of my more “luxury? Middle class special” Watches. I was initially hesitant on the green but dam it pops!

Can tell this is going to be getting more wrist time.

About three years ago, I was homeless. Life looks very different today, and I'm genuinely grateful for how far I've come.

This is actually my first-ever watch purchase.

I still have a long way to go, but being able to buy something I want without worrying about how I'll manage financially afterwards is something I'll never take for granted.

I absolutely love the dial on this thing. I know there are plenty of better watches out there, but sometimes a watch just catches your eye, and this one did it for me.

To most people, this might just be another Casio. To me, it's a reminder of how much life can change and how important it is to appreciate the little things along the way.

I'm thankful for where I am today, and I hope there's a lot more to celebrate in the years ahead.

If life feels difficult right now but don't lose hope.

Things can change in ways you never imagined! Keep going, take it one day at a time, and don't forget to celebrate the little wins!

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It's Wednesday and a late one today, sorry for that, it's a bit chaotic at the IAT headquarters.

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1/ Seiko Gives American Buyers the Best-Looking SKX GMT So Far

Since it launched in 2022, the SKX GMT has mostly been a way for Seiko to try out colors. The first three came in black, blue and orange, the 2023 U.S. specials added yellow, a charcoal Pepsi and a gold-accented version, and the SSK036 brought root beer. The new HDB016, another U.S. limited edition, goes maroon with a red and brown bezel. Out of all of them, I think this one might be my favorite.

The case is unchanged: 42.5mm wide, 13.6mm thick, with a lug-to-lug of 46mm and 22mm between the lugs. The thickness makes it wear bigger than the diameter suggests, but the short-ish lugs keep it manageable on a mid-sized wrist. The crown is still at four, and I still can't decide if I hate that or not. The bidirectional bezel has a 24-hour scale split between red and a very, very, very dark brown. So dark, it took me minutes to realize it's not black. Water resistance is 100 meters.

The maroon dial has a sunray finish, so it shifts in the light. Gold shows up in two places, the GMT hand and the lower half of the sloped flange that holds the 24-hour track. The applied indices, chunky hands, LumiBrite and date window all remain unchained.

Inside is the Seiko calibre 4R34, the automatic this line has used since 2022. It beats at 21,600 vph and has a power reserve of 41 hours. It’s a caller GMT, so the GMT hand sets independently while the hour hand stays on local time. The steel bracelet closes with a folding clasp, has a push-button release and safety lock, and it’s just OK.

Now, for availability. Sites and instagram accounts are reporting that this is on sale already in the US, but I can't find it on any websites just yet. I would bet that it goes on sale in November. Price is supposed to be $525. See more photos here and keep an eye out on the US Seiko website.

2/ Citizen Dresses Up the Attesa Moonphase With The Attesa Ever Since

Citizen’s second Attesa Moonphase limited edition of 2026 shares its case and movement with February’s Shades of Red, yet it looks like a completey different watch. Sure, the soft blue compared tot hat wild red is a huge difference, but look at the hour markers. Replace chunky batons with Roman numerals and you have an Attesa that could almost be worn with a suit. Almost.

The Attesa Ever Since is 41.5mm wide and 10.8mm thick, made out of Citizen’s Super Titanium. The Shades of Red had a black DLC finish. This one gets Duratect Platinum, a pale silver-grey hardening layer that protects the titanium from scratches. Two pushers sit either side of the guarded crown, and water resistance is 100 meters. The thickness of 10.8mm won't be a problem, but that width is the thing keeping it from being a more elegant watch.

The blue starts pale at the top and darkens toward the bottom. Citizen made the gradient irregular on purpose, as it's supposed to look like mountains fading into a snowstorm, with small white specks scattered across the surface for the snow. The moonphase at six o’clock is an icy pale blue. I can’t really see the mountains, but it's a pretty dial. The indices are Roman numerals alternating with faceted arrowheads. Citizen also flattened the dial by removing some of its levels, so it looks calmer overall. It still displays a lot of information, such as a perpetual calendar, world time and a power reserve indicator.

Inside is calibre H874, Citizen’s radio-controlled Eco-Drive. It sets itself from time signals, charges from any light source, and in power save mode it will keep going for two and a half years in a drawer. The bracelet is also made out of Super Titanium with the same Duratect Platinum coating, so it matches the case and weighs very little.

The Attesa Ever Since is a limited edition, but in Citizen terms that means 2,300 watches. It goes on sale in November and it's priced at $1,200. See more photos here and the watch on the Citizen website.

3/ Rado Gilds the DiaStar Original Skeleton in Yellow and Rose for Autumn

Rado has released two new versions of the DiaStar Original Skeleton for autumn, one in yellow gold tone and one in rose gold tone. It’s the same watch as the colorful summer editions from earlier this year, with gold finishes in place of the bright colors. Rose is new for the DiaStar, and it’s quite the looker.

The case is 38mm wide and 11.9mm thick, with a lug-to-lug of 45mm, so it wears small and relatively flat. The bezel is made out of Ceramos, Rado’s ceramic and metal composite, tinted with PVD and brushed in a radial pattern. The bezel, Rado says, will not scratch. The rest of the case is steel under polished gold PVD, and that could scratch. The faceted DiaStar crystal is still there: a flat square in the center with angled sides falling away from it. Water resistance is 100 meters.

There’s no dial here in the usual sense. A chapter ring in black or brown, depending on the variant, is used to mount white minute markers, and gold indices hang off it over the open movement. The bridges are gold-plated too. The central seconds hand is white or black, and the pivoting Rado anchor sits at 9 o’clock.

The movement is Rado calibre R808, a skeletonized Powermatic 80 from the ETA family. It beats at 21,600vph, has 80 hours of reserve, uses a Nivachron hairspring for magnetic and temperature resistance, and is adjusted in five positions. It’s a dependable movement. Through the sapphire caseback you see an anchor-shaped rotor with Geneva stripes. The strap is brown rubber on Rado’s EasyClip quick-release system, closed with a gold PVD pin buckle.

The DiaStar Original Skeleton is available now, priced at €2,600 in either color. See more photos here and the watches on the Rado website.

4/ Sinn Marks a 45-Minute Football Half on the Bezel of the 105 Eintracht

Most football club-themed watches stop at a crest on the dial or a color on the bezel. Now, I'm not saying that Sinn’s new 105 Eintracht, made for Eintracht Frankfurt, the football club, is revolutionary in any sense. It has the crest on the dial, but it also implements a football-specific function onto the bezel – the first 45 minutes of the bezel are colored in, so you can set it at kickoff and track a half. It’s a simple idea, and I like the move despite not being a huge fan of the game. Also, this watch marks the link between the Frankfurt watch brand and the Frankfurt club that goes back a long way: one of the men who founded the club in 1899 was a Frankfurt watchmaker named Albert Pohlenk.

The case is the familiar 105 in bead-blasted steel, 41mm wide and 11.9mm thick. There’s sapphire crystals front and back, with anti-reflective coating on both sides of the front crystal, a screw-down crown and 200 meters of water resistance. The bezel turns in both directions with one-minute clicks. The blasted finish suits a tool watch like this, and the proportions are as easy to wear as they are on the standard 105.

The dial is black with a silk-matt finish, applied indices and an applied Eintracht Frankfurt logo at 6 o'clock. Hands and indices are lumed, as is the marker on the bezel at 12. For a club edition it’s restrained, so if you are a fan, you can still pull it off without it being too loud.

Inside is the Sellita SW 200-1, an automatic running at 4Hz with 40 hours of power reserve, hacking seconds and magnetic resistance to the DIN 8309 standard. Through the caseback you’ll see the rotor, engraved with the club’s name and the watch’s individual number. It comes with two straps on 20mm lugs: a black textile strap and a white silicone one with an embossed Sinn logo and quick-release spring bars.

The Sinn 105 Eintracht (ref. 105.031) is limited to 500 numbered examples and priced at €2,290 including VAT. See more photos here and the watch on the Sinn website.

5/ Arnold & Son Gives the DSTB a Stop-Seconds, So You Can Finally Set It to the Second

The DSTB is Arnold & Son’s deadbeat seconds watch, part of the brand’s chronometry line. The name stands for Dial Side True Beat: the seconds hand jumps once a second instead of sweeping, and the mechanism that drives it sits on top of the movement, facing you, so the whole thing is on display. The DSTB has always been a watch about seconds, yet until now you couldn’t stop the hand to set it precisely. Two new limited editions fix that with a crown-operated stop-seconds.

The case is 42mm wide, available in red gold or platinum, with a domed sapphire crystal over on top and a flat sapphire crystal caseback. Thickness is decent at 12.95mm, of which a chunk is used up by the domed crystal. Water resistance is 30 meters, which will keep the thing safe enough.

The red gold model gets a grey dial Arnold & Son calls Cliff Grey, and the platinum gets a golden tone called Kingsand. Both are PVD-treated with a grained finish, and the names are references to John Arnold’s Cornwall and the brass plates of his movements. Time is indicated on a small opal subdial at four o’clock, with a slight concave shape. Most of the main dial, however, is used up by the seconds mechanism: three mirror-polished, wishbone-shaped gold bridges, openworked so you can see the wheels and a blued lever shaped like an anchor. A long blued hand jumps around a blue printed track above it all.

The movement is the in-house calibre A&S6303, automatic, beating at 4Hz with 55 hours of power reserve. It’s derived from the compact A&S6003 used in the 2023 DSTB, with the stop-seconds added. The brand ties the feature to how Royal Navy navigators set a deck watch against the ship’s chronometer. Finishing includes radiating Côtes de Genève on the bridges, a circular-grained mainplate, blued screws and hand-chamfered edges, plus an openworked 22k gold rotor engraved with guilloché and the anchor logo. The red gold model comes on a grey alligator strap with a pin buckle in red gold. The platinum comes on an alligator strap in ink blue with a platinum pin buckle.

The Arnold & Son DSTB Stop-Seconds is limited to 18 pieces per metal. Red gold is priced at CHF 46,000 and platinum at CHF 56,800, both including VAT. See more photos here and the watches on the Arnold & Son website.

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Watch Worthy - A selection of reviews and first looks from around the web

• A review of the Doxa Sub 300 Beta ‘Frogger’
• Hands on with the Alto ART 02

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Outside of the S.A.R. I really feel like you don’t often hear much about this brand. I had been interested in a Flieger-style watch for a while but just couldn’t justify the cost of an IWC. After going down the rabbit hole I began researching Mühle and it checked all the boxes: cool history, family owned for multiple generations, highly modified movements, clean finishing, and pretty dang affordable for a watch with Glashütte on the dial.

I found a good deal on the Terrasport II and snagged it. I’m highly impressed with what you get for the money. I don’t understand why this brand doesn’t get more recognition in the watch community.

Fossil was my first watch and this new Signature line with Swiss movements has me thinking. At around 700 to 900 dollars, do you think Fossil can really compete with Tissot, Hamilton, and similar brands? Or is it an uphill battle no matter what they do? Genuinely curious how people see their chances in that tier.

First time scuba diving and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from [r/watches](r/watches), it’s that I absolutely needed to bring my most capable dive watch. With 300m of water resistance, fully lumed face, and 120-click unidirectional dive bezel, the Spinnaker SpongeBob Hass automatic was clearly the obvious choice. Bonus sea sponge picture included.

Hi, today im wearing a beaubleu ecce lys 39mm. Its a french brand who make a lot of beautiful watch like this one. Their watch are differents than other brand and this is what i like.

They are based in Paris. It is very easy to wear, lightweight, and the Milanese mesh is very comfortable. The closure system is also well-designed, and we have a quick-release system.

I acquired this bronze Glycine combat sub from WatchExchange about 4 years ago:

-Swiss SW200 movement (with hacking)
-Saphire crystal
-200m water resistance
-excellent bezel action (120 click)

All in a bronze case that I enjoyed watching patina. The original strap was not my taste so I put it on a soft Horoween NATO that elevated the warmth of the bronze.

While it wasn’t my most expensive watch, it was my most complimented.

This was a great watch for me and I loved my time with it.

As my life changed, I considered parting ways with it ( You can read about that here if you’re interested.)

Instead of selling it or trading it, I thought back to one of the people in my life who this watch resonated with. This past week I decided to give it to him. It really made me happy knowing he would appreciate it and wear it, giving the watch a life and a story past mine.

A different strap really does make it feel like you have a new watch. Got this 1950s Junghans Trilastic at a flea market a few years ago. It was on a terrible black leather strap in really rough condition so my girlfriend got me a nice light brown ostrich leather one. That one was sadly too thick so it looked a bit weird on a 34mm watch. Switched to a plain brown leather strap i had on a vintage Nivada today and it’s a difference like night and day. I think the strap matches the watch beautifully and gives it even more of a retro look. Gonna wear this much more often now.

Hey guys. So i have worn this watch for about 4 years now, that my dad gave to me from his father. I know its a Doxa watch, but i couldn't find anything more specific other then figuring out the year the watch was made in (1944) from the serial number on the case 4498373.

If anybody could help me identify the model of the watch i would be extreamly happy. Thanks for all the help.

What’s your favourite dial that you own which is not your favourite watch? I love the dial on my 1970 Bulova Snorkel because it has so much character and it feels as if every part of the dial has a purpose, but my year 2000 Seamaster is still my favourite watch because of how it wears and the unbelievable reliability.

So, show me your favourite dial and explain why you like it so much.

Wrist shots here: https://imgur.com/a/pFAQkuG

My general collecting philosophy is:

1. No individual piece purchased for more than $2.5k.
2. No more than 12 watches at a time.
3. Keep a variety of movements, case shapes, dial colors, and functions.

Here's the list:

Doxa SUB 300T Searambler ​

Vintage Zodiac Triple Date Moonphase ​

Longines Spirit Zulu Time 39mm ​

Seiko H558-500A "Orange Arnie" ​

Seiko Alpinist SARB017 ​

Seiko Bell-Matic 4006-7000 ​

Sinn 356 Flieger II

​Laco Karlsruhe Pro 40mm ​

Hamilton Khaki Field Murph 38mm ​

Universal Genève Unisonic-Sub ​

Citizen Attesa CB1120-50C

Echo/Neutra Rivanera (White) - not pictured as it is on its way.

I will eventually replace the Attesa with a The Citizen Tosa dial.

Thanks for taking a look and happy to answer any questions!

Recently got back from a trip to Japan and couldn’t resist picking up a few pieces to remember it by:

1. ​Omega Seamaster Diver 300M: My first premium watch. The build and quality speaks for itself when wearing it, super happy to add this to my collection!

Rock-solid everyday diver, though the bottom of the watch scratched within the first two hours of wearing it, but I think it's good, I'll not baby it and wear it almost all the time

1. ​OutLine GMT-1960 (Ivory Dial / Pepsi): OutLine is a vintage-focused Japanese. I love how vintage Rolex GMTs develop that warm, faded, almost Bakelite-acrylic look on their bezels over decades, and that's the look this brand tries to replicate in their watches.

2. ​Kuoe Kyoto Royal Smith 90-006: Kuoe is an independent Kyoto microbrand that has been on my radar for quite a while, and the vintage 1950s aesthetic with the cream waffle dial and Breguet numerals was an instant winner when I saw it in person.

A while back, I started collecting historic leather pieces and making them into watch straps for my collection. Thought I'd share a few pictures of the process. Remaking a historic military strap into a single-pass strap for my Seiko. I kept the original belt holes throughout the strap - not only do I like the look, it allows a bit of airflow.

A year ago, I came on here to ask for advice and you guys helped me find this watch which had a perfect combination of all the things my boyfriend wanted in a watch: glows in the dark, has a compass, hard to break, and stylish. He absolutely loved it and wears it every day. It looks beautiful on him and I'm very happy with the choice I made. Thanks for your help last year, I would've never discovered this otherwise!

Here is my Casio Edifice EFB-108D-1AV balancing completely on its own.

Took it off today and noticed that with the bracelet folded and using the clasp as a kickstand, it balances perfectly on the desk.

Does your watch have a hidden stand-up mode like this? (Probably the majority of PRX style)

Also, do you take your watch off while working at your PC?

2008 model explorer full set or a 2026 Tudor with jubilee bracelet brand new? Which do you prefer? I like both but can’t decide. The Tudor would get me spend at the Rolex AD which is a small bonus to me.

Paid for a VC Historiques 1921 on September 2, canceled the Order on October 5 when they had not delivered. Yesterday they sent an email stating that they had NO money and could not refund or issue a Credit to my credit card.

Www.watchspace.com. I would not recommend.

Hey y'all. This is my first Swiss luxury watch. I was contemplating the 39 or the 42, I lean towards the 42 because all my other watches already are in the small side. I have a 7.25 wrist and am very hairy as you can see. How do you think the 42 mm looks? A little worried that I had to take 4 links out, but it does sit flat on my wrist

Just got this after a couple years of waffling about it. Wish I got it sooner!

First impressions are great:

The thing is beautiful. When I unboxed it, the dials sprang to life, rotating to the precise UTC 0 time. I felt like I was looking at a Harry Potter prop. I pulled the dial out a position and rotated the second hand to my time zone, and again, the hands whirled to my local time.

The watch has a low profile, wears smaller than the specs, and is light weight. The solar powered battery can last 1.5 years in total darkness by (automatically) going into a low power mode. It has synced to the US atomic clock each night via radio signals without me doing a damn thing. I'm even on the east coast, far from the Colorado transmission site.

What I don't like:
The Bluetooth connection and the corresponding Casio app were frustrating to set up. I fiddled with it for 20 mins and gave up since it's a redundant feature if you're in range of an atomic clock transmission.

The bracelet it comes with sucks imo. But to me this doesn't belong on a bracelet. It's a daily driver that asks nothing of its wearer while maintaining incredibly precise time. It belongs on a comfortable strap that allows the dial to do the talking. The one shown is a cheap black sailcloth, and I'm already eyeing other fun options.

The Speedmaster 38 is unlike anything else in my collection. Warm, milky coffee dial. It is not a traditional colourway for a watch, but it has its place. It is just different. Not sure how else to explain it. Probably that my wife wears it more says it all. I would prefer the moonshine gold two tone, but that is on the 'one day' list.