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Nowadays, Jeremy Kirkland can admit it. "At first, I got into watches for the wrong reason," he says. "I wanted to find a way to set myself apart, to communicate the status of who I wanted to be. I got into watches because I wanted the world to think more of me than what I thought of myself." Kirkland is the host of Blamo, a podcast...

Lightweight, extremely comfortable, good-looking, and a genuine performance bargain. And a watch with a rather cool backstory too. Citizen is surely known for its accessible watches with superb quality/price ratio, and the brand’s latest creation in the field of dive watches isn’t going to change this, at all. Today, we take the Citizen Promaster Mechanical Diver 200m NB6021-17E, also known as the Fujitsubo, for...

About a year ago, Omega introduced a new Speedmaster. But this one was different than any other Speedmaster we'd seen. First, there's the moniker: The Omega Speedmaster Chronoscope. Then, there's the look. Sure, it's the classic Speedmaster form – lyre lugs, tachymeter bezel, even the three-link bracelet. But sitting inside the tachymeter bezel, the dial features two additional, vintage-inspired scales: First, there's the telemeter scale,...

There's no doubt that Instagram has changed the watch industry forever. New timepieces are revealed almost weekly, and get logged in both the public consciousness and the now-well-preserved digital annals of what-came-out-when. It's easy, then, to lose track of watches that were released before the social media era, especially in the last 20 years. It's always fun to show an example of a pre-IG...

Since the dawn of the clock- and watchmaking era, dials have been round. This is the most common choice, as these mechanical devices work from rounded gears with central pivots that move hands around in a 360° arc. A round dial is also easily divided into units of 12 or 24, to mirror the societal choice of dividing our days into 24 different units....