Straum Frozen Metal Titanium Review: The Arctic Comes Home
Straum Frozen Metal Titanium Review: The Arctic Comes Home Dan H. December 5, 2025 The Arctic Comes Home November 2025, Micro Praha, my first ever microbrand fair. I remember walking into the hall and heading toward the Straum booth relatively early in the day, both because we had been in touch already (Straum were among […]
RGM Model 151 Snoopy Flying Ace Review: Grand Feu Beagle
RGM Model 151 Snoopy Flying Ace Review: Grand Feu Beagle Dan H. December 5, 2025 Grand Feu Beagle Every so often a watch lands that you have to read twice to make sure you understood what the brand actually did. The RGM Model 151 Snoopy Flying Ace is one of those releases. RGM, the Pennsylvania […]
Favre-Bulle Three Peaks Review: A Quiet Alpine Chronograph
Favre-Bulle Three Peaks Review: A Quiet Alpine Chronograph Dan H. December 5, 2025 A Quiet Alpine Chronograph November 2025, Micro Praha, my first ever microbrand fair. I walked into the hall not really expecting to find a sport chronograph that genuinely held me at a single booth for the better part of half an hour, […]
Christopher Ward C60 Pool Diver Review: A Vacation Cheat Code
Christopher Ward C60 Pool Diver Review: A Vacation Cheat Code Dan H. June 15, 2026 A Vacation Cheat Code Every so often a dive watch lands that doesn’t really want to be a dive watch. It has the spec sheet, the bezel, the lume and the water resistance, but the brief is somewhere else entirely. […]
MAEN Hudson 38 MK5 Review: A Quiet Tool Watch Reset
MAEN Hudson 38 MK5 Review: A Quiet Tool Watch Reset Dan H. June 8, 2026 Stockholm-based DNA There’s a certain kind of microbrand release that doesn’t shout. It doesn’t lean on a new complication, a wild dial technique, or a collaboration with another brand. It just quietly fixes the things that bothered the people who […]
AWAKE Sơn Mài Guilloché Main Review: Two Crafts, One Dial
AWAKE Sơn Mài Guilloché Main Review: Two Crafts, One Dial Dan H. June 1, 2026 Two Crafts, One Dial Every so often a microbrand release lands that reads less like a product launch and more like a quiet manifesto for the kind of watchmaking we should all be paying more attention to. The Sơn Mài […]
Baltic x SpaceOne Seconde Majeure Review: A Parisian Collaboration
Baltic x SpaceOne Seconde Majeure Review – A Parisian Collaboration to Fall in Love With Dan H. May 19, 2026 A Parisian incident worth Every Second Some collaborations make sense on paper. Two brands with overlapping aesthetics, a shared market, complementary audiences. You see the business logic immediately and nod politely. And then there are […]
ELKA Arinis Review: Lake History, True Diver Spirit
ELKA Arinis Review: Lake History, True Diver Spirit Dan H. May 11, 2026 Introduction There is something wonderfully self assured about the ELKA Arinis. It does not try to be the loudest diver in the room, nor the most nostalgic, nor the most aggressively modern. Instead, it finds its voice in a very specific confluence […]
Vario Futurist Review: Retro Futurism with a Faceted Sapphire Twist
Vario Futurist Review – Retro Futurism with a Faceted Sapphire Twist Dan H. April 26, 2026 A 1970s Idea Reimagined Vario has done something rather special with the Futurist (and they are quite know to do specials, another example is the Vario Versa). It takes the visual language of 1970s space age watch design and […]
Formex Field Automatic Review: Built for the Wild
Formex Field Automatic Review: A Swiss Titanium Beast Built for the Wild Dan H. April 20, 2026 Built for the Wild There is a certain kind of watch collector out there who doesn’t spend their weekends polishing their pieces and rotating them into felt-lined trays. They wear their watches hard. They take them up mountains, […]
