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Oris Honors Lou Gehrig With a Pointer Date Limited to 2,130 Pieces
Oris has built a little tradition around baseball, and it just added another chapter. It started with a Big Crown Pointer Date honoring Roberto Clemente, then continued with a Hank Aaron edition. Now the brand has unveiled the Oris Lou Gehrig Limited Edition in tribute to New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig. The lineage is important here, because these watches tend to work even if you don’t follow the sport.
The Casio MTP-VT06 Is an Affordable Watch Chasing Nomos Vibes
Casio’s analog dress watches don’t usually come up when collectors talk about German minimalism. The MTP-VT06 might change that, at least at a glance. It’s the sixth entry in Casio’s VT series, a line of pared-back, function-first dials that started back in 2019 with the VT01. This time the brand has added something the family has never carried before: a trio of sub-dials.
Oris Gives Its Artelier Dress Watch a First In-House Movement for 2026
Oris has a habit of saving its strangest ideas for one watch a year. The Hรถlstein Edition started in 2020 as an annual limited release tied to the brand’s June 1 birthday, and it has always leaned into playful reinterpretation. This year the company turned to the Artelier, the dress collection it relaunched a few months ago with mid-century-inspired dials. The result is the Hรถlstein Edition 2026, a 250-piece run with a few changes that go deeper than the finish.
Why the Omega Speedmaster and Doxa Sub 300 Make the Best Two Watch Collection
If you’ve spent any real time in this hobby, you’ve played the house-fire game. The place is burning, you can grab two watches on the way out, what do you take? It’s a fun thing to argue about on a podcast until you look down at your own rotation and realize you’ve been answering it for years without meaning to. After more than a decade of buying, flipping, regretting, and occasionally re-buying the exact thing I sold, the two watches that keep ending up on my wrist are an Omega Speedmaster 3861 and a Doxa Sub 300 Aqua Lung. A chronograph and a diver. I think that’s the whole answer, and I want to make the case for why.
Squale Is Bringing Its Italian Navy-Issued 2001 Marina Militare to the Public
Most “military” watches you’ll find online were never anywhere near a service member’s wrist. The Squale 2001 Marina Militare is one of the rare exceptions. Squale built it at the request of the Italian Navy, …
