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Longinesโ Best Pilot Watch Now Comes in Its Cleanest Color Yet
Longines has two more blue watches. I realize that sentence isn’t exactly going to stop anyone in their tracks. This time it’s the Spirit Pilot and Spirit Pilot Flyback, both receiving matte blue lacquer dials. The Flyback also gets a matching blue ceramic bezel insert. We’ve seen plenty of blue from Longines, including within the Spirit collection itself, so I don’t think the color change deserves all the ceremony. My take is that the watches underneath are what make this release cool. But damn, that blue looks good.
This Timex Chronograph Makes Expensive Swiss Watches Harder to Explain
Spend enough time looking at vintage chronographs and youโll eventually run into dials like this. Multiple scales overlap each other, and colors separate one function from another. Reading the time almost feels secondary to figuring out what everything else does. I think that’s part of the fun. Usually, watches that bring this look back today get expensive quickly. But this new Timex Marlin Neo Classic Chronograph starts at $279.
Marathonโs Military Dive Watch Goes Titanium for the First Time
Marathon watches have never exactly been known for delicacy. Thatโs part of their appeal. With the new Marathon x Watches of Espionage Titanium SAR, I think one of the smarter decisions was figuring out how to preserve that familiar, overbuilt character while removing a considerable amount of weight.
Iโve Owned a Panerai for Years. This New Luminor Has Me Questioning Mine
Iโve owned my Panerai Luminor Base Logo PAM00777 for years. I bought it in Florence with my wife during our anniversary, at Paneraiโs flagship boutique. Thereโs enough personal history wrapped up in that watch that I donโt think I could ever sell it. But, Panerai just released a watch that makes me wish I could separate the watch from those memories for a minute.
The New Rolex The Internet Hates, But I Seriously Love
Rolex surprised us with the Perpetual Padellone, a new annual calendar and moonphase watch in the Perpetual 1908 family. And judging by some of the early reactions Iโve seen online, Rolex has already managed to piss a few people off. I think it looks fantastic.
