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Seiko Built Four New Dress Watches Around the Art of Japanese Silk
I’ll be honest: the Presage line has never pulled me in the way it does for a lot of collectors. I understand the appeal, but it’s rarely the Seiko range I reach for. These four new releases might be the exception. Seiko has announced four Presage Classic Series models built around what it calls the art of silk, all set for a July 2026 release and sold only through Seiko Global Brand Core Shops. That last detail matters, since it means these won’t be as easy to find as a standard Presage on a department store shelf.
The New Toyo Tires G-SHOCK Hides a Proxes Logo in Its Backlight
I’ve never been a car guy. I couldn’t tell you much about tire compounds, and lap times put me to sleep. For some reason, though, the Toyo Tires branding has always caught my eye, so a Toyo and Casio team-up is worth a closer look, if you ask me.
Timex Reworks The Affordable T80 In Translucent Resin
The new Timex T80 Resin is the kind of release you don’t overthink. It’s pure Timex fun, plain and simple. The brand has wrapped its retro T80 in translucent resin and offered it in two flavors: clear with blue accents, and dark green with yellow. They’re otherwise identical, and picking between them would be tough for me.
Orient Combines Its Two Best-Known Divers Into One Affordable Dive Watch
For a while now, shopping Orient’s dive watch lineup has meant running into the same common fork in the road. The AC0Q wore beautifully at 40mm but always felt a little plain up top, while the Kamasu had the stronger dial and handset in a slightly larger package. Orient has apparently been paying attention, because the new AC0Q Diver II takes the familiar AC0Q case and drops the Kamasu’s dial design straight into it. The watch is available now through Orient Watch USA at $530, and a 30% launch promotion brings that down to $370 for the time being.
Autodromo Adds an Affordable Ana-Digi Watch to the Group C Lineup
Autodromo has spent over a decade translating motorsport design into watches, and the brand has now arrived somewhere it’s never been before. I always loved tracking the brand as an earlier “micro” outfit back when I caught the watch bug in my adult life. The new Group C Turbo Sport is Autodromo’s first ana-digi watch, building directly on the digital Group C that landed back in 2023. This time, the inspiration comes from the analog tachometers found in turbocharged race and road cars of the 1980s, the era when Group C prototypes dominated endurance racing with boost levels that bordered on reckless. It’s a specific reference point, and that specificity has always been Autodromo’s strength.
