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The New Timex Deepwater Meridian Is an Affordable Automatic GMT With Rolex Style
Timex has spent the last year letting its newest dive watch coast on an easy comparison to Seiko, and it worked. The standard model reads as a Seiko-adjacent tool diver at a Seiko-adjacent price, which is a fine place to live. Now the brand wants a different neighbor. The latest version trades the quartz base for a mechanical movement, adds a second time zone, and points itself squarely at Rolex. This is the Timex Deepwater Meridian 200 Automatic GMT.
This New Casio G-Shock Pilot Watch Corrects Its Own Hands After a Hit
Analog watches have a flaw that digital displays don’t. Motor-driven hands can slip off their reference points after a hard enough knock, and the watch will keep showing you the wrong time while its internal clock ticks along just fine. Casio has fought this for years with hand-correction routines that run on a fixed schedule, checking alignment every so often whether the watch took a hit or not. Its newest pilot’s model tries a different approach, watching for the impact itself and snapping the hands back the moment they move. That watch is the new Casio G-Shock GRAVITYMASTER GWR-B3000.
Nodus Sector II Field Titanium Review: A Field Watch That Breaks with Tradition
It seems like 2026 is becoming the year of the field watch for me. For some reason, I’ve been so drawn to the designs lately and that goes against the hard preference I typically have for divers and GMTs. That changed a bit after I picked up the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical 250 earlier this year. Spending time with it gave me a new appreciation for the simplicity that defines a good field watch and opened the door to designs I might have overlooked before. That curiosity eventually led me to the Nodus Sector II Field Titanium we have here on loan.
Timex and Todd Snyder Bring Back the Affordable Marlin Mesh for $199
There’s a specific comfort to an old-school woven metal bracelet paired with a case small enough that you forget it’s on your wrist. Milanese mesh has a soft, almost fabric-like give that most bracelets can’t match, and a 34mm case slides under a shirt cuff without issue. Timex has been mining that combination for years through its long partnership with menswear designer Todd Snyder. The latest result arrives this week as the Timex Marlin Mesh.
KommandoStore Elektronika 55B Review: An Affordable Watch Unlike Anything Casio Makes
For a while, my interest in Soviet watches revolved almost entirely around mechanical pieces and the enthusiasm Kaz had for them during the earlier days of TBWS. Every watch came with questions about where it had been, whether the dial had been refinished sometime over the last forty years, or if the movement inside was even the one it left the factory with. Hunting them down was half the hobby.
