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Sangin Professional Review: A Collector’s Take on a Modern Military Watch
A few years ago, I started feeling worn down by how many so-called military watch brands were flooding my feed. I was already drawn to that genre as a collector, but the disconnect between the imagery and the reality became harder to ignore. Too often, the watches felt secondary to the story being sold, and the story rarely held up once you looked past the surface. Around that time, I came across Sangin Instruments.
This New Timex Automatic Might Make You Forget About Your Vintage Omega
As usual, Timex is wasting no time early in the year pumping out fun, genuinely interesting watches in the affordable space. This has become part of the routine. You open the site every now and then, not because you expect to be blown away, but because there is always a chance something new sneaks in and makes you stop scrolling.
Tissot Updates Its PR516 Automatic Watch With Two New Dial Colors
Tissot is adding two new dial colors to its PR516 38mm Powermatic 80, extending a collection that has been steadily regaining relevance since its return in 2024. This update doesn’t introduce a new case, movement, or configuration. Instead, it focuses squarely on color as a way to refresh what I think is one of the brand’s most approachable mechanical offerings.
Rdunae Field Watch RA02 Review: Military Watch DNA For Under $50
If you’ve spent any time reading TBWS over the years, you already know where my bias lives. British military watches have been a long-running problem for me. I’ve owned more than a few CWC pieces, lived with them, written about them, and kept circling back to the same design language over and over again. There’s something about those no-nonsense General Service watches, the ones that came out of real procurement needs rather than marketing exercises, that still gets under my skin.
Would You Spend Over $3,000 on an Orient Star Moon Phase? I Would.
I mean, I’m not exactly saying I have the cash handy, but anyway … Orient Star has added a new reference to its M45 Classic collection that clearly reinforces where the brand has been positioned for several years now. The Orient Star M45 F8 Mechanical Moon Phase Hand Winding pairs a traditional layout with a manually wound in-house movement, and pricing that sits firmly within familiar Orient Star territory. Still, once the conversation moves north of three thousand dollars, collectors tend to pause, myself included, and this release naturally invites that hesitation.
