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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, …
What a Fender Cease-and-Desist Can Tell Us About Watch Collecting
Kaz and I have been chasing the same two rabbit holes for most of our adult lives. Guitars came first, the way they do for a lot of people who grew up with a cheap Strat copy and a dream that outran their talent. Watches came later, and faster, the way the expensive habit usually does. What took me a while to notice is that the two hobbies are the same hobby wearing different clothes. Both run on a small number of foundational designs that everyone else has spent decades reinterpreting. Both have a prestige tier that owns the myth and a working tier that owns the wrists and the fretboards. And both, it turns out, depend on an unwritten agreement about who gets to own a shape once that shape stops being a product and becomes a language.
Squale Sub 37 Legend Review: Your One-and-Done Vintage-Inspired Dive Watch?
In nearly ten years of running TBWS with Kaz, I’ve never reviewed a Squale. In fact, I’m not even sure I’ve handled one outside of a trade show setting. While Kaz owned one of the brand’s older GMT models years ago, I’ve mostly experienced Squale from a distance. That changed earlier this year when they announced the Squale Sub 37 Legend. On paper, it checked a lot of boxes for me.
