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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.
The 5 Best Chronograph Watches of 2026 So Far
I think the chronograph carries more baggage than any other complication. Decades of racing campaigns, moon missions, and motorsport marketing have a way of making each new one feel like a reissue of the same idea, a tachymeter and three registers dressed up in whatever color the brand hasn’t used yet. The chronographs that landed this year spread across the entire map: a five-figure Swiss icon running a brand-new in-house movement, a Japanese GPS solar flagship that finally slimmed down, a space-program quartz legend reborn at its smallest size yet, a 500-piece collaboration built around a guitar pedal, and an affordable quartz openly chasing the look of an $80,000 Daytona. Different prices, different technology, and each one earns its spot. Here are five of the best chronograph watches of 2026 so far.
Citizen Loads a Tide Graph and Sailing Compass Into an Affordable Eco-Drive Watch
Just before summer every year, a handful of watches show up looking like they were built for the season, and most of them turn out to be divers playing dress-up. Citizen’s latest feels different, and I’ll admit I’m a little taken with it just from press photos alone. The brand just revealed the Citizen Promaster WaveTracker, a bunch of Eco-Drive sailing watches that wear the bold, sporty look you’d expect from a tool diver while doing something else entirely.
