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The Best Swiss Dive Watch Deal of the Summer Might Be This New Mido
Mido doesn’t make much noise. The brand tends to revisit its core watches every few years with small, sensible changes instead of chasing trends, and the Ocean Star has anchored its dive lineup for decades. So when a refreshed Mido Ocean Star 200 turns up running the Caliber 80, an 80-hour power reserve, and a Nivachron balance spring for under a thousand dollars, my reaction is a familiar one. Mido does this a lot. It keeps happening, and it keeps working.
The Citizen AQ4094-58L Is a Stealth Perpetual Calendar in Indigo Washi
Citizen is one of those brands almost everyone recognizes, even people who’ve never thought hard about watches. You’ve seen the name on a department store counter or in a magazine ad, attached to something affordable and easy to live with. That ubiquity is the whole point. It’s also what makes The Citizen line feel a little strange, since it sits at the top of a catalog most people associate with accessible, everyday pieces.
The Timex Marlin Jet Automatic Watch Gets an America 250 Edition
We’re into the stretch of the year where every brand with a back catalog has found a reason to wrap a watch in red, white, and blue for America’s 250th. Most of them land somewhere between tasteful and parade float. Timex just added one of its own entries with the Timex Marlin Jet Automatic America 250, and I went in bracing for the parade float.
Swatch Scubaqua Sea Wasp Review: An Affordable Dive Watch Built for Summer
Sometimes I don’t really care if a dive watch meets every technical requirement enthusiasts expect it to. Sometimes I just want to wear something cheap and fun. As a collector, I’ve spent plenty of time chasing military watches, purpose-built divers, and watches with depth ratings that far exceed anything I’ll ever need. I enjoy that side of the hobby, but it can make it easy to overlook watches that aren’t trying to compete on specifications alone. That’s what caught my attention about the Swatch Scubaqua Sea Wasp.
Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical 250 Review: The Military Watch I Waited a Decade to Buy
If you were getting seriously into watches in the early 2010s, chances are the Hamilton Khaki Field found its way onto your shortlist at some point. Back then, it occupied the same territory as watches like the Seiko SKX007 and Orient Mako, the pieces enthusiasts routinely recommended as an entry into mechanical watch collecting. I remember coming across an early Hodinkee article where John Mayer wrote that a $400 Hamilton Khaki Field could say just as much about its owner as a far more expensive pilot’s watch. That line stuck with me, partly because it introduced me to a brand I knew almost nothing about at the time. From that point on, the Khaki Field remained a watch I admired from a distance, even as I spent the next decade chasing other corners of the hobby.
