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Eco-Drive Turns 50 and Citizen Is Celebrating With a Wild Titanium Watch
I’ll admit, I purposely sat on this one for a couple of days. Citizen announced the Eco-Drive Photon earlier this week to mark the 50th anniversary of its Eco-Drive technology, and the online response has been, well, split. People seem to either love it or want nothing to do with it. Count me in the camp that thinks Citizen might be onto something here. There’s a vibe to this watch that reminds me of pieces from H. Moser & Cie. or MING, and the fact that we’re talking about a $1,000-ish Citizen makes that comparison all the more fun.
Squale Just Launched a No-Nonsense 37mm Dive Watch
I’ve gone back and forth on Squale way too often. Every few months, something on Gnomon Watches catches my eye, I start configuring one in my head, and then I move on. I got close to pulling the trigger on one of the brand’s GMT models once, like Kaz did but it never happened. So when the Squale Sub-37 Legend showed up this week, I’ll admit the timing felt right. A compact, no-date diver at 37mm with a strong vintage design language? Hard to ignore.
Citizen Celebrates 50 Years of Eco-Drive with a Hand-Dyed Washi Dial
I’ve come close to pulling the trigger on a few of Citizen’s higher-end Eco-Drive watches over the years, and each time I talked myself out of it. Not because the watches weren’t impressive, but because the right one never quite lined up with the moment. Now, Citizen is making the decision a little harder. The brand has just announced “The Citizen” Eco-Drive 50th Anniversary Edition (ref. AQ4091-56W), marking five decades since it introduced the first solar-powered analogue watch back in 1976.
Christopher Ward’s In-House True GMT Is The Watch Fans Have Been Waiting For
Christopher Ward announced a True GMT movement back in 2023 and then went pretty quiet on it. Today the brand is finally following through with the CW-002 calibre and the watch built around it: the C63 Sealander True GMT. I’ve written about Christopher Ward a fair amount lately and I keep coming back to the same thought, which is that this brand is starting to feel genuinely unstoppable. They saw a gap, decided to fill it themselves, and here we are.
I Might Like This Timex More Than Any Limited Edition Speedmaster
Space-themed watches have a way of going sideways fast. As a Speedmaster owner, I’ve watched more than a few Swiss brands lean so hard into Apollo mythology that the watch itself gets lost somewhere beneath the marketing. So when Timex announced the Q Timex NASA, my first instinct was skepticism. What I didn’t expect was to find the execution this nice and restrained.
