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Here at Time+Tide, we are very fond of lume, so here is a list of some of the best full lume dial watches on the…
Lots of lume, a considered design and 500 metres of water-resistance for less than 1,700 USD make this Delma a competitive package.
Lume isn't just a tool to help you read the time in the dark - it's also an avenue for creative expression.
With a dragging hours display and hand-painted dial, it celebrates 80 years of the Moomins.
The iconic drinks gets a wrist-borne version, courtesy of Studio Underd0g and Fears, to be sold only at British Watchmakers' Day 2025.
No bread, no condiments, just a disc of lume flanked by a dial and calibre to really light up a design.
Capitalising on the popularity of stone dials, Holthinrichs and The Horology Club team up for a collab.
Germany's Heinrich blends 70s and 80s style with ultra-modern material tech for its latest watch.
This lusciously luminous piece ranks as one of the most complicated watches Lange has ever produced, both technically and aesthetically.
Micro gas tubes, a manufacture movement, and a unique lumed bezel in a capable diver.
When asked about pilot’s watches, the first brand I think of is IWC. The brand largely deals in sensible, legible designs, especially when it comes…
Radium was discovered by Marie Curie in 1898, and it was already showing up on the dials of wristwatches by the early 1900s. This goes…
The amount of talent and entrepreneurial personalities within the watch world constantly surprises me. For such a niche hobby, it seems that every other person…
In my less than a decade of collecting, I’ve come to categorise watch brands into two distinct groups. The first consists of brands that simply…
For many people, a TAG Heuer is their first good mechanical Swiss watch. While some swear allegiance to the classic Carrera, personally I love the…
Imagine an amalgamation of James Dean and the Fonz pepped up with some Bryan Ferry elan and Steve McQueen swagger. Sure, that’s a formidable combination,…
You know the phrase “Business on the outside, party on the inside”? Well Zenith has flipped that with the new, very limited-edition Zenith Defy 21…
Whether you are Darth Vader’s distant cousin or just enjoy the stealthy look of a ninja assassin, let us tempt you to the dark side.…
Looking at these two Grand Seiko GMTs, it’s easy to see how the world has changed from the time when the complication was invented. What…
If Zenith’s showing at LVMH’s Dubai Watch Week is anything to go by, 2020 could well be the year of the eccentric collaboration for the…
Editor’s note: These days, Ball is a bit of a niche brand, but even though they’re not front of mind, they’re in no danger of…
The watch industry is a well-oiled novelty-making machine. Every year it produces a sea of new releases that quickly turns the tide of attention from…
Ready to shake your tail feather? Let’s hope so, seeing as today kicks off the Chinese year of the rooster. Luckily, there’s a way to…
Earlier this year we were witness to a chance encounter between two giants of both the superhuman and horological pantheons. The showdown took place at…
Longines revives the original Ultra-Chron from 1967 with this 2025 release, and it's a proper time capsule - just with a modern 5Hz movement.
Sydney, Australia-based Galvin Watch Company reveals a new full lume limited edition inspired by Finnish nights.
“Two watches, one idea”: this pair of watches from these two Pforzheim-based brands is the watch equivalent of artists in dialogue.
Produced in partnership with Florida-based retailer Exquisite Timepieces, this piece's white and blue tones are both winter and summer-ready.
Awake unveils a special edition Sơn Mài with a smoky yellow blood-splattered dial that the Black Mamba would be proud of.
British microbrand bastions Christopher Ward & Studio Underdog have united to create one of the most unusual watch releases of the year.
Ontic founder John Hickling's background as a Mountain Rescue volunteer informs this solar tool watch's robust construction.
Jason loves bracelets, but the Grand Seiko SLGW007 made him reconsider his stance, with this manual-winder joining his collection.
Expanses of mother-of-pearl make this Yema an elegant, stylish, and quintessentially French take on a modern dive watch.
Few watch boutique openings have been more anticipated or stand to be as momentous as Richard Mille's first Australian location, Jamie explains.
This offbeat Luminor pairs a prominently domed sapphire crystal with a sandwich dial that uses Arabic numerals at every hour.
The lightest Monaco ever made, its unusually-shaped case is formed by a cutting-edge, "laser-melting" 3D printing process.
With over 90 brands at Dubai Watch Week this year, there were plenty of hot new releases, with soft gold tones leading the way.
This neon-soaked, violet-to-blue Monaco embodies the thrills of a nighttime F1 race, released in time for the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Norqain goes extraterrestrial with a meteorite dial in its flagship Wild One 42mm model... Which works strangely well.
Here are a bunch of great dive watches from several different brands that will all ring up the till less than US$5,000.
Swedish-based microbrand Nezumi releases updated versions of its Baleine dive watch, with thinner dimensions and refined touches.
Funky watches are making a comeback! At least according to the latest releases from the past seven days...
This Peren chronograph is also the brand's first watch without an overt Transylvanian source of inspiration - but that's no bad thing.
Get a lobby together: Hamilton has just launched its Khaki Field special edition in collaboration with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
Christopher Ward has unveiled probably its most adventurous Bel Canto yet, the strikingly luminous Lumière filled with oodles of lume.
This flying saucer-like watch sports a newly designed calibre with jumping hours and dragging minutes, accessible via a hinged cover.
A successor to the GPHG-winning 37.09 Bluefin, the 37.11 Odyssey pairs dive watch functionality with a GMT complication.
Farer pairs its signature oversized moonphase display with natural stone and Eastern Arabic numerals in these two new models.
The Les Cabinotiers Homage to Epic Warriors Minute Repeater and The Labours of Heracles unite grand feu enamel and hand‑engraving.
These slim, contemporary pilot's watches sport some incredible dials, including one made from a P-51 Mustang exhaust cowling.
Christopher Ward revives Johannes Jahnke’s JJ01 modular jump-hour system in style, offered in Dusk Gold or Noon Blue.
Designed in collaboration with the Swiss Air Force., Fortis' Flieger collection is super-legibile and tough: this GMT is a particular standout.
Vietnamese lacquer meets Japanese raden, Swiss movements and French straps in this cross-cultural masterpiece.
From the big names to emerging newcomers, here's the best Italian watch brands for living a horological dolce vita.
This is a packed catalogue and there is a lot to go through, but these are the 10 watches we think stand out in this…
Vacheron Constantin releases four ultra-complicated watches as part of its 270th anniversary celebrations, all with astronomical themes.
French microbrands Neotype has brought two panda dials to the fore, for its likeable LM02 Type C chronograph.
We've teamed up with the Norwegian masters of striking dials on a sporty titanium special edition of the Jan Mayen inspired by wild moss.
Jason shares how the Luminor 8 Giorni PAM00915 pushed through his scepticism and became the first Panerai in his collection.
Cheers to no flipping!
The GPHG-winning Chinese firm celebrates the world's tallest mountain with a techy tourbillon piece with a dial made from Everest itself.
At around US$3,000, the Hanhart 415 ES Panda offers favourable specifications for its price.
It utilises Nitron MC, an advanced, scratch-resistant hard-coating technology developed in its hometown of Cambridge.
It's not often that Patek surprisingly announces a new model outside its ‘regular’ launch moments, like they did this week.
A stealthy DLC colourway has been added to the core collection of the Nodus Sector II platform.
Looking for a watch to match your Halloween costume? Get your spook on with these 9 that range from Gothic and grim to just plain…
This Tissot offers a familiar look at an unfamiliarly accessible price point, with a few key differences to help it stand out from the pack.
Christopher Ward has reinvented its adventurer's GMT, scaling it up and giving it a technical and aesthetic makeover.
This stealthy Panerai opens up this ceramic and GMT complication combination to a broader range of wrist sizes.
This flyback chronograph dive watch's panda dial was inspired by the optical effect that cinema screens used to use for maxmium legibility.
Built to keep up with the founder's adventurous lifestyle, this new tool watch doesn't cut corners when it comes to toughness.
The trilogy of cocktail-inspired collaboration pieces from Fears & Studio Underd0g is now complete, with a tasty 3D-dialled chaser.
Fair warning: this is a pretty massive edition of Last Week in Watches, as there were so many new products released last week...
A year on from the release of his first official Rolex book on the Submariner, Nicholas Foulkes has returned with a Datejust edition.
American brand Monta updates its Triumph model for the first time since 2017, offering aesthetic and technical refinements.
With these new "Golden Hour" updates to three key models, Blancpain's underrated Villeret line gets its time in the sun.
Three Dark Side of the Moon models have touched down, as well as a new Grey Side of the Moon model, all offering significant refinements.
Artisanal crafts and experiments in form dominated this week, with highlights from Chopard, Glashütte Original, Kollokium and Hublot.
The first major mechanical complication in Mido's unexpectedly popular Multifort TV collection is a bold yet rational choice.
These sports watches prove you can get plenty of value for US$3,000 - and way less than that, too.
There is no stopping the stone dial trend as Christopher Ward brings it to a smaller watch with real panache.
This colourful 5KX takes George Bamford's signature baby blue colour and blends it with orange and translucent elements.
Fifty never looked so pretty. Zach is wondering if this is the best modern Laureato yet...
Longines has tightened the Spirit's design language and adjusted dimensions while leaning on modern movement tech and COSC-certification.
MB&F is celebrating 20 years by giving away 20 watches in total, split across two new, anniversary special models.
Designed by Giorgio Galli, Timex's "first luxury watch" is a robust mechanical diver with a surprisingly minimalist aesthetic.
The Ōtsuka Lōtec No. 9 becomes by far the most expensive watch by the young brand, but also the most complicated.
Tudor introduces a complication it's never featured before, Casio supports breast cancer research and Tissot reprises its Grendizer collab.
This limited edition vintage-inspired skin diver won over Jason thanks to its sandy fumé dial and modern specs.
This 7-piece limited edition created for the Penny Watch community represents the Korean watch collecting community's coming of age.
Baltic has updated its now-iconic dive watch after 7 years of production, offering 37mm or 39.5mm diameters plus other great improvements.
Tissot reprises its anime collaboration, introducing the first PRX with a black PVD-coated case and bracelet.
Minimalism-focused independent brand Aera's latest take on a field watch has a dusty pink dial inspired by SAS desert camouflage.
From watches made from mountain rocks to automata that rock our world, there were more than a few big releases this week.
Magnets, how do they work? These watches are designed to resist Gausses and look cool whilst doing so.
Norqain expands its popular Freedom 60 Chrono range to include a subtle off-white panda dial limited edition featuring red gold accents.
Hodinkee’s first limited edition since its acquisition by Watches of Switzerland is an understated, extremely considered retro tool watch.
This 20-piece limited edition shows off a technique rarely seen in watchmaking: raden.
Refreshingly basic with a subtle pop of colour, Bruce makes the case for the pistachio OP36.
