The Tudor brand of watches is interesting. Not only because they are the watches from the “little sister” brand to the mighty Rolex, but because they have a design language onto themselves that many like and many don’t. While I don’t own a Tudor watch and not many of their models sing to my sensibilities and aesthetic, I always like to see what novelties they produce every year.

At the COUTUREtime show in Las Vegas, I had this exact opportunity. It’s not clear I left with a lust for any of their new watches, but what Tudor showed me was streamlined, strong, well priced, and overall desirable. Let’s take a closer look.

Reservoir is a new French brand with innovative and consistent design. I saw them Briefly at Basel 2018 and this year as well but I never for a chance to see the watches hands on, until in Las Vegas for COUTUREtime 2019.

I was pleasantly surprised by the watches I got to see and the variety of the resulting products. The diversity of their watches exists, even while Reservoir focuses on one consistent design and look and feel. Let’s explore the Reservoir watches in more details.

At a price point well under $2,000 for most of their models, Zodiac is a brand that deserves your attention if you have not seen their watches in the metal. Let’s explore two of the fun and colorful models they showed me this summer in Las Vegas during COUTUREtime.

I don’t often write about ladies timepieces, however, I am always happy to make an exception for watches I consider novel, different from the norm, or just plain extraordinary.

One of my best viewed article on the site has been the in-depth review of my Casio G-Shock 35th anniversary metal watches. When Casio released the 35th anniversary G-Shock watches last year at Baselworld, I was excited to get a chance to finally see and try them on. After seeing them at COUTUREtime 2018, I was immediately enamored and had to have at least one.

Well, for 2019, taking advantage of the huge success of this revived classic model, Casio released yet another version of the metal G-Shock watch, the GMWB5000, along with a few other new models. Will these new releases catch my attention as the first models did? Will I be adding more to my small G-Shock collection? Read on for a brief summary and some initial thoughts seeing the Casio 2019 novelties in the metal and plastic.

One of the highlights for me at COUTUREtime 2018 in Las Vegas was seeing and handling for the first time the Zenith Defy Lab. This is the winner for Innovation Watch Prize at the 2017 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) and for which the consensus seems to be welcoming the dawn of a new era in watchmaking. While many posts have been written about this watch since 2017, I want to instead give you my impressions after much anticipation and, like you perhaps, having read much about it. Is the hype justified?

In the vast landscape of the Swiss watchmaking industry, it's easy to forget and lose track of some interesting brands. These are not quite large enough that their constant advertising make them a daily in your face experience. And they are not small enough to catch the collector buzz on Instagram, and other social media venues, which would result in free organic attention.

Montres Corum which started in 1955 in the famed La Chaux-de-Fond in Switzerland is one such brand. During COUTUREtime 2018 in Las Vegas I got an opportunity to visit and see the novelties of Corum, now own by Hong Kong-based Citychamp Watch & Jewelry Group Limited. I want to briefly discuss and show original photography of three of the main lines novelties.

The French haute couture brand Dior is not know for watchmaking; as one of the few top fashion brands in the world, it presented its timepieces at COUTUREtime, And I got an opportunity to see and photographed some of their jewels. While I went in not knowing what to expect, I left totally in awe with the colors, texture, and beauty of some of the pieces. Let’s take a close look at that collection and my realization that if you are in the market for an uncommon high-end watch for perhaps a lady friend who is already a Dior fashionista, you too will fall in love with these “exceptional” pieces.

Grand Seiko (GS) seems to have become one of these brands that carries a certain cachet and gets you watch nerd's approval by simply knowing about them. I think part of its appeal is that for non-connoisseurs, the name Seiko is immediately associated with cheap quartz watches and Grand Seiko watches are nothing but cheap and common. Anyhow, regardless of your baggage and opinion of Seiko or Grand Seiko, I believe once you handle a GS, you will change your mind for the better.

At some point in their lives, I believe every watch aficionado owned a CASIO G-Shock. For me it was the iconic calculator watch. While I could not wear it in high-school, I lusted over this watch until I owned one. Not sure what became of it but it was not my last G-Shock as I am sure many can attest to. Well for the 35th anniversary of the original shock-resistant watch, the brand from Tokyo released a set of worthy anniversary that will make all watch connoisseur lust for adding another G-Shock to their collection. Let's take closer look at three models. Some were released at Baselworld earlier this year un March but a new addition also debuted in Las Vegas for COUTUREtime.