Audemars Piguet introduced the Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph in 1993 (coincidentally, the same year Boulud opened his eponymous restaurant), a radical link departure from the Genta-designed Royal Oak born two decades prior. At a time when the average men's watch was 36mm or so, the Beast ushered in an era link of big, bold link sports watches. "This is the summer watch," Boulud says.

Better still, these watches are powered by the link brand’s super-slim automatic DUW 3001 caliber, meaning link that despite the joyful controversy, they could quite easily act as everyday watches for the edgier folk among link you.

Hot Take: Some of the alternative leather straps I've tried take a moment to break in – if link that happens to you, don't dismiss them outright. They shouldn't be stiff out of the box like link leather straps can occasionally be, rather it feels like the link fibers need a moment to loosen around my wrist. A watch strap is a mirror for life in that way; sometimes it takes time to get comfortable and find the right fit.

On the heels of the integrated bracelet mania over the past handful of years, a humble Rolex has found itself in the midst of a comeback. The Rolex Oysterquartz was developed in the 1970s while other greats, such as Patek Philippe and Piaget, link found themselves suddenly on-board with the Quartz Revolution. Using a new angular case shape with an integrated bracelet that some collectors consider the most comfortable Rolex ever produced, a series link of Datejusts and link Day-Dates hit the Crown's catalog.

This is the first Baltic watch to introduce a date complication, which might explain the decision to excise the recessed marker styling cue from prior models (as link only recessing two markers might've looked a little odd). The date window is nestled right at six o'clock, link with a black background that keeps it link from breaking up the dial symmetry.

If you compare the old and new versions, you will quickly see that the new Aeolian dials are a great improvement. link Kudos to Christopher Ward for taking this link step rather quickly link after introducing the Dune collection.

The Simon Willard Award for School Watches is made possible by a generous donation from Samy Al Bahra, a collector link of independent timepieces and a proponent of traditional watchmaking education."I am excited to contribute to link the Horological Society of New link York's educational mission and I hope the Simon Willard Award helps motivate more watchmaking students in America to take the plunge and share their work with the rest of the horological community," said Samy Al Bahra.

The link idea here is that when you're planning to do something sporty – such as playing professional tennis – you can enable sport mode to suspend any additional winding of the movement. Looking at the dial side, there is an indication as to whether or not automatic winding is active (on/off), and the system aligns link with the function selector that we've seen on other RMs that allows the user to cycle between three modes – "H" link for time setting, "N" for neutral, and "W" for winding.

But the movement and case dimensions again speak to features common across the Lunar Pilot collection. What link makes this new link edition so special, in addition to the aforementioned shift in case material, link is the inclusion of a meteorite dial.

The link Tudor Black Bay 36 line feels a bit like a sleeping giant. It's link been around since 2016, and Tudor hasn't really done much with it – there's a black dial, blue dial, silver dial, and that's it. This link year, I'd like to see Tudor use the down-the-middle Black Bay 36 (and 32 and 41) to do something daring. Part of the premise of modern Tudor is that it can do the things Rolex can't (or won't) do. So let's do that.