Last month Casio Japan released model GW-M5600 (shown above). The watch features a new, smaller Multi Band 5 antenna, allowing Casio to release a Tough Solar version of the 5600 series that can synchronize with atomic clocks in Japan, the United States, and Europe.

At first glance, the watch may appear like any other recent 5600 […]

An advertisement on the last page of the April 2008 issue of Free & Easy magazine caught my eye. It features a new, limited edition model G-5500 G-Shock. The watch comes in three variations, a US Army version, a US Air Force version, and a US Marine Corps one. The insignia of each respective branch […]

Grand Seiko SBGA029 photograph by Seiko
Kohei Sato posted a picture of the new Grand Seiko Diver on Timezone today. It’s a ground breaking announcement for the GS nameplate. Over the last couple of years, the look of many Grand Seikos has crossed over from the staid traditional dress style we are all familiar […]

One year ago, the US dollar/Japanese yen exchange rate was around $1 = ¥120. That means 12 months ago a watch that retailed in Japan for ¥100,000 costed about $835. Today, a ¥100,000 watch goes for $1,000. This is the first time since the dawn of the Internet age the dollar has been worth so […]

My colleague Petew recently broke the news on GMT+9 of the resurrection of the Seiko Phoenix. Today I noticed Seiya Kobayashi in Tokyo unveiled one of the brand new Phoenix models on his Web site SeiyaJapan.com.

I immediately contacted Seiya-san and asked if he’d let me share photos of the watch, and he graciously agreed. So […]

The buzz around the water cooler Monday at offices in America was a national story that tap water in the US is more contaminated than many realized. Last weekend I heard Bobby Kennedy Jr. on the radio say monitoring at the mouth of the Columbia River, monitoring that has been reduced in the past decade, […]

Welcome back to another installment of the Auction Watchlist. I’ve got watches to show covering auctions from 01/11/08 - 03/06/08. The first watch shown is probably my favorite. It’s a 7K36 Cruising Master which is a cousin of both the 7K52 diving computers and 7k32 Land/Marinemasters. You don’t see these very […]

One of my favorite videos on YouTube was made by a young Korean man whose username is “KJH3496.” The video (link below) shows Seiko Premier Kinetic SNP003P, which was released in 2005 and sells for around $500 U.S. The amateur video has been viewed 3,740 times — it’s quite a good commercial for this watch.

The […]