Danny Milton

We are currently in the throes of the Paris 2024 Summer Games. Okay fine, the tail end. From track events to basketball to – um – 3x3 basketball to speed climbing, we once again find ourselves immersed in sporting events we otherwise may not have ever known existed let alone cheered for. With the closing ceremony upon us this weekend, it feels like the time to start looking back at the Paris games.

The 37th America's Cup is upon us. I will spare you the surface level commentary on yachting (even though, I have in fact been on a racing yacht) and skip straight to the part where Omega – the official timekeeper of the race – has released a new watch in commemoration of said race.

Tudor has gotten into a habit of engaging in surprise releases lately. Today is no exception – well I suppose it's a bit of an exception considering the brand has just launched a watch right in the middle of Geneva Watch Days even though it isn't technically a participant in the event. So what's the watch?

Left-handers rejoice! Doxa has just unveiled a first for the legendary brand, a dive watch with a left-sided crown. That's right, the venerable brand known for its distinctive line of dive watches is making a move we have seen others in the watch world from Rolex to Tudor also make. Both the Pelagos LHD and the GMT-Master II with its left-hand crown have become popular entrants in their respective collections.

Oris is a brand known for its sustainability efforts, and it chooses its partnerships wisely in ways where it can either fight for change or promote efforts to that effect. This new release is no different but it is no less a unique approach. As part of an announcement of becoming France's Ligue de Football Professionnel's official timekeeper, Oris has also announced a partnership with LFP via the creation of a watch inspired by CNAPE the children's charity and it's annual children's football (some might call it soccer) tournament.

When it comes to Blancpain, our collective attention is most often focused on the diver range, whether that be the Fifty Fathoms of Bathyscaphe. Just think back to last year when Swatch and Blancpain teamed up to release the Scuba Fifty: a collection of Sistem51-powered Blancpain Swatch models based on the Fifty Fathoms collection. It really brought the line into the mass consumer limelight.

Very few brands have the ability to pull from a vast library of heaters the way Longines can. And Longines doesn't abuse the luxury it has in its back catalog. It's entire heritage line is filled with watches from aviation-style to dress. But arguably its greatest asset is its archetypal, dual-crown, Legend Diver – a mid-century iconic design that feels distinctly Longines. Heck, I will argue it here and now, it

In what seems like a mini eternity ago, way back in 2012, Omega released a watch called the “First Omega in Space.” It was a Speedmaster that honored the – well – first Omega Speedmaster to ever go to space on the wrist of astronaut Wally Schirra as part of the Sigma 7 mission on October 3rd 1962 in which he orbited the Earth six times.

The Stern family has been at the helm of Patek Philippe since the 1930s, and for all intents and purposes the family has been responsible for – or, at the very least, overseen – just about every notable iconic release from the brand in the modern wristwatch age. Sure, split-seconds chronographs and the first Patek perpetual calendar wristwatch pre-date the Stern legacy, but when it comes to pure iconography across known collections spanning the Calatrava, the Nautilus, the Ellipse, and the Aquanaut – names that make boutiques quiver at the notion of adding yet another name to a medieval scroll's worth of a waitlist – we can all thank generations of the Stern family. And now we can add the Patek Philippe Cubitus to that list.

There are some watches that kind of stay with you. They may not be in your wheelhouse as far as taste is concerned (or at least what you think your taste is), but something about them just resonates. This is how I feel, and have felt, about the Zenith Chronomaster Revival Shadow, a watch that has been in production for some time, one that I have reviewed in the past, and one that I still do not own but which continues to take up valuable real estate in my brain.