Independent Watches • Openwork Podcast 📍 Ventura, California and Online Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly are the co-founders of Collective Horology, an authorize…
4:10932 views · 21h ago · 4:10
Audemars Piguet has launched The Watch Keepers, its own certified pre-owned marketplace, where AP authenticates watches and sells them online. This is the same brand that has spent years pressuring clients not to resell their watches.
4:061.3K views · 5d ago · 4:06
Why does James Bond wear an Omega Seamaster instead of a Rolex? It started with costume designer Lindy Hemming. When she dressed Pierce Brosnan for GoldenEye in 1995, she thought Rolex was too flash for the new Bond and went to Omega instead.
Topics: The first Bond Seamaster · Omega and Bond in the mid-’90s · Why Lindy Hemming chose Omega over Rolex · Omega nearly triples revenue
6:105K views · 1w ago · 6:10
Our highlights from the WatchTime New York 2026 show floor at Gotham Hall. More than 45 brands exhibited this year, many showing new releases to the public for the first time. These are the watches that stayed with us after the weekend: new pieces from URWERK, Ressence, Armin Strom, Fears, Gerald Genta and Piaget, all hands-on and on the wrist.
Topics: WatchTime New York 2026 · Urwerk · Gerald Genta Geneva · Armin Strom Tribute in rose gold · Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance · Fears Arnos
5:023.8K views · 2w ago · 5:02
Guest: Phil Toledano
We sat down with Phil Toledano of Toledano & Chan to talk through the new B/1 Dazzle: a watch built on WWI dazzle camouflage, the geometric paint schemes navies used on battleships to confuse the enemy about speed and heading rather than hide the ship outright. That same idea is now CNC engraved, diamond-dust frosted, and brushed into the B/1’s case, bracelet, and dial.
37:511.7K views · 3w ago · 37:51
Singer Reimagined went from Agenhor-powered central chronographs to restored Valjoux movements to its own Calibre 4 GMTs in under two years. Here’s how the brand changed and why it still hangs together. Singer Reimagined launched in 2017 with the Track1, a chronograph that puts the stopwatch at the center of the dial and moves the time to the edge. Today the brand also makes a restored vintage chronograph, a time-only watch with its first proprietary movement, and two GMTs.
6:082K views · 3w ago · 6:08
We're going hands-on with the MING 37.11 Odyssey on MING's Polymesh titanium mesh bracelet, the latest tool watch from one of independent watchmaking's most inventive brands. In this Polymesh review, we break down the Odyssey's 38mm titanium case, its reflective sapphire dial, the caller-style GMT function, and what it's actually like to wear, adjust, and live with the Polymesh bracelet day to day.
5:3815K views · 1mo ago · 5:38
Breguet has everything a great watch brand needs: the heritage, the watchmaking know-how and decades of innovation. So why did it end up on life support? The problem wasn't the watches. It was how Swatch Group ran the business.
Topics: What's a full-price Breguet? · Why isn't Breguet killing it? · How Swatch Group bundles brands to dealers · Sell-in vs. sell-out · The watchmaking was never the problem · Revenue vehicle vs. haute horlogerie house
6:152.8K views · 1mo ago · 6:15
Ressence watches have no hands, no crown and, in some cases, a case full of oil. Here's how they work and how the full lineup breaks down. Founded in 2010 by Belgian industrial designer Benoît Mintiens, Ressence built its watches around a new way of reading the time: rotating discs driven by the ROCS (Ressence Orbital Convex System), with winding and setting done through the caseback.
Topics: Ressence: an industrial designer's watch brand · How Ressence works: rotating discs and the ROCS · The three types of Ressence watches · Oil-filled Ressence: Type 3, Type 5, Type 7 · Ressence sizing and wearability · Air-filled Ressence: Type 8, Type 9, Type 1, Type 12, Type 11
5:435.4K views · 1mo ago · 5:43
The Fears Brunswick 39 Perpetual Calendar is a $28,500 watch running a Sellita movement, and it gets flagged in the comments every single time. We break down why that criticism misses the point: Sellita and Vaucher calibers aren't rare or exotic, but they're reliable, and reliable is exactly what a brand like Fears needs from an engine it didn't build in-house.
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