After seeing Jonny's Clocktower, I realized that Area Nostalgia was the brand of none other than Kieron of Top Tier Ticker, one of the best youtubers in the industry. The new Mantel collection launched yesterday with three distinct models - the Bloodmoon, Midnight, and Moonglow. While the main part of the 20mm dial is the same plain white (or not so plain, more on that later), Kieron has layered a brushed metal ring featuring Roman numeral hour markers to add some dynamism.

Walker & Crown’s debut collection, the Revival series which is an Ode to 80s culture, has four unique models - the Electric Lagoon, the Memphis Beat, the Clerk, and the Laser Drift. Each comes in a sizeable, colorful box, which also includes a color-matched Saffiano leather strap, and an honest-to-goodness cassette tape. This cassette tape’s design matches the respective watch, and it even comes with a track list.

I looked at my collection of shiny objects – essentially a hoard of impulse-buys curated by an overly-stimulated magpie- and found horological quiet when I looked at the Duckworth Prestex Lostock.Unlike the rest of my hoard, which was largely the result of questionable impulse control, the Lostock wasn’t a one-click conquest. I had first seen it at the Toronto Time Piece show, and while the over-stimulated magpie in my brain was busy adding everything to a virtual cart, the L