On the eve of my birthday and right before I attend the Tokyo Watch Wow event in Tokyo, I decided to write about Manchester Watch Show, even though I won't be attending. I'm doing this for a couple of reasons. For one, almost all of my English-reading audience are based in Europe and North America. For another, I have other content planned for Tokyo Watch Wow. However, the most important reason is: I just really like the brands attending the show in Manchester[...]

I learned about the Singaporean brand UBIQ, which was created by Drayson Phua, and not only did I end up falling in love with their watches, but I might just have the perfect field watch as a result. Could there be a magical, watchmaking ingredient in Singapore?

"No one needs a watch." If you have been collecting watches for awhile, or if you've even had a passing interest in this hobby in the past, then I'm sure you have encountered this dismissive, declarative sentence. The truth is that it is simultaneously right and wrong. It is right in the sense that we have cellphones or laptops to tell us the time, so we don't need a watch to tell the time. But, it is wrong in that it assumes a watch's only purpose is to tell the time.

Spinnaker has been a crowd favorite - particularly in the past two years - for their robust divers at affordable price points. During a time when Seiko, who was once the Budget Diver King, has seemingly raised prices across the board outside of their Seiko 5 collection, Spinnaker seems committed to filling this vacuum with their own watches.