Rhonda Riche

2 weeks ago | watchonista.com | Rhonda Riche

By Rhonda Riche Watchonista’s Marco Gabella recently wrote a roundup of 2025 trends in watchmaking materials. In it, he talked about Hublot’s mastery of ceramic-cased timepieces, specifically the brand’s Big Bang Unico Magic Ceramic and its blue and black, multi-colored insert released in February.

2 weeks ago | watchonista.com | Rhonda Riche

By Rhonda Riche For true timepiece addicts, there are not enough ways to wear a watch. Rihanna wore a customized piece from Jacob & Co. as an anklet. Piaget produces outstanding pendant watches; Casio offers fun digital rings. And in the olden days, brands like Cartier set tiny calibers into cigarette lighters. This brings us to the new Crocs x G-SHOCK collaboration.

3 weeks ago | watchonista.com | Rhonda Riche

By Rhonda Riche In 2023, after an almost 93-year absence, Rolex introduced a watch (the 60th Anniversary Platinum Daytona) with an exhibition caseback. Finally, we could see that balance wheel spin! More importantly, this action indicated that display casebacks were now de rigueur. However, watch enthusiasts also have a deep respect for tradition.

3 weeks ago | watchonista.com | Rhonda Riche

By Rhonda Riche If tasked with making a watch, I would be sorely tempted to pack it with all the bells and whistles technology would allow. And for those readers who can appreciate a Simpsons reference, it would probably look like Homer’s car. That’s because, as fun as an ultra-complicated watch would be to design, it also must make sense.

1 month ago | watchonista.com | Rhonda Riche

05/02/2025 By Rhonda Riche The perpetual calendar, a.k.a. the quotidian perpetuel, a.k.a. the QP, is a date feature that automatically accounts for leap years, short months, and other unpredictable quirks of the Gregorian calendar. It is also the kind of watchmaking complication that triggers a specific part of some collectors’ brains.