Watchonista Magazine

1 week ago | watchonista.com | Cait Bazemore

By Cait Bazemore In the five years since the pandemic, the watch world has grown and evolved exponentially. As a result, the community has expanded beyond traditionalists and those with a certain disposable income to include collectors of all shapes, sizes, genders, style preferences, and walks of life.

1 week ago | watchonista.com | Cait Bazemore

By Cait Bazemore The True Square collection from Rado is a newer addition to the brand’s expansive catalog. However, in only five short years, it has become a platform for creativity in all forms, including some wild limited editions. We have seen the True Square get blinged out with diamonds and a healthy dose of PVD treatment.

1 week ago | watchonista.com | Barbara Palumbo

By Barbara Palumbo While some of us are still coming to grips with the fact that we are twenty-five years into the 2000s, there is something to be said about the year 2025. For one, it is a “perfect square” year (that one was for the math nerds). To simplify what I just wrote, forty-five squared equals 2025. For another, 2025 is also the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution.

1 week ago | watchonista.com | Michael Clerizo

By Michael Clerizo Mr. Chin owns a watch and clock repair shop in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, a town bisected by the River Kwai. Yes, there is a River Kwai, and during World War II, Allied POWs built a bridge across it. However, it is not the majestic structure that spans the river in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai that (SPOILER ALERT!) ultimately collapses after an operatic act of sabotage.

2 weeks 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.