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12 New Watch Releases Worth a Second Look Image credit: Flux.1 The watch market moves fast, and keeping up with what's actually worth your attention

Hamptons Cigar Manufactory & Museum Drops The Commish Corona — A Premium Smoke Built Around Service, Legacy, and Authority In a premium cigar market crowded with celebrity collaborations and flavor-forward gimmicks, it takes something with genuine narrative weight to cut through the noise. Ham

Black Label Trading Company's Bishops Blend Turns Ten — and Goes Barber Pole for the Anniversary A decade is a long time in the boutique cigar world, where brands burn bright and fade fast, where limited editions become cult objects or cautionary tales, and where the pressure to stay relevant can

One of the World's Oldest Tobacconists Just Launched Its Most Ambitious Cigar in Decades There are very few institutions in the luxury goods world that can genuinely claim a lineage stretching back to the eighteenth century and still be making news. James J. Fox, the storied cigar merchant anchore

Rolex Hits Collectors Twice: The Crown's Rare Second Price Hike of 2025 Explained Rolex has never been a brand that apologizes for the price of its watches — and it certainly isn't starting now. In a move that landed like a gut punch for gold-watch enthusiasts, Rolex raised the global price of its

The Nodus Sector Deep Pioneer NVG: An American Microbrand's Most Tactical Watch Yet There is a well-worn lineage in the watch world connecting military commissions to watches that later become icons. Many of the world's greatest dive watches, including the Rolex Submariner, Omega Seamaster, Blancp

The Smoke Clears: Premium Cigar Imports Down 5 Percent Through the First Four Months of 2026 The numbers are in, and they tell a story of a market that surged wildly during the pandemic years and is now finding its level. The U.S. market for premium, handmade cigars continues to cool, with import

Is a Luxury Watch Actually Worth the Money? Let me tell you something that happened to me a few years back. I was at a friend's retirement party — good guy, worked hard his whole career — and he showed up wearing a Rolex Submariner. Not flashy about it. Just had it on his wrist, under his cuff, th

Illinois Just Gave Cigar Smokers a Major Tax Break — Here's What It Means for Your Humidor and Your Wallet For years, lighting up a premium handmade cigar in Illinois has meant quietly subsidizing the state's budget at a rate that, by the time it filtered down to the retail counter, made an alread

Davidoff Closes Its 150th Anniversary Year in the Black, Posting $680 Million in Global Sales for 2025 A century and a half into the business of handcrafted premium cigars, Oettinger Davidoff AG has made one thing abundantly clear: the appetite for well-made, luxury smokes is not going quietly. Th