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Good news is coming for cigar smokers in California. Starting July 1, the state is lowering its cigar tax rate, giving consumers a break they probably weren't expecting. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration confirmed the change as part of its yearly review process. The rate i

The watch community has been buzzing with speculation for the better part of a week, and now the secret is out. Audemars Piguet — one of the most prestigious names in Swiss watchmaking — is teaming up with Swatch for a collaboration that nobody saw coming. The project goes by the name "Royal Pop,"

The Seiko 5 Sports Line Keeps Getting Better Without Breaking the Bank Seiko has been on a quiet tear for the past several years. The 5 Sports line started as a simple, no-frills entry point into the brand, and it has steadily grown into something much bigger. Divers, field watches, GMTs — the col

ProCigar's scholarship push is rewriting what it means to be a responsible industry There's a version of corporate social responsibility that looks good in a press release and doesn't do much else. Then there's what the Association of Dominican Cigar Manufacturers — known as ProCigar — has been qu

A Geneva-Based Cigar Company Says It Has Cracked a 600-Year-Old Problem — and the Science Behind It Is Hard to Ignore For six centuries, the cigar has remained essentially unchanged. Men have lit them the same way, smoked them the same way, and accepted the same trade-offs that come with burning t

PIO Cigars is giving one of its most established products a fresh look. The brand has unveiled a redesigned band for its core line, PIO Resurrection, in what marks the first significant visual update to the cigar in more than a decade and a half. The new band moves away from whatever had been s

No press conference. No formal statement. No heads-up to retailers. Rolex did what Rolex always does — it made a major move in silence, and the watch world noticed anyway. In what's become something of a tradition for the Swiss giant, updates quietly appeared on the brand's website and across a

A Decade in the Making It took ten years of courtroom battles, dozens of legal filings, and arguments that stretched from a federal district court all the way to a circuit appeals panel, but the premium cigar industry finally has something it has been fighting for since 2016: a locked-in legal def

There are watch collaborations that make sense the moment you hear about them, and then there's this one. Citizen, a name that commands genuine respect in the watchmaking world, has teamed up with FamilyMart — one of Japan's largest convenience store chains — to produce a limited-edition wristwatch

There are cigar companies that blend into the background at trade shows, and then there is Drunk Chicken Cigars. The brand has built a reputation for being hard to ignore — partly because of its name, partly because of its giant yellow chicken mascot that flips an arrow sign, and partly because the