Recent Luxury Articles

The Watch You Buy at Sea Says Everything About You There's a moment that happens to a lot of guys on a cruise. You're maybe two days in. The ocean is doing that thing where it looks almost fake — too blue, too still. You've got a drink in your hand, nowhere to be, and somehow you end up wandering

Luminox Goes Off the Grid: The Adventure Watch 1300 Series Is the Field Watch Serious Outdoorsmen Have Been Waiting For There is a certain kind of watch buyer who has never needed a smartwatch to tell him his heart rate or buzz his wrist with a text notification. He needs a watch that works when t

From Firecracker to Full Line: United Cigars Turns Its Independence Smash Hit Into a Permanent Offering There are limited releases that sell out quietly, their memory fading with the smoke, and then there are limited releases that create enough noise to reshape a company's product road map entirel

Macau Carves Out a Compromise: Cigars Win Exemption From Harshest Packaging Rules in Sweeping Tobacco Law Overhaul Macau's legislative machinery has been grinding through one of its most ambitious rewrites of tobacco law in years, and when the dust settled on the cigar debate, suppliers had reason

AG Cigars Launches the Legendary Moment Series, Honoring Jamie Foxx and Ray Lewis There is a short list of cigar makers in the world whose biography reads like a screenplay, and Alejandro "Alex" González Arias sits near the top of it. The Cuban-born master roller — better known in cigar circles si

Brotherhood in a Box: Hiram & Solomon Cigars Ships the Mystic Tie and Fraternal Flame There are boutique cigar brands, and then there are cigar brands with a genuine reason to exist. Hiram & Solomon falls squarely into the latter camp. Born out of a gap that two Freemason brothers noticed

Wildfire Cigar Company's Radio Octave Is the Most Intriguing Limited Release of Summer 2026 There is a particular kind of cigar company that operates on instinct — one that moves fast, thinks sideways, and treats every release as both an artistic statement and a business experiment. Wildfire Cigar

Principle Cigars Drops a New Corona Into the Martinique Lineup — and It's Already Sold Out There's a particular kind of credibility that comes with selling out your entire first production run before most of the cigar world even knows a new vitola exists. That's exactly where Darren Cioffi and Pri

Asia's Biggest Cigar Festival Just Went Global — And American Buyers Were There There is a city in East Java, Indonesia, that cigar men are starting to pay very close attention to. It sits about 600 kilometers east of Jakarta, tucked between volcanic highlands and the Indian Ocean, and its rich vo

Does Your Watch Movement Actually Matter? Let me paint you a picture. A few years back, I walked into a watch shop in downtown Chicago looking to replace the old Timex I'd worn for fifteen years. The salesman asked me one question: "Are you looking for quartz or mechanical?" I stared at him like h