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The $100 Watch That Looks Like a $10,000 Rolex: Casio's Duro Is the Dive Watch Story Nobody Saw Coming There is a particular kind of watch conversation that plays out in office break rooms, at backyard barbecues, and across Reddit threads at 2 a.m. — one where someone pulls back his sleeve to reve

Costco Is Selling Seiko's Most Respected Dive Watch at a Price That's Hard to Ignore There's a certain kind of watch deal that doesn't announce itself. It doesn't come wrapped in a limited-time countdown clock or plastered across a homepage banner. It just appears, quietly, on a warehouse retailer

Davidoff's Voyager's Selection Black Band: A World Tour in a Single Box There is a particular kind of satisfaction reserved for the man who knows how to travel well — who books the window seat not to look at clouds but to think, who treats an airport layover as an opportunity rather than a punishm

Cigars & the Revolution: More American Than You Think Most of us think of a cigar as a celebration thing. You light one up when your team wins the big game, when your kid graduates, or when you finally close the deal you've been chasing for six months. It's a ritual. A punctuation mark on a bi

Perdomo Cigars Lights Up the Market with the New PROFLAME Lighter Line When a brand that has spent decades earning the trust of serious cigar smokers decides to throw its name behind a new piece of hardware, the industry tends to pay attention. That's exactly what happened when Perdomo Cigars step

Casa Carrillo's Pledge of Allegiance Returns for 2026 — and This Year, America's 250th Birthday Changes Everything Every July Fourth, before the first spark of a firework cuts across a dark summer sky, serious cigar smokers start looking for a smoke worthy of the occasion. For the past four years,

The Smoke Clears: Premium Cigar Imports Slide 5 Percent Through April 2026 For years, the premium handmade cigar industry rode one of the most unlikely growth waves in American consumer goods — a pandemic-era surge that turned walk-in humidors into gold mines and put cigar exports from Nicaragua,

The Smoke Signal the Global Cigar World Can't Ignore On June 23, 2026, a routine business email landed in the inboxes of cigar retailers, hotel tobacconists, and duty-free buyers from Nairobi to Riyadh to Athens. The sender was Phoenicia T.A.A. Cyprus Ltd., one of the most consequential names in t

Who Really Runs the Premium Cigar World? There's a moment that stays with you the first time you sit down in a proper cigar lounge, clip a well-aged stick, and actually think about what you're holding. I had that moment years ago in Tampa, Florida — and not by accident. A buddy of mine who knew c

The Collector's Dilemma: How Many Cigars Is Actually Too Many? Every serious cigar man has been there. You start with a modest desktop humidor, maybe a 50-count cedar box you picked up at your local tobacconist after falling hard for a Nicaraguan robusto. A few months later, you've got that box st