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The Smoke Signals Are Clear: North America's Cigar Market Is on a Decade-Long Tear There is a peculiar alchemy happening inside the humidors, smoke lounges, and online checkout carts of North America right now. An industry that many observers once dismissed as a relic of a bygone era — a prop for

Casio's Pro Trek PRJ-01 Is the First Fully Analog Outdoor Watch the Line Has Ever Produced — and That's Exactly the Point There is a particular kind of frustration that builds when you strap on a hiking watch and spend the first ten minutes of a trail figuring out which button unlocks the baromete

Watches and Wonders 2027: Everything You Need to Know About the Dates, Format Changes, and the Biggest New Arrivals Every spring, Geneva becomes the center of the horological universe — a city where power reserve figures are debated over breakfast, and where a new dial color can generate more conv

Arturo Fuente's OpusX Baby Shark 77 Arrives in Stores — The Cigar World's Most Coveted Vitola Just Got a Compact New Sibling There are cigar releases, and then there are Arturo Fuente moments. The two are not the same thing. When Fuente drops something new under the OpusX banner — especially somet

The Timex Marlin Jet Titanium Automatic GMT Is the Affordable Travel Watch the Market Has Been Waiting For There is a specific kind of frustration that comes with shopping for a serious travel watch at a reasonable price. The GMT complication — once the exclusive domain of pilots, diplomats, and i

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