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We've subjected our team of editors to several budget challenges before, but today, they're taking on their biggest test yet: to select what is, in their opinion, the best watch under $200. But as true enthusiasts in this game, each of them is more than up to the task and ready to prove that you can still find some pretty compelling options in terms of style, history, and jus...

Blancpain famously introduced its trendsetting Fifty Fathoms divers’ watch in 1953, aiming it originally at military and professional divers. Its popularity gave rise to a civilian-targeted model, the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, in 1956, which took its n...

Germany’s Glashütte Original pays tribute to the long and distinguished watchmaking traditions of its namesake home base, the town of Glashütte in Saxony, with a pair of vintage-influenced chronograph wristwatches that are launching today. The black-...

The Mudmaster holds a special place in the G-Shock universe, having evolved from the lineage of Casio’s "Master of G collection." The story began with the classic, digital Mudman series in the mid-2000s, which introduced the revolutionary, accordion-style button covers designed to block out fine dirt. However, as user demand shifted toward the legibility of the analog-digital...

While it’s been making its timepieces in Switzerland since the 1970s, Hamilton Watch Company, founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1892, has few peers when it comes to being a vital thread in the historical tapestry of American watchmaking. The heritage brand, today a part of the Swiss Swatch Group conglomerate of companies, continues to lean heavily into its New World roots...