The Timex Marlin range has a new addition, in the shape of a retro chronograph. It has those classic 60s motorsport lines, with a Tachymetre chapter ring, plus piston top pushers on the 40mm case. Kinda chrome finish on the jubilee bracelet too. Inside there is a quartz movement and the caseback has a bit of engraving to spice up the view. At £180 when … Continue reading New Timex Marlin Chronograph on Pre-Order
Timex has added a green/black bezel option to its M79 automatic range. Powered by a Miyota auto unit, the 40mm wide watch has a see-thru caseback, acrylic crystal, plus a day/date feature. It’s a decent all-rounder watch, although at $299 this has some strong comepetition from many Indie and Ali Express brands, who also use the Miyota 9000 series auto movements. Bracelet is steel with … Continue reading Timex M79 Gets a Green Bezel Option
The Timex T80 is already a retro 80s watch that captures the early part of that decade perfectly. Digital display, Indiglo night light and the chrono button feature too. That stuff was cutting edge back when pubs had video games consoles replacing dartboards. Now it gets a new purple colourway, which is kinda faded out on the resin strap near the lugs. It has the … Continue reading Timex T80 Gets A Retro Purple Makeover
Timex has added another variant to the Waterbury quartz range, with this red/grey number, which features a mixed materials strap. Lots of watch brands are now eschewing leather as the animal rights activists join climate and Trans activists in issuing death threats online, organising road blocks and attacking corporate property too. Regardless of how you, the customer, feels about using animal products, the safest option … Continue reading Timex Waterbury GMT, With Mixed Materials Strap
Do you need a watch that tracks three different time zones? It isn’t just pilots, you might work in IT, editorial, shipping and distribution, pharma or many other sectors where it’s important to know when Japan wakes up, or India goes to Tiffin. So the new Timex Q series gets this three time zone special, which has a quartz movement, the usual Timex button battery … Continue reading Three Time Zone Timex: Versatile But Pricey
Here’s a thing you may not know, many decades ago a `waterproof’ watch often only offered about 50m of resistance underwater. Fact is, materials and manufacturing processes in the 60s watch industry were designed to mass produce cheap watches. A few Swiss and luxury brands made 200-300m dive watches, which were assembled by hand and cost the same as a small car. Times change, and … Continue reading Is a 100m Dive Watch Good Enough For Today’s Market?
Like many watch brands Timex is starting use more recycled or reclaimed materials for their watches, plus reduce water and power consumption during the manufacturing process. How much water is being used to make things you ask? Well, it’s a little known fact that 2.2 million litres of water are consumed to produce just one ton of lithium for use in car, motorcycle, smartphone and … Continue reading Timex Adds Eco-Strap to Its Standard Range
Timex has released a new variant of the Marlin automatic, which has a 60s Mod theme. That trad red, white and blue colours from the RAF roundel are reworked on the hands, plus a red stripe across the balance wheel, which is visible through the porthole on the caseback. The 39mm steel case is a homage to the 60s and 70s Timex cases, with an … Continue reading New Watches: Timex Marlin Mod Edition
