By Gary Slayen

Modified Luxury: Making a high end watch your own

This article is a review of the Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk III in Cobalt (ref.# 49960-19-431-11A). This 1,000m diver was released in black in 2012 as version III, and in 2013 the blue and orange color combination was released. The watch retailed for $13,000 and was $1,000 less with the wonderfully comfortable black or blue…

Review: Tidewater will cure your blues

McDowell Time is a 5-year-old micro brand that has so far released three watches in various iterations (the Maxton, DelRay and Sonoma) and now offers their first dive watch – the 42mm Tidewater available in blue, black and white dials. Micro brands in the sub-$600 segment of dive watches have greatly proliferated in recent years…