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The week in watches, from my desk.

I buy watches, wear them, and tell you straight if they’re worth it.

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This week on the desk

Play the video: Christopher Ward Lumière for $275? I Broke My Homage Rule
Keep or Boot Hands-On

Christopher Ward Lumière for $275? I Broke My Homage Rule

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Watchdives WD0019 Premier: specs, price and wrist fit

Keep or Boot, so far.

I wear a watch for about a week and decide whether it stays. Each one gets a Hands-On when it arrives and a Verdict when I’ve decided.

Every Keep or Boot watch

New releases, with my take.

What’s new, the specs that matter, the price and what I think, with the sources behind the facts and a score out of 120 bezel clicks.

  1. Swatch’s Wings of Peace is more festive decoration than I want on my wrist

    28/120 bezel clicks. A sourced first look.

    28 / 120 bezel clicks

    Wings of Peace angel dial and colored backwards numerals

  2. Studio Underd0g made a calendar that cares about the weekend

    99/120 bezel clicks. A sourced first look.

    99 / 120 bezel clicks

    Cloud10 04Series Calendar on tan leather

  3. Seiko’s Touch chronograph is a panda dial with more baseball than I need

    55/120 bezel clicks. A sourced first look.

    55 / 120 bezel clicks

    Seiko PREMICO Touch 45th anniversary panda chronograph

  4. The Hour Glass RP2 gets the pale blue and grey balance just right

    109/120 bezel clicks. A sourced first look.

    109 / 120 bezel clicks

    Raúl Pagès Hour Glass RP2 with light-blue mother-of-pearl and grey ring

  5. Cleguer’s malachite Inspiration One is the version that caught my attention

    104/120 bezel clicks. A sourced first look.

    104 / 120 bezel clicks

    Hour Glass Inspiration One malachite execution photographed by Mathieu Cleguer

  6. The FVF Happy Monday’s dark bracelet and strange sector dial work for me

    104/120 bezel clicks. A sourced first look.

    104 / 120 bezel clicks

    Happy Monday FVF2 on its dark bracelet, still from Material Good’s official film

All 267 watches Clicks for the money: the chart

267 watches, searchable.

Every release I’ve written up, plus research from my own desk on watches I own and watches I want, with specs, sources, dated prices and Bezel Clicks. The researched ones come out of Watch Desk, the app I built.

Browse the watch database

The Seiko catalog, one page per line.

492 lines listed on Seiko’s own sites when I last checked (November 14, 2026), with every colour and reference as rows, estimated US prices and seller links where I’ve matched one.

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Will it fit my wrist?

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Who’s at the desk.

I’m Holden Richardson, a watch collector in Michigan. I make the videos, run this site and built the app.

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I also built an app.

Watch Desk researches any watch with its sources and ranks what to buy first. It’s paid, from $8.99 a month.

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