Awesome Watches

As part of its Star Wars Light Side collection, Nixon spruced up its 42mm Sentry SS watch with details from Anakin’s protocol droid. It has Threepio’s gold color, embossed rings and exposed mid-section wires on its dial.

Filson and Shinola knocked it out of the park once again. The Dutch Harbor is a diving watch inspired by ’50s classics. It’s water resistant up to 990ft, has a rotating bezel and is available in several dial and bezel colors as well as steel, leather and nylon bands.

Most watches have a sapphire crystal, and some have a sapphire back. The Big Bang Unico Sapphire has both, but its bezel and case are also made of sapphire, giving it a transparent look without sacrificing durability. The price? $57,900.

The Forerunner 235 is the ideal runner’s watch, with wrist-based heart rate tracking, GPS and GLONASS capabilities for accurate activity and distance tracking. Also offers smartphone notifications, customizable watch faces, and cloud-based history and stats tracking.

Void updates its speedometer-inspired wristwatch with thinner hour and minute hands, and adding a second hand as well. The V02 Mark II is available in black or silver with leather or steel straps, or gold with leather straps.

The Detroit watchmaker’s limited-edition 36mm timepiece features a stainless steel cushion case, and a brown alligator strap backed in red. Each one includes a custom hickory box, and three rare prints of Muhammad Ali signed by photographer Thomas Hoepker.

Each week, our friends at Everyday Carry are bringing us the latest drops, showing off the coolest gear they have to offer. Here’s this week’s awesome load out, courtesy of EDC reader Christian.

While we wish they used actual carbon fiber faces, we still love the look of Rival Collective’s bold and modern watches, which rock a Seiko chronograph engine with stopwatch and date features, and luminous hands, set into a 45mm stainless case with a sapphire crystal.

Casio’s rugged Android Wear smartwatch is water resistant, and meets military shock and vibration specs. It’s got air pressure and altitude sensors, an accelerometer, gyrometer, and a magnetic compass, to track fitness activites, and all your outdoor adventures.

This 38mm automatic watch not only borrows details from ’60s Ford Mustangs, the dial on each unit is actually made from the body of a wrecked Stang. The dials are coated with lacquer so that the rust won’t spread to the rest of the watch.

The Exospace B55 is an $8,900 chronograph with smartwatch features. You can use its app to switch between two time zones and record flight times, lap times and even average speed. Its backlit LCD screens can notify you of calls, SMS messages and emails.

For this week, our friends at Everyday Carry are showing off 25 of the best EDC gift ideas, including watches, wallets, knives, pens, multitools and more. There’s something for every man on your list.

Ressence’s first diver’s watch. Like the Type 3, the Type 5’s dial is filled with clear oil. This eliminates reflection when underwater, making it readable from any angle. The back of its titanium case is used to both wind its spring and set the time.

Each week, our friends at Everyday Carry are bringing us the latest drops, showing off the coolest gear they have to offer. Here’s this week’s awesome load out, courtesy of EDC reader Steve Apple.

Unlike the glowing digits on most watches that use light-reactive paints or dyes, this very special automatic watch uses glowing micro-gas tubes to brightly light its dial at night. Pre-order now for March 2016 delivery, and get it for a special price of $853.

The Bauhaus inspired Archibald’s 40mm case comes in silver or rose gold. Its Miyota 9132 automatic movement lasts up to 40h and can be recharged by winding the crown. The watch is water resistant up to 5atm.