I apologize in advance to all watch enthusiasts, as this will not be a classic review of a watch as you might expect. This time, I have a watch on my desk that is intriguing for many other reasons – the Nubeo Star Trek Enterprise-D chronograph.

Honestly, I can’t even remember how long I’ve been on the Oceaneva company’s mailing list, nor do I know why I subscribed. It’s quite possible that I’ve been on it since the company’s inception in 2019. Back then, this USA-based microbrand introduced its first diver watch, the Deep Marine Explorer 1000m, along with its vision to become one of the most recognized brands for quality and water resistance. They have actually lived up to their promise, offering watches with a declared water resistance of over 1000m (mostly 1250m), with the Deep Marine Explorer III even reaching 3000m. Additionally, they boast that they are the only USA brand to test water resistance in actual ocean depths and claim to be one of only six brands in the world to do so.

Not so long ago, I wrote about the Venezianico Arsenale watch, sharing my impressions of the version with a purple dial. My conclusion wasn’t too optimistic. Even though the watch is exceptionally high-quality, I mentioned that I planned to sell it and rather purchase the black dial version for my son—a version I personally found very boring. Since then, two things have happened.

Incredible but true! Just one day after publishing the review of the Redentore Enigma watch, I received a notification from Venezianico that my Arsenale was ready for shipment. The reason for the time gap between the review of the Enigma and this one isn't due to a long wait for the Arsenale, but rather my holiday's absence.

As almost every weekend, I received a newsletter from OrologioChePassione last weekend as well. Normally, I just skim through it, but this time, the Hoffman Diver 40 watch caught my attention. I was already familiar with the Hoffman brand thanks to the mentioned store, as they’ve been selling Hoffman watches for quite some time. However, I hadn't found anything particularly appealing from Hoffman until now. Their flagship collection is undoubtedly the Racing 40 line, which consists of chronograph watches powered by the Seiko VK64 mechaquartz movement. I believe they currently have 16 different models in this collection, and I recently read that, for the first time in a long while, all versions are in stock.

It hasn't been long since I posted a review of two Venezianico watches here. In that review, I mentioned how incredible the team at Venezianico is when it comes to releasing new models – it seems like they release a new model almost every month. And this pace hasn't slowed down at all over the summer. Since my review was published, they have reissued the Nereide Aureo, featuring a stunning dial made from 18-carat gold. This was followed by the Nereide LapisLazuli, where the name itself already reveals that the dial is made from Lapis Lazuli.

One of my most time spending hobbies is by far cycling, primarily road cycling. I have two road bikes, one is located at home and one is on my holiday cottage. Let me be quite clear, I am just an amateur rider, I have never participated in any race! However, I enjoy watching races. Whenever there is a road cycling race available on Eurosport I try to watch it. So, no wonder that at the beginning of the May of this year I spent quite a lot of time on my sofa following carefully the first Grand Tour of this year - Giro d'Italia. 

During the last year I noticed in our local watch forum that watches from the Venezianico brand are more and more popular, guys were often showing their new watches of that brand. As I liked what I saw, I decided to investigate this brand. I checked their web page, noticed that the majority of watches that I liked were sold out. The most interesting sold out watch was a chronograph called Bucintoro. So as there was nothing interesting to buy I just registered for their mailing list to receive information about future novelties. And just a month or two later, the new version of the Nereide model - called Agata - was announced. I liked what I saw so I preordered it. As a result, at the beginning of May I became a proud owner of my very first Venezianico watch. 

Few months ago I already made a review of  the Panzera watches through the two of their diver watches here. That review was focused on the Marine collection. At the end of the review I also announced that I have also ordered - in the preorder phase - another Panzera watch, but this time from the Flieger line - the new Flieger GMT watch. As announced, at the beginning of May this watch was released and shipped to me, so let me give you now some of my additional feedbacks about the brand after the first month with this Flieger GMT model.

Today, I am going to focus on a watch which was purchased totally unplanned, in fact just one look was enough. How has this happened? Well, I was checking my notepad on Chrono24 (a kind of a wish list) and while checking one of the watches from my list, at the bottom of the page Chrono24 - under the category "You may also be interested in these watches" somehow offered Tition Impetus Ceramtech in Argentine blue version. Seeing this watch I was excited, the color and material combinations were just crazy good. "I must have this watch", was my only comment.

You might have noticed that lately quite often watches from Eastern Europe are reviewed. That is not accidental. After my detailed research of the Russian watch industry (which was driven by the fact that I used to be a passionate collector of USSR watches...) I extended my interest to all East Europe development of the watch industry. So I already have watches from Belarus, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Croatia(where this is a bit of an intruder, as watches are only designed and sold in Croatia, but made in Germany), Slovakia, so, it is not a surprise that today my focus is Poland.

Back in 1884, Christian Ruefli-Flury decided to make a nice birthday gift for the 25th birthday of his beloved wife Pauline. He made her a pocket watch. She was delighted and she convinced him to set up his own watch company. Of course he listened to her (don't we all :)) and the new watch company was born. He used the name EDOX, which means "measuring a time" in ancient Greek.

​This time my focus goes to two very interesting watches made by the Manufaktur Waldhoff company. Name of the company suggests it's a German watch company. Well that was true in the first period of the company from years 2015-2022. All their watches produced in that period wear the "Made in Germany" label. In 2022 assembly was moved to Asia, new watches lost the "Made in Germany" label. The whole history of the company can be found on their official web page.

If you are my regular visitor and follow my reviews you have for sure noticed that I have mentioned LeJour brand before. Usually I mentioned it when trying to evaluate the price of some other brand's watch as LeJour stood up as one of the cheapest among the Swiss made watches. Yet my reference to LeJour watches was partially unfair or let's at least say unproven as I never had any of LeJour watch models. When in the seriouswatches.com shop I noticed the latest version of the LeJour chronograph model Rally Monte Carlo, with the red dial and black totalizers, I decided that finally the time has come to purchase one LeJour and to evaluate what  I am referring to.

Today I would like to give you a brief introduction of a very interesting watch, made by the company MWC. MWC is a German watch company established back in 1974, the name MWC reveals what the company is focused on. Namely, MWC stands for Military Watch Company. Therefore all their watches are somehow inspired by some famous historical military watches, a good part of their collection are not just inspired by those watches but are "hommages" or replicas of them. Almost all MWC watches are low budget watches, using quartz or automatic Seiko NH35 movements, lately I noticed some watches with (probably Chinese) ETA 2824 clone.

In the last few months I purchased two similar yet very different watches from the Panzera Aquamarine line. Instead of making a separate review of each one, I decided to rather make a joint one, as this will give a better overview of the Panzera as a brand.

In my previous review I already announced that a new watch was on it's way to me. As it is here now, it's time for a full description of my new watch. I am talking about the watch called Leviathan 02 from the company Biatec. 

Today I would like to introduce a watch that became a part of my collection just by coincidence. While I was searching for a diver watch which is at the moment on my way to me and will be reviewed soon, I just accidentally ran into the Swiss Military by Chrono 300m diver watch. Maybe you will remember that almost three years ago I already described one Swiss Military watch, but that one was made by Hanowa (check the review here). Even today I am still confused about all those brands who use "Swiss Military", I just know that this watch, made  "by Chrono" and "Hanowa" , do not have much in common...