RZE Watches (Formerly Reise Watches)

This Singaporean microbrand's roots go back to BOLDR, one of the best known watch microbrands hailing from Singapore. RZE's founder, Travis Tan, was originally one of the founders/partners at BOLDR, before striking out on a new direction with RZE Watches, along with his spouse, Vivian Ko. We love the personal touch from small, family-run enterprises like this.

BOLDR (as you can probably guess from their name) have a deserved reputation for producing rugged timepieces for bold adventurers with active lifestyles, and this DNA clearly seems to have been carried over to RZE Watches. RZE's tag line is #AssembledforAdventure and their first release, the Resolute, struck out in a new direction with an extremely robust yet remarkably light titanium field watch with a scratch resistant 1200Hv ULTRAHex coating. Since then RZE has garnered a deserved reputation with a variety of new titanium tool watches all featuring their trademark ULTRAHex coating.