Mike M.

Mike M. is the hands-on owner behind Iron Mako Media, the independent portfolio of gear sites that Bezel & Bearing belongs to. He ranks watches on what the maker publishes (battery hours by mode, glass, case, water rating) and labels every pick with how it was researched.

How Mike ranks watches

Every pick on Bezel & Bearing is labeled "Researched." That means Mike read the maker's operation guide or battery table and the usage assumptions behind it, read the specification page or press release for the lens, case and water rating, checked whether the maker itself uses a MIL-STD-810 line and in what words, and scored the result on the public rubric at How We Rate.

That research is what makes a pick useful: it answers which watch is still running in ten years, which lens is actually sapphire, and which battery figure holds up once you read the mode it was measured in. Every number behind a ranking links to the maker document it came from, so you can check the one that matters to you.

Where he stands

• Picks are chosen on the evidence, and commissions never set a score or decide a ranking.
• Every figure cites the maker's manual, spec page or release.
• Corrections are fixed and logged on the page with the date.

Contact

Questions and corrections go to contact@bezelandbearing.com. Mike reads every message. More about the publisher is at Iron Mako Media.