Hands On With the Timex M79 Black

Spring of 2019 feels like a lifetime ago. A more optimistic time, in many respects, and one that saw the release of the Timex Q make waves wherever watch media and collectors congregated. Back in those days you could still physically congregate, if memory serves me. The Q was loaded with the same old world charm as its namesake from 1979. Additional colorways were inevitable, as was the eventual inclusion of an automatic movement.  More than a year’s worth of expansion later, and here we are with an all black version of the Timex Q with an automatic movement, the Timex M79. It’s come a long way, but has it lost the panache of the original in the process?