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Timex's Peanuts range lands in Australia from A$235, led by a Snoopy Marlin Jet

Timex's Peanuts collection is on the Australian store now at A$235 to A$680, topped by an automatic Marlin Jet under domed Hesalite and a 36mm MK1 worth having even with a plain dial.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 11 August 2026

Peanuts x Timex Marlin Chronograph with Snoopy and Woodstock on a blue sunray dial cut by a racing stripe, on a perforated blue strap — Image: Timex

There is a 50 printed inside the sub-dial at three o'clock on the new Marlin Chronograph, and it is not part of any scale. It is a year. 1950, when Charles Schulz's strip first ran. That detail either lands the second you notice it or slides past you forever, and Timex has built a whole collection on there being enough people in the first group.

The Peanuts x Timex range went live on Timex's Australian store this week, A$235 to A$680. I opened it expecting to scroll past the lot and finished with two I would genuinely wear.

Peanuts x Timex Marlin Jet Automatic Easy Rider, a 38mm steel watch with a silver-white dial, blue markers and a domed Hesalite crystal — Image: Timex

Snoopy gets two Marlins

The Marlin Chronograph is A$500. Forty millimetres, blue sunray dial cut through by a racing stripe, Snoopy and Woodstock along for the ride, tachymeter index round the edge, and a proper elapsed-time chronograph rather than a dial that only looks like one. The stripe and the sub-dial layout come off Timex's own mid-century Marlin, which is why the beagle reads as part of the design and not a sticker applied later.

Above it sits the Marlin Jet Automatic Easy Rider at A$680. Snoopy in sunglasses, revving, on a silvery-white dial with blue markers and a handset to match. The case is 38mm steel, the movement is automatic and on show through an exhibition caseback, and there is a date window. The strap is double-layered blue fabric, slip-through. The crystal is the part I keep coming back to: domed Hesalite that covers the entire top of the case and rolls over the grooved bezel with the Marlin name on it.

Hesalite on a new watch in 2026 is a decision somebody had to argue for. It scratches if you look at it sideways. It also buffs out with a fingernail and a smear of Polywatch, and I have had a tube of the stuff in a drawer for years, so that part does not frighten me. What you get for the trouble is the warm bend of light at the edge of the dome, which flat sapphire has never once managed. On a watch with a cartoon beagle on the dial, scratch resistance is the wrong thing to be worried about.

Peanuts x Timex MK1, a 36mm brushed steel field watch with Snoopy on a black dial against a yellow checkered graphic — Image: Timex

Under A$500, where these will actually sell

The MK1 at A$355 is the pick of them for me. Military styling, 36mm, brushed steel, domed acrylic crystal, luminous hands and markers, Snoopy set against a black and yellow chequered graphic. Thirty-six millimetres and acrylic on a field watch is a good combination whatever is printed on the dial, and I would take this one with a plain one.

The Waterbury Classic at A$340 puts Snoopy mid-jump into a pile of leaves on a white dial, on a black leather strap sourced through the Leather Working Group. The Expedition Scout is the cheap end at A$235, Snoopy out on a trail with the Beagle Scouts, cardinal markers, grooved silicone strap. The Legacy Snoopy Umbrella is 34mm on a bracelet with a fluted bezel, a magnified date and a bright pink matte dial, A$355. A 25mm Legacy Mini with a gold sunray dial closes it out at A$410.

The A$680 question

If you already own something you take seriously, any of these is a cheap way to put a watch on your wrist that gets strangers talking to you. For wearability it is the MK1. For the dial it is the chronograph.

The Marlin Jet is the one that asks something real of you, because A$680 buys a lot of watch elsewhere. It is also the only one in the range Timex calls automatic, and the only one with a caseback worth turning over.