Some 25 kilometers north of Geneva, on the shore of the city’s eponymous lake, lies the town of Nyon. This is the place that Renaud Tixier, the ...
Am I being overly dramatic when I think of the word ?fratricide? after seeing the two-tone Certina DS Action GMT Powermatic 80" Well, first, this is F ...
Picking three watches under ?1,000 that I think are the best buys in 2024 is not easy. What I always find amusing are comments under articles that say ...
Most major watch shows center around brands and new releases, leaving the pre-owned and vintage side of the industry to run smaller, typically localiz ...
Welcome to another Sunday Morning Showdown. It’s time to get that extra-large coffee this morning because we have a special showdown for you! I ...
Swiss brand Genus is known for the quirky extravagance of the GNS1. It won the GPHG award for Mechanical Exception in 2019 and spawned some delightful ...
Even for us watch journalists, it’s sometimes hard to keep up with all the new releases out there. That’s why it’s nice that bran ...
Another Friday, another Top 5! We’re continuing our series of pre-owned picks that we feel deserve your attention. It’s a mix of vintage ...
Tiger bites kill, but marmot bites are just a tad annoying. Porsche Design decided to reimagine a military chronograph of the 1970s and position it in ...
Two years ago, Bvlgari introduced the Octo Finissimo Sketch, with its dial printing executed in pencil-sketch style. It was a stroke of brilliance fro ...
I think we can all agree here that the Zenith Chronomaster Original is already one of the best-looking chronographs out there. Adding the calendar and ...
It is no secret that I enjoy the Tudor Black Bay Pro. It is at the top of my list of watches to buy, and hopefully, that won’t take too long an ...
I am very excited to announce that the RZE × Fratello Resolute Pro “Contour†is available to pre-order now in the Fratello Shop. This lau ...
Excelsior Park holds quite a special place in watchmaking history. It was a fine-quality watch manufacturer, but the company’s name remains unk ...
Have you ever seen a Crash live" If you have, you will agree with me that this very peculiar Cartier creation is something special. Do you know what?s ...
The sub-?1,000 segment used to be teeming with amazing watches from microbrands and long-established mainstream brands alike. Today, a lot of them hav ...
The Seamaster Ploprof is partially famous for being on the wrist of FIAT boss Gianni Agnelli. Many think Agnelli wore his Ploprof over his cuff becaus ...
Welcome to Fratello Talks. This week, you join your host Nacho alongside RJ and Lex to discuss the evolution of watch marketing. The idea of marketing ...
Besides my passions for music and watches, I also greatly love architecture. It takes a unique talent and ability to create buildings that seem like t ...
I mainly associate Fortis with its different watches created for use in space. But there is more to the brand than just those. The Fortis M-40 is a ve ...
The Baltic Hermétique collection consists of colorful and vintage-inspired field watches. I say “colorful†because, initially, it was â� ...
We seem to be living in a watch era in which people lose their marbles over a faded bezel ? something that just happens ? while man-made tour de force ...
In late 2022, I had a chance to check out the ADPT Series 1 watches. It was a fun experience. The collaborative effort between the folks behind Worn & ...
In this installment of Back to Basics, we’ll dive into chronometers. What does this term mean, and why should it be relevant to you" If you are ...
We’re back with another episode of Fratello On Air, and this week, we discuss watches from brands that everyone should own at some point on th ...
In this series called Exploring Evergreens, we review watches that have been around for over a decade ? or long enough to feel ubiquitous ? and ask ou ...
Today, we’ll take a closer look at a fascinating watch that I recently purchased at auction. As we’ll see, the watch brings together sev ...
Today, we bring news of a much-anticipated debut. The Fleming Series 1 is finally here, and we were able to go hands-on with a pre-production Tantalum ...
What makes a tool watch great" The answer may vary depending on who you ask, but to the folks at RZE and us here at Fratello, a great tool watch is on ...
What happens when you leave a Rolex Submariner ?Hulk? and a Daytona in a room overnight" You get the Zenith Chronomaster Sport in its very green attir ...
At Fratello, we love hypothetical collecting exercises, challenges like ?What if I could spend 5K or 10K on a three-watch collection"? for instance. T ...
I rarely get to follow the journey of a watch’s creation. From the early renders to a dummy prototype to the finished article, the Behrens 20G ...
Today, we’re taking a look at the latest entry from Titoni. The Heritage Bicompax Chronograph is, as you’d expect, a vintage-inspired pi ...
Doxa’s Sub 300 Whitepearl has perhaps one of the most intriguing “colorways†available to fans of the dive-watch brand. I took this ...
Welcome to another Sunday Morning Showdown. With sunshine finally appearing after a gray winter, it’s time to look forward to spring and summer ...
William Wood announces a new wristwatch as an extension to its firefighter-inspired collection. Instead of firefighting, the Fire Exit watch focuses o ...
Yuichiro Miura’s 1970 expedition to Mt. Everest was the subject of a documentary and press coverage, and it became a legend in the extreme skii ...
Another Friday, another Top 5! It’s time for the third installment of our mini-series focusing on pre-owned sleeper watches. In it, we want to ...
Sometimes, a watch brings something very different from actual time-telling. And when it hits all the right notes, the watch might as well be an artwo ...
Earlier this week, we covered the introduction of the new Christopher Ward C65 Dune GMT. It’s a watch I can’t wait to find out more abou ...
Zenith presented a fully redesigned and thoroughly modernized Pilot range at Watches and Wonders last year. Although many of our team members had a ch ...
Audemars Piguet is making sure its 5134 caliber gets a proper goodbye. The successor of the legendary 2120 movement is being discontinued…but no ...
I don?t know if there are any left today. Late-19th-century biorhythm theory, which got another 15 seconds of fame in the 1970s, is the pseudoscientif ...
After many months in the making, the VPC Type 37HW is here, and I have the distinct pleasure of penning this hands-on introduction. We often ask ourse ...
With the revival of watchmaking in the British Isles, the Alliance of British Watch and Clock Makers announces its first exhibition. The British Watch ...
The Seiko SPB143 is a veritable fan favorite among lovers of Seiko dive watches. And that’s for good reason. It combined the mid-range quality ...
Welcome to this week’s episode of Fratello Talks. Today, you join Nacho, Morgan, and Thomas, who join forces to discuss a number of their watch ...
What brand do you turn to when you?re looking for a watch with a classic design" Well, to be honest, there are many such brands out there. But one bra ...
Casio announced the release of the new and updated Mudmaster in September of 2023. The highly anticipated new series of Mudmasters promised not only a ...
Hot off the heels of the stealthy Chronomat from February, Breitling brings another muted-tone beauty for March. The latest exclusive limited edition ...
At Fratello, we have a particular taste for the creations of Japanese brand Minase. We have done two collaborations that seemed to resonate with many ...
If you are a regular reader of Fratello, you might be aware of my love for the Christopher Ward C65 Dune GMT that came out last year. The black-dial l ...
This is the story of how one prime minister’s love of the sea connected him with a senior Rolex executive and inspired the gift of a Rolex Subm ...
Praesidus is one of the go-to names if you are looking for a vintage-inspired military watch. In a relatively short time, the brand has created a repu ...
It was a long wait for many of you (and us), but here it is ? the new Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch. We had the opportunity to go hands-on ...
Jorg probably doesn’t know this, but every time I see him walking into the office with a Unimatic on his wrist, I get a little more jealous. I� ...
Welcome back to another episode of Fratello On Air. This week, we’re asking what would make us buy a Cartier watch. It’s a good question ...
Some people just can?t get enough. Enough of the right logo, that is. ?Logo luxury? is still very much alive, no matter the attention ?quiet luxury? r ...
If you have ever looked closely at vintage watches, you will have surely come across radium lume. You probably know it was the prevalent luminescent m ...
We still don?t know what the Barrelhand Monolith will look like, but we know it will be special. The 3D-printed case, for instance, will feature the A ...
In this series called Exploring Evergreens, we review watches that have been around for over a decade ? or long enough to feel ubiquitous ? and ask ou ...
In 2021, Isotope launched its successful Hydrium collection of dive watches with the limited HydriumX Will Return model. Based on the well-known shop ...
I am fond of Cabot Watch Company, also known as CWC. It is a no-nonsense British watch brand that has focused on tool-watch designs since the early 19 ...
Welcome to another Sunday Morning Showdown here on Fratello. Please get yourself ready because today’s confrontation promises to be a good one. ...
Back in the first half of 2023, Ollech & Wajs informed us that a successor to the 1973 OW 8000 was coming. Even renders were available, but we love th ...
I’ve truly enjoyed my time with various Ming watches. I’ve purchased a handful of them and have always marveled at the attention to deta ...
Today, we go hands-on with a fairly wild G-Shock. The MTG-B2000YR Illumination City Limited Edition was released in late 2023 and is a colorful, featu ...
Another Friday, another Top 5! This time, we will continue where we left off last week and present even more great pre-owned options. In this mini-ser ...
March 9th is a big day for the now-well-known resurgence of British watchmaking. This particular date is set aside for a new event, the British Watchm ...
Cartier introduced three sizes of new Tank Must models in 2021. The Tank Must debuted in the 1970s, but we hadn’t seen any new models for years ...
Unless you have lived under a rock for the past three years, you know that the watch market has seen a huge influx of affordable GMT watches from vari ...
Until recently, I had never changed my opinion about the originality of a watch three times in the same week. But that happened when the intriguing Ga ...
Even without mentioning the name, if I tell you these watches have an all-polished 36 or 38.5mm case, Roman and Arabic numerals, a hand-wound movement ...
Are rising watch prices getting you down" Well, we’ve got good news for you. In this week’s episode of Fratello Talks, Nacho, Timo, and ...
Last October, during an event held in its hometown of Wetzlar, Germany, the camera manufacturer Leica announced the introduction of its latest watch. ...
As hunter-gatherers by nature, we humans have always liked collecting. And when it comes to collecting, one attribute has always stood out as desirabl ...
In this installment of Exploring Evergreens, I’ll take a look at the Omega Seamaster 120 ref. 168.1501. This was a mainstream model in Omegaâ� ...
Sometimes, adding a dial color can shine a new light on a watch. Both H. Moser & Cie. and MB&F have done just that. That’s why we’ll unp ...
In 2019, Omega introduced the hand-wound caliber 3861 in both Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary editions. Then, in 2020, the brand used it as the ...
What if you like the looks of the angular Zenith Defy Skyline with its 12-sided bezel, but the running 1/10th-of-a-second indicator on the dial makes ...
In this week’s episode of Fratello On Air, we ponder what’s wrong with the watch industry. Before you jump to conclusions, we’re ...
Pre-owned Grand Seiko quartz watches come with Rollie-beating Zaratsu-polished greatness at no extra cost. So, where?s the catch" There is none. I kno ...
The great thing about custom-made dials is that their inspiration is endless. The team at IFL Watches shows that time and again. For its latest pair o ...
In this installment of Back To Basics, I’ll go into typical mistakes that beginner watch collectors often make. These are the common pitfalls t ...
Even when something is objectively better, it could still be subjectively worse. I?m sure you can think of an example, be it cars, hi-fi equipment, bo ...
Approximately 180 years after the first Breguet pocket watch with a tourbillon, Breguet decided to put its founder’s famous invention into a wr ...
RZE is a brand that manages to impress me with every release. While not every one of the brand’s models might be right up my alley in terms of ...
Nivada Grenchen is one of those “rebirthed watch brand†success stories. Today’s story, however, comes from the 1950s. First founde ...
Welcome to another edition of Sunday Morning Showdown! With the smell of fresh coffee filling the room, it’s time for a battle of chronographs ...
If you are a fan of classic military watches, these are good times. We have seen quite a few brands bring back military watches from the past. The lat ...