In true Watches and Wonders tradition, Patek Philippe graced us with a string of new introductions. The Genevan brand unveiled 14 new wrist watches and a unique desk clock this year. Among them, there are always standouts. The big release for this year was not a highly complicated timepiece or a new addition to the…

What started as an apparent side project to the meteoric rise of the Black Bay has become an increasingly varied and interesting line of modern dive watches from Tudor. Of course, I’m talking bout the Pelagos. And whether you pronounce it Pel-uh-gose or Puh-lah-gose, the line has evolved into myriad versions, including some that can’t…

What We Know If you know G-Shock lore, you know that the “father of G-Shock,” Mr. Kikuo Ibe, pursued his shock-resistant design for the now iconic watch with a simple rubber ball prototype in the early 1980s. The first commercial model, the DW-5000C, released in 1983, deviated significantly from that spherical concept. Still, as G-Shock…

What We Know Just last month, Raúl Pagès launched his second production timepiece in the Raúl Pagès RP2, itself a long-awaited sequel to his detente escapement RP1. Now, the independent watchmaker is back to something a lot more (relatively) accessible with Massena LAB in the Noctograph limited edition. The Noctograph is Massena LAB’s third collaboration…

The Edox Grand Ocean collection has been around for a while, but the Swiss brand has recently put new energy into its hybrid sport/dress timepiece collection. I got to review a slew of the new 40mm-wide Edox Grand Ocean Power Reserve Automatic watches, and came away pleasantly surprised on several fronts. The Grand Ocean certainly…

Welcome to another episode of Fratello On Air. This week, we cover the latest news on watches and other subjects. We discuss the 250th Anniversary of Breguet and several other high-end brands. It was a relatively quiet week on the watch front, but there were still releases and news. Breguet released its first anniversary model,…

Leave it to brands to find excuses to launch celebratory limited editions. Most of the time, the celebrated milestones feel contrived at best. Not so with Vacheron Constantin. After all, if you have been in the business—continuously, I might add—for 270 years, you truly have something to celebrate. The brand has embraced the festive mood,…

Montblanc began making watches in 1997, but in reality, the brand’s watchmaking history runs a lot deeper. In 2007, the noted penmaker purchased Minerva, a revered Swiss manufacture founded in 1857. Since then, complicated pieces have carried the famous name on the movement and, at times, on the dial. Today’s 1858 Geosphere Annual Calendar Limited…