On February 1st, Fratello published the second chapter dedicated to Breitling’s Then & Now Pop-Up Museum in Zurich. Today, we come to the final chapter, featuring Breitling’s third universe — landborne watches. As mentioned in the previous chapters, under Georges Kern’s leadership, Breitling has returned to the three universes of Air, Land, and Sea with…

I’ve come to really admire the aesthetics of wristwatches with engraved cases. This concept is hardly new, with timepieces going back hundreds of years featuring various types of machine or hand-engraving decoration. guilloché -style engraving is one of the most time-honored decorative techniques on watch dials, cases, and even movements. Engraving is a wonderful way…

Once again, we find ourselves with an article by yours truly on an IWC. Oh well, I’ve bought another vintage watch from International Watch Company Schaffhausen. It’s starting to become a bit of a running joke. This time, though, I haven’t gone for steel. Instead, I bought my very first gold watch. I seem to…

This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, the guys get into the big vocab quickly, with Ripley identifying the routine clap-in as “vestigial.” Yeah, like an appendix! But Rick likes it, and traditions die hard, so we don’t anticipate the clap-in going anywhere. Rick, David and Ripley are waiting to see whether or not Ariel, fresh back…

The TAG Heuer Formula 1 was bright, colorful, and exceedingly popular when it debuted in 1986 – but its true origin story has never been told. In a conversation with vintage Heuer enthusiast Jeff Stein, Eddy Burgener, who designed the watch, reveals to us the surprising backstory of how the Formula 1 got its colors,…

Happy Friday, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! With Watches and Wonders kicking off next week, today’s article will be your last dispatch from the land of vintage, for now. We’ll be skipping our weekly column next Friday amidst the madness. If anything amazing pops up on eBay or elsewhere, I’ll be sure to…

When CITIZEN released the first titanium watch in 1970 — the X-8 Chronometer — it would set in motion a material evolution not just for the brand but also for the industry. Fast forward 55 years, and the strong, lightweight material is ubiquitous, available at every price point. For CITIZEN, the original achievement more than…

One of last year’s biggest horological surprises for me was the Singer Divetrack, an incredible piece of engineering and design by Singer Reimagined founder Marco Borraccino. But I also quickly realized that its price of CHF 85,000 meant I could only admire it from a distance. That’s fine; I don’t need to own everything I…