This Watches and Wonder 2025, Raymond Weil unveiled the Freelancer Skeleton (ref. 2795-BKC-20000) with the kind of fanfare you’d expect from someone announcing a new show on a streaming service… but forgetting to upload the trailer. It’s a sleek, openworked spin on the brand’s modern-meets-classic Freelancer line — and while there’s plenty to like here,…

Welcome back to a special episode of Fratello On Air! This week, we bring you a compilation of recordings from Watches and Wonders 2025. We patched together several segments and even had a guest! Enjoy this inside look at the world’s largest watch event. Watches and Wonders 2025 may be over, but it’s still fresh…

Last year, Anoma founder Matteo Violet-Vianello launched his first watch, the A1. The triangular timepiece earned quite some hype on social media, and he sold many A1s to the lucky people who pre-ordered one. A few weeks ago, Matteo presented the Anoma A1 Slate, a refined version of the same watch with a brushed, engraved,…

In the mix of big launches from Watches and Wonders and non-affiliated brands dropping a lot of great product, one thing that flew under the radar was the release of two new versions of the F.P.Journe’s widely beloved manually-wound extra-thin dress watch to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the model, the Chronomètre Souverain Collection Boutique.…

The Chief Executive Officer of TAG Heuer says the brand is taking a prudent approach to producing new timepieces linked to its return as the official timekeeping sponsor of Formula 1. Antoine Pin, who took over the top job in September last year, expressed optimism that the decade-long, multi-brand, sponsorship deal struck by parent LVMH…

Last fall, Michael Tay and the retailer The Hour Glass put together what was likely history’s largest community event dedicated to independent watchmaking. IAMWATCH, held in Singapore, featured a who’s who of indie masters and rising stars. The likes of Max Büsser, Kari Voutilainen, Rexhep Rexhepi, Rémy Cools, Petermann-Bedat, Jean-Claude Biver, and more held casual…

For quite some time, Urwerk has sat at the vanguard of the avant-garde, delivering timepieces that are as modern as they are jaw-dropping. In the past few years, my attraction to the brand’s timepieces has waned. They had taken on a look that was too utilitarian for my taste, almost Fallout-esque in their appearance, and…

Watches and Wonders 2025 has left us, but did it leave an impression? The simple answer is “yes.” This was a much better show than the 2024 rendition. Proper new releases came to Geneva and, overall, we left feeling satisfied. Without further ado, here are my picks for the best watches from the show. Patek…