Before moving to London, I was forced to admire the Horage brand from afar. In the last year, though, I’ve seen several pieces in the metal at various events. They’re impressive and funky and compete against watches that are often boring. Plus, Horage focuses on innovative movements at fair prices. The new DecaFlux is an…

Based in Glasgow, Paulin is the more affordable sibling company of fellow Scottish watch brand anOrdain, and a colorful design-focused aesthetic plays a constant theme throughout many of its creations. For its latest release of 2025, Paulin has teamed up with Chicago-based designer Crystal Zapata, who has worked with everyone from Apple to Nike, and…

The unofficial mission of Citizen’s longstanding Attesa collection is to make a sexy, high-technology watch. Since the Japanese company introduced the Attesa in the late 1980s, it has been a higher-end (though still accessible) range of timepieces meant to incorporate as many of the prolific company’s innovations (including hardware and materials) as possible. That has…

Integrated-bracelet sports watches have been and still are a very popular genre among watch enthusiasts. And even though it’s a slightly more recent trend, GMT watches are also in high demand. That’s probably why Benoît Mintiens, the designer and founder of Ressence, decided to combine the two in one watch. We assume it’s a way…

What We Know In 15 years of making watches, Ressence has always managed to stay outside of common watch industry trends. This is no surprise, given that founder Benoît Mintiens has given the brand’s watches a systematic and instantly recognizable (to a watch nerd, at least) design language. So what happens when the brand releases…

This morning in Phuket, Thailand, Louis Vuitton, under the direction of Jean Arnault, announced its second watch in a five-part collaboration with some of the greatest living independent watchmakers. This time, the brand has tapped Kari Voutilainen for a watch that blends horological prowess with artistry. The result is the LVKV-02 GMR 6, a direct-impulse,…

When Zenith first introduced this black-dial version of the Chronomaster Original in September 2023, it felt like a déjà vu. At first glance, it immediately felt like a dial variant that the brand would have released in the early ’70s. We know that didn’t happen, but here we are, 50+ years later, with a dial…

Simply put, not all complications are created equal. In today’s episode of Fratello Talks, we discuss many of these horological elements adjacent to a watch’s most essential time-telling function. Nacho, Thomas, and Lex begin by defining terms before listing their favorite complications and ending up with some they don’t like so much. They also discuss the…