Welcome to another installment of Fratello On Air. This week, we respond to a listener’s request for a strap episode. Today’s show covers how to choose, which brands we enjoy, and pairing specific watches. Enjoy it! For our listeners, the watch content begins after approximately 21 minutes. There’s no other way to put it —…

What We Know To kick off the summer, Citizen Watches has launched its new UNITE with BLUE limited edition collection, featuring six new “Sea of Silence” models. The collection showcases deep blue dials inspired by the shimmering blue sea, using pigment-free ink with microstructures that create subtle color changes in response to light reflections, producing…

The Horological Society of New York’s award-winning classes are on the road again! HSNY is visiting Silicon Valley on June 21 and 22, 2025, hosted by Chopard and ISSIMI. At HSNY’s Horological Education classes, students discover what actually makes a watch tick under the guidance of the HSNY’s staff of professional watchmakers. Students work on…

The first taste of warm weather turns me into a schizophrenic watch collector, eschewing my love of neo-vintage, small-cased chic. I crave accessible and fun watches that cheer me up and double as a non-connected training buddy when I’m out on my gravel bike or jumping into a lake. Fun wristwear can still be fairly…

Jaeger-LeCoultre is a maker. Most obviously a watchmaker, yes, but in 2025, that word is thrown around to describe watch brands far too often, especially in direct comparison to JLC. We know the history, we know that JLC is “the watchmaker of watchmakers” — having supplied movements across the industry, sitting at the heart of…

The chairman of Cartier-owner Richemont is heaping praise on Swiss watchmakers who cut production in response to weak demand from China to avoid oversupplying the global market. Johann Rupert, who controls the Swiss-based luxury conglomerate that owns many brands including Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, and Panerai, says some of the biggest names in watchmaking have adjusted volumes…

Happy Friday, and welcome back to Bring A Loupe! We’re back to regularly scheduled programming with the Spring Geneva auction season wrapping up on Monday. The clear theme this week is chronographs. Maybe I’m just in a chronograph mood, or maybe it’s completely by accident—who’s to say? Speaking of schedule, there will be no Bring…

The revival and resurgence of Breitling since 2017 has been a serious business. Led by CEO Georges Kern, the private equity-backed company has vaulted itself back into the top 10 Swiss brands by sales, refocusing around heavyweight names in its collection, most notably the Navitimer, Chronomat, and Superocean models. For 2025, however, the less earnest…