Hello, and welcome, folks, to Fratello Talks. Germany’s most prestigious watch brand has turned 30 (again) this year! So today, in honor of three decades of watchmaking from its seat in Glashütte, we’re talking all about A. Lange & Söhne. Now, some of you may be thinking: “Wait, Lange has only been around since the…
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The Porsche 911 is to cars what the Rolex Daytona is to watches – a perfectly composed, sternly planted, and rigorously over designed product that has come to define an entire category. And to that end, each can end up appearing desperately uninteresting, as friends, colleagues, and journalists further its ubiquity. Hell, there’s a case…
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It occurred to me as a fresh-hot slick of oil dribbled down my elbow that I probably shouldn’t be wearing a watch. “A hundred-fifty meters water-resistant,” I grumbled, backing out the drain plug until hot oil fed the basin in a fine black stream. “Sure hope so.” The author, his Seiko 7002, and a few…
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Last month, I attended the 2024 outing of the Audrain Newport Concours as a guest of A. Lange & Söhne to experience Rhode Island’s premiere automotive event. As part of the festivities, I had the chance to tour the lawn of The Breakers – the fabulous Gilded Age estate where they park all the wonderful…
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While I’ve recently been finding myself suffering from collaboration fatigue, I’m actually a big fan of the concept on a fundamental level, and when done properly, a well-considered collaboration can make the familiar feel unfamiliar, while simultaneously existing in two separate worlds. For its latest release of 2024, Zenith has teamed up with the boutique…
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This week on the SUPERLATIVE Podcast, host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined once again by Dr. Sébastien Chaulmontet, the owner of Albishorn Watches and a prominent figure in the watchmaking industry. Ariel and Sébastien jump right into the emotional connections designers have with their creations and the challenges of originality in a market…
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The shape of the case and bracelet on Czapek’s Antarctique has remained unchanged since its introduction in 2020. There are versions in stainless steel, gold, and titanium, for example, but they all share the same attractive and popular integrated construction. The Antarctique’s dial, on the other hand, seems more like a blank canvas that gets…
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Given that dive watches were originally created as underwater timing tools, the concept of a luxury diver would have been somewhat of an oxymoron during the 1950s. However, dive watches have since transcended their tool-oriented origins, and you will now find a wide variety of highly opulent divers, which are firmly positioned as luxury offerings…
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