Time flies when you’re having fun! It has been a full two years since I set off on an adventure to build my dream watch, the VPC Type 37HW. Fratello offered me the fantastic opportunity to chronicle and share the journey with you all. Today, after having fulfilled all preorders, I would like to finish…

Regulator watches are not often the first, second, or third pick for a collection. The watches with a large central hand to indicate the minutes and smaller sub-dials to display the hours and seconds are an acquired taste. This non-coaxial configuration might seem odd initially, but quickly enough, you will get used to reading the…

What We Know In October, Oris introduced a new ‘Divers Date’ line as it approached the 60th anniversary of one of its core modern collections – the Divers Sixty-Five – and cleaned up the quirkiness of the design for the modern era. Meant as the modern spiritual successor to the Divers Sixty-Five series released a…

In 1965, 61 years after Paul Cattin and Georges Christian founded the company, Oris revealed one of its most iconic models, the Oris Divers. Then, five decades later, it took the form of a heritage reissue called the Divers Sixty-Five. Today, it’s time to celebrate the original’s diamond jubilee with the presentation of the Oris…

What We Know Omega has dropped an “out of this world” update (sorry, I really couldn’t resist the pun) to the Omega Speedmaster Moonphase, now with a meteorite dial and lunar meteorite cabochons for the moon phases, showing both the northern and southern hemisphere moons. But it’s not just a visual overhaul. The watch comes…

Here we go with the Speedmasters. Omega has dropped an entirely new Speedy today, introducing two new moonphases, with new handwound movements, a double moon display, and meteorite dials. The Omega Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite watches set themselves as the most wearable and perhaps the most attractive Speedmastyer Moonphase models available now. These are not the…

Anyone who has even briefly dipped their toes into the secondary watch market knows that buying a watch outside the AD environment has long been mired in uncertainty, cumbersome buying and selling processes, and even fraud. Bezel, one of the leading online watch markets, has already taken a lot of that uncertainty away with an…

The International Watch & Jewelry Guild, “IWJG,” if you’re in the know, is comprised of over 8,400 members from 77 countries around the world. Per iwjg.com, it is “the world’s most active central exchange for acquiring, buying, selling and trading fine watches; vintage, collectible timepieces, estate jewelry, and important diamonds.” Per me, IWJG shows are…