As a brand that primarily creates timepieces for law enforcement, first responders, and military personnel, ProTek approaches watchmaking from a function-forward mentality. Back when the company first started, its sole focus was on ultra-rugged quartz watches with tritium-tube luminous displays. However, for its most recent release of 2024, ProTek introduced an automatic version of its…

They say money can’t buy you happiness, but pretty much everything else is for sale — especially when you have super deep pockets. LVMH stepping into Formula 1 in 2025 for a rumored annual sum of US$150 million is proof of that. Rolex has sponsored the biggest motorsport circus on Earth since 2011. Initially, the…

Since the brand’s founding in 2018, Norqain has built a robust lineup of modern, sporty watches. Customers like the attention to detail, expensive looks, and relatively affordable entry points. At Fratello, we’ve followed this journey by covering many of the latest releases. Today, we continue this by looking at the Norqain Independence Skeleton Chrono 42mm…

Sometimes, watches seem predestined to be worn on either a bracelet or a specific strap. It’s almost a no-brainer, especially for sports watches with integrated bracelets. Straum’s Jan Mayen is one of those watches. The Norwegian brand’s popular modern sports watch is often praised for its brilliant design. A big part of that design is…

Rolex has come with a different kind of release: a book. Oyster Perpetual Submariner – The Watch That Unlocked The Deep is a new 252-page book in partnership with publisher Wallpaper* and authored by Nicholas Foulkes.  Rolex says that Submariner is a “wide-ranging account of the Submariner,” chronicling the entire history of the model introduced in…

My final appointment, if you can call it that, during a whirlwind 48 hours at Geneva Watch Days was an impromptu meeting over beers with young German watchmakers Johannes Kallinich and Thibault Claeys on a patio overlooking Lake Geneva. The young watchmakers were sitting with JX Su (Watches by SJX) and called me over to…

An opisometer is a small instrument with a tiny gear wheel integrated into its edge that you run along a surface to measure the length of curved lines on topographic maps, charts, schemes, and plans. It’s also called a map measurer, meilograph, or curvimeter, and believe it or not, someone made it into a watch…

The Singer Reimagined DiveTrack is one of the most interesting, impressive, and overbuilt watches I’ve ever seen. Yes, the watch is far too expensive ($98,000) to be a practical dive watch. It’s also not as accurate or as useful as a dive computer. I struggle to imagine a person who would find it (at 49mm…