The Gumball 3000 kicks off on September 14th in Saigon and culminates in Singapore on September 22nd. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the rally-style event that blends exotic cars, celebrities, and five-star treatment, and the Ulysse Nardin Freak X Gumball 3000 is the official watch for the event. If participants don’t purchase all…

As I write the first sentence of this article, summer has left us for this year. Here in the Netherlands, it’s the first of a seemingly long streak of days below 20° Celsius or 68° Fahrenheit. It is just as much a psychological adjustment as an actual meteorological one. As the sunlight changes, leaves start…

2024 sees the release of four new limited-edition Czapek Antarctique timepieces that, at a glance, can easily be mistaken as all the same watch. That’s because even though all of these watches feature steel Antarctique cases with aventurine glass dials, there are actually two case sizes and two dial styles available. Together, that makes for…

Rather than selling watches and products that other people have, popular social media account IFL Watches (with founder Karar Aimer coming from the watch industry) decided (wisely) that it needed something exclusive to sell. That led to a journey of watch modification where IFL Watches would create aftermarket customizations of popular inexpensive watches, mainly from…

The flyback function is arguably the epitome of technicality in sports watches, and it can be an expensive collection goal. Many of you will know the snap-quick function from Patek Philippe and über-horology from the likes of A. Lange & Söhne. However, as manufacturing techniques improve, so does the possibility of (comparatively) affordable flyback chronographs.…

Welcome to this latest episode of Fratello Talks. Does modern Rolex still have the magic? That’s the question that Nacho, RJ, and Thomas tackle today. There’s no question that modern Rolex watches are reliable, luxurious timekeepers. But for many enthusiasts and collectors, nothing quite comes close to the magic of the older four- and five-digit…

At the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City there sits a Rolex frozen in time. Its melted case sits next to a crumpled business card of Todd Beamer, an account manager at Oracle. Its second hand hasn’t ticked forward in 23 years and its date window simply reads “11.”  On September 11,…

Do you want to hunt with the hounds and run with the hare? In that case, Seiko has got you covered. What? Is that too cryptic for you? If you want an ultra-precise quartz watch that connects to GPS satellites circling the globe and takes its energy from light but looks like a traditional, mechanical…