It’s Friday, welcome back to Bring A Loupe! The vintage watch world eagerly awaits Geneva’s November auctions, set to start in just two weeks. In the meantime, let’s stick to eBay, ShopGoodwill.com, and smaller auction houses in the UK for Bring A Loupe picks to hold us over. To report on results from previous BAL…

Another Friday, another list! After last week’s Patek Philippe Nautilus list, it’s time to move on to Rolex. This week, we jump into the world of the vintage models that came before the iconic watches we know today. Some have the same cases and dials with one simple difference: the famous names we know today…

The new Berneron Mirage 34 joins last year’s 38mm models in the small brand’s growing lineup. As we’ll see, these aren’t simply downsized editions. Each model showcases a stone dial and a new caliber. Hint: these are my favorite watches of this year so far. Sylvain Berneron is the name behind the eponymous brand he…

Romaric André, aka seconde/seconde/, is a busy man these days. I have barely recovered from the Christopher Ward Desk Diver, and now he is back with a collab with Spinnaker. It goes to show that the often snobby watch world is looking for some lighthearted fun. Well, lighthearted fun is what we get today! This…

The Electricianz was born out of the SevenFriday watch craze (literally a co-founder split off to form this brand) and represents an interesting niche in the enthusiast timepiece space that is difficult to define. SevenFriday introduced the idea that a designer timepiece could be wildly designed and novel, with a youthful playfulness and fantasy element…

Take a look at your bookcase, and tell me if you have a copy of one of the following books — The Three Musketeers, The Jungle Book, Robinson Crusoe, The Call of the Wild, The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, Robin Hood, Treasure Island, or anything by Jules Verne, like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.…

The U.S. market is becoming increasingly important to the Swiss watch industry and, for the first time, Americans may even find the oldest brands in the world starting to cater directly to them. A few years back, at WatchTime NY, a U.S. brand president from a fairly large Swiss brand told me that roughly 20%…

Originally launched in 2020 as the brand’s new entry-level lineup, the Breitling Endurance Pro is a lightweight quartz chronograph that is specially designed for athletes. With a practical set of features that can be used for a variety of sports and fitness applications, the Endurance Pro represents a versatile horological canvas, and last year in…