The year 2024 marks a century since the introduction of the world’s first Citizen watch. To celebrate this significant milestone, Citizen has taken a curated selection of 100 watches, split into 12 design categories, from its over-6,000-watch archive on tour. Its first stop was in Tokyo before moving on to New York, and now the…

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There have been a lot of watch events lately, a testament to the strength of the watch community amid all the talk of a market downturn. But vintage watch fairs – where the public can buy some of the truly great and rare stuff – are still not as common. Sure, there’s a circuit of…

Even if I do favor the cool expressions of indie brands, the majority of my watches are traditional. But my €2K Otsuka Lotec got the strongest reaction I’ve ever seen at Geneva Watch Days this year. As usual, I was trying to wear an inoffensive but interesting watch. I didn’t want it to clash with…

In the summer of 2024, aBlogtoWatch helped to launch the new Gaga Laboratorio brand. Since then, I have had the chance to check out the brand’s debut Labormatic watches and interview the creative mind behind Gaga Laboratorio, designer and artist Mo Coppoletta. Gaga Laboratorio is an interesting brand concept that is only starting to take…

Raymond Weil struck gold with the Millesime, a vintage-inspired watch that won a GPHG award. Belgian comics artist Philippe Francq (1961) also received praise and awards with his Largo Winch series of comic books. The titular character, a Yugoslavian adventurer whose birth name was Largo Winczlav, first appeared in 1990. Since then, 24 graphic novels…

I must confess that I don’t care much about chronographs. But Raymond Weil may have just won me over. It’s not that I don’t admire chronographs, but rather that I’ve never really been compelled to spend any measurable sum of money on one (much less an immeasurable sum). I’ve owned two or three, ever. One…

Welcome back to another episode of Fratello On Air! This week, your hosts discuss the vintage watches currently tickling their collective fancies. Before that, though, there’s plenty of banter about sneakers and watches. For your convenience, watch content starts after 20 minutes. Vintage watches are some of our favorites. We’re always looking and thinking about…