Welcome back to Bring A Loupe and to New York Winter Auction Weekend 2024! Same as we did for Geneva’s auctions last month, this expanded edition of Bring A Loupe will serve as your guide, wrapping up lots on offer between the three major auction houses and hitting on as many brands, price points, and…

Stockholm-based Nezumi Studios has been in business since 2011 and making affordable, traditionally designed watches since 2015. The focus is on sporty pieces, such as divers, GMTs, chronographs, and field watches. Now a new variant enters the collection. The Tonnerre Monochrome chronograph, with its classic color scheme, is sure to be a hit. Nezumi’s watches…

There are a few watches I’ll go out of my way to see any chance I get. A good number of those watches are made by Philippe Dufour, who will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest watchmakers of our era. And then there are the rarest of those, the Grande et Petite Sonneries.…

If your head is spinning from all the integrated-bracelet steel sports watches, then, first, we feel you, and, second, you might be relieved to hear Omega is rushing to your rescue with the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M watch in titanium and bronze gold that offers none of those things. It has no steel in it,…

For 2024, watchmaker Eberhard & Co. has released an interesting collection of watches known as the Chronographe 1887 family. The collection comprises a 250-piece limited edition and a non-limited version with an automatic (as opposed to manually wound) movement. Eberhard & Co. offers a few different dial colors for both the limited and standard-production model…

Last week, we organized an evening with Breitling at the brand’s impressive boutique in our hometown of The Hague, Netherlands. We invited a fairly large group of Fratelli to look at the current Breitling collection. But Fred Mandelbaum, our special guest, was also there, and he brought part of his extensive vintage Breitling collection. So…

Mühle Glashütte is known for its sporty and reliable timepieces. For 2024, the brand has big news with a brand-new line of watches. The Sportivo collection consists of three models made for sports, the office, and everywhere else. We’ll provide a brief overview of each release. The Mühle Glashütte Sportivo line includes a chronograph, GMT,…

In an apparent effort to freshen up on of its signature lines, Armin Strom has introduced a new edition of its Tribute 1. Don’t be mislead by the superscript two in the new model’s name: the brand is couching this new edition within the Tribute collection (at least on its website). So maybe it’s more…