I first crawled onto a shipwreck when I was 20 years old. I wasn’t a diver yet, but it was the most daring adventure I’d ever undertaken. The wreck, the 260-foot freighter Francisco Morazan, was half submerged, lying about 300 yards offshore from the uninhabited South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan. To get there, you…

Hey Guys, Ben here. You know, the guy who started this blog called Hodinkee. I thought it was time to check in with everyone because there’s been a lot said about this little company recently – some of it true, a lot of it not, and almost none of it by us. All this chatter…

Last weekend, it was exactly 55 years ago that the Apollo 11 crew turned the Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph into the Moonwatch. It may have actually been one of the first nicknames that a wristwatch ever received. As a watch enthusiast, you’ve probably heard the story of the Moonwatch a thousand times already. However, in…

Designing anything, including watches, is an iterative process. You move from one design to another, and every time, you get a bit closer to what you had in mind. I’m not a designer, but Emmanuel Dietrich, who founded the Dietrich brand in 2010, is. When you look at his previous designs, you can see that…

It’s one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century: A desolate shoreline stretches out to a glassy, featureless sea, a strange malformed animal lies washed up on the sand, and in the foreground, a bare-limbed tree grows impossibly out of a solid wooden block. Of course, I’ve omitted the most memorable part: Nearly…

Welcome to another episode of Fratello On Air. This week, we discuss watch bracelets and cover a wide range of subtopics about these important devices that fasten watches to our wrists. It’s another listener suggestion, and we hope you enjoy the show! For our listeners, the watch content begins after approximately 20 minutes. Watch bracelets…

You may have missed it, but last week would have marked Clive Cussler’s 93rd birthday. The famous adventure author wrote over 80 books and sold over 100,000,000 copies before passing away in 2020. Both Cussler and Dirk Pitt, his most famous protagonist, were known to wear Doxa watches. This spawned a fruitful relationship with the…

Please, come closer. It’s worth it. When you do, you can find that the movement inside the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Monotourbillon Titanium comprises 194 parts and features no fewer than 16 types of manual finishing. This results in a sophisticated and impressive watch that is both complicated and minimalistic; indeed, it is a paradox in…