Another Friday, another Top 5! This week, we return to highlighting some of the best watches of the first half of 2024. After already having discussed recently released dive watches, it’s now time to look at GMTs. With most people getting ready to travel for the summer holidays, this is a timely topic. We have…

This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by HSNY’s librarian, Miranda Marraccini. Will you be watching the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games starting in Paris next month? I’ve always been an Olympics super-fan, though I’m not sure why. Something about the international display of camaraderie, or perhaps the way…

It is that time of year again, though you would be hard-pressed to notice when looking out the window here in the Netherlands! In any case, summer is upon us, which means we are back with a new theme for our Fratello Favorites series. I get the honor of kicking off this round by sharing…

Although there’s no shortage of dual-crown “compressor” dive watches on the current market, very few of these designs actually meet the definition for compressor cases. The recently revived Sherpa brand is one of the exceptions to this rule, creating a series of rugged, capable divers based on ‘60s-era design principles created by EPSA that allow…

I dare say there wasn’t a single French Air Force pilot in the 1950s who could’ve foreseen a blue sky with pixelated white clouds in the sub-dials of his Type 20. Airain’s Tom van Wijlick, however, dared to do something different with one of the most iconic pilot’s watches of all time by contacting Romaric…

One million dollars is such a ridiculous amount of money to pay for a watch. Any watch. The clean, round number has always fascinated me; a while back, I wrote about what makes for a million-dollar watch at auction today. The truth is that all kinds of watches can sell for a million bucks. But…

Lately, Andrew Grima has become a buzzy name amongst the design-led watch cognoscenti. Even those who are only narrowly interested in watches from the ’70s will have likely heard the name. His contribution as an artist to the watchmaking metier was, well, atypical, to put it mildly. The late London-based artist and jeweler, whose clients…

Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch for an advertiser Tapping into its 1970s hit watch, Bulova has revived the Super Seville for a new generation of watch enthusiasts to enjoy. The seventies era was significant for watchmaking, marking a shift toward quartz technology to achieve never-before-seen precision. Bulova was a pioneer in the field then, and…