Over the past few years, the young independent Italian brand Venezianico has built a cult following for its impressive finishing, moderate pricing, and firm devotion to a lush, distinctly Venetian visual language. This last point has ranged from a penchant for traditional Venetian aventurine glass to ornately carved dials depicting the city’s Renaissance masterpieces, but…

If 100 people were asked about the first words that come to mind when “Audemars Piguet” is spoken, I wager that almost all would respond with “Royal Oak.” That signals how popular Gérald Genta’s groundbreaking 1972 design has become. However, before this and even after the Royal Oak was released, Audemars offered a very different…

Last Thursday evening, fellow watch writer Griffin Bartsch and I were leaving one of the many events happening before the highly-anticipated weekend of WindUp and WatchTime, and we passed through Times Square on our way to the subway. Long jaded by the MoonSwatches sitting in a briefcase behind the towering glass windows of the Swatch…

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…