The Phillips “TOKI: Watch Auction,” for which Hodinkee Japan serves as the media partner, will be held alongside the “Hong Kong Watch Auction XIX” starting November 22, 2024. This is the auction house’s first themed auction focused on Japanese watch collecting, gathering watches that reflect the unique Japanese sense of beauty and watch-collecting culture.  The…

What do you do when your movement supplier jacks up its minimum order quantity from 300 to 10,000? If you’re microbrand phenom Studio Underd0g, you’ve got two choices: You discontinue your first and most successful collection or you take a big gulp and sign on the dotted line. Neither of those is appealing, but it…

Since Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly founded Collective Horology in 2018, the company has become known as one of the leading US-based retailers of watches from independent brands. But Collective has also collaborated with several brands on an impressive number of limited editions. For its tenth collaborative effort, Collective teamed up with Zenith again for…

What We Know The first time we covered Collective Horology, it was a private watch club based in Silicon Valley, composed primarily of members in the Silicon Valley tech sector, as they debuted their first collaboration – a limited edition with Zenith that took the standard 38mm El Primero Chronomaster and stripped down the color…

After a two-week hiatus, Fratello On Air returns with an episode about how we research watches before buying. This is a listener suggestion that likely comes from the southern USA. We know this because the message contained the word “y’all.” Well, giddyup because it’s time to discuss our top tips. For our listeners, the watch…

The development of great watches often feels like a top-down affair, with big brands inducing demand by coming up with watches the watch public didn’t know it needed. Rattrapante hands, foudroyante complications, and soda-themed bezels often fit nicely in the category of “things nobody asked for,” yet manage to sell for other reasons beyond their…

At the end of 2023, Speedmaster enthusiast @watchstick_81 organized a GTG for approximately 20 enthusiasts (you can find the photo report here). At this year’s edition, no fewer than 51 Speedmaster collectors showed up, many with their collections in tow. It was the first year that we at Fratello didn’t host a Speedy Tuesday event…

What We Know The launch of the Reverso Tribute Chronographs in steel and pink gold were one of the highlights of Watches & Wonders 2023, and Jaeger-LeCoultre has just released a new limited edition – still in pink gold – that seeks to upgrade the original idea. Now, with the case, dial, and movement bridges…