What We Know The PanoMaticInverse from Swatch Group’s Glashütte Original has always been my favorite of their lineup – it’s a very clever take on the immediately recognizable off-center layout that stems from the German watchmaking town, with a very obvious twist – the movement is actually flipped over, where the back of the caliber…

If you ask someone to draw or describe the perfect dress watch, I’m sure it would look a lot like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin. Its classic case with elegantly sweeping lugs looks good on anyone’s wrist, and the dial is one of the cleanest and most legible in the industry. In short, it’s truly…

Time for a quiz. The image above shows you something that Ming things you’ve never seen before in the history of watches. It’s subtle, almost hard to believe, but it should be relatively easy to spot all the same. What’s the innovation? If you need a hint, look at the hands. Leave a guess down…

Starting a watch brand from scratch is quite a risky venture. First, you invest a lot of time in developing a design. Then, you need to find other parties who want to help you realize what you had in mind. Finally, you’re dependent on whether people actually want to buy what you created. Because of…

Whenever the Norwegian brand Straum unveils something new, we are all ears at Fratello. Most of you will know we love the brand and collaborated on the Fratello × Straum Jan Mayen Limited Edition. In a new adventure, brand founders Lasse Roxrud Farstad and Øystein Helle Husby created three special new dials for the much-praised…

2024 sees an interesting new member of the longstanding Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso family, known as the Reverso Tribute Monoface. In a lot of ways, the simple name of this Reverso collection says it all. First, the watch is part of the Reverso family — the profile makes that quite clear. Next, this watch is a tribute…

The Tudor Black Bay 58 GMT was one of the most commercially interesting releases of this year’s Watches and Wonders. Unlike most of the exotic Haute Horlogerie releases at the fair, this was a watch we might actually go out and buy. At the same time, it was such a long-awaited and aesthetically predictable watch…

Sternglas has come a long way since its first watch debuted in 2016. The earliest models were straightforward Bauhaus-styled watches. While this design still governs the brand’s offerings, straightforward dress watches no longer dominate the catalog. Today’s Merion diver is a good example of how Sternglas has expanded. When I recall my formative collecting years,…