This week on the aBlogtoWatch Weekly podcast, David is riding a horse through the Eurasian Steppe, so Ariel and Rick are joined once again by their friend Alex, a watchmaker and co-founder of the Fifth Wrist website and co-host of its companion podcast. Bidding opens on the Only Watch catalog, with the guys picking some highlights and…

Isotope has been delivering its Hydrium dive watch in many different guises, most recently with neon-green touches in the successful collaboration with seconde/seconde/. The series has generally been segmented into regular Hydrium models and the “X” models, which are a little more playful. The watch I’m going hands-on with today pays tribute to record freediver…

Bausele is one of those brands that has been around for some time and regularly shows up in social media feeds. But we have never covered any of the Australian brand’s watches here on Fratello. The Bausele Sydney Diver Black Pearl seems like a good place to start. For this limited-edition timepiece, Bausele founder Christophe…

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi film, so to celebrate, Fossil debuted a Star Wars line on May 4th — also known as Star Wars Day. The collaboration collection includes accessories, jewelry, and of course, watches. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Star Wars branded watches;…

It’s been a while since the second generation of Baltic’s HMS and Bicompax models came out — about three years, actually. In early 2020, Baltic released limited editions with salmon dials and, a few months later, regular production models with silver, black, and blue/gilt dials. So an update, if we should’ve expected one anyway, was…

A new film by Christopher Nolan is, more often than not, an event unto itself. His films always deliver for those of us who love the intersection of horology and cinema. In 2014, it was Interstellar and the Murph watch. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Nolan unleashed Tenet – and with it,…

If you don’t know what Barbenheimer is, let me get you up to speed: It’s quite literally a portmanteau of two highly anticipated summer movies: Barbie and Oppenheimer. It has since become a phenomenon, as it was created to represent the potential of seeing both films as a double feature. As it turns out, thousands…

Brands are always looking for interesting designs to create a dive watch that stands out from the sea of options that customers have. Whether it’s color, material, or function, we’ve seen it all. When it comes to affordable timepieces, and especially the done-to-death diver, the only thing that’s novel is how a brand combines and…