Welcome all to a new year and a new season of Fratello Talks, your favorite watch podcast in the whole wide world. What should we expect from the world of watches in 2025? Nacho, RJ, and Lex share their predictions on today’s show. Some of these are wishful thinking, but others are educated guesses based…

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you celebrated in style last night! As you may know, every year, we recap all the Seiko and Grand Seiko releases we covered here on Fratello. Last week, we published an overview of all the 2024 Seiko releases we wrote about. This time, we’ll focus on the Grand Seiko…

Despite an impressively consistent run of solid releases in recent years, Longines remains something of a dark horse in the modern enthusiast landscape. For 2025, though, the brand seems intent on revamping its image to include a more contemporary, trendy feel, and to accomplish this Longines is ringing in the new year with a moody,…

With the new Ultra-Chron Carbon, Longines continues bolstering its already impressive lineup. Plus, the watch features the brand’s first-ever carbon fiber case. This is a beautiful dive watch with an outstanding movement. Longines reintroduced the stainless steel Ultra-Chron in 2022, and it was praised for its 36,000vph movement and design, which evokes the 1968 original.…

2025 is upon us at last, and as the world celebrates a brand new year there’s only one way we here at aBlogtoWatch know to ring in January – a new watch! We’ve partnered with Helicon to start the new year right, with a rugged vintage-styled dive watch companion to handle all the challenges 2025…

Talk about acquired taste. Root beer sure is. Its peculiar flavor comes from the sassafras tree. I like it, but others think it tastes like rusty water. The Rolex GMT-Master (II) “Root Beer” is like that too; you either love it or don’t. I’ve always been a fan of the watch. Although I’m usually not…

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