The year was 1957. Elvis was shaking up the airwaves waves, and the USSR was first out the gate in the Space Race, launching Sputnik 1 into low Earth orbit. Back on terra firma, Hamilton was making waves of its own, as the brand launched the first electric wristwatch, the Hamilton Ventura. With its bold […]

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The brand’s first 5 Hz Co-Axial movement features a unique and massively complex chiming chronograph complication.  

We see many new brands and releases at the Fratello offices, but it’s not often that watches make a great first impression. All too often, new releases are a take on familiar designs. This familiarity obviously creates comfort, but sometimes you want to see something a bit more surprising. When we received the first glimpses […]

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I’ve had the fortune of reviewing many generations of Maurice Lacroix Pontos watches, including dressier Pontos models and sportier Pontos S collection pieces. I think it is important to say that the Pontos family is more about market positioning and price, as opposed to any one design or visual theme. For this reason, Pontos watches […]

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The minute repeater is widely considered to be one of the most complex and difficult-to-produce complications in all of mechanical watchmaking. The process of creating a chiming mechanism to musically represent the current time is complex, expensive, and labor-intensive, and is usually reserved for the highest-end releases in a luxury brand’s repertoire. A rattrapante, or […]

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To state that “Omega did a thing” would not come close to doing these two new watches justice. But Omega most certainly did something big here indeed. Today, we see the fruits of the brand’s Project Colibri with the introduction of two watches that share the same brand-new movement. An extraordinary, complicated movement, in fact, […]

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The simple SBGX Series lets you ‘set it and forget it’ for 50 years.

And it’s the crown jewel in my collection of oddball watches.