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.

Whenever I think of James Bond — any version of him — I don’t think about the watches he wears. Instead, I think about the watch that Ian Fleming was known to have worn, the Rolex Explorer ref. 1016. To me, the 1016 exemplifies versatility in an everyday watch. It was capable, small, and elegant. […]

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  Sponsored post presented on aBlogtoWatch for advertiser When you think about iconic American watch brands, one of the first that comes to mind is Hamilton — and with good reason. While the brand may boast Swiss Made chops now, its history is intrinsically linked to the story of American watchmaking. Founded in 1892 in […]

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