It’s almost a wrap for 2023, a year loaded with new watch releases. After a turbulent past few years, the industry has gotten back on track. We witnessed new releases
It’s almost a wrap for 2023, a year loaded with new watch releases. After a turbulent past few years, the industry has gotten back on track. We witnessed new releases
Sunday Morning Showdown has become a Fratello tradition. Every Sunday morning, two Fratello writers go head to head, fiercely defending the timepieces of their choice. It’s become a favorite among
What does a 1960s skin diver have in common with a modern $500 diver? How about hiking and a quartz field watch or, better yet, Art Deco and a Flieger?
In previous “best watches released in…” lists, I favored the outliers — the fringe releases that need highlighting. I stand by all my watch picks from prior yearly roundups, so
Another Friday, another list! We have come to the last Friday of the year, so this will be the last Top 10 list in our 2023 roundup series. Today, we’re
There’s no doubt about it: the watch hobby is an expensive one. Buying a luxury watch easily sets you back a few grand or, potentially, a lot more than that.
Gilles Lipovetsky is a famous French philosopher of aesthetics who, while recently talking to Spanish newspaper El País, said the following: “Luxury used to be the rarest, most beautiful, and
Taking a watch meant to go into outer space and actually testing it there only seems logical, right? That’s exactly what the ambitious people at Fortis thought. It’s why they
In our #TBT series this year, we featured a quartz Breitling Colt, a unique design by Tian Harlan, and pleasingly original names like Telefoot. We highlighted never-before-seen complications like a
When it came to picking my entries for this Best Watches Of 2023 series, I decided to dig deep — far deeper than I did for a recent podcast with
Hello, and welcome to the last episode of Fratello Talks in 2023. Today, RJ, Lex, and your host Nacho are here to discuss their personal, professional, and horological highlights of
Last week, we created an overview of all the Seiko releases we covered in 2023. It only makes sense to follow that up with an overview of the Grand Seiko
Several specialized manufacturers are currently hard at work producing the parts for the samples of my VPC Type 37HW. Everything we have worked on over the past year is coming
We all make choices every day. Most of us, however, probably don’t decide to buy a luxury watch all that often. So when you do, you’d better think it through
Just before Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped up the ladder of the lunar model to leave the Moon at 5:34 GMT on December 14th, 1972, he did something that