MeisterSinger goes down creative new paths and presents a line with 35 millimeter slender cases at Baselworld One can recognize MeisterSinger watches at first glance. Not only because of their single hour hand and the continuous double-digit hour markers. Because they are all bound to the same aesthetic ideal, they also resemble one another in […]
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Last year in October, I traveled to Japan to join the Seiko Media Experience 2015 tour with 6 other journalists (a.o Jason Heaton, from the Grey Nato, Thomas Wanka from Uhren Magazine and James Buttery from Watch Pro). It was a trip to remember and I decided to report about this trip in three separate articles. Part […]
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Introducing the TWCO Salvage Diver. After Sea Rescue a Salvage operation will automatically follow, two of a kind and they just belong together in a maritime search and rescue environment. And now . . . . . it’s time for SALVAGE! The development & introduction of this Salvage Diver was only logical and a welcome addition […]
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By the Pair As our host with the most Mike Stockton is busy with other things this week, I’m going to take over his world famous #TBT to bring you yet another amazing time piece from a brand that failed victim to the quartz crisis; Angelus. A good few months ago when I did a “guest […]
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Today, the 27th of April is King’s Day in the Netherlands. King Willem-Alexander van Oranje celebrates his birthday and therefore I will show some watches that have a bit of orange (oranje) in them. King Willem-Alexander is also a big fan of watches, and you might even see him wearing an Omega Speedmaster once in […]
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A few Speedy Tuesdays ago, we showed you the new Omega Speedmaster Moonphase Co-Axial Master Chronometer collection, except for the version in platinum. This limited edition of 57 pieces only (referring to 1957, the founding year of the Speedmaster collection), with a case made of platinum, using red liquidmetal(tm) for its bezel and has a platinum […]
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Did you ever wonder what goes into the construction of a watch case, and in particular a watch case made of high tech materials like carbon fiber? We visited the Hublot carbon-case manufacturing workshop in Gland, Switzerland to find out. Carbon fiber and a closely related material, Texalium, turn out to be devilishly hard to […]
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When the watch craze begun for me, somewhere in the 1990’s, I met with a watchmaker (who I became friends with) who had this interest in Zenith’s El Primero chronograph movements. Oh, and gold watches. He showed me his Zenith El Primero Chronomaster with full calendar in gold and I was sold. Every time I see […]
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It is amazing what JC Biver from Hublot accomplished in the past decade or so. Of course, his track record goes much further than Hublot (think Blancpain and Omega for example). Today he manages Hublot and the success he had with the brand is also being applied to TAG Heuer and Zenith. However, those two […]
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This week’s #TBT focuses on a model from brand that’s finally getting some long overdue attention: the Gallet Multichron 45. Here on Fratello Watches, we’ve had a couple articles on Gallet – and more are coming – but I’ve mainly had my attention on the larger 3-register Multichrons (Gallet’s name for their chronographs). Today, though, […]
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1997, 21 years after the introduction of the Patek Philippe Nautilus stainless steel sports watch, Patek Philippe introduced a new watch aimed at a younger clientele: the Aquanaut. Now, in 2016, almost 20 years later, they introduce a new variation on the Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time, a watch that was introduced in 2011: It is the reference […]
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It was the first time that we actually received a couple of requests to feature this CK2998 on Speedy Tuesday. I already mentioned the Omega Speedmaster CK2998 in this article from a few weeks ago, but that was before BaselWorld started and we didn’t had the opportunity to play with the watch. Although the watch […]
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During the SIHH 2016 in January, IWC showed us a range of new Pilot models – or upgrades of existing models. One of the models that received a lot of attention was the IWC Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph 3950. Although I love the clean designed IWC Mark XVIII, Mark VIII Le Petite Prince edition, Big […]
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Last week we told you that our contributor Teun van Heerebeek will exhibiting his art work during the Salon 0024 in Amsterdam from April 29th to May 1st (more information here). Salon 0024 is offering 5 free tickets for our readers (value: €25 Euro). The only thing you have to do to get these tickets […]
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Our friends from Lebois & Co are very eager to start with their 2nd version of the Avantgarde Date (click here for specs), with stunning blue dial. With only few days left to finish the funding process via Kickstarter, let’s ask co-founder Tom van Wijlick a few questions. This is your second Kickstarter campaign. How […]
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Although the new ceramic Rolex Daytona 116500 and Explorer 214270 got most attention from this year’s novelties from ‘Das Haus’, the new 40mm Rolex Yacht-Master 116621 – or Yacht-Master 40 as they refer to it themselves – is definitely worth checking out as well. I’ve been a long-time fan of the Rolex Yacht-Master and had a […]
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From April 29th till May 1st, our friends from 0024 WatchWorld are hosting the Dutch Salon 0024 event in Amsterdam. This new event will be held at the InterContinental Amstel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On Friday the 29th, the doors open at 12:00 and close at 21:00. On Saturday and Sunday, the Salon 0024 starts […]
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In this week’s #TBT, we take a look at an absolute classic, but one that’s decidedly niche in its execution: the Breitling 809 Cosmonaute. The Cosmonaute is certainly one of the brand’s better known models, but that’s likely due to its familial resemblance to one Breitling’s most famous creations: the Navitimer. Today, we’ll explore the […]
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Straps By now, you’ve likely read every article about all the latest releases from BaselWorld 2016. I will not introduce any brand’s novelties in this article but instead will focus on something we tend to look over during all the hype that surrounds us during the fair. This month’s Watch Strap Review will be a […]
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We receive quite a number of e-mails regarding the Speedmaster and some of them show great resemblance. We decided to pick an e-mail / question about Speedmasters from our mailbox once in a while and answer them on the website. So, let’s have a look at the question from our reader here: Which Modern Speedmaster […]
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I already shared my thoughts on this year’s BaselWorld show a few weeks ago (in this article) where I briefly mentioned Chronoswiss. Like many other brands, Chronoswiss grabbed back to one of their original models: the Régulateur. However, Chronoswiss restructured their collection of watches and uses two pillars: Sirius and Timemaster. These names were used […]
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After the Baselworld storm and some other side projects calmed down, I found some time to work on this tasty episode. This time we zoom in on one of the biggest and most bespoke watches of the flower-power seventies: Breitling 1806 Navitimer., a.k.a Fried Egg. To me it’s more a gigantic pan with two fried eggs: […]
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Even in those early days of watch blogs (we’re here since 2004!), when a lot of brands didn’t even want to put us on their mailinglists of press releases, Linde Werdelin was already a bit different from the others. They understood the influence of on-line media and were very early with having an on-line boutique […]
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I suppose that I could be faulted for featuring the rather newish Rolex GMT-Master II 16710 in a #TBT article, but I’ll live with it. I’ve covered a couple newer pieces in this series such as the Rolex Explorer 14270 and, more recently, the IWC Mark XII, so I’m more on the side of featuring what […]
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The last time we covered an article on (Jorg) Hysek was in 2008, which doesn’t do the man as an artist and designer, nor the brand HYSEK justice. Jorg Hysek was born in Berlin in 1953 and emigrated to Switzerland in 1960. After graduating from the Central School of Art in London, and spending four […]
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It’s Speedy Tuesday and I could just rant and rave about the newly introduced Speedmaster Grey Side of the Moon with meteorite dial (introduced here) or I could involve the new and much appraised Rolex Daytona 116500LN with ceramic bezel in this article. Let’s go with the latter, to add a bit of punch. The Rolex […]
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We say this every year, but it bears repeating; Sinn is one of our favorite brands. The German company makes great looking, high quality watches that are equipped with loads of innovation and, yet, they manage to price their timepieces on the right side of rational. We always have a great experience meeting with them […]
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Zenith: An exclusive visit to the manufacture, where Zenith’s director of movement development shows important construction details. Zenith developed a special complicated watch to celebrate its 150th Anniversary, the Georges Favre Jacot timepiece which is equipped with a fusee and chain constant force system. Zenith traces the roots of this watch to its development of […]
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Today, I’ll provide a brief plug for something I’ve really grown to enjoy: The Grey NATO. It’s funny, when you move to a foreign country (for me, it was the USA to Germany about four years ago), you gradually let go of certain things from your homeland. This is especially true when it comes to […]
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Last year we reported about the launching of Angelus. The brand as we know it in the vintage market is the equivalent of extremely high quality with in-house movements and historically significant pieces. Some if you might remember the #TBT I did a few months back on my vintage Angelus 215 L.E. and I’m happy to say that more vintage heat from Angelus is in the pipeline. This time however, I’d like to talk to you about their 2016 novelties. Bert and I paid them a visit and had a look at their collection. Direction of Angelus Since the re-launch […]
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