Today marks a special day, not only is it the birthday of my beautiful daughter, it is also the fourth anniversary of our Speedy Tuesday feature and the 70th birthday and the last working day of Stephen Urquhart, CEO of Omega. Stephen Urquhart was born May 31st 1946 in Trinidad and has both Swiss and British nationality (Scottish […]
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Love watches? Consider yourself a watchnerd all the way? Then, the guys over at Ace Jewelers have something for you to show the world you are a true #watchnerd. These caps, produced by the Danish State of Wow brand, have #watchnerd on the front and ‘I like to watch’ on the back. The hashtag watchnerd […]
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Probably not as unexpected as the Citizen – Frederique Constant takeover, nevertheless interesting. After being absent for approximately 10 years Swatch decided to revive the POP-Swatch. No less than 9 different models are introduced, from black & white to fluorescent colours and many shades of that in between. The original POP-Swatch was introduced in 1986, […]
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Eterna is proud to present its new Super KonTiki Chronograph, the latest in a long line of iconic KonTiki timepieces that embody the thrill of adventure and the reliability of Eterna’s watchmaking savoir-faire. With the in-house 3916A flyback chronograph calibre, the new Super KonTiki Chronograph continues a voyage that started almost 60 years ago, seducing […]
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Shkira Another month another Watch Strap Review. For May I have a really cool company lined up for you. We add yet another country to the ever-growing list of places we virtually visit to search for the best strap makers around. The place we are having our latest craftsman from is the picturesque city of […]
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Today on #TBT we’ll talk about a watch that’s become a real easy “go to” piece – one that looks good with just about everything because it looks so good – the Hamilton 600 diver. Hamilton is a brand I like to feature because of its historic link to Lancaster, Pennsylvania: a place where I’ve […]
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Let me start by telling you this is a crazy watch, in a very positive way. Maximilian Büsser and friends (in this case Alain Silberstein, Kari Voutilainen and Eric Giroud amongst others) introduced this Legacy Machine version ‘LM1 Silberstein’ today. Knowing MB&F a bit, the internet will be flooded with this novelty today. And that […]
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The job of a watchmaker is a dream of many of us watch enthusiasts and collectors. Sitting behind the light green desk, observing the movement through a loupe and making like minded people happy again by returning their watch repaired or completely overhauled. If possible, a nice view in the background, like the Swiss Alps […]
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One of the fun things about Speedy Tuesday is that there are so many models and references, we will probably never run out of material to cover. We started on May 29th 2012, almost four years ago, and it doesn’t take much time to think of a new subject to cover each single week. If […]
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Being fascinated by the perpetual discussion about date windows I decided to dedicate an episode of Watches & Pencils to it. Between the lines I will participate to this by giving my personal opinion, but let’s mainly focus on a tour around a few remarkable ‘windows’: In this episode we will only focus on date […]
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Last Friday we visited the Watch 2016 event, held by Dutch retailer Schaap -/- Citroen at the Okura hotel in Amsterdam. This event, from Friday 20th of May (VIP evening) till Sunday 22nd of May, is being organized for a couple of years now, showing the SIHH and BaselWorld novelties to those who don’t have access […]
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With the upcoming Concorso d’Eleganza, this week at the Villa d’Este in Italy, we look back at our photoshoot with A. Lange & Söhne roughly 1 year ago. For the 2015 edition of the Concorso d’Eleganza our photographer travelled to Munich, meeting up with the PR department for an A. Lange & Söhne press photoshoot. Being the main partner for the […]
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Tissot Navigator Yachting Roughly 5 months ago I published a #TBT about a vintage Tissot Navigator. That article was titled „before”. Anyone who read that piece knows exactly why I gave that name to the write-up. The watch I bought was in sorry condition, the crystal was cracked and it was not original, the bezel […]
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When there is a new watch brand around the corner, we are always interested to have a look at it. Although we all feel the market is flooded by the number of watch brands, in some segments there is room for new brands. Except for a couple of vintage watches, a new Seiko and a […]
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One of my all-time favorite watches is the Royal Oak. It is actually one of the models that got me into mechanical watches in the mid-1990s. Love at first sight, you could say, and as you know that is something to cherish. However, these watches come at a certain price and with those perpetual annual […]
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A vintage Speedmaster on its own is hard to find already these days, if you want an all original and authentic watch that is. Aside from the current prices; when I started out with buying and collecting Speedmasters over a decade ago, it wasn’t much of a problem to find a nice vintage piece with […]
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A topic that is always actual for watch enthusiasts: watch photography! We published the “10 tips for better watch photography” early 2015 and would like to put it in the spot light again for those who have missed it or forgot about it. Watch photography is not easy, but with these 10 tips from top […]
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It is really very difficult to find any ornament or jewelry item for men, in any part of the world. In fact, if you try to list down the jewelry items exclusively designed for men, you can count them on the fingers of your one hand! Griffin Emblem – one of the best Timepiece designers […]
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ANTIQUORUM GENEVA Antiquorum is the the only major auction house which exclusively focuses on timepieces. The Antiquorum Geneva team is headed by Julien Schearer accompanied by Etienne Lemenager who are both passionate watch aficionados and collectors. Although this auction house has seen its fair share of ups and downs, we do enjoy talking watches […]
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CHRISTIE’S GENEVA AUCTION Following my review of the Phillips watch auctions last week, my brother (Roy) and I took a look at Christie’s upcoming auction catalog and had the pleasure of viewing the watches with Thomas Perrazi in Geneva. Thomas and the team have focused on vintage versus modern in recent auctions following a global […]
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Welcome back to #TBT where, this week, we take a look at one of the more likeable watches I’ve picked up over the last year or so: the Wakmann Big Boy Chronograph. Now let’s get something straight, the term “Big Boy” was decided upon by @watchfred and I over a series of communications. Honestly, we […]
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Discover how the oscillating pinion and the column-wheel work together Eduard Heuer was the inventor of the oscillating pinion, a key component in the construction of many chronograph movements and, in particular, the component that lies at the center of the system for starting and stopping of the chronograph. We will sit with one of […]
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Some weeks ago we were invited to visit the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture, in order to see the Grande Complication Workshops during a factory tour. After arriving in Le Sentier, where we will spend the day day at the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufactory, we are welcomed by Marina Greene at the Lounge of the ‘Maison d’Antoine’. From here we have a great […]
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Pinion Pure End of 2014, Bert Buijsrogge had a Pinion Axis Bronze in his photo studio and decided to do a proper write-up on this model as well. You can find his Pinion Axis Bronze review here. I had the pleasure to wear and try one of the Pinion watches as well for a […]
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A while ago I wrote an opinionated article on brand ambassadors (you can find it here), and although I am not a particular fan of brand ambassadors who are paid to ‘love’ a watch brand, I do love to spot Omega Speedmaster watches on their wrists (but no more than spotting them when walking in […]
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I had the pleasure to visit the Moritz Grossmann during BaselWorld. There were several interesting novelties from this relatively young brand (2008) from the praised small German watchmaking village Glashütte. There is one particular model that grabbed our attention: the Atum Pure M. It has several remarkable technical and visual properties which I’d like to point out. Second Collection The […]
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When invisible visibility asserts its opposites, the All Black becomes completely transparent Ten years after the launch of the All Black concept, and to mark the anniversary of this current “must-have” trend, Hublot is disrupting the natural order. It uses transparency to foster a new connection between the visible and invisible. The exterior of the […]
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Since 2003, Breguet has had four major expansions of its Vallee de Joux workshops. In its newest wing, Breguet has organized its watchmakers into specialty groups, including one dedicated to minute repeaters. Minute repeaters are particularly demanding to assemble as they call upon not only supreme watchmaking skills but also artistic talent to tune the […]
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Since they began their association with Phillips auction house to reboot the watch department, the power couple, Aurel Bacs & Livia Russo, have been rocking the watch auction scene. They have done that with exciting auctions and impressive results. Their two upcoming Geneva auctions in May, including their thematic stainless steel chronograph sale (entitled Start-Stop-Reset), […]
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The Bulova Stars and Stripes chronograph is the perfect thematic embodiment of what I like so much about vintage watches. Namely, it’s a watch unlike anything produced by the brand prior to its 1970 debut and when production ceased only a year later, Bulova never produced anything like it again. Call it a case of […]
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What we’re having today at the Fratello Head Quarters, is a real mens dress watch. A type of watch that is not often discussed here, but since this watch is such a prime example of what a dress watch should be, an exception has been made.Nowadays any watch, that’s not a 47mm diver, is often […]
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Professional or Automatic? Just like a few weeks ago (here), I decided to pick a question from our Fratello Watches mailbox. One of our readers mailed us the following: Hello, Your two part article (here, here and here is actually part 3) on Speedmasters was very interesting, but it did not answer a core question I have. What […]
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I’ve had several discussion with watch brands on the pre-owned (and vintage) market. Why not take control over their heritage pieces and instead of cursing at on-line market places selling new, pre-owned and vintage watches, do something yourself. Either team-up or start your own alternative. Linde Werdelin noticed that there is quite some demand for […]
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Reviewing a watch that’s outside of one’s comfort zone is a good way to keep things fresh: and so it was when I received the very blue Christopher Ward C9 Moonphase. As the resident vintage nut at Fratello Watches who squarely focuses on watches of the chronograph persuasion, I must admit that this was the […]
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