Finally, the time has come to announce the winner of our 2020 Fratello Watch On Your Wrist Instagram photo contest. It’s been a long and fun ride, and we are happy, so many of you joined us. However, there could only be one winner…Those of you who follow us weekly might know the results by now. But before I jump to that, let’s talk about the past seven months.Watch on Your Wrist

I look back upon the vintage Japanese watches that entered the collection during 2020. Spoiler alert: this is one seriously eclectic mix!On team Fratello, most of us focus on some unique niche within the watch continuum. For certain, we cross over in areas such as Omega and , but there are definite areas of divergence. Balazs, for example, has a particular passion for Angelus while Tomas delights

Happy Holidays from the good folks at Wrist Game or Crying Shame! Well, that’s just me, but no matter. We’ve made it through Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, St. Nicholas Day, and the UK not letting anyone in without quarantine. Oh, strike that, I’m particularly salty about the latter, and it looks like Christmastime in London will have to wait yet another year. AlasR

After the Montre de Souscription 1 - a vintage-inspired chronograph made in collaboration with Habring2 - the Montre de Souscription 2 follows. Yes, there's logic to be found in the highly emotional horological universe! And Monochrome's second subscription watch is a Czapek Antarctique limited to just 33 pieces. The Monochrome White edition will be sold via subscription, a process that was once i

Today, I am joined in the studio by Monica Porracin, the founder and director of The Blue Company. Based in London, the Blue Company manages the interests of seven popular brands in the UK, working as a distributor for some and an agent for others.Monica represents Doxa, Junghans, Meistersinger, Maurice Lacroix, Muhle Glashutte, Scatola del Tempo, and SwissKubik in the UK and at events all around

Here we are, race fans - in the final race of The Fast And The Fratelli competition! The last four weeks have seen 30 other contenders come and go, all in our quest to determine the best racing chronograph watch released in the last decade. Up until a few days ago, we thought the final round might see two Speedmasters facing off against each other. But the Fratelli have spoken, and such a race was

I asked RJ the other day if he wouldn’t mind putting the newly released Oris Divers Sixty-Five Limited Edition into an uncensored face-to-face “battle” with the original Oris Star. “Go ahead,” he said. Well, RJ, here we are!In all honesty, this is probably the most irrelevant story of the year. The reason is pretty prosaic: the Divers Sixty-Five Fratello Limited Editi

Hi, my name is Thor, and I’m a strapaholic. But is this addiction to watch straps a bad thing? The first question I'll ask you is this: can a strap make or break a watch? If the answer is “yes,” you've already got the potential to become an addict like me, and why not? The positive aspects of strapology (I'm copyrighting the term) are many once you burrow into the rabbit hole. Ho

It was 1913 when Japanese watchmaker and businessman Kintaro Hattori launched the Laurel, the timepiece we now consider Seiko's very first wristwatch. The Seiko Prospex SPB333J1 Save the Ocean Limited Edition is nothing like the Laurel. This new limited edition of 5,000 pieces is, however, a celebration of 110 years of Seiko watchmaking. And it’s a particularly cool if not frosty diver at th

On the podcast today, Fratello editors Gerard, Lex, and I talk about one of the most coveted watches on the planet - the Patek Philippe Nautilus. With the first reference in front of us, the 3700/1A, we talk about the history of the Nautilus and how the demand for it has done a complete 180 in recent years. We also discuss which version we like best.

Another Friday, another list! After picking 10 pilot’s watches for last week’s list, today, we move on to our 10 favorite chronographs. It’s a category that is related to pilot’s watches. Last week’s list featured nine chronographs, so those specific watches were out of scope for this week’s list. Fortunately, however, it still leaves plenty of goodness to choos

Not too long ago, I wrote an article about my Zenith 143-6. Aside from the astonishing military provenance, I got the watch because of the EP caliber inside it. Lately, I've been increasingly involved in vintage Excelsior Park-powered chronographs. The Zenith 143-6 fit the bill, so I added it to my humble collection. I met Bosko through a different watch and another passion of mine - Angelus. It j

In the past few months and years, Amsterdam’s most famous shopping street has quickly turned into a Valhalla for watch enthusiasts. And now they have another reason to set their destination to Amsterdam! Officine Panerai opened a new boutique on the PC Hooftstraat in Amsterdam last week.Panerai, founded by Giovanni Panerai in Florence in 1860, is famous for its welcoming boutiques worldwide.

When I was asked to build a watch collection with $25,000 earlier this year, I decided to blow the whole amount on one watch, a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso. And because I already did that, there’s no JLC on my subjective list of the best watches of 2023 - those had their moment in the spotlight already. So, what watches did I pick? Well, my favorite watches of the outgoing year have Patek Phili

There are 80 Hublot Big Bang Unico watches in the brand's catalog. The Black Magic is on one end of the spectrum, and the White Ceramic is on the other. In between, there are 78 watches in materials like titanium, Magic Gold, King Gold, and different shades of ceramic. There is vibrant red, forest green, signal yellow, and sky blue, but there’s also sinister black and snow white. The monochr

Seemingly out of nowhere, to the surprise of many watch fans, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT Dark Grey was announced in late October. This ultra-modern gray version of the Planet Ocean GMT presents an attractive overall aesthetic. The predominantly gray looks are achieved through an interesting combination of modern materials. Most strikingly, the watch has a gray silicon nitride ceramic (Si

Let me give you a little look behind the scenes at Fratello. Usually, we have watches in the office for a relatively short time. That can be from a few days to a couple of weeks. But rarely do we have the chance to try out a watch for a longer period. I had that chance with the Nodus Contrail GMT Terra. The friendly people of the brand let me wear the watch over several months. This allowed me to

The “European Aviation Watch of the Year” this time that is.In the bar of the Aero Club de France in Paris, aeronautic representatives gathered last week for the first European Aviation Watch of the Year Trophy.In addition ot the host country, France and its pilot magazine Volez, the editors from the German Flieger magazine and British Aerospace International, defined the criteria for

There is even more Linde Werdelin news this week! On the 20th of January, they will introduce their first chronograph watch. Looking at the sneak preview pictures, it seems to me that there will be something Spidolite-ish involved.Price and specifications still unknown. My guess is that Linde Werdelin used a F.Piguet 1185 movement for this chronograph, as they’ve shown with the Oktopus Moonp

With the exception of the newly released Reverso?Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931, the Classique is perhaps in many ways the quintessential Reverso: it’s been in JLC’s catalog for many, many years; it can be appreciated by both men and women (the size is a nice in-between that makes it a largish ladies watch but a slim mens’ dress watch) and is powered by a hand-wound caliber 846.It