It is the last Tuesday of the year, the perfect opportunity to show you our best read Speedy Tuesday articles in 2017. Some of the Speedy Tuesday articles that are very popular, such as our Buyer’s Guides?or our Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch versus Reduced article, have been written before 2017 (but updated) so we don’t include those.Find below our Top 5 of the best read Speedy Tu

Today we shed our light on a brief question about ETA ebauches, sent in by Ramiro.You Asked Us: Does ETA sell their ebauches outside the Swatch Group?Here’s the full text?of Ramiro’s question, which is nothing short of to the point:From: Ramiro Subject: ETA ebauches (you asked us! question)Message Body:Greetings.I have a question about eta ebauches.Are they selling them outside the?Swa

Happy Boxing Day! We take another look at the Seiko 5 Sports and give some opinion on where it fits within Seiko’s diver lineage.I was admittedly pretty tough on the Seiko 5 Sports line when it debuted this Summer.? I was sitting poolside in Cyprus when the news hit and I decided to pen an article while I sat next to that very same pool.? With 27 different models, it all at once felt like a

We choose our 10 favorite vintage pieces from this year’s #TBT feature.Scrolling through the articles from this years #TBT brings me a satisfying smile. Here and there I stop for a while and recollect the memories connected to the shooting or research. Well, all watches and their stories rightly deserved to be featured, but we can shortlist just a few of them. We welcome you to see our selec

First things, first, Happy Christmas to all of the Fratelli! From the team here at Fratello Watches, we hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday and that there were many horological gifts under your Christmas trees! Whether those watch-based gifts were from friends, family, or even self-bought - that's not important!Around this time of the year, brands (or, more specifically, the people working

The first time I encountered Titoni I was presented with a brand I had literally never heard of. And by the time I came face-to-face with these watches in the metal, I’d been working in the watch industry for almost 15 years. Had I been being completely pig-ignorant or was there something else at play here that might provide me some sort of excuse for having never heard of the brand before.

When Hanhart recently auctioned a digital concept watch for $44,625, perhaps no one was more surprised than Felix Wallner, the historic German brand's managing director. Like most of us, it took Wallner some time to wrap his head around non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, the latest craze in the cryptocurrency world. Wallner had barely heard of the concept when contacted earlier this year by a firm inte

Another day, another term that we see and hear, but maybe don't know what it means. Today, it's CVD. Well, what is CVD? As you probably guessed, CVD is an abbreviation. It stands for Chemical Vapor Deposition, a type of coating process that is not to be confused with PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition). Please note that this is a coating process rather than a coating itself.CVD-applied coatings are co

Surely it's not just me? I imagine that all of us watch fans have entertained the notion of being a watchmaker, even if just for a fleeting moment - going to work, sitting down at our workbench, and spending the day creating a marvelous machine that redefines horology as we know it… OK, so perhaps that level of imagination is just me. But on a more realistic level, I’ve always been fas

After the whole world came to a stop in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, things seem to finally be returning to a relative state of normality in the Western world. And as we emerge from our long hibernation, some of us are beginning to follow through on our dreams of travel. Independents/microbrands have seen this coming and are offering many options for affordable GMT watches. They are affordab

I learned something while putting this column together. I knew that December 26th is Boxing Day in some countries, but thanks to the Encyclop?dia Britannica, I now know that in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries, particularly Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Boxing Day is a holiday on which servants, tradespeople, and the poor traditionally were presented with gifts. Think Tudor watc

I would love to write about affordable dress watches, but let’s be honest, there’s always a certain price to pay for gold. However, the watches I’ve picked from Breguet and Blancpain for today’s Pre-Owned Spotlight are at least attractively priced, especially in comparison to their original MSRPs. I’ve also included a Cartier Tank Americaine in yellow gold, which come

Seiko’s Sharp Edged models offer something very attractive in today's watch market. You get a taste of higher-end finishing in watches under 2K. Seiko now releases two new models in its Sharp Edged range. There is a new time-and-date watch and a more complicated version that we will focus on here. Both come with a menacing black DLC finish and are fitted with degrade purple dials. Let's have

As 2022 draws to a close, it's the time of year to get festive and flaunt those dazzling colors. For Parmigiani, this final week is the golden hour. We can totally get behind that and put the spotlight on the brand’s rose gold models in its flagship Tonda PF collection. Looking through the lineup, there is one reference we have yet to present. By pure serendipity, as we're all in the mood fo

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 made almost every daughter in the world jealous. He knelt and scribbled “TDC” - his daughter Tracy’s initials - in the lunar dust. Her initials are still there and probably will be for millions of years. Eugene “G

Mike and I are celebrating Christmas with our loved ones this week. But this is the last Fratello On Air of the year, and we had to go out with a bang, so I recorded a talk with fellow watch enthusiast, New York Times bestselling author, and all-around nice guy Gary Shteyngart. Enjoy this special holiday episode!

You may not know this, but in the Netherlands, we celebrate Christmas on the 25th and 26th of December. This means many Dutch people still have one fancy dinner tonight before Christmas is officially over. What do you do for such a nice occasion? Exactly - you dress up nicely, which means you also wear your favorite dress watch on a slightly nicer strap than usual. Well, that’s where the str

One perk of being a writer in this industry is the opportunity to wear some nice and sometimes exquisite watches. They don’t always have to be expensive watches to make an impact. For example, I remember trying the new Swatch What If Break Free collection a few months ago. Despite it being so far from Haute Horlogerie, I still feel it’s quite special, and that’s what counts. But

Welcome to the Season 2 finale of Fratello Talks. As we come to the end of the year, we’ll be looking back at some of the best watches of 2024. Nacho is joined by RJ and Lex, who have come prepared with a list of favorites under six pre-determined categories. And though they’ll discuss some of what they consider the best watches of the year, you can decide which of these timepieces wil

Since 2017, Maen has released numerous high-quality watches that blend retro touches with modern style. Now the brand is back with the new Manhattan 40, an upsized take on the popular 37mm model. Per the company’s normal course, versions with and without a date are available for order. There’s also a special stone-dial option for a limited period.Indeed, when we visited Maen at the Wat