TimeZone’s 2011 Watch of the Year competition has started and there are six candidates you can choose from when voting. Go to the TimeZone website and leave your vote for your favorite watch manufacturer. Make sure you are a registered user of TimeZone and read the voting policy before doing so.The candidates of the 2011 edition of TimeZone’s Watch of the Year are:A. Lange & Sohne&

Omega Speedmaster CK2998-5Speedy Tuesday is here! Last week we already had a Speedmaster pre-Professional CK2998, but that doesn’t hold us back to present another wonderful Speedmaster CK2998. This time, it is an untouched Omega Speedmaster CK2998-5, where the dash 5 stands for one of the last versions of this CK2998. To our best knowledge, the -62 is the last CK2998 (after -5 came -6, -61 a

Last week I received an e-mail from Bob about his Omega Speedmaster Professional 105.012-65 blue dial watch. A rarity, as we wrote back in December 2014 when we discussed the blue dial Speedmaster Pro 145.012 from the Omega Museum. During our Speedmaster GTG in Dusseldorf last year (click here for the report), we’ve seen another blue dial Speedmaster from one of the guests.Bob is offering hi

While it isn't exactly breaking news, we have the lifting of an embargo on the new Breitling Curtiss Warhawk collection.? Curiously, Breitling showed one of the models back in November, but we are now treated to a three-piece collection of non limited special edition watches.? Let's take a look.The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (photo courtesy of the United States Air Force)Fighter PlaneWith the Breitling

Ever since the founders of Eza found their way to us we’ve kept in touch with them. It helps that we live in the same area and share several passions including watches, beer and cigars. Besides that, we simply like the Eza models and their sharp proposition. We’ve covered the Eza Sealander?shortly after it was launched followed by the Eza AirFighter. And today they officially present a

INTRODUCTIONOn the January 13th of 2019, the adventurer Matthieu Tordeur completed the expedition of his dreams : crossing the Antarctic in total autonomy over nearly 1150km at only 27 years old. An exceptional fight that lasted 52 days in temperatures down to -50 degrees. He thus became the first French and youngest explorer in history to ski from the coast of the Antarctic continent (Hercules In

For this week’s Speedy Tuesday article, we talk to a guy who has been featured here before in 2015. He calls himself TLIGuy on the Australian based OmegaForums and is occupied with creating an overview of historic moments in manned spaceflight between 1965 and 2015, using Speedmaster case backs.He started in 2013 with this massive project and we thought it would be nice to talk to him where

It’s no wonder the average age of first-time homeowners is on the increase. Breitling keeps mining its archives with unavoidably awesome results. Last year’s 1959 reissue was, in my opinion, the best thing Breitling has?ever done. I mean it. Ever. Well, chalk me up as consternated, because the Georges Kern carnival has just served up another doozy. The Breitling AVI Ref. 765 1953 Re-ed

A trio of new watches come in the form of the new Seiko Presage Crown Chronograph Limited Edition series. These new pieces pay homage to the brand's first chronograph from 1964, the Seiko Crown.The new release season is definitely in full swing. Despite the recently announced cancellation of Grand Seiko's upcoming new release soiree, it seems that both the upmarket brand and Seiko will keep the pr

It's amazing how many requests we get in our mailbox from emerging watch brands. PETA-approved watches, microbrands producing this, that, or the other, the latest emerging independent brand producing just a couple of examples of who knows what. You can imagine my excitement when I saw a nicely done website, a woman running a business, and a star of Project Runway Canada taking care of the creative

Welcome one and all to a very personal journey. Today, I’ll be discussing my experiences of sourcing a new and entirely appropriate strap for one of my all-time favorite dress watches - the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Jubilee. There is often a lot of discussion surrounding the nature of dress watches. And yes, it is true that the nature of formal attire is changing. But here is an exa

In these Covid-stricken times, there is nothing quite like chatting with friends. As such, we got together (virtually) to share our favorite Seiko watches. The question is, what would our writers spend their own money on? I posed the question with no budget restrictions. The choices could either be new or vintage - anything goes. Our editors got one choice and one choice only. Let's find out what

The microbrand Straton does colorful, entry-level chronographs like very few other microbrands do. Personally, I have followed the brand for some years. Straton actively engages with buyers on microbrand Facebook groups when it launches new models, and the Straton Yacht Racer Quartz is a great example of why we love micros. It's that more personal experience you get from buying from a small brand.

Time keeps on slipping…(everybody now!) into the future (thank you, Steve Miller Band). That’s a given, and it’s what our watches help us witness. But the way we interact with time is another matter. The evolution of the simple wristwatch, driven by professional needs, has brought us numerous different functions for recording time. Dive watches utilize the eponymous diver’s

We like to talk about vintage watches a lot within the Fratello team. Though most of what we write about is largely focused on the most recent releases and developments, for many of us, a lot of the fun can be found in the sometimes weird and often wonderful world of vintage watches. It’s a world full of history, remarkable watches, incredible stories, and quirky details. It inspired us to c

I have written about IWC before in this series. In a previous installment, I expressed my love for the classic IWC Ingenieur that Gerald Genta designed. It’s a watch that I have a stronger personal connection with than most watches. But IWC has more great classics that deserve a glorious comeback. One of them is the first Aquatimer that the brand ever produced. The IWC Aquatimer ref. 812 was

We seem to be on a dive-watch kick lately on Sunday Morning Showdown. Last week, it was a battle of the household (more on that shortly), but this week, we head over to Biel with our time machine and put old versus new on the battlefield. As you know from the title, this week's battle will be Seamaster versus Seamaster. Less than fifteen years stand between this week's contenders, and though the

Unsurprisingly, my plans for the year have already been led astray by Chrono24 and its infallible feeds. Following my story on whether or not to perform what I envisioned as a final upgrade in the Seiko dive game, I folded. I sold my Marinemaster SLA023 and searched for an SBGX335/337, only to find that the bargains had disappeared. Then I remembered the Grand Seiko SBGX265.I won't blow my trumpet

The hype is real. Although it's a mini hype because the craziness is limited to Fratello HQ, it is still very real. Morgan recently bought one, Nacho can't stop wearing his, and that led to RJ wearing his more and more often. And if that weren’t enough, all the team members started studying the collection to pick their favorite iterations. The object of our obsession is the Omega Seamaster D

The Constellation has been in Omega's collection since 1952, but it wasn't until 1982 that it received its claws, scalloped case shape, and integrated bracelet. This Constellation Manhattan was designed by Carol Didisheim, who started working for Omega two years before the introduction of this watch.Many iterations followed, with the biggest revisions being the Constellation ’95 (1995), Cons