This year, we visited 7 different locations to host a Speedy Tuesday Event. The kick-off took place in Biel, at the headquarters of Omega to introduce the new caliber 321 to the Speedy Tuesday community.What followed were events in Milan, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, and last but certainly not least, Tokyo. We spent countless hours in preparing these events, but the results have been

I love a bit of color. Weird color combinations are always good for a discussion. They aren’t always successful, but when it works, it makes you wonder why people don’t try crazy stuff more often. Here, with Transylvanian brand Peren’s latest release (an homage to Eugen Hintz, a pioneering Transylvanian watchmaker), we see burgundy and orange team-up for what is sure to be a memo

Big news from a small Swiss village! Oris proudly introduces its in-house caliber 400.It is not the first time Oris has come up with an in-house developed movement. The brand’s back-catalog an already boast the Calibre 111, 112, and 113 movements hailing from the Atelier collection. But this time, Oris shows us a totally different caliber. Not one with a specific complication as we’ve

French brand Yema never ceases to amaze me. Its soon-to-be-released Kickstarter campaign will offer a flagship Yema Superman model in bronze boosted by a GMT model built onto an in-house movement. All of that (with a sapphire bezel to boot) for the eye-popping price tag of $750. That sounds aggressively good to me and quite scary to the competition.To get a look and feel we don't have to wait unti

Hamilton is having a good year. A spate of affordable and versatile releases was perhaps crowned earlier this summer by the Hamilton Khaki Aviation Converter collection. It was popular among the Fratello team when it was announced. As such, I’m taking another look at it today as it is now available to buy (after a long wait).Rather than burying the lede for the sake of suspense, I will do so

Way back in the late 1950s, somewhere in post-war Germany the original owner of this vintage Tissot “Calatrava”, Werner Schonhalls, received the watch as a communion gift from his grandfather. He was clearly someone who very much cared for and valued his possessions, so the value of the watch and its meaning made it far too precious for him to actually wear it.Though the watch did spen

The Forstner A-12 with Bullet Bracelet is as close to a 1:1 aesthetic reproduction of the Bulova Astronaut as it can be without being one. And it is truly amazing.Sometimes, it’s plain to see. Faithful re-editions of watches are rarer than they should be considering the wealth of unabashed heritage mining that goes on in our industry. When brands really have the guts to pull a page from the

Well, it's come to a close in perhaps the most fitting fashion, but rather than reflect on the stunning silver screen conclusion to the Daniel Craig era (for fear of spoiling it for those of you yet to watch it) it's time to appreciate the generous helping of wrist candy we were treated to over the past 16 years. Since 1995's Goldeneye, Omega has furnished our super spy with watches aplenty, but h

A smartwatch does quite a lot. From a watch enthusiast’s standpoint, however, it doesn’t do nearly enough. Sure, you can get watch faces that display the time in analog. But the similarity to an actual mechanical watch is akin to a child’s R/C car versus an actual car. Where are the gears? Where are the complications? In short, where is the horology? It may seem like such a techn

Zodiac released a new limited edition to its line of Super Sea Wolf GMT watches last week. This time, we get a black dial and two shades of blue on the bezel. A traveler’s watch for those with a taste for ’60s design.Zodiac named this the Blueberry. Now that is a bit of a cheeky move. Let's unpack that before we look more closely at the watch itself.Blueberry originsI just have to addr

On the first Sunday of October, I visited a local watch fair with my colleague Sofia Severino. There, we found hundreds of people shuffling past the tables with displays showcasing thousands of watches. Funnily enough, I almost bit the bullet on a Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos clock in the first few meters from the entrance. However, in the second row with tables, there was a display with this funny-look

It has been just over five years since the announcement of Leica’s watch debut with the L1 and L2 in 2018. And though you might know the brand primarily for its high-end cameras and lenses, that’s not all that it has put its expertise in mechanical manufacturing into. To call it “dabbling in horology” would be a serious understatement. It seems that, in true German fashion,

Whenever a new watch is released, we always try to compare it to another that already exists. The Longines Spirit Flyback was released in titanium last week, and we happened to have the complete Tudor Pelagos FXD lineup in the office for a photo shoot. Both the Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono and the new Longines Spirit Flyback Titanium are lightweight chronographs. We thought it would be a good idea to

Even if I do favor the cool expressions of indie brands, the majority of my watches are traditional. But my $2K Otsuka Lotec got the strongest reaction I've ever seen at Geneva Watch Days this year. As usual, I was trying to wear an inoffensive but interesting watch. I didn’t want it to clash with brands' novelties, but its multiple displays captured much attention.In fact, it worked too wel

Raymond Weil struck gold with the Millesime, a vintage-inspired watch that won a GPHG award. Belgian comics artist Philippe Francq (1961) also received praise and awards with his Largo Winch series of comic books. The titular character, a Yugoslavian adventurer whose birth name was Largo Winczlav, first appeared in 1990. Since then, 24 graphic novels have come out in French, the original language,

Welcome back to another episode of Fratello On Air! This week, your hosts discuss the vintage watches currently tickling their collective fancies. Before that, though, there’s plenty of banter about sneakers and watches. For your convenience, watch content starts after 20 minutes.

We watch collectors come up with “rules” regarding our hobby. For example, “Every watch collection should have a dress watch, a sporty piece, and a beater.” This is the imperative many of us live by. While the former two may not be the cornerstones of my collection, at least not intentionally, I do have a beater - not in the classical sense, though. I don't wear a watch at

There are thousands of posts on watch forums and sometimes the forums are so crowded, that it is nearly impossible to even read and remember the most interesting ones. But once in a while, almost anonymously, someone posts a message that will remain in your thoughts for a long time. Click.

Girard-Perregaux is one of these interesting manufacturers from Switzerland that is not on everyone’s radar. It is a rather small manufacturer located in La Chaux-de-Fonds but with very impressive and skilled workshops. We’ve visited the manufacture of Girard-Perregaux earlier this year (click here) and were quite impressed by their current collection of watches. One of the watches I r

It was already in the pen since last January; my trip to the small and independent brand H. Moser & Cie in Schaffhausen, that finally took place this July, just before most brands were closing down for the Summer Holidays. I was really looking forward to this visit, since I have a weak spot for these small independents, that so often stick their neck out, to come up with something out of this