One of my most memorable meetings during Watches and Wonders earlier this year was with Parmigiani Fleurier CEO Guido Terreni. This very charismatic watch CEO was impeccably dressed, talking about the history of fashion and how the new Toric collection was designed with today's sartorialists in mind.Terreni is glad that menswear is getting attention again after seeing the casual business wear endo

Instead of discussing another Omega, , Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe or whatever, we have picked a Guy David watch to review. A watch of the price that some of us normally would spend on a leather strap for one of the watches just mentioned. Guy David is one of Gassan’s own label watches and we have briefly mentioned it before here on Fratellowatches.At first sight, this diver holds somewh

The OMEGA Speedmaster CK2915!Just recently, I got in touch with a watchmaker by the name of Sampo from Finland. He mainly collects Omega watches from the 1950s and 1960s? and works for one of the Omega Service Centers. His main interest goes into the Seamaster 300 watches, Railmasters and Speedmasters from that era. Only two years ago he decided to go vintage and sold his new watches and bought a

A Swatch? Really? You come to Fratello Watches and read about exciting new watches and the weekly piece on vintageand you're presented with a piece that was available in every department store. And even worse, this piece isn't the blogger's darling, the Sistem 51. No, I thought I'd talk about a watch that was my first adult mechanical watch and really influenced me going forward. This watch doesn'

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Red Bull Air Race, with a short pause between 2011 to 2013. Since its return, a year later, it became one of the most spectacular flying competitions. Spanning over four continents (Europe, North America, Australia and Asia) and over 40 locations from the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the Zayed Port in Abi Dhabi, it offers a rather large varie

TAG Heuer re-released the original Carrera in the 1990sTAG Heuer's chronographs enjoyed greater success in the mid 1990s than ever before, but there was a growing demand for historical flair. The result was a high-fidelity replica of the Carrera from 1964.After an eleven-year hiatus, the Heuer Carrera chronograph returned in 1996 as a high-fidelity re-edition original Carrera from 1963/64. Only th

We travel a lot to visit watch events, but most are in the surrounding countries. However, we found our way to China for a special occasion last week.Oris launched the Big Crown ProPilot X in the centre of Shanghai, with amazing views of the famous Bund skyline in the background. With this event report, we want to take you behind the scenes and show you what has been shown to us in Shanghai.ProPil

Even up till today, there’s a Speedmaster with an LCD screen in the collection, the X-33 (since 1998). But even before that, there were several LCD Speedmaster references in production.Today, I will focus on just one of these models, the reference 186.0005. These were produced from the mid to end of the 1970s. The LCD Speedmaster always intrigued me, even during my first days of watch collec

Back when Swatch Group, and, as such, Omega, was still participating in the now-defunct Baselworld, we always had our first appointment with them. On the first day, in the first time slot at 9 am, Fratello was there with the whole crew. Our friends at Omega knew what was interesting to us, but, even so, the trays of watches just kept coming and coming. This is why it could’ve happened that w

Today, we’ll take a look at the Girard-Perregaux Gyrodate 9080, an uncommon watch with a unique complication.Within the Fratello team, we each have our little quirks and eccentric interests when it comes to watches. I’m interested in Japanese sports watches, vintage Swiss chronographs, and divers. Tomas, on the other hand, is a collector of oddball watches with funky features and compl

Watches with integrated bracelets are booming right now. One of the original brands that introduced a watch with an integrated bracelet, introduced a new addition today. I am talking about the Vacheron Constantin Overseas self-winding 41mm in pink gold.While Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, and IWC asked Gerald Genta for help, Vacheron Constantin approached Jorg Hysek. Initially introduced as thei

Traveling around the world and exploring new strap makers, at least virtually, was one of the reasons I started Watch Strap Review. We have featured ateliers from about 15-20 countries, and we are not done yet. In our last article, we took a closer look at Zeigr from Germany. So, this month we’re flying over the pond to one of my favorite cities in the world, New York. Well, Brooklyn, to be

These days, watch purists love to hate the date. Well, the date window, that is. “It breaks the symmetry of the design,” they say. “It’s an eyesore,” they claim. And of course, “If I need to know the date, I can just check my phone.” Now, I can’t say these sentiments are totally invalid. As someone with a variety of watches and a smartphone, there ar

I am so looking forward to this. The Fratelli, long regarded as THE GREATEST collection of watch fans on the internet, have stormed the castle. They’re pitching tents in the courtyard. One of them’s even brought a paddling pool… That’s right, in our quest to find the best summer watch of all, it’s time for the Summer Splash Wild Card Round, courtesy of… wellR

Brellum is a young independent Swiss brand with deep-set watchmaking roots spanning back four generations. Located in Porrentruy in the Jura region, the brand aims to create high-quality Swiss watches with an eye on the future. The brand’s offerings so far have been contemporary and rather sporty. The Brellum Wyvern GMT, the brand’s latest model, is no exception. At first glance, this

Boring goes a long way. As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to eat pancakes every day. One day, my mom couldn't handle my nagging any longer and made me pancakes in the morning. And in the afternoon and the evening too. Guess what? The next day, the kitchen smelled like pancakes again. And I was done. I wanted toast. What do pancakes have in common with the best boring but brilliant watches in th

Today I will tell you about the Seiko “Baby Alpinist” SPB159/SDBC119. There are certain watches we feel connected to because of the model’s history. I would bet that more people buy a Explorer because they are interested in its heritage than those who buy a Submariner for that same reason. There is something about the history of the Explorer that is romantic and induces dreams o

Seiko is an anomaly of sorts. A watch company with as much history and provenance as any of the old Swiss houses, Seiko nonetheless occupies a pseudo-non-watch place in many watch enthusiasts’ hearts. As some argue (myself included) that es are less watches than commodities, Seiko’s watches are often as much collector’s items as they are watches. There are many factors that contr

As a young kid, I played with Lego blocks, miniature cars, and trains, but when Hasbro released the Transformers toys and an animated TV show alongside them, I was hooked. This was before the first game console or computer entered the Broer residence. I still have most of my Transformers, some of them more complete than others (they had a lot of pieces!), but I cherish them as they remind me of my

Welcome to another edition of Sunday Morning Showdown. We are slowly returning to a normal routine after Geneva Watch Days 2023 and the great buzz surrounding the introduction of the Blancpain Swatch Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms Collection. For this week’s battle, we have picked two recently released affordable GMT watches. One is the Christopher Ward C65 Dune GMT that came out earlier thi