Fratelli, we need to talk. I love a brand-new watch as much as the next guy, but I feel that vintage watches get an undeserved bad rap. People often approach me with worries about the reliability of older watches. I also see it here on Fratello. Whenever a vintage or neo-vintage watch is part of […]

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With Dubai Watch Week behind us, the last big watch event of the year is over. This usually means that all the big releases have been unveiled. And as the end of the year is approaching quickly, it’s time to start looking back. So, in the upcoming weeks, we’ll look back at some of the […]

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Last week, Omega hosted its Planet Omega event in New York and invited an impressive lineup of ambassadors, consisting of actors, athletes, models, and so on. Interestingly enough, actor Daniel Craig showed up wearing an Omega Speedmaster that misled numerous people. At first, it looked like the Canopus Gold Moonwatch, but upon closer inspection, it […]

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Welcome to the realm of watch science fiction. This story could also bear the title “2023: A Watch Odyssey” because it will wander into a space that exists only in the creator’s imagination. The world described in this article is a nonexistent realm. It’s a what-if world that eschews plausibility. But since we experience a […]

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I remember it was back in 2015 when Omega introduced the new Speedmaster Silver Snoopy Award. You know, the white-dial one with Snoopy sleeping in the 9 o’clock sub-dial. A big introduction event took place in Houston, and brand ambassador George Clooney was there. But also in attendance were NASA astronauts Gene Cernan (Apollo 17), […]

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After a hot and steamy summer, September was also relatively warm, at least here in Germany. Sadly, October brought us drizzles and much lower temperatures, which shocked me. I don’t know about you, but I felt I needed a dash of summer on these chilly fall days. What better way to bring the July sun […]

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We’ve done a lot of Sunday Morning Showdowns by now — 130, to be exact. So we almost couldn’t believe it when we saw that we had never put the Rolex Oyster Perpetual and the Omega Aqua Terra up against each other before. These are more or less the go-tos from these brands when you’re […]

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If you can afford a Rolex, you want a Rolex. Okay, this statement is not entirely true, but it is an undeniable fact that almost everybody wants a Rolex. “The Crown” is by far the most popular luxury watch brand that the world has ever known. The unavailability of a large portion of Rolex models […]

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“I can do this. I am someone who loves a good list. This shouldn’t be too much of a problem.” Those were my first thoughts when Nacho asked me to put together a watch collection with €25,000. Nonetheless, after a day of soul-searching, I knew that this challenge would drive me crazy if I let […]

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Thank you for tuning in to this week’s episode of Fratello Talks. You join RJ, Timo, and your host Nacho, who are going to be covering a rather broad topic. This week, it’s all about watches in cinema. In this episode, we’ll cover anything from memorable sightings to examples of marketing gone too far. How […]

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