Hands-On: The Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Starwheel in Rose Gold
At $62,600, the Code 11.59 Starwheel is ambitiously priced, but demand doesn’t seem to be lacking at all for the watch. In the past few years, the Starwheel has seemingly…
Watches
Auctions: A Look at the ‘Grosse Pièce’ – Audemars Piguet’s Most Complicated Pocket Watch Still in Private Hands, Up for Auction at Sotheby’s
This has been a particularly great year for history-shaping horological discoveries. The sale of the J. Player & Son’s Hyper-Complication at Phillips Geneva went extraordinarily well, achieving CHF 2,238,000, or…
Hands-On: The 36mm Tudor Ranger 79930 Is What Fans Wanted All Along
One area of improvement, aside from the more traditional 36mm size (which, at least to me, was an improvement), is a slightly slimmer case. The previous Ranger came in at…
【F】 Fratello’s Top 5 Dive Watches Of 2025
Another Friday, another list! However, it’s not just any random list, as we kick off our look back at 2025 with this compilation. In this first installment of the year’s…
Brellum Pandial Power Reserve Black Titanium LE Chronometer
Today, we’ll go hands-on with the latest Brellum release. The Pandial Power Reserve Black Titanium LE Chronometer builds upon this month’s earlier introduction of a similar model in steel. Considering…
The Kuoe Royal Smith 90-012 Chronographs
Kuoe (pronounced like “quo”) is not a brand that we have featured in a dedicated article before here on Fratello. However, it has been on our radar for some time.…
【F】 Hands-On: Louis Vuitton Escale Malachite
As much as I would have loved to call the Louis Vuitton Escale Malachite a hard-rocking watch, I can’t. That’s because malachite has a Mohs hardness between 3.5 and 4.0,…
Business News: Top Swiss Watch CEOs Talk Leadership And Strategy Amid Industry Challenges At Dubai Watch Week
Dubai leaped to the center of the watch world this month as the top names in the industry converged on the rapidly growing city in the United Arab Emirates for…
A World-Class Exhibition On A. Lange & Söhne And Glashütte Watchmaking By Phillips And Dr. Helmut Crott Comes To New York
Ferdinand-Adolph Lange died 150 years ago this year. The name should be familiar, as the man’s watchmaking would go on to shape a sleepy town in rural Germany and the…
【F】Finding An Old Perseo Italian Railway Watch In A Market
A few weeks ago, on a cool autumn morning in Bologna, I found myself wandering through a vintage market tucked between porticoed streets and the kind of cafés where the…