I enjoy chronographs on a technical level. Even if I don’t time many activities, I find joy in the complex watchmaking craft. Many secretly lust after a perpetual calendar with a leap year indicator and sidereal time in case we want to jump aboard a Space X flight. However, a mechanical chronograph is one of […]

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I’ll just come clean straight from the get-go: my watch-collecting journey was heavily affected by Instagram’s influencing power. I most definitely bought a few watches because they looked so pleasing in pictures on the social media platform. I’ll also quickly add that I’ve already sold most of those watches because they didn’t fulfill the high […]

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Fresh-faced watch brand Furlan Marri has announced its latest creation in collaboration with Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier. The Secular Perpetual Calendar for Only Watch 2023 is a thoroughly impressive timepiece that combines innovation, precision, and fine watchmaking. This handcrafted unique piece features an all-new secular perpetual calendar module, marking a significant milestone for the […]

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I have a soft spot for Furlan Marri and the two people behind it. Enviably known for their well-planned success and pin-prick accurate marketing, the truth is that Andrea Furlan and Hamad Al Marri do the work themselves. But they are so good at embracing social media and visuals that their efforts look like those […]

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As many of the other Fratello editors have mentioned, this is an incredibly difficult article to write, also for me. It has been churning around in my skull for more than a week, forcing me to take notice of my habits. From my annoyingly changing taste to involuntary Chrono24 binge-clicking, I am still struggling to […]

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Hi, my name is Thor, and I’m a strapaholic. But is this addiction to watch straps a bad thing? The first question I’ll ask you is this: can a strap make or break a watch? If the answer is “yes,” you’ve already got the potential to become an addict like me, and why not? The […]

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This year has been another strong one for new watch releases, and these articles are the most difficult to write, hands down. There must have been 10-20 watches that I fell for in 2022, and a few of those actually made me sell one or two to acquire them. This time, I am going to […]

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At the Fratello offices, we often discuss affordable watches. The question of what “affordable” means, however, is obviously a very personal one. We decided to set the affordable budget for this list at €1,000. So what watches in this price bracket are the best in the long stream of new releases that were unveiled in […]

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Of course, I’m a collector. This is Collector’s Week! A few of our editors claim that they are not collectors and simply have more watches than most to match their moods and outfits. Really? Newsflash: in 2022, we see fewer watches on wrists than ever before. The curve on the watch-loving graph might be pointing […]

Visit Fratello Collector’s Week 2.0 — Thor May Fail Repeatedly At Consolidating, But He Has Found His Goldilocks Case Size to read the full article.

For me, this summer underlined the need for environmental action as I’m back home in Norway, but the heat is never-ending. At 29°C in the middle of August, the summer will not end, and the predictions for the future are simple. The southern parts of Europe will heat up to such a degree that the […]

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