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Fratello Friday: 5 Rolex Watches Introduced at Recent Baselworlds
Fratello Friday is back, after a one-week, post-SIHH hiatus. Now that SIHH is over, everyone in the watch industry is getting ready for Baselworld, held from March 27 through April 3, in Basel,...
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Fratello Friday: The 5 Coolest Omega Constellation Watches
I’ve covered lots of Omega Seamasters and Speedmasters — the brand’s most popular families — in my series of Fratello Friday columns on Omega, but let’s not forget about the Constellation. Although the...
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Fratello Friday: My Top 5 Omega Seamaster Watches
In this week’s Fratello Friday, I continue my series on Omega with my personal “Top 5″ list of Omega Seamaster watches. Omega introduced the Seamaster collection (which originally were much more like...
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Fratello Friday: What we Know About the New Omega Seamaster Launching at...
As it is every year, the watch press is being overwhelmed with previews of new watches set to be presented during Baselworld 2014. Some brands have already shown their products in all their glory, with...
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Fratello Friday: My Top 5 Watches from Baselworld 2014
Fratello Friday returns! Last week we were swamped with Baselworld 2014 appointments, and in this week’s article, I will show you the five watches that impressed me the most during the show. Actually,...
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Fratello Friday: Watches for the Blind
A recently published article on the BBC website (here) caught my attention with its depiction of a wristwatch for blind people. The watch pictured in the article is the Bradley Timepiece, named after a...
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Fratello Friday: Buying New vs. Vintage Rolex
Just to warn everyone up front, this week’s Fratello Friday article concerns my personal opinions on buying and collecting Rolex watches. Whether one likes it or not, one cannot deny that Rolex still...
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Fratello Friday: Buying New vs. Vintage Rolex, Part 2
In last week’s Fratello Friday, the first of this two-part article on buying and collecting Rolex watches, I offered my thoughts on the pros and cons of vintage Rolex watches. This week, we shift the...
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Fratello Friday: Which Watch Brands Are Most Likely to Increase in Value?...
It’s a question watch collectors — especially new ones — always want answered: What brands offer watches that tend to increase in value over time? In this week’s Fratello Friday, I’ll attempt to...
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Fratello Friday: 5 Mechanical Watches Under $1,000
Call it a “budget” timepiece or an “entry-level luxury” affordable watch: for many, affordable watches are the first step into a lifelong passion. Fortunately, there are many affordable mechanical...
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Fratello Friday: Which Watch Brands Are Likely to Increase in Value? (Part 2)
In case you missed part one of this article, please click here. The basic question is: “What brands offer watches that tend to increase in value over time?” As I wrote last time, there are two answers...
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Fratello Friday: 5 Watches That Deserve a Re-Edition
Ever since the revival of mechanical wristwatches in the 1990s, brands are eager to re-launch some of their successful models from the past. This makes total sense, since some of the brands out there...
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Fratello Friday: Are You Buying Authentic Watches?
I begin this week’s Fratello Friday article with a small confession. It’s not something I’m proud of, but it is an example of how easy it is to be tricked. It was probably around 2003 when I started...
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Fratello Friday: My Top 5 Gold Watches
You may have noticed that our “Fratello Friday” articles focus mainly on watches with stainless steel or titanium cases – and a select few with more exotic case materials such as forged carbon and...
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Fratello Friday: 3 Ways to Safely Store Your Watches
If you have more then one watch, you essentially have a watch collection. So what do you do with your other watch (or watches) when you are leaving home or will be out of town for a couple of days (or...
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Fratello Friday: My Top 10 Chronograph Watch Movements; What Are Yours?
A while back, I wrote an article on my top 5 iconic chronograph watches. Some of you readers wondered why Zenith wasn’t in there. Quite simply, it didn’t make my personal Top 5. However, I do love the...
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Fratello Friday: The “Alternative” Top 5 Pilots’ Watches
We’re all familiar with iconic pilots’ watches like the IWC Big Pilot, Rolex GMT-Master and Breitling Navitimer, right? This week, we will shed some light on a few “alternative” pilots’ watches....
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Fratello Friday: 7 Iconic Chronograph Watches
In this week’s Fratello Friday, I offer up my Top Seven Iconic Chronograph Watches. If you don’t count the date feature, the chronograph is probably the most popular complication for wristwatches, as...
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Fratello Friday: 5 Vintage Watches For the Budget-Minded Aficionado
Let’s say you are on a budget of $1,000 – $1,500 for a nice timepiece. If you care about things like warranty, water resistance, no maintenance for the next five years and so on, you may want to skip...
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Fratello Friday: Reviewing and Comparing the New and Vintage Omega...
Every Tuesday on my blog, www.fratellowatches.com, we tackle a topic related to Omega Speedmaster watches. This week’s Fratello Friday comes to us from that “Speedy Tuesday” series, and focuses on my...
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