Teddy Baldassarre is a name that likely needs little context or introduction for many in our audience. What began as a YouTube channel focused on a discussion of watches has grown into a great deal more over the last several years. Teddy is an authorized retailer of over 50 brands, and has opened a flagship boutique in his home city of Cleveland, OH. He and his growing team are also a regular presence at industry watch events, where they provide coverage and insight on everything happening in a rapidly changing industry. Up until today, however, there was one right of passage in our shared watch ecosystem that they had not yet taken part in: the special edition collaborative watch. That changes today with the launch of the Brew Metric Teddy Baldassarre Edition.
Brew, for their part, is no stranger to the collaboration game. We’ve partnered with Brew ourselves on a handful of limited edition releases, including the “Lumint” from earlier this year. A Brew collaboration is always an interesting endeavor because brand founder Jonathan Ferrer’s designs can take on so many different forms and personalities with small changes to color, texture, and tone.
For the Teddy Baldassarre Edition of the Metric, Teddy and Jonathan have chosen to experiment with tones of blue. The dial is a dark, nearly navy shade of blue, and the tone alternates from light to dark across the subdials and handset. There are a number of other little details on this edition that have been tweaked from standard versions of the Metric, including a redesigned handset (these are thicker, more prominent fence post style hands), a sunken register at 6:00, and the removal of the date window entirely. Other elements of the Metric that we’re more used to are held over here to varying degrees, including the “hidden” brew logo (which appears at 3:00 on this edition) and the espresso shot timer indication between 25-35 seconds, right below 6:00 (here it’s in a hard to miss high contrast white).
Technically speaking, this Metric will be familiar to many enthusiasts who now have an extended history with Brew’s watches. It runs on a Seiko VK68 Hybrid Meca-Quartz chronograph movement, which features all of the benefits of quartz timekeeping with a mechanical chronograph action favored by collectors. These movements hold a great deal of appeal with watch designers as they provide a ton of flexibility. They are inexpensive, relatively thin, and allow a brand like Brew to really flex its creative muscles. In terms of size, the Metric case measures a compact 36mm in diameter, 10.75mm tall, and has a lug to lug span of 41.5mm. The watch has a sapphire crystal, and a caseback engraved with a special “Brew/Teddy” logo.
The Teddy team notes that they are calling this watch a “special edition” and not a “limited edition.” The watches are not numbered and the collaborators have not defined a production capacity. The messaging in the press materials is simply that they would like everyone who wants to own one to have the opportunity to do so. The retail price is set at $475. Brew x Teddy Baldassare
Zach Kazan
2025-11-18 15:00:00