Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty: Fifty Years, Four Watches, One Unbroken Idea
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are anniversaries that prompt a brand to look backward, and there are those that sharpen the focus forward. The Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty, launched on 4 June 2026, belongs firmly to the second category. Fifty years after a Jura-born, Italian-named, Florentine-inspired octagon changed the course of an entire Manufacture’s history,
Parmigiani Fleurier Carillon Tourbillon 30th Anniversary: Impressions – When a Chime Becomes a Philosophy
Reading Time: 4 minutesParmigiani Fleurier has always pursued perfection not as a slogan, but as a discipline of the hand and the mind. The new Carillon Tourbillon feels like the purest expression of that pursuit. It gathers thirty years of restoration, invention, restraint and ambition into one object that celebrate the Maison’s anniversary
This is not a review: URWERK UR-101 Diamond Sky – A Love Written in Stars
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe URWERK UR-101 Diamond Sky is love at first sight, one of the most expressive and creatively refined pieces URWERK has ever realized. Diana shares this fascination in equal measure. The first time she placed the watch on her wrist, she asked me to write her a love story featuring
When Stones Become Architecture: Richard Mille’s Radical Approach to Gemsetting in Watchmaking
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a moment, when you hold a gemset Richard Mille close to the light, that the boundary between jewellery and engineering dissolves completely. Stones do not sit atop the case. They become the case. That shift in thinking represents something genuinely new in the history of gem-set watchmaking, and
Porsche 911 Turbo S Sadu Edition: 701 HP, 20 Cars, and 70 Years of Kuwait’s Greatest Love Affair
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeven decades ago, a Porsche 356 Cabriolet rolled off a dock in Kuwait. Morad Behbehani brought it there in 1956, making his family the first Porsche dealer in the Middle East and one of the earliest anywhere in the world. To mark that anniversary, Porsche has done what it does
Interview Questions: Guido Benedini, CEO Watch Angels
Reading Time: 11 minutesGuido Benedini is one of the most interesting voices in contemporary independent watchmaking, because he does not speak about watches as objects alone, but as tools with a purpose. As CEO of Watch Angels, he has helped shape a platform that treats research, design and community input as part of
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Phillips Hong Kong Watch Auction XXII Sets Asian Record: Patek Philippe Ref. 2499 Sells for US$10.2 Million
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhillips in Association with Bacs & Russo staged The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XXII late May 2026, attracting international collectors and setting new performance benchmarks. Over two days, Phillips achieved HK$403,792,890 (US$51,523,973), marking the highest sale total for watches in Asia and realising a 90% year-on-year growth. A total of
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