Reading Time: < 1 minuteTonight, Geneva decides which watches take home the Aiguille d’Or, and Watch I Love is back as a streaming partner for the GPHG ceremony. The 26th edition takes place at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, with 84 nominated watches competing across 19 prizes . The red carpet coverage starts atContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome calibres earn my respect through beauty and complexity, yet the Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 101 earns something far warmer. And I confess openly that I adore it. Ever since I wrote about my grandmother’s small Art Deco watch for the print magazine Lifetime – Collectible Watch Stories, I keep returning toContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter Watches and Wonders 2026, the Cartier Grain de Café lingered long and intense in my mind. I spent long minutes in front of it in Geneva, tilting my head to follow the light as it slid across dozens of fluted gold beans. Especially since time there is limited andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesDuring my last visit to Geneva, I visited the Roger Dubuis Boutique where the lovely team let me spend some time with the latest iteration of the Knights of the Round Table, named Metamorph Merlin. This latest reveal, the reference DBEX1118 demands a quiet evening and a loupe. I haveContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have talked with Xavier de Roquemaurel a good few times now, at Watches and Wonders, at various fairs, always standing up, always with a queue of other journalists waiting their turn. This time was different. We sat down in the basement of Czapek’s brand new boutique at Quai desContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesGeneva Watch Days just closed its seventh edition, and the numbers alone tell a story worth pausing on: 71 brands, nearly 400 new releases and more than 2,500 collectors, private clients and enthusiasts who showed up across five days in early September. That last figure more than doubled compared withContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesI love the independent scene since it manages to present both wildly experimental and genuinely wearable watches. Vanguart has managed exactly this trick with the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold, two references that take the brand’s already provocative flying tourbillon and dress it in pastelContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesYet another watch that I would like to own, the Bell & Ross BR-03 GMT Green Lum landed on my desk for a review. So how do you test a GMT if not by travelling and how do you test a Lum watch if not by going into dark places?Continue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutesRoger Dubuis Excalibur Biretrograde Calendar RDDBEX1179 was launched at Watches and Wonder 2025 as a bridge between the brand’s early Genevan style refinement and its current modern Hyper Horology. It features a characterful bi‑retrograde day and date, specific to Mr. Dubuis and mother-of-pearl in a compact pink gold Excalibur caseContinue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt Watches and Wonders 2026, Ulysse Nardin once again used its most disruptive watch to make a point: the FREAK still matters. And not only that it still matters, it kept the same disruptive soul. It still has the power to stop you in your tracks, and it still asksContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesBell & Ross was kind to lend me the BR‑X3 Patrouille de France, for an extended time, to do a review. I could not refuse the offer for two reasons: I like Bell & Ross and I like Patrouille de France. It is not their first collaboration, but oh boy,Continue Reading