Reading Time: 3 minutesI have to be honest: when I first came across images of the Arnold & Son HM Pietersite, I assumed someone had painted the dial. Those swirling blues, greens, and golden tones belong to actual stone, the pietersite, a rare variety of chalcedony mined in Namibia. Arnold & Son builtContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are watches that hide their brilliance behind a closed caseback and those that put everything on show. Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud spent a decade firmly in the first camp, and I found it genuinely fascinating. Now, with the Chronomètre FB 2TV.1, the brand flips the entire premise: every critical complicationContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen CORUM opened the doors of its historic manufacture in La Chaux-de-Fonds on 1st April 2026 for an exclusive preview, I was not in the room. But the technical sheets, press materials, and imagery that followed told a story compelling enough to write about at length. This was not aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesBell & Ross has taken the BR-X3 concept and pushed it into a genuinely technical register with the BR-X3 Micro-Rotor, a 40 mm limited edition of 99 pieces priced at EUR 22,500. What I find most compelling is the way the brand turns structure into design, because here the caseContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Greubel Forsey introduced the Balancier 3 in 2023, the watchmaking world paid close attention. Not because the atelier suddenly became affordable, at CHF 160,000, it hasn’t, but because this limited edition of 88 pieces per colourway represents the brand’s most deliberate effort to distil its horological DNA into something leaner,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwenty-one years after launching in 2005, the Tradition collection returns for 2026 with five new references that are the most colour-forward interpretation of this architecture Breguet has ever offered. I’ve been watching this collection evolve for years, and these updates feel like a genuine reset in ambition: four Seconde RétrogradeContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have known Michiel Holthinrichs personally for nine years, and in that time I have watched him build something genuinely rare: a Dutch independent brand that consistently advances its own logic rather than chasing external validation. In 2026, his Delft-based atelier celebrates a decade of watchmaking, and the occasion callsContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes25 years ago this month Aston Martin unveiled the V12 Vanquish – an all-new nameplate for an all-new model that was, at the time, nothing less than the most sophisticated and technologically advanced sports car yet designed, developed and built by the brand.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 10 minutesGENEVA – 26 MARCH 2026 – Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo is delighted to present highlights of the Geneva Watch Auction: XXIII, set to take place on 9 and 10 May 2026. Phillips’ first live watch auction of the year will present more than 200 rare and collectibleContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaghnam dropped the embargo on the Mohareb New Generation yesterday, on 26th March, but the real debut comes in just a few weeks, when Sohaib Maghnam brings the watch to Watch Week Geneva, running 13th to 19th April 2026. The Palestinian-Jordanian engineer and designer has evolved his flagship model intoContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesParmigiani Fleurier occupies a peculiar position in Swiss watchmaking. As one of the very few true manufactures that cuts its own hairsprings, assembles its own escapements, and finishes its own cases under one roof in Fleurier, the brand earns the right to talk seriously about in-house credentials. The Tonda PFContinue Reading