Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a particular kind of madness that only watch people understand. It starts innocently: a glance at a dial or caseback, a rabbit hole on a forum at midnight, the quiet obsession with the way a seconds hand sweeps, escapement ticks and complications reveal themselves. For me, it startedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesBovet did not approach the idea of a GMT as a simple functional add-on and the Récital 32 arrives as a statement about what travel time means for the Maison, after more than two centuries of making timekeeping objects for people who cross borders and oceans. For years, the DimierContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesA short Q&A session with Christian Selmoni, the Style & Heritage Director of Vacheron Constantin, offers a rare glimpse into 270 years of uninterrupted horological history and the new Traditionnelle Twin Beat. In this discussion, Selmoni highlights how the maison bridges its profound archival past with contemporary artistic liberty andContinue Reading
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 ofContinue Reading
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 featuringContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesPhillips in Association with Bacs & Russo has done it again – only this time, there are no more superlatives left to borrow. The Geneva Watch Auction: XXIII, held on 9 and 10 May 2026 at Hotel President, closed with a total of CHF 74,846,995 (US$ 96,328,083 / €81,732,919), surpassingContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere is something quietly confident about the way Mario Peserico walks into a room. No grand spectacle, no sprawling booth of a dozen novelties clamouring for attention: just two watches, each one rooted in a founding story that stretches back decades, and each one carrying enough detail to reward aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe URWERK UR-101 Diamond Sky is unveiled as a 25-piece limited edition that managed to catch me off-guard. I have followed URWERK’s work since 2003, and yet this piece opened a door I hadn’t expected them to push through. It is the brand’s most committed foray into gem-setting within theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter space odysseys and opera stages, La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton turns its attention to pure, unrestrained joy. The Tambour Taiko Arty Automata, Ref. W9WG71, is the Geneva manufacture’s boldest articulation yet of what high watchmaking can become when technical ambition and artisanal craft converge without compromise. In aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been following Ressence since the very beginning, and I say this without reservation: few independent brands today carry the clarity of vision that Benoît Mintiens brings to each new piece. The TYPE 11, unveiled for Watches and Wonders 2026, is the brand’s most complete watch to date. ItContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have said it before and I will say it again: in independent watchmaking, the watch is always the people. And the people behind Naissance d’une Montre 4 – Le Carrousel are, frankly, extraordinary. This is the debut piece of Bonniksen, a new independent house founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds inContinue Reading