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
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