Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are just five of these in existence. Released today, the Mirrored Force Resonance Ruby is Armin Strom‘s most audacious dial statement yet. Claude Greisler, the master watchmaker who revitalised the brand in 2009, has long held that materials must carry meaning beyond aesthetics. In ruby, he finds a materialContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesH. Moser & Cie. has never been a brand to play it safe, and the timing of the Streamliner Alpine Drivers & Mechanics Pink Edition could not be more deliberate. Released today, on 2nd March 2026 to coincide with the start of the Formula 1 season, this duo celebrates BWTContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesI will be straightforward: when I first heard that Favre Leuba, the second-oldest Swiss watchmaking brand founded in Le Locle in 1737, was joining forces with Timepiece 787, a collector community rooted in Puerto Rico, I was genuinely intrigued. The Deep Raider Revival X Timepiece 787 is the outcome ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe W16 Mistral is the final open-top Bugatti powered by the legendary W16 engine. Bugatti produced just 99 examples.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are brands that talk about doing things differently, and then there are brands that actually do. Beda’a, the Qatar-based independent that turned heads at Geneva Watch Days 2024, belongs firmly in the second camp. Its Angles 37 has already proven it can hold its own in a crowded fieldContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have always had a complicated relationship with the Portugieser Chronograph. It is one of those designs that feels simultaneously safe and irreplaceable, a watch so well-proportioned that it rarely needs reinvention. Yet IWC just pulled off something genuinely surprising. Introduced on 26 February, the Portugieser Chronograph Ceratanium® (Ref. IW371631)Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesStefan Kudoke is not a name that comes up often in casual watch conversations, and honestly, that is exactly where his appeal lies. Operating out of the quiet German village of Weifa, this former Glashütte Original, Breguet, and Blancpain-trained master watchmaker has spent years building a language of his own,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are watches that display time, and then there are watches that make you question what time-keeping even means. The Ressence TYPE 9 IKE, announced today, lands firmly in the second category. Limited to eight pieces, it brings together Antwerp’s most iconoclastic watchmaker and Kanazawa-based Japanese artist Terumasa Ikeda inContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesCzapek has built a reputation for giving dials a genuine reason to exist. Their February 2026 releases, the Antarctique S Ice Cloud and the Promenade Midnight Pearl, take that philosophy further than most Geneva independents dare go. Both watches rely on mother-of-pearl crafted by GT Cadrans near Lausanne, both carryContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome objects demand that you stop and look. The ML15 Helios, Frank Buchwald‘s new creation for the M.A.D. Gallery’s 15th anniversary, is exactly that kind of object. Limited to just 15 handcrafted pieces and exclusive to the gallery, it sits at the intersection of machine, sculpture, and light, raising aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have a soft spot for independent watchmakers who solve real problems rather than engineering complexity for its own sake. Rémi Maillat, the founder and watchmaking engineer behind Krayon, does precisely that. His Neuchâtel-based manufacture has already earned two Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève prizes, a Best Watchmaking Innovation inContinue Reading