Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tech, reference 5019A, is a particular kind of watch that does not ask for your admiration. It asks for your trust and understanding it properly demands that you first understand the world it was built for. I have always admired Blancpain Ocean Commitment initiative, andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are watches that tell time, and then there are watches that make a declaration. The TAG Heuer Monaco Speed 12, unveiled at the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco 2026 and limited to just 50 individually numbered pieces, belongs unambiguously in the second category. TAG Heuer andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are anniversaries that prompt a brand to look backward, and there are those that sharpen the focus forward. The Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty, launched on 4 June 2026, belongs firmly to the second category. Fifty years after a Jura-born, Italian-named, Florentine-inspired octagon changed the course of an entire Manufacture’s history,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 2 June 1941, Lou Gehrig passed away at thirty-seven years old, leaving behind a legacy so vast that Major League Baseball now marks 2 June as Lou Gehrig Day. 85 years later, Oris chooses this precise date to release a limited edition that sits firmly at the intersection ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesZenith G.F.J. Calibre 135 Double Signed is a collaborations born of genuine passion. The Double Signed Programme originated from the encounter between Zenith’s Chief Product Officer Romain Marietta and Naoya Hida in his Tokyo workshop. Their shared reverence for the golden age of chronometry sparked an immediate connection, and theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Wristcheck, the content-driven Hong Kong watch platform co-founded in 2020 by Austen Chu and Sean Wong, sat down with Piaget‘s manufacture in La Côte-aux-Fées to imagine a shared piece, the result was always going to be the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic. After all, Austen Chu has been a credible voiceContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrédérique Constant’s Classics Moneta Solarmetre arrives as a neat and well-judged step forward for the collection, bringing solar technology into the Manufacture’s classical language for the first time. The trio of references shares the same architecture and pricing, while the dial colours give each watch its own character, from cloudContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesFavre Leuba is one of those brands whose history deserves far greater attention. Founded in 1737 in Le Locle, it holds the distinction of being the second-oldest Swiss watchmaking brand in the world. In 2026, the brand made its debut at Watches and Wonders Geneva, and it arrives with aContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesRessence has quietly become one of watchmaking’s most consistent provocateurs. The Antwerp-based independent, founded by Benoît Mintiens in 2010, builds watches that look nothing like traditional wristwatches and yet tell the time with extraordinary conviction. Now, the TYPE 7 grows its palette with two new colourways: Black and Cactus. BothContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe resonance principle has fascinated watchmakers for centuries, and Armin Strom has made it their calling card. With the Dual Time GMT Resonance Aventurine (ref. ST26-DT.CT), the Biel/Bienne independent takes that signature complication and dresses it in one of the most evocative dial materials in contemporary horology.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes90 years after the Scottish shipyard Fife of Fairlie launched the Bermudian ketch Eilean in 1936, Panerai has chosen one of its most characterful timepieces to mark the occasion: the Radiomir Bronzo PAM00760. It is a fitting choice, because both the yacht and the watch speak the same language ofContinue Reading