Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1891, Albert and Gustav Stolz established Angelus with a singular obsession: sound. That obsession took the form of a patent filed just five years later for a silent strike governor for repeater mechanisms, and it never really left the brand’s DNA. The house went on to design Braille-repeating watchesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesM.A.D.Editions started not as a brand but as a moment of frustration. Max Büsser wanted his family to own something from his world, yet MB&F prices closed that door. So in June 2021, he quietly emailed 500 close friends and suppliers: no press campaign, no hype, just a genuine offer.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesJacob & Co. introduced The Godfather II after three years of development, and the result is the first watch in history capable of playing two distinct melodies on demand from a single music box barrel. Limited to 74 pieces: and a direct reference to the 1974 release of Coppola’s film,Continue 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: 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: 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: 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