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: 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: 4 minutesJacob & Co. launched the original Billionaire in 2015 as a declaration, not a quiet one. A 54 mm case set with emerald-cut diamonds, a skeletonised double flying tourbillon inside, and a price that made even seasoned collectors blink. A decade later, for the brand’s 40th anniversary, Jacob Arabo raisesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been following TAOS since their 2024 debut, and the trajectory has been unmistakable from the outset: this is not a brand that explores watchmaking’s periphery. Founded on the combined vision of Atelier Olivier Vaucher’s 40 artisans and Geneva watchmaker Olivier Gaud, TAOS produces one simple category of object:Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesDOXA and Rome have never crossed paths quite like this. For March 2026, the Biel-based manufacture joins forces with Gioielleria Grande, its Roman retail partner, to deliver the SUB 200 Grande Roma: the brand’s first ever special series dedicated to Italy, limited to just 50 individually numbered pieces. The resultContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesGirard-Perregaux has carried the minute repeater in its DNA since Jean-François Bautte first developed striking mechanisms in the early 19th century. That heritage, however, has never looked quite like this. Introduced today, the Minute Repeater Flying Bridges houses the brand-new GP9530 calibre, the third in-house grand complication movement the manufactureContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesDennison has never been a brand that plays it safe. The London-based watchmaker, whose initials honour founder Aaron Lufkin Dennison, has consistently built the ALD collection around a distinctive cushion case and a commitment to bold dial materials. The Safari Capsule pushes that philosophy further into jewellery-watch territory, presenting twoContinue 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: 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: 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