Reading Time: 7 minutesI love the independent scene since it manages to present both wildly experimental and genuinely wearable watches. Vanguart has managed exactly this trick with the Orb Pink Ceramic Titanium and Orb Blue Ceramic Rose Gold, two references that take the brand’s already provocative flying tourbillon and dress it in pastelContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesYet another watch that I would like to own, the Bell & Ross BR-03 GMT Green Lum landed on my desk for a review. So how do you test a GMT if not by travelling and how do you test a Lum watch if not by going into dark places?Continue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutesRoger Dubuis Excalibur Biretrograde Calendar RDDBEX1179 was launched at Watches and Wonder 2025 as a bridge between the brand’s early Genevan style refinement and its current modern Hyper Horology. It features a characterful bi‑retrograde day and date, specific to Mr. Dubuis and mother-of-pearl in a compact pink gold Excalibur caseContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesBell & Ross was kind to lend me the BR‑X3 Patrouille de France, for an extended time, to do a review. I could not refuse the offer for two reasons: I like Bell & Ross and I like Patrouille de France. It is not their first collaboration, but oh boy,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutesJust before Watches and Wonders 2026, in the familiar background of the Beau Rivage Hotel in Geneva, Diana and I met the new DOXA SUB 200 T.GRAPH II, the reimagined brand’s historic dive chronograph. A first glimpse reveals the familiar cushion case and bright tool-watch aesthetic that makes DOXA so easilyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesBovet did not approach the idea of a GMT as a simple functional add-on and the Récital 32 arrives as a statement about what travel time means for the Maison, after more than two centuries of making timekeeping objects for people who cross borders and oceans. For years, the DimierContinue Reading
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe URWERK UR-101 Diamond Sky is love at first sight, one of the most expressive and creatively refined pieces URWERK has ever realized. Diana shares this fascination in equal measure. The first time she placed the watch on her wrist, she asked me to write her a love story featuringContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutesChopard just released a Germany-exclusive piece that stopped me in my tracks. The Mille Miglia Classic Chronograph Speed Silver, Ref. 168619-3019, draws from one of motorsport’s most dramatic origin stories and channels it into a 40.5 mm instrument that feels both historically loaded and technically compelling. I have handled plentyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ll be honest with you: when I heard that Label Noir was collaborating with Alpina Watches, I expected black. Lots of it. Label Noir has spent fifteen years building its reputation on DLC coatings and dark, radical aesthetics, so what arrived in February 2026 genuinely surprised me. The Alpiner ManufactureContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesVan Cleef & Arpels continues to demonstrate why it remains synonymous with storytelling through the medium of high complications. The Maison’s recent additions to its Poetic Complications collection represent a significant evolution in how luxury watchmaking can intertwine narrative with mechanical precision. Both the Lady Arpels Pont des Amoureux (€Continue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe launch of the MINUTE REPEATER PERPETUAL represents a significant moment in contemporary watchmaking. A. Lange & Söhne has consolidated two of horology’s most formidable complications into a single calibre, an undertaking that positions this platinum creation alongside the manufacture’s most ambitious works. This is not an exercise in accumulation;Continue Reading