With a history of chiming watches dating back more than two centuries, the minute repeater complication is especially important to Girard-Perregaux, and the Swiss brand has just unveiled a new highly complicated chiming watch for its latest release of 2026. Featuring a minute repeater,...
The 150 Heritage pocket watch, the Neo Frame Jumping Hour, and the skeletonized Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar might have stolen most of the limelight when Audemars Piguet presented many novelties in January. Nevertheless, the pieces I was probably most curious to see and try on were a series of...
Geneva-based independent brand Akhor presented its inaugural Le Temps en Équilibre collection in 2025, built around a patented dual-disc display system, and it was immediately recognised for its innovative dial concept and proprietary movement. The new Lumière Blanche editions expand the concept...
I will begin this discussion about watch brand CEOs and timepiece company leaders by stating two important points immediately. The first is that there is no definitive educational path to becoming the leader of a watchmaking company. Watch brand CEOs are made as a result of working enough...
With Watches and Wonders inching closer, prediction season is in full swing. Watch enthusiasts everywhere are debating what the big brands might release this year. As always, most eyes are focused on Rolex, so some of the Fratello team opened Nano Banana and generated the Rolex releases we...
Tonight is the grand finale of this year's awards season, with the 98th Academy Awards closing things out with a bang. With almost more glamour, fashion, and celebrity than the average mortal can stand, all these ingredients add up to one of the most exciting watch-spotting nights of the year....
One of the most popular business topics around the world is to guesstimate what traditionally human-performed jobs will begin to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It is a fair question because, like the personal computer and calculator before it, AI is a powerful...
Welcome back to The Flyback! We’ve got another spectacular roundup of new releases for you, including questionable watches from Bremont and Kurono, funky futuristic work from Ressence, and some crowd pleasers from Parmigiani and Raymond Weil. Check them out and let us know in the comments what...
Just last week, we looked at six very versatile watches of 36mm and under, and this week we’re sort of revisiting the topic. However, instead of looking at more time-only or time-and-date watches, we turn to one of the single most popular complications in the industry: the mighty Chronograph!...
There’s something reassuring about a watch that knows exactly what it is. Not aspirational haute horlogerie, not a fashion-forward experiment, not a speculative limited edition chasing headlines — just a well-built, historically grounded, and thoughtfully executed mechanical watch. That is...
Here is a high-end triple-axis tourbillon watch from Girard-Perregaux that you probably didn’t know existed: the Girard-Perregaux Planetarium Tri-Axial reference 99290-52-451-BA4A in 18k pink gold. It is a fascinating, luxurious, quite compelling, and also very weird ultra-luxury timepiece...
It’s Sunday morning, so it’s time to sit down with a cup of coffee for another Sunday Morning Showdown. This week, Mike and Jorg go head-to-head with two gold Vacheron Constantin watches. Jorg’s pick is the yellow gold Historiques 222, which came out in 2024 and garnered much praise for reviving...
