It’s a big year for Panerai’s iconic Luminor, the rugged, luminous top-secret underwater ally developed for Italy’s Marina Militare in the 1950s, which surfaced for civilians in 1993. As a purveyor of precision instruments to the Italian Navy from 1900, Giuseppe Panerai amassed a wealth of...
In 1904, Louis Cartier designed a watch for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviator who needed to tell time without letting go of his aircraft controls. The result was one of the first wristwatches ever made, and arguably the most influential. More than a century later, Cartier...
Patek Philippe has updated one of its long-running calendar models with a new version of the Reference 5396R. The watch keeps the familiar Annual Calendar layout the brand introduced back in 1996, but now comes with a warmer dial color in sunburst sand beige and a rose gold case. It’s not a...
IWC Schaffhausen continues to expand the modern Ingenieur line by once again pairing the 1970s Gérald Genta-inspired integrated case and bracelet with the crown-operated perpetual calendar developed by Kurt Klaus in the early 1980s. Following the steel version launched last year, this 2026...
Rolex introduces two ‘Exceptional Timepieces’ that will immediately stand out to the brand’s fans. The biggest news is the release of the Rolex Day-Date 40 in the all-new Jubilee gold with a bright green aventurine dial. Jubilee gold is an 18 ct gold alloy, entirely developed and produced...
Everything that Rolex touches is Jubilee Gold. Specifically, the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 40 unveiled at this year’s Watches & Wonders, which sports a brand-new precious metal: an 18-carat alloy called Jubilee Gold that Rolex developed and produced entirely in-house. Its announcement is...
2026 marks 100 years of the Oyster Case, and Rolex is celebrating the occasion in style with a fleet of new Oyster Perpetual models. The move to lacquer dial variations of the Crown's significant models that we saw last year (thankfully) shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, the experiments...
At Watches and Wonders 2026, Patek Philippe expands its astronomical watchmaking with the Celestial Reference 6105G-001. The new model builds on the existing Celestial line, which has long focused on representing the night sky through a rotating sky chart and lunar indications. This latest...
