Visit any comment section surrounding a modern Grand Seiko sports watch, and there’s one complaint you’re virtually guaranteed to encounter: the sizing. Especially with its dive watches, the brand certainly makes exquisite pieces, but with proportions far beyond the current trend towards...
Once the purview of only the wildest, most stylistically aggressive brands in watchmaking, fully colored ceramic cases have gradually become more of an expected inclusion for high-end brands in the modern day. IWC was an early pioneer in this space with a series of macho-military-inspired...
Last year at Watches & Wonders 2025, Hublot introduced the Big Bang One Click Joyful collection: five references, five gemstones, five moods. The collection was loud, colorful, and unapologetically Hublot. Now, for Watches & Wonder 2026, another colorway joins the lineup. Meet the Big Bang...
Few complications are as closely associated with Patek Philippe as the World Time. Born in the 1930s and based on the invention of Louis Cottier, the system allows reading of the 24 time zones via a rotating city ring and a 24-hour disc, while local time is indicated centrally. Over the decades,...
Since the debut of the modern Ingenieur in 2023, IWC has been dutifully expanding the collection with fresh materials, complications, and sizes. And at Watches and Wonders 2026, the IWC Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar 41 watch in titanium has now joined the mix. We had a chance to go hands-on with...
They did it again. A new successor to Vacheron Constantin’s flagship explorer’s watch, made in partnership (once again) with photographer and explorer Corey Richards, is here. Originally prototyped and sent up the Northeast Ridge of Everest on Richards’ wrist in 2019, and then revealed as...
Last year was a huge one for Vacheron Constantin, as the house celebrated its 270th anniversary. This occasion was highlighted with a string of special anniversary releases. Among them was the breathtaking Les Cabinotiers Solaria Ultra Grand Complication, which became the world’s most...
Space is having a huge moment right now, and if you’re at all like me, you’ve been transported to a time in your youth when you were soaking up anything space exploration related as much as the sun. Well, IWC is going to keep space at the forefront of everyone’s mind here at Watches & […] The...
In the Nomos Glashütte lineup, the Tangente is one that brings it all: the allure of 18-karat gold, sizes that range from 33 to 42mm, a unique and subtle date ring, even a few models rated to 1,000 feet of water resistance. Now the most popular features merge into one aptly-named release: the...
IWC Schaffhausen has a very unique history when it comes to perpetual calendars. Naturally, this immediately brings to mind one particular figure: Kurt Klaus. His remarkable perpetual calendar module has left a mark on the history of watchmaking, notably as one of the most user-friendly systems...
It took a while, but the 2016 Overseas Ultra-Thin finally has a successor. Ten years after the launch of the 40 × 7.5mm white gold reference 2000V/120G-B122 with caliber 1120, a 39.5 × 7.35mm platinum timepiece debuts. Introducing the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Self-Winding Ultra-Thin...
Zenith has released five new references under the Chronomaster Sport umbrella, most notably with four skeletonized versions of the design, as well as a dressier two-tone option. To understand the new skeletonized editions, it’s probably best to start at the beginning. When Zenith introduced the...
