While horizontal striped faces certainly aren’t new to the Polo Date range, at Watches & Wonders 2026, Piaget took things a step further by furnishing the collection with gadroon dials. The new Piaget Polo Signature Date 42 watch collection borrows the Polo 79’s famed decorative technique of...
It’s nice to see a brand as restrained and admittedly boring as Rolex having a bit of fun. And no, fun isn’t an open caseback or an enamel dial or a new movement certification. It’s weird, colorful, outlandidh, unusual things that you might not expect from Rolex, or at least wouldn’t have...
Few watches occupy the same position in modern horology as the SEA-GULL 1963. For more than six decades, this Chinese military chronograph has served as both an accessible entry point into mechanical watchmaking and a legitimate piece of aviation history. Now, with the release of the all-new...
It was less than a year ago that Japanese brand Kiwame Tokyo came onto the scene with its reasonably priced, elegant watches. Yet in that time, its generated well-deserved buzz and become an in-demand brand with plenty of admirers. The brainchild of 30-year watch industry veteran Masami...
Photos by Ariel Adams and Jacob Witkin Earlier today, the aBlogtoWatch team continued our ongoing tradition of making Rolex our first meeting at the Watches & Wonders Geneva show. New Rolex watches are easily the most anticipated new timepiece products of the year, and we like the Rolex meetings...
The minute repeater is one of the great watchmaking efforts in the history of Patek Philippe, and it has adorned the most classically-styled models since time immemorial. Which is why the latest minute repeater is breaking all the rules that Patek Phillippe set for itself. The Reference 7047G...
Aesop warned against insincere flattery in this watch’s eponymous fable: the crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in its mouth, encounters a fox who tells the crow how beautiful its voice is, and how the fox would love to hear those dulcet tones. The crow opens its mouth to sing, drops...
As sophisticated and highfalutin as Patek Philippe is, its designers are still drawn to 2000s nostalgia. What else could explain the shutter shades on the latest Cubitus release at this year’s Watches & Wonders? It’s like it’s 2008 all over again and the “voice of a generation” still went by...
If there’s one brand that has made resonance a defining feature of its catalog, it’s Armin Strom. Since 2016, the Swiss watchmaker has been delivering resonance on an almost yearly basis, with numerous models putting the dazzling effect on full display. In 2019, the brand took things a step...
When Parmigiani was formed 30 years ago, the Toric was the model that it used to debut to the world. For Watches and Wonders 2026, the watch brand has released three 30-piece limited edition models to celebrate its three decades in business. The new models are variants on the existing Toric...
The Parmigiani Tonda PF is the watchmaker’s testbed for historic complications: everything from flying tourbillions and GMT rattrapantes to perpetual, Islamic, and Chinese annual calendars have graced the discreet and deceptively minimal faces of the collection. Parmigiani Fleurier honors its...
Frederique Constant is one of those brands that quietly earns respect. If you’re not familiar with them yet, you seriously should be at this point. Founded in 1988, it has developed 35 manufacture movements in under 40 years, a pace that would be impressive from a brand twice its age. The...
