Each year, the aBlogtoWatch team covers an inordinate amount of releases from the biggest watch show around, Watches and Wonders. This year, we kept pace with a slew of releases, some of which passed by with little notice, others of which stood out so much we couldn’t stop thinking about them....
I knew nothing about Kneijnsberg watches until I chanced upon the brand and its own Brendan Horneman at a side event during WindUp and WatchTime NYC last year. It was held in a very cozy meeting space in a posh little boutique hotel, in which Kniejnsberg was in close quarters with other brands,...
This year, the Daytona nerds got all hot and bothered again when Rolex did some things with some stuff and introduced a new version of its iconic chronograph. This is the reaction anyone who pays attention to the industry, or at least Rolex, has come to expect. Rolex takes arguably its most...
There was a moment at the 2024 GPHG awards (known colloquially as the “watch Oscars”) when the Laurent Ferrier Classic Moon Silver quite unexpectedly took home the prize for Best Calendar and Astronomy Watch. An upset, it was competing that year against one of the most compelling calendar...
Jerome Lambert is back at the helm of Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre, and his brimming enthusiasm is practically infectious. Watches & Wonders 2026 is his first major tradeshow since his return to the company. While the dance of corporate politics can be somewhat confusing, Lambert returned...
One hundred years of a product being around is a big deal, especially today, where things seem to be introduced and discontinued as fast as you can shuck a Belon. The watch world is particularly fond of celebrating anniversaries, sometimes in five-year increments, which can feel a little...
Earlier this week, I wrote about the new Black Bay Ceramic, one of the Tudor novelties at Watches and Wonders 2026. I described it as being the same as the existing Black Bay Ceramic, but with blacked-out hands and a ceramic bracelet. Now that we’ve had a chance to go hands-on with it, we know...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Tudor, though you’d be forgiven for not knowing it, based solely on the brand’s to-date releases. I don’t think its Watches and Wonders lineup did much to celebrate either, which is curious given that parent brand Rolex explicitly celebrated the 100th...
Photos by Jake Witkin As Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026 unfolds, enthusiast discourse is beginning to coalesce around a handful of standout releases. Few brands this year are generating as much buzz as Vacheron Constantin, with a regular production follow-up to one of the most desirable limited...
Vacheron Constantin has been in partnership with the Louvre since 2019, where it supports the museum’s conservation, preservation, and (not always successful) protection of its legendary antiquities, while occasionally honoring their art in horological form. The Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art...
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...
