Some watches are just beautiful, plain and simple. A select few represent visual balance, good taste, and timeless appeal, and do so with utter confidence. And when a brand stumbles upon such a thing, the next big challenge is not to mess it up. In my book, and I will explain why, Chopard has...
Some watches are just beautiful, plain and simple. A select few represent visual balance, good taste, and timeless appeal, and do so with utter confidence. And when a brand stumbles upon such a thing, the next big challenge is not to mess it up. In my book, and I will explain why, Chopard has...
The Alpine Eagle has a story worth knowing. In 1980, a young Karl-Friedrich Scheufele proposed the St. Moritz to his father, making it Chopard‘s first steel sports watch. Forty years later, his own son encouraged him to revisit it, and the Alpine Eagle was born. Three generations, one design...
For Watches and Wonders 2026, Tudor has taken its Black Bay Ceramic dive watch and fully leaned into the theme, with an all-black dial and a full ceramic bracelet. Since its original release in 2021, the Black Bay Ceramic has served as a showcase of the brand’s expertise, first with advances in...
For Watches and Wonders 2026, Tudor has taken its Black Bay Ceramic dive watch and fully leaned into the theme, with an all-black dial and a full ceramic bracelet. Since its original release in 2021, the Black Bay Ceramic has served as a showcase of the brand’s expertise, first with advances in...
If you do not know this, I know what you’re already saying. Yes, the Baume & Mercier Riviera came after the Royal Oak. It launched in 1973 (a year after Genta’s masterpiece hit shelves), and for half a century, that timing has followed it like a shadow. But here’s the thing: the Riviera was...
Rather than launching a whole slew of new releases at Watches & Wonders, Ulysse Nardin typically prefers to present just one show-stopper model, and due to the costs associated with participating in the Geneva-based event, you can virtually guarantee that the brand’s lone release will be a...
The Baume & Mercier brand has been making watches for women since 1918, and that history matters here. The Joia de Baume & Mercier isn’t a sport watch scaled down, or a men’s design softened at the edges. It’s a collection built from the ground up around a different set of priorities. For...
Our friends over at Oris are fairly transparent when they’re getting rid of watches: They just disappear from the website. That’s how I know these new Oris Artelier Complication watches are going to almost certainly serve as the starting point for a refresh of the Artelier line. When I was first...
This year, for Watches and Wonders 2026, Oris is revisiting a model from its past. While Oris has done a few reissues and has its annual Hölstein Editions that sometimes revive past models, I would never accuse it of being a brand that uses reissues as a crutch. Far from it, Oris seems to...
Continuing (or perhaps establishing) the pattern started last year with the 34mm 1815 models, A. Lange & Söhne is downsizing another classic model from its catalog. The Saxonia Annual Calendar has been in the ALS lineup for over 15 years, released in several iterations but mostly unchanged. Now,...
While A. Lange & Söhne is known for being a serious German watch company that makes serious watches, that doesn’t mean the brand can’t have a little fun. The brand’s Lumen series of watches has been around for several years now, but it continues to surprise us with new variants. For Watches and...
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