Quantum launch the Barracuda BAR1208, evolving their most iconic dive watch collection with a ceramic bezel, sapphire crystal, and Miyota automatic movement across five dial variants.
My appointment with Parmigiani Fleurier at last year’s Watches & Wonders was one of those meetings where it all kind of clicked for me. I loved those perpetual calendars they introduced, and for the first time since I’ve been working in the watch industry, the insider hype around Parmigiani...
Practicality has long been at the core of Victorinox, and the brand’s new collection builds on that foundation, complete with two fresh movements. The Victorinox Concept One watch collection marks the brand’s first solar-powered piece, alongside a Swiss automatic movement with an extended...
Union Glashütte continues to position itself in the segment of robust, fairly-priced mechanical chronographs with a distinctly modern look. The Belisar Chronograph Sport, introduced in 2024 as a more contemporary alternative within the Belisar collection, marked a departure from vintage cues. It...
Hands-on images by Ripley Sellers It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that Cartier is sitting atop the watchmaking world in 2026. With unprecedented popularity in the current market and one of the strongest brand images among younger collectors, the brand is certainly riding high at the...
Parisian watchmaking maison L. Leroy was founded by Basile-Charles Le Roy in 1785 and became the official watchmaker to King Louis XVI and later to Napoleon I and Queen Victoria. Expanding operations to Switzerland, L. Leroy produced marine chronometers for the French Navy and amassed 384 gold...
Another Friday, another list. Today, we move on from a series about alternatives to different Rolex models. But we’re staying close because, this time, we will look at alternatives to the Tudor Black Bay. It is hard to deny that the Black Bay has become a benchmark series of watches under €5,000...
The Swiss Watch Federation has just released its figures as of the end of March 2026. The month of March closed with a 1% decline in watch exports. More importantly, it provides a view of the trend for the first quarter of the year. Total exports reached CHF 6.2 billion, representing a modest...
Back when I first started covering Yvan Arpa’s ArtyA brand, it was not so much about wild mechanics as it was about wild designs. Flash forward a number of years and ArtyA has truly blossomed and matured into a company that I never thought it would be. ArytA is still wildly iconoclastic and...
We wouldn’t go as far as to say that there’s something fundamentally different about the way Jiro Katayama approaches watchmaking. After all, industrial design, be it cars, instruments, or machinery, has inspired and defined quite a few independents. Still, most start from horology and branch...
This year marked my second year at Watches and Wonders, and guess what: I enjoyed 2026 a lot more than the previous year. In fact, if I include Geneva Watch Days and historic Baselworld visits, this year was a standout. While I didn’t walk away with any must-haves on my list, I relaxed a bit […]...
