Coming up for its 50th anniversary, Raymond Weil marks the occasion with The Fifty, a handsome chronograph powered by a restored Valjoux 23-6 column-wheel chronograph from 1976, its year of birth. Donning a neo-vintage sector dial, inspired by the Millesime Small Seconds and the Millesime Chronograph, this accomplished limited edition is poised to captivate a […]
Gerald Charles is a name that traces back to the legendary Gérald Genta, widely regarded as one of the most influential modern watch designers. While his eponymous brand, Gerald Genta, was sold to Bulgari in 2000, Genta himself soon embarked on a new chapter, founding Gérald Charles as a more personal expression of his design philosophy. In 2011, […]
Founded by Thomas Fleming, Fleming is part of a new generation of American independents approaching watchmaking as a complete design exercise rather than a sum of components. The inaugural Series 1 Launch Edition already set the tone, cohesion between case, dial and movement, unified by the behaviour of light, offering a combination of refined proportions, […]
Worldtimers are mechanically complex watches, relying on coordinated discs to show all time zones at once. That is not quite what Baltic is doing here. With the new Heures du Monde, the brand takes a different route, bringing it in under EUR 1,500 and building on a Swiss GMT movement to rethink how the information […]
Located just a few blocks from the bright lights of Times Square, Citizen's Flagship Store & Museum in NYC was the perfect setting to mark 50 years of Eco-Drive Innovation, the brand's proprietary light-powered technology. To mark the occasion, members of the Hodinkee community joined Neall Brick, Director of Merchandising at Citizen Watch America, Shoichiro Morita, Eco-Drive movement engineer at Citizen Watch Japan, Yu Sekiguchi, Editor-in-Chief of Hodinkee Japan, and Tim Jeffreys, Deputy
What We KnowTwo years have passed since Thomas Fleming launched his eponymous brand, Fleming, and we covered the debut of the Series 1 in detail. That first release sold out quickly. Now, rather than starting over, the brand returns with a familiar design. The Series 1 Mark II builds on the Comblemine and stone dials, pushing the watch in a slightly more modern direction.In the first release, the brand used guilloché dials on two models and aventurine with grey-grained portions for the third.
If there’s one thing to be said about Tissot over the past couple of years, it’s the fact that they have a keen sense of what the community wants. Sure, the size reduction of the brilliant PRX Powermatic 80 might have taken a bit too long for our liking, but we now have it in […]
What We KnowIn watches, few complications carry the romance of a world timer. A single display that brings all the cities of the world together. It's as evocative as it is practical, and long one of the most coveted formats, especially among vintage collectors. Case in point: a Patek Philippe ref. 2523 with a South American cloisonné enamel dial heads to Phillips this spring with an estimate north of CHF 5,000,000. Add in the enduring appeal of stone dials, and you're firmly in grail territory
According to Switzerland's oldest newspaper (and one of its most respected), Patek Philippe has signed a deal with the world's oldest watch retailer, Zurich-based Beyer Chronometrie, to take over the company's space on Zurich's famed Bahnhofstrasse starting in 2027. The sale of the business and acquisition of its lease at Bahnhofstrasse 31, which currently houses a Patek Philippe boutique and will reportedly be converted into a Patek salon, and was first reported by Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The B
Born in 2005 as the reference 7027 (a compact 37mm model with power reserve indicator and hand-wound movement), the Breguet Tradition has since become a classic of the brand and one of its most recognisable watches. It’s also one with possibly the strongest connection to the past. It’s not a vintage re-edition done the classic […]
The trajectory of the Ferdinand Berthoud brand has been quite remarkable since its revival in 2015 by Karl-Friedrich Scheufele of Chopard and his teams. Its inaugural model won the prestigious Aiguille d’Or at GPHG, followed by numerous other awards. Beyond industry recognition, collectors widely praise the brand’s fascinating designs and uncompromising craftsmanship, culminating in last […]
What We KnowLast summer, during Geneva Watch Days, in a dusty, rubbish-strewn hotel room stripped to its bare walls with exposed wires and concrete floors, I was given a classified briefing. With high-powered lights shining directly into my eyes to conceal the agent's identity, I was led to a folding table and chair setup where a briefcase snapped open, revealing secret documents and a watch. More than half a year later, I can reveal that that timepiece was Amida's latest version of its Digitr
What We KnowIf you've been following Gérald Charles over the past few years, you'll know that back in April 2024, the brand, founded in 2000 by Gérald Charles Genta, announced one of the biggest updates in their history with a thinner evolution of the iconic Maestro case featuring the brand's first asymmetrical integrated bracelet. Today, they're expanding that collection, the Masterlink, with a new in-house perpetual calendar in a 97-gram Grade 5 titanium three-finish case. The brand says tha
Independent watchmaking brand Bianchet, founded by Rodolfo and Emmanuelle Festa Bianchet in the Neuchâtel Canton, has built an identity around skeleton tourbillon watches and a design language that merges technicality with modern aesthetics. Until now, the brand has expressed its vision exclusively through tonneau-shaped cases. Just ahead of Watches and Wonders 2026, where the brand […]
David Candaux, a native of the Vallée de Joux with experience at Jaeger-LeCoultre and collaborations as a concepteur horloger for renowned brands, launched his own brand in 2017 with the DC1. The watch that followed, the DC6, established his signature: a bassinet-shaped case, a 30° inclined flying tourbillon, and the patented “Magic Crown” at 6 […]
Singer Reimagined, founded in 2017, is a Geneva-based watchmaking brand born from the collaboration between Rob Dickinson, founder of Singer Vehicle Design, known for bespoke Porsche 911 restomods, and Italian watch designer Marco Borraccino. The duo bonded over a shared passion for 1960s-70s sport chronographs and engineering excellence, leading to Singer’s motto: “Reimagined, Restored, Reborn”. […]
Guido Terreni, the CEO of Parmigiani Fleurier since 2021, has focused on developing the Tonda PF collection, a refined luxury sports watch characterised by understated elegance and fine craftsmanship. A sportier counterpart to the main Tonda PF line, the Tonda PF Sport was launched in 2023 with automatic and chronograph models on integrated rubber straps. With […]
Not every serious watch collector arrives with a larger-than-life backstory. Some, like Christian Bangert, come from quieter paths—suburban Connecticut, youth sports sidelines, and local tournaments. But look a little closer, and you'll find a collector whose approach challenges easy assumptions about what modern collecting can be.Bangert's focus is less on status and more on substance, with a collection shaped by long-standing relationships with independent watchmakers. That includes figures
GoS occupies a very special space on the independent watchmaking scene. The Swedish atelier is one of the very few to truly master Damascus steel, not just as a decorative element, but as a material explored from forging to finishing. From early creations to the original Vinternätter (Winter Nights) of 2013, and later evolutions and […]
10 years ago, a young architect named Michiel Holthinrichs had the idea to create watches… But not like every other young indie watchmaker. What made it unique? The Ornament 1 was the world’s first 3D-printed stainless steel watch. And it certainly had a design of its own, inspired by Michiel’s previous career. The specially-commissioned watch […]