Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026 and the Geneva Watch Week are fast approaching, so it’s the perfect time to start planning your trip. Here’s an overview of what awaits you, whether you’re visiting Geneva for a week of work, fun, or simply a celebration of watches. The event continues to expand in scale and importance along with […]
There’s something inherently cool about a fast estate car. Putting an abundance of power in a car that can also haul the wife and kids to the south of France for a summer holiday just makes total sense. It will make long journeys comfortable and fast, as you blast down the highway with ease. But it’s rare […]
Maison Alcée is back with something owners have been asking for: a moon-phase module for the Persée, the brand's signature clock that arrives in pieces and is assembled at home. It must be noted that it's not a standalone release—you'll need to already own a Persée to add this on—but it feels like a natural next step for a young brand that's been building momentum since launching in 2020 with that concept, then picking up the Audacity Prize at the 2023 GPHG.Mid-assembly.The Persée itself is bu
Maghnam operates within an area that few independent brands genuinely explore. Urwerk, MB&F or even Hautlence have long defined the idea of futuristic, space-age watchmaking. Sohaib Maghnam, Qatar-based founder of Maghnam Watches, approaches the concept from a different angle. His watches are not only about unconventional displays, bold mechanics, form, structure, but also about, importantly, […]
The path of Felipe Pikullik has never been about sudden breakthroughs, but about steady, hands-on progression. Early pieces from his Berlin atelier were built on reworked Unitas movements, extensively modified, skeletonised and hand-finished to create something much more personal than their origins suggested. From the poetic Sternenhimmel to the more expressive ZBM1, and later regulator-style […]
What We KnowOver the last few years, Felipe Pikullik has quietly built a reputation as a very compelling and impressive independent watchmaker. His new, in-house developed Sternenhimmel FPA1 is the latest example, but it's far from the only one. For starters, Pikullik, who we wrote about a few years ago, and his team are based in Berlin—far from the traditional infrastructure of Switzerland or even Glashütte—making the level of in-house production he achieves all the more notable and more comp
Like a little bonbon of horological sweetness at the end of another week, your Bring a Loupe for the 27th of March is here. We're getting dangerously close to the end of March, meaning you've made it not only through another month but the entire first quarter of 2026. As Tom Haveford would advise: Treat Yo Self.Scorcarding last week's watches, the Omega Deville 146.017 sold for €3,650, the Rolex 16523 'Invert 6' Daytona for £8,800, the Goodwill Cartier Tortue for an eye-watering $25,002, and A
The Hamatic is one of the more unusual watches from Moritz Grossmann, mainly because of how it handles automatic winding. Instead of a central rotor, it uses a hammer-style system, where a pendulum-like weight swings freely in both directions, constantly feeding energy to the movement. It is a more animated way of keeping the watch […]
What We KnowThe relaunched Dennison grabbed attention and turned heads with its debut ALD collection, using affordable quartz movements mixed with high-end, considered design from Switzerland's Emmanuel Gueit to take us back to the go-go glam era of stone dials and bold shapes of the 70s and 80s. When the brand then expanded the ALD line to include a dual-time model with two handsets powered by a pair of Swiss quartz movements, the dial sides were differentiated with stones, including marble a
As you might remember, Louis Vuitton and De Bethune recently introduced the third chapter in LV’s ongoing journey through independent watchmaking, the LVDB-03 Louis Varius Project, following the LVRR-01 Chronographe à Sonnerie made with Rexhep Rexhepi, founder of Atelier Akrivia, and the LVKV-02 GMR 6 made with Finnish-born watchmaker Kari Voutilainen. While we were expecting to […]
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The Club Campus collection is Nomos Glashütte’s accessible, robust mechanical watches, designed with a younger audience in mind and made with the same in-house rigour as the rest of the catalogue. Since its introduction in 2017, the concept has remained, with clean Bauhaus-inspired construction, playful California-style dials, and a rotation of fresh colours. For 2026, […]
What We KnowAhead of Watches and Wonders in just a few weeks, Nomos kicks off the year with a set of light, playful new dials for the first release of 2026. They are new Club Campus dial colors, "Full Rose" and "All Olive," a pair that mark a shift from the past few highly saturated shades to something more muted and soft. To the people waiting for the right color for a Club Campus, Full Rose and All Olive might offer something a bit more versatile and under the radar, all while still having t
The launch of a new collection from a brand as important as Omega is always a significant event. In this particular case, however, it is not strictly the introduction of an entirely new design, but rather the unveiling of a new family of Constellation watches inspired by a historical model’s aesthetics. What also makes this […]
Born in 2007, the HydroConquest is Longines‘ classic 300m, modern dive watch. While the Legend Diver is there to evoke the past, the HydroConquest is meant to be a contemporary offering, mixing strong diving credentials with a daily-oriented, sleek design. Until now, we’ve come to know the watch in this form here, when it benefited […]
When Breva returned in 2025, it did so with the Segreto di Lario, a watch that marked a reset for the brand after years of silence. Instead of earlier niche complications like barometers or altimeters, this new collection focused on a more legible, instrument-style display built around retrograde indications. That first model set the tone […]
What We KnowThe past few years have marked a significant refresh across all of Longines's product lines, and this year, it's time for the Hydroconquest to get a facelift. The new generation Hydroconquest continues to streamline the Longines modern dive watch for a broader audience. This new three-handed dive line actually draws from the Hydroconquest GMT released in 2023. Gone are the signature oversized "12", "6", and "9" numerals on the dial, with the "6" and "9" markers replaced by circular
What We KnowToday, Omega brings back an iconic design language in a watch that also offers something entirely new, with nine models in the new Constellation Observatory collection entering the catalog. It's the dressiest design we've seen from Omega in recent times, aside from its occasional revivals of a 37mm dress watch. Though most of the modern Omega Constellation line references the distinctive claws of the 80s-era Constellation Manhattans, the Constellation Observatory cases and dials pa
Andreas Strehler is one of the most accomplished independent watchmakers. He is known for sophisticated creations such as the Sauterelle à Lune Exacte and the Trans-Axial Tourbillon, and his work has long been associated with complex mechanics and meticulous execution. With the launch of the Strehler brand three years ago, he aimed to make watches […]
Watch collecting is deceptively complex and multifaceted. Today, there are more options than ever at our disposal when choosing the next watch. The number of brands on the market alone is at an all-time high, and new advancements are pushing the art form forward year over year, from material innovation to mechanical breakthroughs. Despite the evolution of the primary market, vintage timepieces can't help but retain their allure and tug at our horological heartstrings – the vintage market remai