WatchTime New York 2026 Kicks Off with 14 New Releases

WatchTime New York 2026 opens tonight at Gotham Hall, bringing a fresh round of watch launches to Manhattan. Throughout the week leading up to the October 16–18 event, brands have announced new models that visitors will soon have the opportunity to handle. Over the past eleven years, the show has become a major platform for independent watchmakers and established manufactures to introduce their latest work directly to collectors.

Below, we highlight 14 new watches and mechanical creations from Ressence, MB&F, Urwerk, Oris, Frederique Constant, Ming × Massena LAB, Fortis, Jacob & Co., Chopard, Arnold & Son, Armin Strom, Czapek, Ulysse Nardin, and Keris. Spanning world premieres, public debuts, and recent releases, the selection includes new movements, chiming complications, and unconventional time displays. Additional releases from Artime, Citizen, RGM, Bianchet, and Parmigiani Fleurier give visitors even more to discover.

Ressence Type 10 DN

The Ressence Type 10 DN, or Dark Night, is the brand’s first oil-filled watch powered by a movement of its own design. Its dial, DLC-coated titanium case, and integrated rubber strap share a deep-blue color, while the oil brings the rotating indications visually up to the sapphire crystal. Inside, the new RW-04 automatic caliber provides a 60-hour power reserve, driving the display magnetically across separate air- and oil-filled chambers.

The 41.5mm watch displays a second time zone alongside hours, minutes, an oil-temperature indication, and a 120-second runner. Ressence is limiting production to 100 pieces.

MB&F LM1 EVO

Fifteen years after the original Legacy Machine N°1, the newly announced MB&F LM1 EVO brings its suspended balance and twin time displays into the EVO collection. The case diameter drops to 42mm, the hand-wound movement’s power reserve increases to 60 hours, and an inclined indicator replaces the original vertical power-reserve display. Both time displays remain independently adjustable for hours and minutes, accommodating half- and quarter-hour time-zone differences.

The EVO treatment adds 80 meters of water resistance, FlexRing shock protection, and interchangeable rubber straps. The two versions pair titanium with a rhodium-colored dial plate or rose gold with green, the latter limited by MB&F to 33 pieces.

Urwerk UR-300 Time Quantum

The new Urwerk UR-300 Time Quantum gives the brand’s wandering-hours display a different framework. Two perpendicular modules form a T, carrying four three-sided hour prisms. The active hour travels along the minute scale until the entire arrangement jumps forward and changes configuration: the crossbar becomes the stem, the stem becomes the crossbar, and the next hour takes its place.

The automatic UR-30.01V caliber provides a 44-hour power reserve inside a 45.2 × 58.8mm titanium case. The collection comprises untreated Titan and dark AlTiN versions, each limited by Urwerk to 25 pieces.

Oris ProPilot Calibre 111

Among the watches visitors will see at Gotham Hall is the redesigned Oris ProPilot Calibre 111. It combines a vertically brushed main dial with an organic textured surface visible around its edges and through portions of the display. Black and pine-green options retain the large numerals, oversized crown, and angled bezel fluting within a 43mm stainless-steel case.

The new Oris retains the hand-wound Calibre 111, with its 10-day power reserve and non-linear reserve indicator. The indicator devotes more space to the final days of running time, making the approaching need to rewind easier to judge. Options include a steel bracelet or dark-brown Cordovan leather strap, with the latter incorporating Oris’s seamless fit adjustment system.

Frederique Constant Classic Perpetual Calendar Manufacture Burgundy Limited Edition

A burgundy dial distinguishes the latest Frederique Constant Classic Perpetual Calendar Manufacture. The color appears in the collection for the first time, with a sunray finish surrounding displays for the day, date, month, leap year, and moon phase. The 40mm stainless-steel case measures just over 12mm thick.

The automatic FC-776 manufacture caliber supplies a 72-hour power reserve. Limited to 100 individually numbered pieces and priced at $12,995, the new Frederique Constant includes black and burgundy alligator straps and a watch winder.

Ming × Massena LAB 57.09 Secret Honey

Five years after their first collaboration, Ming and Massena LAB have revisited the honeycomb dial with a design that keeps changing. The 57.09 Secret Honey layers three sapphire discs above a dark-brown base, rotating them once every 24 hours, 12 hours, and 60 minutes. As their apertures overlap, honey-colored details appear and disappear, with orange lume illuminating the time indications after dark.

The 40mm Grade 5 titanium case combines natural titanium with yellow- and rose-gold-colored coatings on its stepped lugs. An automatic Sellita for Ming movement provides approximately 50 hours of power reserve. Production is limited to 125 pieces.

Fortis Novonaut N-42 Halo Editions

The newly announced Fortis Novonaut N-42 Halo Editions turn nearly the entire dial into a light source. A base formed from Lumicast X1 surrounds contrasting chronograph counters in black, blue, or green. The panda layout reverses in darkness, leaving dark counters against a glowing blue field, framed by a luminous ceramic bezel.

Inside, the automatic Werk 17 TR combines column-wheel chronograph control with a free-sprung, variable-inertia balance and a 70-hour power reserve. Each new Fortis features a 42mm recycled-steel case, a day-date display, and 200 meters of water resistance.

Jacob & Co. Palatial Flying Tourbillon Minute Repeater

For its 40th anniversary, Jacob & Co. has revisited its first minute repeater, pairing a red mineral dial with a 43mm rose-gold case. The new Palatial Flying Tourbillon Minute Repeater keeps its complicated mechanics largely out of sight beneath a dial with applied gold markers and a musical-clef detail.

The hand-wound JCCM04 caliber combines a one-minute flying tourbillon with a minute repeater striking on two cathedral gongs. Updates include a redesigned tourbillon cage and a silent centrifugal governor, intended to keep mechanical noise out of the chiming sequence. The edition is limited to 12 pieces, with a 90-hour power reserve.

Chopard L.U.C Full Strike “Día de los Muertos” Edition 13

Chopard’s L.U.C Full Strike “Día de los Muertos” Edition 13 combines straw and eggshell marquetry in a unique piece honoring Mexico’s Day of the Dead. A blue calavera takes shape across the dial, its eye sockets and teeth picked out in eggshell, while hand engraving continues across the 42.5mm rose-gold case, bezel, and crown. The dial alone required 160 hours of work.

The new Chopard houses the hand-wound L.U.C 08.01-L, with a 60-hour power reserve and the Full Strike’s signature sapphire gongs. Machined together with the watch glass from a single piece of sapphire, they allow the crystal itself to act as a resonator when the repeater sounds.

Arnold & Son DSTB Stop-Seconds

The latest Arnold & Son DSTB Stop-Seconds adds a stop-seconds function to the collection’s dial-side mechanical display. Its seconds hand advances in one-second jumps, driven by a visible mechanism whose anchor-shaped component recalls the brand’s marine-chronometer heritage. Pulling out the crown now stops the seconds, allowing the wearer to synchronize the watch against a reference time.

Two 42mm editions, each limited to 18 pieces, pair red gold with a Cliff Grey dial or platinum with Kingsand. The automatic A&S6303 caliber supplies a 55-hour power reserve, while the offset hours-and-minutes display leaves the true-beat mechanism in view.

Armin Strom Tribute³ Au750

The new Armin Strom Tribute³ Au750 uses rose gold for its case, offset dial, small-seconds subdial, and all three movement bridges. Three guilloché patterns distinguish those surfaces: radiating lines on the main dial, barleycorn on the seconds display, and clous de Paris across the three-quarter bridge.

Making its U.S. debut at the show, the 38mm watch retains the Tribute’s exposed barrel, now framed by a mirror-polished gold finger bridge. Its hand-wound AMW21 caliber provides a 100-hour power reserve, with production limited to eight pieces.

Czapek Antarctique Tourbillon Victory Green

A collector’s commission became the starting point for Czapek’s Antarctique Tourbillon Victory Green, announced ahead of the show as a 10-piece edition. Its forest-green dial features the hand-guilloché Singularité pattern, developed with Metalem, with an off-center design surrounding the flying tourbillon.

The 40.5mm yellow-gold case comes on a signature integrated bracelet, matching previous iterations of Czapek's flagship. Openings in the dial expose the gear train beneath a long, curved bridge, offering a view of the Calibre 9 that powers the watch.

Ulysse Nardin Freak [S] Howlite

The Ulysse Nardin Freak [S] Howlite features a white howlite hour disc with natural gray veining beneath its rotating mechanics. Each disc differs, making every example of the 15-piece North American edition visually distinct. A 45mm titanium case and white rubber strap complete the watch.

The automatic UN-251 caliber combines two inclined oscillators with a vertical differential that averages their rates. Its flying carousel makes one revolution per hour to indicate the minutes, while the stone disc beneath it displays the hours. There are no conventional hands or crown; time is set by unlocking and turning the bezel. Power reserve for the Ulysse Nardin is 72 hours.

Keris The Oscillator

Keris will give visitors a hands-on introduction to The Oscillator at WatchTime New York. The tabletop creation features a balance measuring nearly 200mm across. Its deliberately slowed motion lets visitors follow each swing and watch the spring expand and contract. A push by hand sets it moving.

Standing 27cm tall, the aluminum construction combines bead-blasted, brushed, and polished finishes around a steel spring and decorative red jewel. Price is on request.

WatchTime New York 2026 takes place October 16–18 at Gotham Hall. Friday and Saturday are sold out; Sunday tickets remain available, here.