Watches & Wonders

Piaget Adds Precious Heft to its Polo Skeleton Series With New Rose-Gold and Diamond-Set Timepieces

Piaget’s 1970s-influenced, male-oriented sport-luxury Polo collection, whose most recent revamp had come in 2016, returned to the spotlight earlier this year with the release of the first Polo Skeleton models in stainless steel cases. Piaget had hinted at a renewed focus on the Polo collection in 2021 and the watch-and-jewelry house has delivered, by following...

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May 10, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Precision in Platinum: Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Split-Seconds Chronograph Ultra-Thin

Vacheron Constantin led off its 2021 novelties this year with new versions of familiar faces: the renewed Historiques American 1921 in a white gold case, celebrating 100 years since the original’s release, along with a trio of Overseas models expanding the popular range with new materials and complications. Alongside these launches, the Swiss maison had...

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May 8, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Eye of the Tiger: H. Moser & Cie Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Tiger’s Eye

Always a brand known for making a statement, H. Moser & Cie unveiled one of its more interesting timepieces in recent memory, the Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Tiger’s Eye, at the recent Watches & Wonders virtual exhibition. A novel take on the now-familiar Endeavour design, it dresses up that model’s understated look with two bright new...

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May 5, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Patek Philippe Ref. 5236P-001 In-Line Perpetual Calendar Brings a Novel Display to the Calatrava Collection

Patek Philippe’s most buzz-generating release at its inauguaral Watches & Wonders appearance earlier this month was undoubtedly the green-dialed Nautilus that marked the finish line for the production of that sport-luxury reference. But the manufacture’s most technically significant new model, which made its debut in the wake of that release, came from its venerable, classically...

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Apr 27, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Black, Blue, and See-Through: Chronoswiss Introduces New SkelTec Azur and Pitch Black Editions

Lucerne-based Chronoswiss has become well known for not only its distinctive regulator-style designs but also recently for its forays into skeletonization. At Watches & Wonders, Chronoswiss doubled down on the latter, expanding its SkelTec series (introduced in 2020) with two new colorways, SkelTec Azur (blue-and-black) and SkelTec Pitch Black (monochrome black). Both models continue the...

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Apr 24, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Introducing the Refreshed Rolex Explorer II Ref. 226570

If the two-tone Explorer I was one of the biggest surprises of Watches & Wonders 2021, then Rolex’s other major release, the new Explorer II Ref. 226570, may well have been one of the show’s most expected. This year, after all. marks the 50th anniversary of the original Explorer II Ref. 1655 from 1971, and...

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Apr 20, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Hands-On with the Next Generation of Tudor Black Bay Chronographs

Tudor can always be counted on to make a splash at international watch events, and that held true once more at this year’s virtual Watches & Wonders fair, during which the brand released the latest updates to its ever-popular Black Bay collection. Leading the charge were two new precious-metal editions of the smaller-sized Black Bay...

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Apr 19, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Nomos Makes Its W&W Debut With Updates to Neomatik, Club Campus, and Tangente Collections

Nomos Glashütte has made its first appearance at the all-virtual Watches & Wonders watch salon, showcasing new timepieces in three of its Bauhaus-influenced collections. The releases — which include updated colorways and size expansions in Nomos’ Tangente, Metro, and Club Campus lines — come on the heels of a relatively quiet (for obvious reasons) 2020...

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Apr 17, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Travelers by Night: Chopard L.U.C GMT One and Time Traveler One Black Editions

Whether or not you’ll be needing a “vaccine passport” for your next overseas trip, there is one accessory you’ll definitely not want to board your flight without: a really handsome luxury timepiece to keep track of time at your destination and back home. Fortunately, Chopard has at least two new models that will fit the...

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Apr 16, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Hublot’s Newest Big Bang Integral Tourbillon is Sapphire from Stem to Stern

Hublot’s expertise In making watch cases out of sapphire is, at this point, beyond reproach. The Nyon-based manufacture was the first watch manufacturer to produce such cases on an industrial scale, in 2016, and has remained a pioneer in that field during the five years since. “But what,” aficionados of such innovations might ask, “has...

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Apr 15, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Silver and Gold: Tudor’s Black Bay 58 Gets a Precious-Metal Refresh (Updated with Live Photos)

It’s no secret that Tudor’s Black Bay has been one of its most successful collections in recent times, and the success of the Fifty-Eight sub-family within that collection has been evident since its release in 2018. Last year, capitalizing upon this success, Tudor unveiled a new blue variation of the Black Bay Fifty-Eight to much...

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Apr 15, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Panerai Upgrades its Stopwatch Style with New Luminor Chrono in Three References

Few watch brands with military tool-watch roots have attained the iconic heights of Panerai, and yet the Florentine-Swiss maison has never really been known as a go-to maker of that most popular of horological “tools,” the chronograph. At Watches & Wonders this past week, Panerai aimed to change that perception with the release of an...

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Apr 13, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Hermès Launches the Sports-Focused H08 Collection

With most watches of the Watches & Wonders 2021 highlights now revealed, figuring out the top hits of the year is only a matter of comparison and personal taste. Of course, there are the Rolexes, Tudors, Patek Philippes, and Vacheron Constantins, which are always sure to catch lots of attention, but many intriguing models can...

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Apr 13, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Cartier Rolls Out A Tank for the People, Reviving the ’70s and Debuting a New Solar Movement

Few watch brands demonstrate such universally recognized elegance as Cartier. With watches just as popular among men as they are among women, and delicate styles that straddle the fine lines between jewelry, watch, and fashion-accessory, the French maison speaks to a wide and appreciative audience. This year, in an effort to grow that discussion, and...

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Apr 12, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

The Cutting Edge of Sound: Carl F. Bucherer Introduces Manero Minute Repeater Symphony

Since launching its first proprietary caliber, with its innovative peripherally mounted winding rotor, in the Manero Peripheral timepiece back in 2008, Carl F. Bucherer has adopted “peripheral” design as its technical stock-in-trade. In 2018, the Lucerne-based watchmaker launched a timepiece with a world’s-first “floating” peripheral tourbillon, and this year it takes the concept to its...

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Apr 12, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Bulgari Sets its Seventh Horological Thinness Record with Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar

When it comes to ultra-thin watchmaking, few brands have as much claim to the space these days as Bulgari, and in particular its Octo Finissimo collection. The collection launched in its current form in 2014 and has since blazed a trail of world-record-setting thin watches including the Octo Finissimo Automatic, Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic, Octo...

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Apr 11, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Pivot to Green: Jaeger-LeCoultre’s 90th Anniversary Celebration of the Reverso Begins with Green-Dial Tribute Edition

Not many watch models endure for 90 years, but Jaeger-LeCoultre’s iconic Reverso, famously developed for polo players in 1931, is a significant exception. The model’s clean Art Deco lines and pivoting rectangular case — originally designed so the watch’s front side could be flipped over to protect the crystal from being shattered by an errant...

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Apr 10, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Modern Chimes for Modern Times: Ulysse Nardin Strikes Gold with Blast Hourstriker

Ulysse Nardin’s most riveting release from 2020 was the Blast, introduced at last summer’s Geneva Watch Days, which married a skeletonized self-winding tourbillon caliber with an avant-garde, stealth-aircraft-inspired case configuration. At Watches & Wonders this week, the Le Locle-based brand took the Blast to its next — and thus far highest — level of high-horology...

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Apr 9, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

Bigger Case, Deeper Dive Rating, and Three New Colorways: This is the Zenith Defy Extreme (with Hands-on Photos)

Today at Watches & Wonders, Zenith unveiled the latest extension of its cutting-edge, “resolutely futuristic” Defy collection, called Defy Extreme. The new collection, which the manufacture describes as “all-terrain 1/100th of a second chronograph[s],” encompasses three models and essentially represents the most supercharged version of the Defy, with a larger and more accentuated silhouette to...

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Apr 9, 2021 by Caleb Anderson

Once In a Century, Times Three: Vacheron Constantin’s Historiques American 1921 Collection

Might there be another “Roaring Twenties” at the end of the dreadful pandemic era that has ushered in this decade? It’s too early to say as of yet, but if so, Vacheron Constantin has created the perfect timepiece for celebrating. The Historiques American 1921 takes its Art Deco design DNA from a timepiece issued by...

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Apr 9, 2021 by Mark Bernardo

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