This week on The Business of Watches, we head to La Chaux-de-Fonds and sit down with a CEO who is running a very different business from most watch brands. Mitchell Wein is the scion of a family that's been in the watch business for more than a century, and the Marathon brand launched back in…
When was the last time you thought about the Yangtze jiangtun porpoise? Probably never, but Oris wants to bring the name of this critically endangered finless porpoise into the conversation with its newest release, the Yangtze Jiangtun Limited Edition. It's a continuation of the Hölstein-based brand's ongoing limited-edition releases in support of various conservation efforts…
By now, you're probably used to Unimatic's never-ending onslaught of new variations of their distinctive, brutalist silhouettes. Some of them are crazy, some of them are subtle, but what's undeniable is that every time you check on the brand, there's something new on offer. And the brand's constant limited-edition release strategy works, with the typically…
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It kind of feels like Vacheron Constantin's Overseas Tourbillon has been here for a long time now. A few years back, one of my first hands-on stories for Hodinkee was on the skeletonized titanium version, which followed the blue dial/steel release that came out in 2019. Six years isn't that…
If you've ever been in Geneva during Watches and Wonders, you know the event doesn't stop at Palexpo—it spills into the city itself. In 2026, that footprint is getting even larger. Alongside the Salon, which continues to grow with the arrival of eleven additional brands, including Audemars Piguet, the fair is expanding its "In The…
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If you ask me, the UR-100V is a modern classic. While it looks like it has a round dial, the UR-100V is known for the brand's signature satellite hours display, in which the hour disc rotates around the lower segment of the dial, while an arrow points out the minutes…
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You could easily make the case that indie brand Ming is becoming as much a materials-and-bracelet research-and-development brand as it is a watch brand. The new 56.00 'Starfield' combines the brand's eye-catching dials and recent fifth-generation design language with a new highly polished integrated bracelet design that features both a…