Early each spring, the birds start chirping, crocuses push through the soil, and the watch world begins planning its annual pilgrimage to Watches and Wonders Geneva. Around that time, I start receiving the same texts, DMs, and calls from friends around the world, from Salt Lake City to Bangkok. Most of them are looking for…
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No brand leans into stone dials quite like Piaget. For 2026, the Maison expands its use of ornamental stones across a wide-ranging lineup, led by a new Polo 79 with a deep blue sodalite dial. Piaget's relationship with hardstone goes back to the early 1960s, when it began experimenting with materials…
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It feels like the general consensus among some collectors so far is that brands are playing it a bit conservatively at Watches and Wonders this year. Well, not Armin Strom. Smashing it out of the park with their most complicated, technical, and impressive watch to date, the Swiss brand announced…
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IWC never fails to release many new models at Watches and Wonders, and—arguably—their releases are, on average, the strongest of any brand. It helps when they drop seven solid releases that, while mostly just a new dial color, are pieces I can imagine a lot of people will gravitate toward.…
If there was just one watch in the slew of new Rolex releases at Watches and Wonders this year that cried out for an in-person experience, it was the new Rolex Day-Date 40 in Jubilee Gold. This was, after all, the first new gold alloy unveiled by the Crown in more than two decades. Not…
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One of Vacheron Constantin's most iconic timepieces is also probably their longest-lived: the Historiques American 1921. Originally made in 1919 as a watch cased on an offset 45 degree angle, with crown in the corner of the cushion-shaped case, and adopted by everyone from drivers to American writer and clergyman…
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Another brand not exhibiting at Watches and Wonders but stepping into the fray of releases (in the quiet, subtle way they do) is Richard Mille, which just launched three versions of the newly christened RM 55-01. Technically a new reference, but not completely new, the RM 55-01 is a manual-winding…