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Blancpain answers the dress-watch crowd: the Villeret Ultraplate drops to a classical 38 mm with a debut sunray salmon dial, on the in-house Caliber 1150 with silicon hairspring and 100-hour reserve. From USD 12,700.
Seiko expands its Presage Classic Series with dials whose wavy concentric texture is inspired by finely woven Tomioka silk, in a new, more wearable 38 mm case. References HCC001–HCC008 run on the in-house 6R51 with a 72-hour power reserve, from EUR 1,050.
Girard-Perregaux expands the Laureato Fifty — the collection marking 50 years of the original 1975 Laureato — with four permanent steel references in 39mm and a first 36mm size. The headliner is a blue grand feu enamel dial laid over the signature Clous de Paris guilloché, and all four run the latest-generation in-house calibre GP4800 with silicon escapement and 60-hour reserve. From CHF 20,500.
Czapek reworks its 2024 "Goutte d'Eau" ripple-dial Promenade in 18K 3N yellow gold with a deep, translucent green Grand Feu enamel dial — roughly five hand-fired layers over a stamped three-dimensional silver base — paired with its in-house calibre. A 38 mm métiers d'art piece limited to 25 pieces, from CHF 32,000.
Moser pairs its 39 mm Streamliner Small Seconds with the manufacture's first lime-green Grand Feu fumé enamel dial — twelve firings deep on a hammered base, atop the in-house HMC 500 platinum micro-rotor calibre. CHF 33,400 (incl. taxes). Boutique-only, nine locations.
California's Havid Nagan releases its third reference, the HN02, in a slim 38 × 9 mm Grade 5 titanium case with hand-guilloché grand-feu enamel dials and a COSC-certified manufacture calibre AMT6600. Limited to 42 pieces total at USD 18,000.
MeisterSinger releases a 25-piece limited edition of its single-hand Unitas 1Z with a true grand-feu white enamel dial, an ice-blue crocodile-pattern strap, and a hand-decorated ETA/Unitas 6497 hand-wound calibre. EUR 6,990.
Patek Philippe's 2026 Rare Handcrafts collection puts the Golden Ellipse back at the centre — with new cloisonné enamel and miniature painting dials in two themes ('Birds of the Night' refs. 5738/50G-048 and 5738/50G-049, and 'The Magic of the Peacock' ref. 5738/50G-041), each in 10-piece limited editions powered by the legendary Calibre 240.
Vacheron Constantin transfers miniature painting from the dial onto the strap for the first time in its history with the Égérie Moon Phase Spring Blossom. A 37mm 18K 5N pink-gold case with a light-pink mother-of-pearl Pleats dial, a moonstone-set off-centre crown, and a calfskin strap individually hand-painted with cherry blossoms. Limited to 100 pieces.
The artist-collaboration house continues its Antarctica series with a new Solune-cased watch whose dial is hand-executed under a microscope by Spanish micro-painter André Martinez — ultra-fine white and blue strokes on a black-lacquer base, rendered at a scale no printing, decal or engraving can match. Released in two case finishes, very small run.
Moser extends its tantalum experimentation into one of its most elegant complications: the Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Concept now comes in a full tantalum case AND — for the first time — a tantalum dial. Limited to 50 pieces at USD 94,500.
Grand Seiko's top-tier workshop — the Micro Artist Studio in Shiojiri — delivers the SBGZ011 'Mystic Waterfall' at Watches & Wonders 2026: a fully hand-engraved 44GS-shape 40mm platinum case, inspired by the spray of the Tateshina Otaki Falls near the Spring Drive workshop. Powered by the Calibre 9R02 manual-wind Spring Drive, accurate to ±1 second per day, with an 84-hour power reserve. Limited to 50 pieces, GBP 74,500.
At Watches & Wonders 2026, Rolex debuts an entirely new in-house 18k gold alloy — 'Jubilee Gold' — on an off-catalogue Day-Date 40 in reference 228235JG-0003, featuring a natural green aventurine stone dial with ten baguette-cut diamond hour markers. The new alloy shifts between tender yellow, warm grey and soft pink tones depending on the light. US$62,700, allocated exclusively through select authorised retailers.
At Watches & Wonders 2026, Jaeger-LeCoultre closes an eight-year Métiers Rares project by miniaturising the final four paintings from Katsushika Hokusai's 'A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces' onto the reverse of four Reverso Tribute Enamel references. Each is limited to 10 pieces, cased in 18k white gold, and hand-painted using the Geneva technique — 14 layers of Grand Feu enamel, 80 hours of work per dial.
The Datejust 41 ref. 126334 introduces a first-of-its-kind dial for Rolex: a fully-lacquered green ombré, built by applying green lacquer to the base plate and then spraying black lacquer in concentric motions to build a centre-to-edge gradient. Paired with a white Rolesor case (Oystersteel + 18k white gold fluted bezel). Price: US$11,650 / EUR 11,450 / CHF 10,450.
My new video is live — six minutes covering the seven Rolex releases from Watches & Wonders 2026 that nobody saw coming: the 100-Years Oyster Perpetual, the Jubilee-motif OPs, the full-gold 28/34, the green ombré Datejust, the returning Yacht-Master II with Calibre 4162, the Rolesium Daytona with Grand Feu enamel, and the all-new Jubilee Gold Day-Date.
At Watches & Wonders 2026, Rolex drops the Daytona 126502 in Rolesium — a white grand feu enamel dial, a brand-new anthracite grey ceramic bezel, and a first-ever open caseback on this configuration, priced at $57,800.