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On the exact 225th anniversary of the tourbillon patent, Breguet revives the spirit of its 1989 Ref. 3350 with the Classique Tourbillon 7357 — a 35 mm, permanent-collection tourbillon in platinum or gold, powered by the new manual-wound Calibre 187B at a historically correct 2.5 Hz.
Grand Seiko's biggest Evolution 9 update yet: nine new references, five on the ±20 s/year Spring Drive U.F.A. Caliber 9RB2 and four on the Hi-Beat 36000 Caliber 9SA5 — and, at last, a tool-free micro-adjust clasp. From USD 10,200.
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.
Arnold & Son and London retailer The Limited Edition unveil the HM London Skyline, a 39.5mm ultra-slim dress watch whose blue mother-of-pearl dial shows historic London by day and reveals the Shard, the Gherkin and the London Eye in Super-LumiNova after dark. The in-house, 2.7mm-thin calibre A&S1001 delivers a 90-hour power reserve; GBP 15,000 in steel, GBP 23,500 in red gold.
For its 122nd birthday, Oris drops the seventh Hölstein Edition: a 39.5 mm steel Artelier with a mirror-polished small-seconds sub-dial, a rainbow-laser Oris bear on the caseback, and the in-house automatic Calibre 401 with a 120-hour power reserve. Limited to 250 pieces at CHF/€3,800.
Zenith inaugurates its new Double Signed Program by pairing the legendary observatory Calibre 135 with Tokyo independent Naoya Hida & Co. The result is a 39.15 mm platinum chronometer with a hand-engraved solid-silver dial filled with blue urushi lacquer — limited to just 10 pieces at CHF 58,900.
Jaeger-LeCoultre expands its hit “Or Deco” Reverso with five new models, including the line's first 18K white gold versions and three gem-set “Cocktail” pieces with 46 rail-set baguette stones. All run the slim hand-wound Calibre 822. Prices from €44,200, topped by a 200-piece white-gold limited edition.
Frederique Constant introduces its first-ever solar movement, the calibre FC-120, in the new Classics Moneta Solarmetre. Developed with sister company La Joux-Perret under the Citizen group, it runs for a day on a minute of light and up to ten months in darkness. Wrapped in a 39 mm coin-edge steel case with translucent ice-blue, burgundy or cloud-white dials, it costs £995 / CHF 1,150 — with a Milanese bracelet included on two of the three references.
John Reardon (Collectability) and Mike France's revived Dennison brand return for a second collaboration: the Edition Oblique Collection — Oblique Enigma and Oblique Vector — in a 35 × 33.6 mm asymmetric case shaped by Royal Oak Offshore designer Emmanuel Gueit, with four configurations priced at USD 790. Ronda Cal. 1062 Swiss quartz, 6.05 mm thick, embossed leather strap, one-week pre-order window 27 May to 3 June 2026.
Horologically Unique's Calatrava-96-inspired HU-01 line bows out in a vintage-correct 34 mm case with lab-grown diamond hour markers — a silver-dial classic limited to 80 pieces and a Burma-jade "Yu" edition limited to 30, both still running the historic Peseux 7001 hand-wound calibre. At around USD 2,000, it is one of the most cleanly resolved dress-watch closers of 2026.
Awake's flagship Sơn Mài line drops to 38 mm and adds hand-cut rose-engine guilloché beneath three new Vietnamese-lacquer dials — Alba in orange spiral, Sunset in purple drapé-moiré, and Borealis in green aurora wave. La Joux-Perret G101 inside, EUR 2,650 each, 200 of each reference.
Naoya Hida & Co. has opened applications today (18 May 2026, 10 am JST) for its 2026 annual collection: seven new references — including the brand's first-ever chronograph, the NH Type 7A powered by a restored vintage Valjoux Calibre 23 column-wheel movement, and the NH Type 8A, a 31 mm dress piece on a brand-new in-house Calibre 2326SS. Applications close 21 May.
Daniel Roth's slim ellipsocurvex Extra-Plat enters platinum for the first time under La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, paired with a grey dial decorated with hand-engraved pinstripe guilloché — the most monochromatic and arguably the most 'Daniel Roth' execution of the revival yet.
The small Italian dress-watch microbrand echo/neutra teams up with French parodic-watchmaking icon Romaric André's seconde/seconde/ project for a 50-piece run of the Rivanera. The dial wears an anechoic-foam-inspired blue hobnail texture — a perfect visual pun on the brand's name — combined with seconde/seconde/'s signature disrupted seconds hand. Now available, on echoneutra.com, at €1,490 / US$1,810.
To mark the 200th birthday of founder Moritz Grossmann (born 27 March 1826), the Glashütte manufacture introduces a pair of Tefnut references with dials silver-plated by friction — a hand-applied 19th-century technique — in white gold and (for the very first time on the Tefnut) yellow gold. The 39 mm × 8.5 mm anniversary editions use green for the Arabic numerals, the tracks, and the historical 1875 "M. Grossmann" logo. Just 12 pieces per metal, EUR 52,500 (white gold) / EUR 54,300 (yellow gold).
Oris brings back the Artelier Complication in three warm dial colours with a pared-down layout: moon phase at 12, 24-hour second time zone at 6, nothing else. Powered by the Calibre 782, priced from USD 2,950.
Oris reaches deep into its 1960s archive and pulls out the Star. The new Star Edition is a 35mm cushion-case automatic with a domed acrylic crystal, silver sector dial and trapezoidal date window — properly period-correct — for CHF 1,800. Arguably the sharpest vintage reissue value of W&W 2026.