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Omega redesigns the 38mm Speedmaster to look like a Moonwatch rather than a lifestyle piece. Co-Axial 3332, 38mm, 100m, from USD 6,500.
Sicura — the Grenchen brand Ernest Schneider ran before buying Breitling — is back with the Hexa 400: a 40mm hexagonal dual-crown diver with an internal dual-time ring, 400m water resistance and a Sellita SW200, for EUR 1,450.
For the Oyster Perpetual's 100th anniversary, Rolex returns solid gold to the 34mm OP for the first time since 2001 — with two genuine brand firsts: hand-applied natural stone hour markers and a dominant satin-brushed finish on a precious-metal case. In-house calibre 2232 with Syloxi silicon hairspring, from EUR 36,400.
Torsti Laine marks ten years of his Neuchâtel atelier with the P33, a 33mm hand-wound dress watch with a double hand-turned guilloché dial, plus five new P37 colourways in a numbered edition of 99. Hand-cut guilloché and black-polished steel from CHF 9,900.
New Neuchatel independent Atelier Pieters - founded by ex-Omega complications chief and WOSTEP director Maarten Pieters - debuts the Atelier 1 Founders' Series: a 43.5mm platinum hand-wound tourbillon with dual planetary power-reserve displays, 8 pieces per colourway, CHF 148,500.
Moser's most complex watch returns as a 20-piece titanium edition: a dial-side minute repeater, a flying tourbillon on a cylindrical hairspring, full skeletonisation, and a hand-fired aventurine and mother-of-pearl dial. CHF 378,350, and a GPHG 2026 Mechanical Exception entry.
Orient expands its year-old Stretto family with five Date models (38.5mm, in-house F6722, incl. a 2,300-piece blue-gradient LE) and five Day & Night models (41.5mm, in-house F6B24 with day, date and sun/moon display) — all under EUR 500.
TAG Heuer dresses its square icon in British Racing Green for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, limited to 71 pieces and powered by the in-house 80-hour TH20-00 chronograph.
The cult British microbrand rebuilt its 02Series field watch from the case out — thinner, with a more powerful hand-wound movement and four dials — while holding the accessible price that built its following.
Zenith adds two colour-charged Defy Extreme models running the dual-escapement El Primero 9004, a chronograph that mechanically measures and displays 1/100th of a second. The Lapis Lazuli II pairs forged carbon and titanium with real lapis counters (25 pieces); the microblasted-titanium Ultraviolet goes fully transparent and, at CHF 17,900, is one of high horology's strongest value plays.
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.
De Bethune turns its signature oxidised-titanium finishing toward a warm golden 'sand' dial. A 40 mm, 8.8 mm-thin grade-5 titanium DB25xs on the hand-wound Calibre DB2005 with a six-day reserve. CHF 70,000.
Tissot's most capable diver keeps its helium valve, ceramic bezel, 600 m rating and ISO 6425 certification but trims to a wearable 44 mm across five new references, from EUR 975. Powermatic 80 inside, 80-hour reserve.
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.
MB&F's first new Horological Machine of its third decade is a Grade 5 titanium flying-tourbillon watch shaped as a robot's head, complete with a 200-part mechanical face shield and a 38.2 cm L'Épée 1839 robot companion. 36 pieces, CHF 280,000.
Ming and Los Angeles guilloché master Josh Shapiro have launched the 37.06 Lightning, a 38mm steel watch whose Grade 2 titanium dial is rose-engine-turned with a brand-new lightning-bolt pattern, then heat-coloured by hand with a butane torch into a unique orange-to-blue gradient. Roughly one in three dials survives the process. CHF 6,250, first orders open 5 June 2026 at 13:00 GMT, then around ten pieces per month.
Presented during the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco 2026, the Monaco Speed 12 replaces the classic chronograph layout with a jumping-hour display of twelve rotating titanium pistons. The automatic calibre TH84-00 was developed by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton — the first time the patented Spin Time architecture appears outside Louis Vuitton. Limited to 50 numbered pieces in Grade 5 titanium, from December 2026.
Tudor shrinks its in-house dive-chronograph to a far more wearable 39 mm and 13.1 mm, wrapped in a bold yellow-and-black “Bumblebee” dial. Reference M79310N-0001 keeps the COSC column-wheel Calibre MT5813, 200 m water resistance and the T-fit bracelet, at USD 6,725.
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.
Kollokium's Projekt 02 returns for summer as Variant C "Cooler Waters" — a 299-piece limited edition built around a hand-painted, 67-plate topographical dial in turquoise with blue-emission lume. Time-only, 39.5 mm die-cast steel, La Joux-Perret G101 automatic, CHF 3,666.66.
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.
Norqain teams up with the Swiss national football side for a 41 mm steel chronograph built for the 2026 World Cup: a football-pitch green dial, a Swiss flag in place of the date "26," a football-shaped small-seconds at 9 o'clock, the Sellita SW500-based Calibre N19, a dual bracelet/strap package and a stadium-styled box. 260 pieces, CHF 4,850.
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.
Christopher Ward's annual Bel Canto limited edition has arrived in a Negroni-coloured guilloché finish — a 300-piece edition of the brand's in-house chiming watch with a femto-laser dial that shifts between deep scarlet, warm amber, and burnt orange under different light. Priced at roughly US$4,995–5,340, it remains the most accessible Swiss-Made mechanical passing-chime watch on the market.
Serica has introduced the Ref. 7505 Field Chronometer, a compact 35 mm reformulation of its cult-favourite Field Chronometer line. The watch carries a new case (9.6 mm thick, 41.5 mm lug-to-lug), three new dial variants — the Minute Critical Dial in Black and Olive Green, plus the brand's signature TXD ('Tuxedo') dial — and the COSC-certified Soprod M100 movement inside. From EUR 1,090, with 200 m water resistance and deliveries from June 2026.
Armin Strom has unveiled the Dual Time GMT Resonance Aventurine — a 10-piece limited edition that fits Venetian aventurine to the brand's flagship dual-balance resonance dual-time GMT. The 39 mm stainless steel case houses the in-house Calibre ARF22 with its patented Resonance Clutch, mechanically synchronising two independent regulating organs. CHF 105,000.
Seiko marks 145 years with an 800-piece King Seiko Vanac in its signature Seiko Blue colourway. The Calibre 8L45 (a Grand Seiko 9S65 cousin) sits inside the angular 41 mm 1970s-revival case, priced at EUR 3,400.
Urwerk closes its UR-10 Spacemeter programme with a final 25-piece run in blue, capping total production at just 75 pieces. The 45.4 mm titanium case keeps the central syringe hands, but the three sub-dials still measure Earth's motion through space — every 10 km of equatorial rotation, every 1,000 km of solar orbit. Calibre UR-10.01 (Vaucher base + Urwerk module), CHF 70,000 excluding tax.
British micro-brand Beaucroft teams up with Time+Tide on the Solaris GMT — a 39.5 mm steel caller GMT with a purple-to-orange gradient chapter ring and a hammered, textured sun-core dial. Limited to 200 pieces, regulated in-house at Beaucroft's Loupe Works facility to ±10 seconds per day, priced at GBP 800 / USD 899.
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.
Citizen finally takes its in-house quartz Tsuno bullhead chronograph beyond Japan, with a formal EU and US launch at EUR 229 — plus a 4,000-piece limited Record Label Playground edition with a fully lumed green dial.
Girard-Perregaux joins the steel-plus-rose-gold integrated-sports renaissance with an unexpected 'Chocolate' Laureato Chronograph 42 mm — limited to 50 pieces, on a Clou de Paris-stamped rubber strap, and powered by the in-house GP03300-1052 chronograph with eight distinct finishing techniques visible through the sapphire back. EUR 26,500.
Tudor's biggest surprise of Watches & Wonders 2026: a sport-elegant Monarch revival in 39 mm steel, a brand-new error-proof California dial, and the manufacture calibre MT5662-2U with METAS Master Chronometer certification — all at CHF 4,800.
Kross Studio formally rebrands to Marco Tedeschi and launches the MT1.1 Le Tourbillon 7 Jours: a 44 mm crown-less, lugless flying tourbillon with a 7-day power reserve, available in titanium, black DLC titanium, tantalum, and 5N pink gold — from CHF 69,900.
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.
Anoma finally drops a permanent collection. The A1 Core debuts as the teal mirror-polished Abyss and the textured grey Stone, both housed in the brand's signature 39 × 38 mm lugless triangular steel case. Initial allocation of 300 pieces (150 per colour), but the collection is permanent.
The third watch from Canadian independent Bradley Taylor — and his first with an in-house movement. The Ardea introduces a refined retrograde-seconds display, solid-platinum applied numerals each individually milled and polished by hand, and the in-house Calibre 475RS, of which roughly 80% of components are made by Taylor himself. Limited to 50 pieces; first reservations open in 2028.
TAG Heuer drops a five-piece pastel Formula 1 Solargraph capsule timed to the 2026 Miami Grand Prix — three Polylight refs and two diamond-set steel refs from USD 1,950, with pre-sales opening at 03:00 EDT on April 28.
Yema's Skin Diver Slim Full Lume CMM.20 fits an in-house manufacture micro-rotor (70h reserve, near-COSC) into a 39mm 300m diver with a fully luminous dial, bezel insert and rubber strap — 400 pieces, USD 2,725.
Italian micro-brand Venezianico brings its first complicated reference to the Arsenale line: a complete calendar, power reserve, and a fully mechanical day/night disc, all driven by the Miyota 9100, in a 40 × 9.6 mm integrated-bracelet sports case at EUR 1,200 / USD 1,400. Available April 27, 2026.
Hamilton digs into its archives and revives the rare U.S. Air Force–issued FAPD 5101 navigator's watch in a 36mm case with an 80-hour H-50 manual movement, acrylic crystal and a globally available price of EUR 675 — plus a 1,776-piece U.S.-only 250th-anniversary limited edition.
De Bethune extends its 'art-on-the-bridge' theme with a fresh sea-blue random guilloché treatment of the 38.7mm DB28XS tourbillon — the in-house DB2009V7 5 Hz, 5-day, 30-second tourbillon, in titanium, with a hand-engraved bridge that's visually unique on every example. CHF 170,000.
H. Moser and Reebok have produced the most unexpected — and functional — collaboration of Watches & Wonders 2026: a Streamliner with a bright orange pump pusher on the left flank that adds power reserve to the mainspring every time you press it. Two colours, 250 pieces each, CHF 31,360.
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.
A 511-component white-gold tour de force with twin inclined flying tourbillons, a patented gimbal seconds display and the Grinder automatic winding system — limited to 50 pieces at CHF 320,000 and presented at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2026 for the 25th anniversary of the Freak and the 180th of Ulysse Nardin.
At Watches & Wonders 2026, Parmigiani Fleurier introduces a world première in its family of invisible complications: the Tonda PF Chronographe Mystérieux. At rest, the watch reads as a classic three-hand-plus-small-seconds time-only with five perfectly superimposed hands. A single press of the pusher reveals two rose gold chronograph hands that emerge from beneath their rhodium counterparts; a second press stops them; a third returns the dial to invisibility. A 40mm steel case with a platinum-950 knurled bezel (225 flutes), hand-guilloché Mineral Blue grain d'Orge dial, and a newly developed integrated automatic Calibre PF053 with 362 components and a 22ct rose gold rotor. Price: US$44,600.
For its 100th anniversary at Watches & Wonders 2026, Tudor finally modernises its Royal line — the integrated-bracelet dress-sport family — with a complete move to in-house MT calibres across 30mm, 36mm and 40mm sizes. The 36mm and 40mm references feature 70-hour power reserves and -2/+4 sec/day accuracy, with a dial palette now extended to nine colourways including salmon, burgundy, champagne and mother-of-pearl.
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.
Bulgari's world-record-breaking Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon returns for W&W 2026 as a 10-piece platinum limited edition (ref. 104344). Still 1.85mm of total thickness, still the in-house BVF 900 4 Hz tourbillon — now with a platinum case and cool-blue openworked dial.
The precious-metal ProSet perpetual calendar: 42mm in 18-carat 5N rose gold with an olive green dial and buffalo leather strap. Calibre 82665 with bidirectional QP. Applied gold indices. CHF 54,200.
IWC Schaffhausen unveils the Pilot's Venturer Vertical Drive at W&W 2026 — a 44.3mm ceramic and Ceratanium watch that eliminates the crown entirely, replacing it with a rotating bezel and patent-pending rocker switch for all functions. Developed with space habitation company Vast and certified for human spaceflight, its in-house Calibre 32722 delivers 120 hours of power reserve.
Grand Seiko debuts its most wearable Spring Drive diver at W&W 2026: the U.F.A. Ushio 300 in 40.8mm High-Intensity Titanium, powered by the new Calibre 9RB1 with a power reserve indicator and Spring Drive's signature ±20 seconds per year accuracy. Priced at $12,400, it is also Grand Seiko's best value proposition in the diver segment.
Patek Philippe marks the Nautilus's 50th anniversary with four new references: the ultra-slim Jumbo 5810 in white gold (41mm), a mid-size 5610 in platinum (38mm), and the extraordinary Nautilus Desk Watch Ref. 958G.
Arnold & Son releases the Ultrathin Tourbillon Onyx Edition ahead of Watches & Wonders 2026 — 8 pieces per metal, a 2.97mm in-house calibre, and 100 hours of power reserve. Here's why this is the most underrated tourbillon of the year.
A real heritage dress watch from 1931 — 40mm, Sellita SW200-1, domed sapphire, Italian leather, from CHF 825. Limited to 95 pieces per variant.
Urwerk's weirdo geniuses set 214 diamonds across the steel architecture of the UR-101 — a 25-piece canopy of light orbiting the satellite hours.
Tissot shrinks the Gentleman to 38mm, kills the crosshair, adds pyramidal brushing, and keeps the 80-hour Powermatic and Nivachron — all for $850. This is the everyday Swiss automatic to beat.
Doxa's SUB 200 II debuts five fume colourways — Sea Emerald, Red Coral, Caribbean, Sharkhunter and Sharkhunter Vintage — on a slimmer 12.8 mm case.
Sinn shows up to Watches and Wonders for the first time with a hunter's moonlight watch, a 38.5mm neo-vintage tool three-hander, and a blacked-out in-house chronograph.
One of the greatest lost manufactures of the 20th century just came back from the dead. Polerouter in eleven flavours, Disco Volante, Dioramic — the full comeback.
Nomos Glashütte makes in-house movements accessible with vibrant new California dials under $2,100.
Shinola brings the heat with a burst of bold new colorways across their lineup. At around $500, this is one of the most accessible American-made timepieces.
Shinola reissues the Runwell Chrono in compact 36mm with the Argonite 5021 quartz chronograph movement — American heritage with Swiss-made precision.
Doxa breaks new ground with the first-ever fumé dials in their permanent Sub collection — slimmer, bolder, and more refined.
Fortis coats the Marinemaster in DLC with 4,500 HV hardness — 500m water resistance and COSC-certified Kenissi power.
Breitling celebrates 50 years of Concorde with 593 Navitimer pieces — one for each Olympus 593 engine. Aviation history on the wrist.
Hot pink on a skeleton flyback chrono — Moser's Alpine Drivers Edition is 100 pieces of unapologetic boldness.
Bell & Ross sets blue aventurine aglow with 18 diamonds — seven tracing the Aquila constellation — in their 36mm BR-05 Diamond Eagle.
Parmigiani Fleurier's hand-guilloché pink Alta Rosa dial in 36mm — one of the most beautiful dials of 2026.
Christopher Ward drops their third in-house movement — a TRUE GMT under $4,000. The watch of March 2026.
March LA.B goes bold with the AM2 Nyctalope — a carbon-cased automatic inspired by night vision with aggressive French styling.
Hanhart takes to the skies with titanium desert-themed pilot watches blending WWII military heritage with modern lightweight construction.
Luminox teams up with the Navy Seal Foundation for a 961-piece limited edition with a glowing blue NSF logo.
Tissot rewrites the rulebook on what a sub-$1,000 Swiss automatic can be with the all-new Visodate 39mm — the TOP VALUE PICK of March 2026.
Baltic stuns with their first worldtimer featuring real stone dials — labradorite, tiger eye, and sodalite. Horology meets geology.
Breitling pairs the iconic Navitimer slide rule with a perpetual calendar — available in steel and full platinum.
H. Moser celebrates F1's unsung heroes — the mechanics — with a skeletonized flyback chronograph for Alpine's pit crew.
MING makes history with their first integrated bracelet — only 20 pieces of mirror-polished Starfield perfection.
Squale captures golden-age diving in 37mm of perfection — glass-box sapphire, Old Radium lume, and 300m water resistance.