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A 41mm steel diver with a ceramic bezel, sapphire crystal, 200m and a Miyota 8215, in six colourways, for USD 299. The clearest value proposition on the market right now.
Seiko gives its most historically important diver shape a Lake Hallstatt theme: dark-green sunray dial, gold-toned markers and hands, and the in-house 6R55 with 72 hours of reserve in the updated 40mm skin-diver case. Europe-exclusive and limited to 1,400 pieces at €1,650.
Panerai rebuilds its most recognisable diver in Carbotech, its carbon-fibre-and-PEEK composite. The result weighs around 100 grams despite 44mm proportions, wears a date-free vintage sandwich dial with faux-patina lume, and runs the in-house P.9010 with a three-day reserve. EUR 15,200.
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.
TAG Heuer, Mai Ikuzawa and Bamford Watch Department reunite on the 39mm Carrera Glassbox with a white Clou de Paris stopwatch-style dial, the in-house TH20-10 calibre and Team Ikuzawa's racing red throughout. LE 150, EUR 10,450.
Ming partners with Royal Selangor, the world's foremost pewter house, for an 88-piece 37.06 with a hand-hammered pewter dial in a 38mm grade-2 titanium case. Assembled in Kuala Lumpur for the first time, it retails at CHF 5,000.
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.
For the 23rd Sachsen Classic rally, Union Glashütte dresses its 41mm square Averin Chronograph in 1970s–80s racing livery — tile-embossed dashboard dial, red accents, perforated racing strap — with the silicon-hairspring UNG-27.S2 inside. 350 numbered pieces, EUR 3,700.
For its 30th anniversary, Parmigiani Fleurier recasts the Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante, Minute Rattrapante and Chronographe Mysterieux in full 950 platinum - case, knurled bezel and integrated bracelet - at 30 pieces each, priced from CHF 91,000 to CHF 99,600.
Ulysse Nardin revives its 2009 Moonstruck concept inside the 45mm Blast case in rose gold and black DLC titanium. The in-house UN-106 calibre links a 40.3-year-accurate moonphase, lunar calendar, tides, a worldtimer and Sun/Moon positions into one domed celestial display — 20 pieces at around US$116,000.
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 extends its Goodwood Festival of Speed partnership to the Formula 1 Chronograph — a British Racing Green limited edition of 500 pieces, sold exclusively in the UK at GBP 4,250, and the accessible companion to the 71-piece Monaco Goodwood.
Breitling's second watch as Aston Martin's official partner is a three-reference limited edition built on the squircle-cased Top Time B01. A ring of real wood carries the tachymeter scale, the red gold version debuts the first stone dial in Breitling's history, and the in-house COSC-certified Calibre 01 keeps it honest. From GBP 8,650.
Roger Dubuis takes its Knights of the Round Table concept to 17th-century Japan: twelve micro-sculpted pink-gold Kabuto helmets encircle an abstract Edo Castle, powered by the Poinçon de Genève-certified RD821. A 45mm pink-gold Metiers d'Art limited edition of 28 pieces, RDDBEX1139, priced on request (est. CHF 300,000 range).
Indie brand Toledano & Chan strips its brutalist case to raw blasted grade-5 titanium and a bare mirror dial for The Horology Club. A tribute to Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum window, 'The Breutalist' runs a Sellita SW100, is limited to 15 pieces, and is priced at USD 7,500 (ref. THC09U).
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.
Vacheron Constantin expands its compact 34.5mm Overseas with two lacquer-dial references: a deep-red sunburst in steel (4600V/200A-H127) and a tone-on-tone golden dial in 18k pink gold (4600V/200R-H128). Both keep the in-house calibre 1088/1 and the three-strap quick-change system; water resistance drops to 50m and official pricing is still to be confirmed.
Montblanc continues its Seven Summits run with a Mount Elbrus edition of the 1858 Geosphere 0 Oxygen: a 43.5mm titanium twin-hemisphere world-timer with an oxygen-purged case, a glacier-patterned dial and a bespoke Elbrus-inspired composite material. Limited to 829 pieces (a nod to the 1829 first ascent); EUR 10,100 / USD 10,600.
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.
For summer 2026, H. Moser pours a cocktail of berry-purple and limoncello-yellow onto its Pioneer Centre Seconds. The Concept dial drops all numerals and branding, leaving a sunburst gradient, leaf-shaped hands, and the in-house automatic calibre HMC 201.
Certina doubles the depth rating of its big diver: the DS Super PH2000M arrives in a grade-2 titanium case rated to 2,000 m, in a turquoise-gradient Sea Turtle Conservancy livery limited to 1,959 pieces, with proceeds going to ocean conservation — all for CHF 1,235.
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.
Doxa revives one of its rarest watches, the 1969 T.GRAPH dive-chronograph, as the SUB 200 T.GRAPH II. Now slimmer at 42 mm x 14.6 mm and offered as a non-limited collection in four classic colourways (including Caribbean blue for the first time), it runs a Sellita SW510 automatic chronograph with 200 m water resistance, from USD 4,250.
Family-run Philippine microbrand Makina launches its first automatic chronograph: a 42 mm sandblasted-steel slab with a hexagonal chapter ring and disc-based displays, powered by the Valjoux/ETA 7750. Pre-orders from USD 1,850.
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.
Glashütte Original answers its North America-exclusive panda Seventies X with the mirror image: the Seventies Chronograph XV, a matt black lacquered dial with silver galvanised totalisers in the 40mm TV-shaped steel case. Inside is the in-house calibre 37-02, an integrated column-wheel flyback chronograph with silicon hairspring and 70 hours of power reserve. Limited to 100 pieces for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at EUR 17,100.
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.
Released on Lou Gehrig Day, Oris revives its 40 mm Big Crown Pointer Date as a Yankees-coloured charity edition for ALS awareness. Limited to 2,130 pieces — Gehrig’s consecutive-games record — at CHF 2,400, with his 1939 farewell speech engraved on the caseback.
Seiko adds two crystal-pressed summer dials to its re-engineered Astron GPS Solar Dual-Time Chronograph: Crystal Green (HAB005J1) and Crystal Pink (HAB006J1). Each is a 43.4 mm titanium limited edition of 1,200 pieces at EUR 3,000, powered by the new in-house GPS-solar Caliber 5X63.
Bell & Ross returns to its rarest muse for a fourth time, partnering with S.T. Dupont on a 42 mm steel-and-18K-rose-gold BR-05 Chrono. Limited to 150 sets at EUR 19,200, each comes in a Macassar ebony humidor box with a matching Ligne 2 lighter and cigar cutter.
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.
Glashütte Original's annual Sixties Chronograph turns purple for 2026 — a translucent hand-lacquered galvanic dial over hand-galvanised gold, manually incised hour markers, and the brand's in-house Calibre 39-34 with a swan-neck-regulated three-quarter plate, all in a 42 mm polished-steel case. Reference 1-39-34-08-22-04, priced at USD 10,000, available now from May 2026 for one year only before leaving the catalogue. The most dial-craft-intensive annual chronograph the manufacture has produced since 2021.
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.
Watch Angels and Alpina have introduced the Startimer Pilot IFR Chronograph — a 44 mm steel pilot's watch built around what the makers describe as the world's first mechanical complication for IFR holding-pattern entry. The watch uses the chronograph hand, the rotating bezel, and a dedicated sub-dial to mechanically indicate whether a Direct, Teardrop, or Parallel entry is the correct route into a holding pattern. It is powered by the column-wheel Sellita SW531b, limited to 300 pieces, and priced at CHF 4,295.
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.
Briston's Paris-French micro-brand answers summer with the Clubmaster Legend Diver Ocean — a 40 mm, 200 m dive watch built around a three-dimensional molded wave dial, a navy-blue sapphire bezel, and the brand's signature tortoiseshell cellulose-acetate case (also available in brushed steel). EUR 850–875, Miyota 8315 inside.
Breitling has comprehensively redesigned the Chronomat collection, unveiling 22 new references across three platforms. The B01 42 sheds 1.3 mm of thickness, the new B31 Automatic 40 introduces the in-house Caliber B31 in the first time-and-date Chronomat ever offered in a 40 mm case, and the entire collection moves to a fully integrated case-and-bracelet architecture — Breitling's most coherent integrated-sports-watch play to date.
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.
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.
ZRC's military-spec Grands Fonds MN64 — the modern descendant of the 1964 French Navy issued diver — finally arrives in two full Grade-5 titanium executions: a sunray-black Full Titane and a gradient blue-to-black Titane Rubber. 3,000 m water resistance, patented submarine-hatch case-back, left-side crown.
Parmigiani drops the no-date 40 mm Tonda PF Chronograph into 18k rose gold for the first time, paired with a hand-guilloché Mineral Blue dial and the COSC-certified PF070 integrated chronograph. CHF 70,000 / EUR 79,000.
Confirmed 9 May, launching 16 May 2026: Swatch and Audemars Piguet have unveiled Royal Pop — a Bioceramic Pop Swatch reinterpretation of the Royal Oak in eight colourways, expected to retail between USD 300 and USD 500. It is the first Swatch luxury crossover with a brand outside the Swatch Group, and the most audacious AP licensing decision in fifty years.
Christopher Ward has just unveiled the most significant overhaul of its Sealander collection in five years — a comprehensively re-engineered Sealander Automatic and Sealander GMT, available in 36, 39 and a brand-new 42 mm size, with bolder indices, a new tool-less micro-adjust bracelet, and the Sealander name finally appearing on the dial. The collection goes on sale at 8:00 BST on April 30, 2026, starting at just $1,150 / £850 for the Automatic and $1,395 / £1,025 for the GMT.
Seiko's ultra-luxury arm Credor expands its 1979 Gerald Genta-designed Locomotive sports watch with a new permanent reference, the GCCR995. The Dawn Blue dial uses a textured pattern of small hexagons with woven-finish striping, paired with the original 38.8mm hexagonal High-Intensity Titanium case and the Credor-exclusive automatic CR01 calibre. Available from June 2026 at JPY 1,980,000.
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.
Frederique Constant's relaunched Classic Worldtimer Manufacture runs on the new in-house FC-719 — the brand's 35th manufacture calibre, with 72 hours of power reserve (up from 38) in a refined 40mm case. Starting at EUR 4,995.
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.
Panerai extends its historic Marina Militare line at Watches & Wonders 2026 with two new Submersibles — PAM01697 in brushed stainless steel and PAM01698 in lightweight Carbotech — paying tribute to the Aviazione Navale, the Italian Navy's naval aviation branch. Both are 44mm, 300m water resistant, and powered by the automatic Calibre P.900.
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.
For W&W 2026, Piaget gives the modern Polo 79 its first-ever ornamental stone dial — natural sodalite, set into a 38mm white gold case powered by the ultra-thin Calibre 1200P1 micro-rotor. Reference G0A51151. CHF 84,500.
Zenith skeletonises the Chronomaster Sport for the first time at W&W 2026. Four references — two steel, one rose gold, one diamond-set rose gold — all powered by the in-house El Primero 3600SK, still at 5 Hz with 1/10-second measurement on the bezel. Steel from EUR 16,500.
A real heritage dress watch from 1931 — 40mm, Sellita SW200-1, domed sapphire, Italian leather, from CHF 825. Limited to 95 pieces per variant.
Porsche Design ditches the black PVD, drops the flyback, and gives us a glass bead-blasted titanium Chronograph 1 you can actually buy. COSC-certified, $8,250.
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.
Seiko's ultra-luxury arm makes its first ever Watches & Wonders appearance with a hand-engraved platinum tourbillon, a blue urushi Goldfeather, and a Gerald Genta Locomotive in Dawn Blue.
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.
67 hand-painted dial plates stacked into a topographical landscape — Kollokium's Projekt 02 defies everything you know about dials.
Ardra Labs patents the PAN-GMT — finally tracking 30/45-minute offset zones like India and Nepal. A genuine horological innovation.
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.
Only 26 pieces of this frozen-lake masterpiece exist — Sartory Billard rivals Grand Seiko's Snowflake at a third of the price.
German Bauhaus brand Sternglas upgrades their beloved Berlin line with an automatic movement and Art Deco touches.
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.
Orient Star celebrates 75 years with a true ISO 6425-certified diver channeling 1964 heritage — Japanese watchmaking at its finest.
Lebond enters the spotlight with the Attraction — refined dressy automatic earning Fratello hands-on coverage.
Parmigiani Fleurier's hand-guilloché pink Alta Rosa dial in 36mm — one of the most beautiful dials of 2026.
Jack Mason takes a fresh DTC approach with the Palmera Skin Diver — a compact automatic channeling golden-era skin diving aesthetics.
Dutch microbrand BND Watches drops the third iteration of their cult-favorite diver. Limited to just 100 pieces per reference.
March LA.B goes bold with the AM2 Nyctalope — a carbon-cased automatic inspired by night vision with aggressive French styling.
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.
Toledano & Chan craft a full 18K gold ripple-effect dial in Grade 5 titanium — sells out in minutes every time.
Longines reimagines the HydroConquest — polished ceramic bezel, lacquer dial, and silicon hairspring. The gentleman's diver evolved.
Richard Mille concludes the Coloured Ceramics trilogy with three gem-set limited editions — the pinnacle of ultra-luxury.
H. Moser celebrates F1's unsung heroes — the mechanics — with a skeletonized flyback chronograph for Alpine's pit crew.
Master engraver Ron Elkins brings a fire horse to life on the dial — where watchmaking meets wearable art.
MING makes history with their first integrated bracelet — only 20 pieces of mirror-polished Starfield perfection.
Trematic goes full retro with the T-Five Beigua Maris — an all-titanium 39mm diver channeling 1960s elegance.
Squale captures golden-age diving in 37mm of perfection — glass-box sapphire, Old Radium lume, and 300m water resistance.