After details emerged Wednesday evening that the Trump administration planned to impose major tariffs on Swiss products, including watches imported to the US, Serge Michel, the founder of independent brand Armin Strom, got to work. Michel took in-person meetings with retail partners attending the Watches and Wonders salon in Geneva or reached out to others…
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Spring has arrived, and with it, the first sunflowers are beginning to stretch toward the sky, soaking up the warmth and promising longer, brighter days. In the world of horology, a new bloom is making its debut—the SB05 Sunfl0wer. A collaboration between Sartory Billard and Studio Underd0g, this watch is a burst of color, creativity,…
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A watch, like many things, is a sum of its parts. But it’s rare when two parts are such big news that they threaten to be bigger than the watch itself. Grand Seiko’s SLGB001 and SLGB003 are solid releases – nice finishing, attention to detail, pretty dials – and, on paper, have everything we expect…
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At times, it’s hard to keep up with all the new releases during Watches and Wonders. A good example is the stream of great ones from Patek Philippe. The brand unveiled a total of 15 new references this week that all deserve our attention. But where do you start? One glance made that very clear…
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It’s one thing to encounter fine watchmaking first hand. It’s another to encounter it on fine watchmaking’s home turf. With 2025 marking 270 years of continuous watchmaking for Vacheron Constantin, special novelties were expected from the brand, and the new Patrimony timepieces — the Patrimony Moon Phase Retrograde Date and the Patrimony Self-Winding — which…
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The Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon is a remarkably impressive watch. It’s a tourbillon with a total thickness of just 1.85mm. This makes it the thinnest tourbillon-equipped timepiece ever. Let’s take a look. Bvlgari has had remarkable success with its Octo Finissimo line. The brand rightly points out that its designs have received more than…
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Not all introduction articles around Watches and Wonders 2025 need to be overly complicated. This will be a particularly simple one. Would you like to be done and dusted in a single sentence? Fine! Parmigiani released a green version of the Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante. That’s it! You can jump to the next article to…
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What We Know In a modern market saturated with round (and, ahem, octagonal) cases, Piaget’s new Sixtie makes a compelling case for the return of bold design. With its trapezoidal case, the Sixtie recalls the Maison’s most experimental era: the late 1960s, when Piaget blurred the lines between horology and fashion. This was the same…
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