What We Know Get your “this all seems like a broken record” comments ready, Bulgari has captured yet another ultra-thin watchmaking crown. The Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon is now officially the thinnest tourbillon ever produced, measuring just 1.85mm in thickness. Well beyond the definition of a dynasty, today’s tourb marks Bulgari’s 10th world record in…

What We Know In 2023, IWC went back to their history books to revive a more authentic version of the design language of the Ingenieur SL ref. 1832, designed by Gérald Genta in the 1970s. Now, they’re taking the gloves off a bit to expand the Ingenieur line with new materials, complications, and even aesthetic…

What We Know For the first time in the Alpine Eagle collection, Chopard is introducing platinum to the mix. Undoubtedly influenced by the success of 2023’s extra-thin salmon dial Alpine Eagle XPS with a LUC movement, the LUC movement returned. In this case, it is rendered in very bright 950/1000 platinum and a fitting cool…

Vacheron Constantin’s Les Cabinotiers department has done it again, setting a world record for the most complicated wristwatch with the “Solaria Ultra Grand Complication” less than one year after the announcement of the world’s most complicated watch. Far from a pocket watch this time, the Solaria features 41 complications, 13 potential patented inventions, and a…

What We Know For Watches and Wonders 2025, Zenith, celebrating its 160th anniversary, introduces the G.F.J. — a thoroughly modern take on the time-only Caliber 135 chronometers of old. If you’re a student of the brand’s history, the additional three letters on the dial and simple model name might be obvious, and if you’re not…

What We Know It wouldn’t be Watches and Wonders without Jaeger-LeCoultre dropping some massively complicated (and gorgeously designed) new watch. This year, we get two: the Reverso Tribute Minute Repeater AND the Reverso Hybris Artistica Gyrotourbillon. While the incredibly complex Gyrotourbillon isn’t a brand-new movement, it’s a reimagination of a design from 2023, and it…

What We Know As we head ever closer to the Reverso’s 100th birthday, Jaeger-LeCoultre has used Watches and Wonders 2025 to announce an array of new (or newly updated) models, including new versions of the brand’s darling Reverso Tribute Small Seconds in both Monoface and Duoface layouts. For the Monoface, we have a new 18k…

What We Know Grand Seiko just launched two new chronographs with its recently developed Tentagraph movements. As a refresher, the original Evolution 9 Tentagraph debuted in 2023. It was Grand Seiko’s first mechanical chronograph, and its name was an amalgamation of its several properties: ten beats per second, three-day power reserve, and automatic chronograph. Now,…