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…

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…

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…

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…

What We Know You’re looking at the newest H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Chronographs, a rose gold (on strap) and stainless steel (on steel bracelet) that pairs the brand’s creative dial work with a powerhouse HMC 907 central-counter automatic chronograph. The Streamliner collection launched in 2020 and has remained one of the most creative takes…

What We Know This year, Hublot is celebrating twenty years of the Big Bang. For the big birthday, it’s releasing a whole slew of limited editions to celebrate — be sure to read up on those in my other article covering those Watches and Wonders 2025 releases. There are, however, a few novelties that aren’t…

What We Know For Watches and Wonders 2025, Alpina Watches has announced a group of new models, the most important of which, to my vintage-loving heart, is the Heritage Tropic Proof. Following the successful launch of the Heritage Automatic and other vintage-inspired pieces, Alpina is bringing back one of its best time-only options of old,…

What We Know The Frederique Constant Perpetual Calendar has been one of if not the premiere affordable mechanical perpetual calendar on the market. Whether it’s a Highlife or Classic collection model, it’s the measuring stick any other maker on a budget has had to contend with. Now it’s back with a brand new movement and…