What We Know It has been 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang. Oh, wait, sorry — wrong Big Bang. It’s actually been 20 years since the first Hublot Big Bang was introduced by industry veteran Jean Claude Biver, in a big move that completely set the course for the company’s DNA and identity for…

What We Know If there’s one launch from last year’s Watches and Wonders to remember, Nomos Glashütte’s Tangente 38 Date collection, with its whopping 31 limited edition colorways and dial names like “Super Sardine” and “Rambazamba,” certainly was a top contender. While a release like that is hard to beat, this year Nomos gives the…

What We Know Laurent Ferrier, the 15-year-old independent watchmaker, is placing the Classic Auto permanently in its catalog, and it’s doing so in icy blue style. The Classic Auto Horizon arrives as a fresh take on LF’s latest “model,” introduced as a Série Atelier piece for Geneva Watch Days 2024. The Horizon swaps the copper-toned…

There’s no shortage of brands trying to do something different in watch design — but pulling it off in a way that’s actually clever, well-built, and accessible is much rarer. The team at MandetBrote set out to reimagine how we experience the passage of time, and after more than two years of engineering, prototyping, and…

Here’s a beautiful new version of a three-year-old watch, and I can’t get enough of it. In 2022, Chopard introduced the first Flying Tourbillon to its runaway success Alpine Eagle collection. While Chopard does well to some degree with most of its timepieces, the Alpine Eagle has emerged as its bread and butter, capturing plenty…

In 2024, Piaget celebrated the 45th anniversary of Yves Piaget’s Polo watch by introducing a re-edition, the Polo 79, in full yellow gold. It came out in February of last year, and RJ dared to say that probably nothing at Watches and Wonders 2024 would trump it. We all know RJ is very much into…

It’s not like you’re going to play polo any time soon anyway, so why not have your Reverso complicated and with two dials? Jaeger-LeCoultre presents the Reverso Tribute Geographic and Minute Repeater, showing once again that the brand knows how to tastefully combine a classic design with horological technicity. Both complications are not just fascinating…

Complicated watches are not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Panerai. Having said that, the Italian-born Swiss brand has shown us over the years that it can integrate brilliant technical wizardry into its iconic models. Two great examples are the current Luminor Perpetual Calendar GMT in Goldtech and Platinumtech. Both seem…