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As the velvet ropes go back up on Geneva’s Palexpo convention centre, Alex Doak returns from Watches and Wonders bearing news of much horological brilliance
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As the velvet ropes go back up on Geneva’s Palexpo convention centre, Alex Doak returns from Watches and Wonders bearing news of much horological brilliance

IWC stole this week’s Genevan trade-fair extravaganza, gazing to the heavens in cahoots with US space privateers, ‘VAST’… And horolo-design guru Christian Knoop is here to tell us where the cool factor lies

Ultra-precise Spring Drive movements, intricate Japanese craftsmanship and nature-inspired dials define the striking new watches unveiled by Grand Seiko in Geneva…

Geneva’s sleeping beauty awakens to cult status, at the hands of mighty Breitling

Switzerland’s perennial, affordable, not to mention sartorial watchmaker has something up its French-cuffed sleeve

Minimalist, mechanical and masterfully made, we pick out a trio of Metro collection standouts from the German watchmaker…

Seventy-two years young, a Swiss watchmaking legend is making another date with one of its perennial classics

Inspired either by the golden ratio or an American highway junction, Patek Philippe’s Golden Ellipse became one of the brand’s most distinctive and unexpectedly radical watch designs.

Thirty years pushing the envelope of modern ‘haute horlogerie’ demand nothing less than the most virtuoso birthday present any watch nerd could hope for.

It’s lights out! on this season’s horological race for F1 superiority with a brace of tuned-up tickers paying tribute to Mercedes-AMG Petronas’s British wünderkind

Tudor’s Ranger returns in a new 36mm case with a “Dune White” dial, sharper proportions and serious tool-watch credentials, delivering a quietly confident alternative to the Black Bay line.

On Succession, money speaks softly on the wrist, never shouting. Watch the details and you’ll clock what Patek Philippe was in Succession, and why it mattered.

Sticker shock follows the crown long before it touches the wrist. Once margins, output, and demand are counted, you start to see why Rolex is so expensive.

The filmmaker’s one-of-one F.P. Journe wristwatch has become the most valuable timepiece the independent watchmaker has ever sold, following a record-setting New York auction...

NASA's go-to chronograph supplier reverts to ‘reverse panda’ flight mode

Certain pieces slip past fashion and into folklore, rewarding scrutiny and surviving it. It becomes less about price than permanence, which raises the question, what makes a watch collectable?

Here are 11 to clock as we head into the new realms of 2026
A conversation with the A. Lange & Söhne CEO on German watchmaking, independence of thought and the quiet confidence of doing things the right way.
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