This month’s watch discoveries range from fired enamel and practical quartz GMTs to recycled motorsport metal and an ultra-thin flying tourbillon that challenges expectations on price.
The new Chopard L.U.C 1860 Chronometer pairs a 36.5mm Lucent Steel case with an Areuse Blue guilloché dial and a Geneva Seal micro-rotor calibre.
The Patek Philippe Calatrava Alarm Ref. 5322G pairs a discreet white-gold Calatrava profile with a 24-hour mechanical alarm that sounds on a traditional gong.
From the Swatch x Audemars Piguet Royal Pop to Bovet’s convertible Monsieur Bovet, these watches prove the strap is not always the point.
The Longines Master Collection 190th Anniversary turns a simple three-hand dress watch into something memorable with a beautifully engraved dial and strong everyday wearability.
A dramatic 6 Hours of Spa showed why the World Endurance Championship has become essential viewing, with Hypercars, GT3 machinery and major manufacturers producing racing with real depth.
Liberum’s RE-XHAUST brings repurposed motorcycle exhaust material to the wrist, joined by a major Keith Haring auction, an enormous Myanmar ruby, Cannes photography and field-ready ZEISS binoculars.
The limited-edition Startimer Pilot IFR Chronograph brings a real cockpit function to the wrist, using a mechanical case-mounted system to calculate IFR holding pattern entries.
The rectangular Cabaret Tourbillon is back as a 50-piece Honeygold edition with a black-rhodiumed dial, stop-seconds tourbillon and five-day manual movement.
The rectangular Cabaret Tourbillon returns as a 50-piece limited edition with a Honeygold case, rhodium-grey Honeygold dial and Lange’s patented stop-seconds tourbillon.
A. Lange & Söhne has unveiled the Cabaret Tourbillon Honeygold at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, reviving one of its most distinctive rectangular complications in the manufacture’s proprietary gold alloy.
A. Lange & Söhne brings back its rectangular Cabaret Tourbillon in Honeygold, pairing a black-rhodiumed gold dial with the landmark stop-seconds tourbillon calibre L042.1.
The HU-01 bows out with two compact hand-wound dress watches, each using lab-grown diamond markers, a Peseux ETA 7001 movement and either a brushed silver-grey or Burma jade dial.
The Bay Area edition of Windup returns with a field-watch-minded pairing of Marathon and Prometheus Design Werx, putting practical gear culture and enthusiast watchmaking in the same room.
Briston adds wave-textured dials, colorful lume accents and a choice of acetate or steel cases to its accessible Clubmaster Legend dive watch family.
Baltic marks its fourth consecutive year as official Tour Auto timekeeper with a 300-piece rally timer set pairing a flyback stopwatch with a matching dash clock.
Richard Mille’s gem-set watches treat diamonds, sapphires and hard stones as part of the watch’s construction, not decoration added at the end.
Nomos Glashütte brings its peripheral date display into a more wearable 38 mm format, while new 18 kt gold versions give the Tangente Update a warmer, dressier character.
The new white-gold Calatrava Alarm 5322G brings Patek Philippe’s chiming alarm mechanism into a cleaner, more wearable format with textured dials, a 24-hour alarm and surprisingly practical operation.
The Venezianico Arsenale Calendario brings a complete calendar layout, a Miyota 9100 movement and an assertive integrated bracelet case to a $1,400 watch with real personality.