From sub-£500 quartz and automatic options to serious tourbillons, these tonneau sports watches offer a more attainable route into the Richard Mille-inspired aesthetic.
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A rare pre-production F.P. Journe Chronomètre à Résonance 022/99R, kept by one owner since 1999, will be offered at Phillips in Geneva with an estimate of CHF 500,000 to CHF 1,000,000.
Breitling has introduced three limited-edition Top Time B01 Chronograph 41 models celebrating the Aston Martin DB5, with steel, platinum-bezel and red-gold executions priced from £8,650.
Breitling’s latest Top Time Chronograph 41 celebrates the Aston Martin DB5 with a 1960s-inspired design, Manufacture Caliber 01 movement and three limited-edition executions.
The new Gerald Charles Masterlink Gem Set Stone Dial collection pairs aventurine, spectrolite and Iron Eye dials with baguette-set white gold bezels in three 10-piece editions.
The Roger Dubuis Excalibur The Kabuto Legacy turns the brand’s miniature warrior mythology toward 17th-century Japan, with 12 hand-engraved Kabuto helmets circling an abstract Edo Castle.
Hublot’s Big Bang Summer Multi-colored Ceramic editions bring pink, mint green and sky blue ceramic to two limited models, including a flyback chronograph and an automatic tourbillon.
Hanhart has introduced the Aquasphere Matte Black, a new dive watch that gives the Aquasphere name a more restrained, tactical look.
The limited Depancel Série-R Chronograph Ice Blue gives the brand’s automotive chronograph a calmer, more elegant personality inspired by 1940s road cars.
July’s standout independent watch releases range from a £339 hand-wound dress watch to stone-dial divers and a numbered American limited edition.
The F.P.Journe Chronomètre À Résonance Souscription No.7 sold for $13,922,000 at Phillips in New York, placing a modern independent watch in the long scientific lineage of Huygens, Janvier and Breguet.
A sharply edited guide to five modern watches that channel historic design with today’s movements, materials and finishing.
Watch casebacks have evolved from simple hinged covers into critical components that shape water resistance, serviceability, movement display and the identity of the case itself.
As the Speedmaster Moonwatch moves toward its next anniversary moment, its evolution shows how Omega turned a purpose-built chronograph into one of watchmaking’s most enduring designs.
Rolex is wholly owned by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, a Geneva charitable foundation created by the brand’s founder. Its unusual structure helps explain why Rolex operates unlike most luxury watch companies.
McLaren Special Operations has restored one of the three M6 GT prototypes, reviving Bruce McLaren’s Can-Am-inspired road-car project from the late 1960s.
Vacheron Constantin’s “Explore All Possible Ways” exhibition opens at its 37 Old Bond Street boutique in London, tracing the maison’s links with travel, culture and technical watchmaking.
Titan’s specialist luxury watch retail arm is positioning itself as a bridge between global watchmakers and India’s fast-growing community of collectors and first-time luxury buyers.
The TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Glassbox Sand keeps the 39mm case and TH20-00 movement, but shifts the mood with a warm beige dial and European-market limited run of 500 pieces.
Minerva’s new time-only watch removes the crown entirely, using a fluted rose-gold bezel to wind the movement and set the time.