Insights, stories, and expert knowledge about luxury watches, horology, and timepieces from around the world.
Moonwatch, Pie Pan, PloProf, Broad Arrow, Tintin, Ed White. A working dealer's complete guide to every major Omega nickname, the reference it belongs to, and where the name actually came from.
Czapek's new Promenade L'Écume des Jours is an 18-piece limited edition built around a 1947 Boris Vian novel, with a piano-key flange, a hand-painted water lily sub-dial, and an in-house Caliber SXH5.1 movement. A working dealer's read on the watch, the story, and what it costs.
Omega refreshed the Speedmaster 38mm collection for 2026 with seven new references, a COSC-certified Calibre 3330/3332 movement family, and a return to round sub-dials for the first time since 2017. A working dealer's read on every reference, what it costs, and which one to buy.
The Rolex waitlist is not a line, it is a relationship system. A working dealer explains how allocation actually works, what wait times look like by model in 2026, and why pre-owned skips the whole process.
Hublot and Jeff Koons shrunk the artist's most famous sculpture down to 42mm. A working dealer's read on the Classic Fusion Balloon Dog, the caliber inside it, and the six-figure MP-14 Origin that came with it.
Rolex just revived a nickname collectors have used since the 1940s. The new Perpetual Padellone pairs a meteorite moonphase and annual calendar with the brand's most efficient escapement yet. Here is what a working dealer sees in it.
A wound mainspring delivers its strongest torque early and its weakest torque late, which can affect a watch's rate. A working dealer's plain-English guide to constant force, how a remontoir d'egalite and a silicon constant escapement solve the same problem differently, and where the idea actually came from.
The Vacheron Constantin Historiques 222 revives Jorg Hysek's 1977 design for the brand's 222nd anniversary. A working dealer's guide to the original, the gold reissue, the newer steel version, the in-house caliber 2455/2, and what to check before buying pre-owned.
Jaeger-LeCoultre stacks its own 1,000 Hours Control on top of COSC certification for the Master Control Chronometre line. A working dealer's read on what the High Precision Guarantee actually tests, the Q4158120 Date and Q4178180 Perpetual Calendar references, and what it means for a pre-owned buyer.
Wandering hours watches show the time with no hour hand at all, just rotating numeral discs that hand the hour off to each other. A working dealer's plain-English guide to the 1655 origin, how the mechanism actually works, and Audemars Piguet's Star Wheel.
Oris brings bronze to its ProPilot aviation line for the first time. A working dealer's read on the new reference, the Calibre 733 movement, the LIFT clasp, and what CHF 2,250 actually buys.
Panerai marks 100 years of its Florence boutique with the Luminor Firenze 8 Giorni: a 100-piece Platinumtech PAM01734 at EUR 55,000 and a 1,000-piece steel PAM01794 at EUR 10,700, both built on the P.5000 hand-wound caliber and a rare 1960s prototype case.