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H. Moser & Cie. just released the Endeavour Minute Repeater Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Cosmic Rain: a 40mm titanium minute repeater with a cylindrical hairspring tourbillon and a blue aventurine night-sky sub-dial, limited to 20 pieces at CHF 378,350. A working dealer's read on the movement, the acoustics, and who actually buys this.
MB&F waited 17 years to build a chronograph. The Legacy Machine Sequential EVO does it with two independent chronographs, a single switch that starts, stops, and resets both, and a Stephen McDonnell movement built from scratch. Here's what the $180,000 watch actually does.
Before there was Patek Philippe, there was Patek, Czapek & Cie. A working dealer's read on Czapek & Cie, the crowdfunded revival of Patek's original partner, the Antarctique sports watch that made the brand a name to know, the in-house SXH5 micro-rotor movement, the artisanal dials, and what it costs to get in.
H. Moser & Cie makes serious watchmaking look effortless and pokes fun at the industry while doing it. A working dealer's read on the small Swiss independent behind the smoked fume dials, the logo-free Concept watches, the Streamliner sports line, and the vertically integrated movement making that has collectors paying attention.
F.P. Journe is the watchmaker that serious collectors name once they have owned everything else. A working dealer's read on why: the solid gold movements almost no one else builds, the resonance and constant-force technology, the tiny production, and why a Chronometre Bleu that retails near $38,000 trades past $190,000 on the secondary market.
Christie's Geneva Rare Watches live auction on May 11 and 12, 2026 totaled $42.3M, a record for multi-owner watch auctions at the house. A 1990 Cartier London Crash hit $2.03M and Quincy Jones's 1981 Patek Nautilus 3700/1JA led the provenance story. The working dealer's read on what sold and what it means.