News & Novelties
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Bovet Aperto 1 Rosso – a measured flash of Italian red
BOVET presents the Aperto 1 Rosso, an open-worked collaboration with Pininfarina that trades noise for nuance. Italian racing red provides the spark. The mechanics do the talking.
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Bianchet Rotondo UltraFino Diamond – precious meets performance at WatchTime New York
Bianchet brings a cool spark to WatchTime New York with the Rotondo UltraFino Diamond, a white-gold baguette-set bezel wrapped around an ultra-thin Grade 5 titanium flying tourbillon that takes 5,000 G on the chin and swims to 10 ATM. A circle of light over serious hardware.
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Lorige BL-Evolution Competition – race-used brakes meet seven-day endurance
Lorige marks its role as Official Timekeeper of Inter Europol Competition with the BL-Evolution “Competition” – a 50-piece series that turns the team’s race-used Carbon/Carbon brake pads from the No. 43 and No. 343 LMP2 cars into watch cases and dials. It is a trophy you can wear, but also a study in material intent.
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Frederique Constant The Elements Collection 2026 – stone dials meet classic complications
Frederique Constant reveals the 2026 Edition of its The Elements Collection, a three-watch box set limited to 88, pairing mineral dials with the brand’s core Manufacture calibers. Each dial is a unique stone slice, so every set is a quiet one-off. The trio is sold together at select independent retailers for MSRP $42,285.
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Armin Strom Tribute3 Au750 – gold as structure, not garnish
Armin Strom pushes the Tribute into new territory with the Tribute3 Au750, letting 18K rose gold speak all the way through – case, dial, and deep within the calibre. Three solid gold bridges define the movement architecture, pairing finger bridges for barrel and balance with a three quarter bridge. It is not a veneer. It…
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NOMOS Glashütte Goes Dark: The Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer dark
NOMOS Glashütte launches the Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer dark, a familiar traveler now dressed in enamel black with more Superluminova than before. It keeps the easy logic of the line: tap the pusher to jump local time, keep home time steady at 3 o’clock, and read a world of cities at a glance.
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Introducing the Millesime Jubilee – 50 Years of RAYMOND WEIL
RAYMOND WEIL marks its half-century with the Millesime Jubilee, a 500-piece limited edition announced to celebrate the brand’s 50 years. The name is apt – a vintage worth cellaring, one hopes, rather than a fleeting toast.
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GorillaSharpener – Caran d’Ache x MB&F Recast a Swiss Classroom Icon
MB&F and Caran d’Ache celebrate 15 years of the M.A.D.Gallery with the GorillaSharpener – a fully functional Caran d’Ache Sharpening Machine turned into a knuckle-walking mechanical creature, released on World Gorilla Day, September 24, in support of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. ’ache
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FHH and GIA join forces to widen access to watchmaking education
The Fondation Haute Horlogerie and the Gemological Institute of America will collaborate to broaden access to horological knowledge, pairing the FHH Academy’s watchmaking expertise with GIA’s global education network.
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Ulysse Nardin Freak One Blue Enamel – 25 Years of Motion and Fire
The Freak turned watchmaking inside out in 2001. A quarter century on, Ulysse Nardin marks the milestone with the Freak [One Blue Enamel], a 99-piece ode to motion and métier. It keeps the radical brief intact – no dial, no hands, no crown – yet quietly adds a classical flourish: a guilloché-flinqué hour disc in…