News & Novelties
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Watches for ELA 2026 at Christie’s raises CHF 501,400 in Geneva
At Christie’s Geneva, the second Watches for ELA session gathered CHF 501,400 at hammer, a measured triumph for a cause that deserves quiet persistence as much as headlines.
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Ulysse Nardin Freak S Purple Enamel the last titanium enamel Freak S
Twenty five years after the original rule breaker, Ulysse Nardin marks the Freak’s jubilee with the Freak S Purple Enamel – the final Freak S in titanium with an enamel hour disc, limited to 50 pieces. It is a fitting coda: radical mechanics paired with patient, old world craft.
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Czapek Faubourg de Cracovie Crossroads Lightning – a tenth at a time
Czapek’s new Faubourg de Cracovie Crossroads Lightning takes its cues from a young Swiss racer and measures life in tenths. Limited to 18 pieces, it borrows the black-silver-red of Jacopo Mazza’s helmet and the calm focus of a qualifying lap. It is a chronograph for those who keep pushing when the grandstand is quiet.
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ArtyA Purity Curvy HMS Sapphire Sport – transparency with intent
ArtyA’s Purity Curvy HMS Sapphire, Sport Edition sets a clear agenda – let the movement speak and let sapphire keep quiet. The brand recuts its signature Curvy case in Saphir Absolu\u00ae, using color as an accent rather than a costume. The result is a crystalline frame that turns structure into style.
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GPHG 2026: La Vallée’s COSMO Takes the Mechanical Clock Prize
At the 26th Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, La Vallée’s COSMO claimed the Mechanical Clock Prize with a concept that feels both audacious and inevitable: an entire 14.5-kilogram mechanism, magnetically suspended and rotating on its own axis once every sidereal day.
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URWERK UR-101 Green Mamba – time lying in wait
Deep black, vivid green – the URWERK UR-101 Green Mamba pares the idea of a watch to signal and shadow. A 50-piece return to roots, it revives one of the brand’s 1997 pillars with a stricter focus: case as shell, display as message. The price is CHF 33,000 excluding tax.
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MB&F LM101 Gabriel Colliard – A Matter of Fire
When mechanical ingenuity meets artistic imagination, unexpected worlds appear. MB&F joins independent enameller Gabriel Colliard to turn the LM101 into three cloisonné enamel tableaux – macaws in red, a blue monkey, a green crocodile – each edition limited to eight pieces. The result is not decoration piled onto mechanics, but a dialogue where the movement…
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GPHG 2026 – Rexhep Rexhepi Takes the Aiguille d’Or
Geneva crowned its best again. At the 26th Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, the Aiguille d’Or went to Rexhep Rexhepi for the Chronograph Flyback, a clear nod to substance over spectacle. Under the gaze of the UNESCO Director-General, the industry gathered not for noise, but for craft.
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Rexhep Rexhepi RRCHF Chronograph Flyback – precision shaped by restraint
Rexhep Rexhepi’s first flyback chronograph arrives with the calm assurance of a well tuned atelier. The RRCHF is an integrated, hand wound calibre built for thinness and clarity, where every line serves the function. It reads like a performance, but one scored for precision rather than applause.
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LeCoultre in America – JLC unveils The Collectibles VIII in New York
Jaeger-LeCoultre brings its eighth The Collectibles capsule to New York, a focused curation of nine museum-grade LeCoultre pieces produced for the American market between 1933 and 1981. On view and for sale from November 6 to 20 at 701 Madison Avenue, the set sketches a quiet, very American chapter of the Maison’s history.