News & Novelties
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NOMOS Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer wins Red Dot Best of the Best
NOMOS Glashütte’s Club Sport neomatik Worldtimer silver has taken Red Dot’s Best of the Best for 2026, a second major laurel after the iF Design Award earlier this year. Introduced in 2025, the watch distills a practical world time into clear, everyday terms without losing its Club Sport backbone.
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Speake Marin Ripples Portobello – a lavender mood with mechanical backbone
Speake Marin’s Ripples Portobello arrives as color with intent – a soft lavender dial that shifts with the light, laid over the collection’s signature wave motif. It is an urbane nod to London’s Portobello, where refinement lives comfortably among market stalls and serendipity.
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Red Carpet Complications: Pattinson And Hawkins Choose Jaeger-LeCoultre In London
At the London world premiere of The Odyssey on July 6, 2026, Robert Pattinson and Corey Hawkins arrived with a quiet kind of flourish, each wearing a Jaeger-LeCoultre that spoke more about craft than clout.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Names IU Global Ambassador Through The Hour Before
Jaeger-LeCoultre has appointed IU as its new Global Ambassador, introducing her through The Hour Before, an interview format that pairs conversation with the quiet choreography of assembling a Reverso case. It is a considered match of craft and character.
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Concepto at Twenty – verticalization, tourbillons, and a future in full gear
On June 26th 2026, in the unusual heat of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Concepto marked twenty years since its founding by Valérien Jaquet. Clients, suppliers, friends and the Jaquet family gathered at the Watch Factory to salute two decades of steady acceleration. Built on full verticalization and a reputation for reliability, the group and its seven subsidiaries…
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Ressence Just Won Design’s Version of an Oscar, and This Time It Took Marc Newson Along for the Ride
Ressence has announced that the TYPE 3 Marc Newson has won Red Dot: Best of the Best 2026 in the Watch category, the top distinction of the Red Dot Award: Product Design, described by the organizers as the most-referenced design prize in the world.
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Corum revives the Coin Watch for America’s 250th – fifty states, five per state
Corum marks the 250th anniversary of the United States with a new Heritage Coin collection sold exclusively online from July 4, 2026. Fifty state designs, five pieces each. Simple math, deliberate scarcity, and a clear nod to a long American thread in Corum’s tapestry.
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Czapek Antarctique Frozen Meteor – steel-blue from space, now in two sizes
Geneva, June 2026. Czapek & Cie unveils the Antarctique Frozen Meteor in 40.5mm, limited to 38 pieces, and the Antarctique S Frozen Meteor in 38.5mm, limited to 25 pieces – both in stainless steel with a light denim-blue Gibeon meteorite dial and the new V2 integrated bracelet.
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Frederique Constant Classics Runabout Automatic GMT – Two Shades of Dolce Vita
Frederique Constant revives its Classics Runabout Automatic GMT with a biennial limited edition that pairs Italian nautical spirit with Genevan craft. The 2026 release comes in two dial colors and is limited to 888 pieces per color.
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Omar Sy joins Jaeger-LeCoultre for The Hour Before
Jaeger-LeCoultre has named Omar Sy its newest Friend of the House, introducing the collaboration through The Hour Before – a series focused on the quiet preparation that precedes visible success.