News & Novelties
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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…
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Grönefeld 1941 Quadrivium Four disciplines, one stage
Grönefeld unveils the 1941 Quadrivium, a new pinnacle that gathers the Horological Brothers’ hallmark ideas into one watch. Built from the ground up, it blends a 7.5-second remontoire, a one-minute flying tourbillon, central jumping seconds, and a power-reserve indicator. Twin concentric barrels linked in series feed this orchestra of mechanisms, earning the affectionate nickname “Grönefeld’s…
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Blancpain Lady B – a spherical salute to 70 years of Ladybird
Petite in diameter, large in intent. To mark 70 years of the Ladybird, Blancpain unveils the Lady B – a spherical 19 mm wrist-jewel that keeps the faith with mechanics only, echoing the 1956 Ladybird Bullet that housed the world’s smallest round movement.