Category: Watch Industry & Watchmaking News
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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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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.
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NOMOS Glashütte at Pitti Uomo 110: Small Watches, Big Style Statement
Florence has its own catwalk rhythm, and this June it ticked to Glashütte time. At Pitti Uomo 110, NOMOS watches appeared across the Fortezza da Basso and along the Arno, pairing fine German watchmaking with sprezzatura in linen and light tailoring.
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Hilaria Baldwin opts for Frederique Constant’s Classics Manchette in NYC
Hilaria Baldwin attended the Gurus Beauty Awards and opening night events in New York City wearing Frederique Constant’s Classics Manchette. A celebrity sighting is not a measure of horological merit, but it does show how a design sits on the wrist in the wild. Here, it read elegant without trying too hard.
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Time to Watches Prize 2026 honors Mikael Correia’s BRAND(ED) at HEAD – Geneve
The Time to Watches Prize 2026, awarded in partnership with HEAD – Geneve, has gone to Mikael Correia for BRAND(ED) – an experimental watch concept that makes a virtue of discomfort and asks a pointed question: why are we willing to suffer for beauty?
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Sowind Group earns Switzerland’s Best Managed Companies recognition for 2026
Sowind Group – parent to Girard-Perregaux and Ulysse Nardin – has been named one of Switzerland’s Best Managed Companies 2026 by Deloitte Private, marking a third consecutive year on the list. The Group first earned the distinction in 2024 as the first company in Switzerland’s luxury industry to do so, and has repeated in 2025…
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Zidane’s First Cartier Pasha Heads to Christie’s for ELA
Zinedine Zidane’s first personal watch – a stainless-steel Cartier Pasha with sapphire cabochon-set pushers – will be auctioned at Christie’s Rare Watches sale in Geneva on November 9, 2026, with proceeds to benefit ELA International. The piece, bought with his first salary at FC Girondins de Bordeaux nearly 35 years ago, carries more than celebrity…
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Mauron Musy names Ryan Lochte and Tuli Tuipulotu friends of the brand
Mauron Musy has appointed Olympic champion Ryan Lochte and Los Angeles Chargers outside linebacker Tuli Tuipulotu as friends of the brand. It is a tidy match of high-output athletes with a small Swiss independent that builds watches around mechanical discipline rather than marketing noise.
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Blancpain marks 40 years of gastronomy with a chef-led video series
Blancpain celebrates four decades of friendships at the table with a new video series starring its partner chefs – a quiet reminder that precision is not only the watchmaker’s art, but also the cook’s. The maison points to a community tallying more than 100 Michelin stars and opens the series with a throwback film tracing…
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Jaeger-LeCoultre brings The Collectibles VI to London – twelve museum-grade timepieces
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s sixth capsule of The Collectibles lands at 13 Old Bond Street, London, from June 15 to July 18, gathering twelve expertly restored, museum-grade watches that chart the maison’s path from the 1920s to the early 2000s. It is a quiet exhibition of intent: craft first, narrative second.