Category: Watch Industry & Watchmaking News
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From Discovery to Dialogue – FHH’s quiet success at INHORGENTA 2026
The Fondation Haute Horlogerie chose culture over commerce in Munich, and it showed. At INHORGENTA 2026 – held 20–23 February at Messe München within a fair of 900 exhibitors and 1,200 brands – the FHH built a three-part path through watchmaking: Discover, Deepen, Share. Not a sales booth in sight, just a gateway to craft…
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M.A.D.Gallery at 15 – Frank Buchwald’s Helios lights the anniversary
MB&F’s M.A.D.Gallery turns 15, and the party piece is fittingly mechanical and a touch otherworldly. Frank Buchwald returns with the ML15 Helios, a limited series of 15 machine lights that distill his retro-futurist language into a calm, radiant core.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre’s The Collectibles lands in New York with eight early Reverso watches
Jaeger-LeCoultre brings the fifth capsule of The Collectibles to New York City from 5 to 23 February 2026, presenting eight authenticated and restored Reverso watches from 1931 to 1937 at 701 Madison Avenue. It is a quiet reminder that good design does not age so much as it settles.
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Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026 – the city becomes the stage
Watches and Wonders Geneva returns 14 to 20 April 2026 with a wider footprint and a clearer intent to draw the whole city into the conversation. Eleven additional brands join the Salon, while an expanded In The City program pulls activity onto the streets and lakeside. Online ticket sales open 10 February 2026 on the…
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Swiss watchmaking jobs in 2026 – tight belts, steady hands
Swiss watchmaking enters 2026 with the quiet focus of a workshop before opening hours: lights on, voices lowered, tools precisely arranged. The backdrop is unsettled — a strong franc, persistent inflation, and geopolitics that refuse to keep time — and the emphasis is on discipline rather than bravado.
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Speake Marin appoints golfer Adrien Saddier as brand ambassador
Speake Marin has named Adrien Saddier as its new brand ambassador. The 33 year old French golfer earned his place on the PGA Tour after an outstanding 2025 season. The partnership is framed around shared values of precision, elegance and mastery, qualities the brand sees in Saddier’s game and in its own watchmaking philosophy.
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Tariff Relief Lifts Swiss Watch Exports – Politics Complicate the Picture
The United States has trimmed tariffs on Swiss imports to 15% from 39%, retroactive to November – and the industry has responded on cue. December Swiss watch exports rose 3.3% to 2.1 billion francs, with shipments to the U.S. up 19.1%. It is a welcome loosening of the vise, though still tighter than the roughly…
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Time to Watches 2026 turns Villa Sarasin into a watchmaking village
Geneva will host Time to Watches on April 14 – 19, 2026, with the event returning to Villa Sarasin and expanding into a village of spaces that include the Lodge, Annex, Cellar, Garden and a set of Brand Pavilions. The venue sits a one-minute walk from Palexpo, but the tone aims for human scale rather…
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HYT’s 2025 – bellows back, fluid time refined
HYT spent 2025 doing what it does best – making time move in a line of colored liquid and letting the mechanics speak for themselves. The year was anchored by the S1 collection, a measured return to the brand’s bellows and to a clearer view of the hydromechanical heart.
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Venezianico closes 2025 at 15 million euros – growth, a first own movement, and a clearer identity
Venezianico reports revenues above 15 million euros for 2025, a 35% increase year on year. For a brand in its eighth year, founded by Alberto and Alessandro Morelli, the figure matters less as a headline than as fuel – it suggests a maturing operation with the means to build what it says it wants to…