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LOUIS VUITTON MAKES THE TAMBOUR SPIN TIME A PERMANENT PART OF HIGH WATCHMAKING

Louis Vuitton expands its Spin Time language into the permanent Tambour collection, turning the house’s rotating-cube display into a broader high-watchmaking family built around La Fabrique du Temps.

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PATEK PHILIPPE MAKES COMPLICATIONS FEEL LESS FORMAL AND FAR MORE CONTEMPORARY

From four 50th-anniversary Nautilus editions to the Cubitus Perpetual Calendar and the astronomical Ref. 6105, Patek Philippe’s 2026 novelties prove that serious complications no longer require conservative dress-watch codes.

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BELL & ROSS AND S.T. DUPONT TURN THE BR-05 CHRONOGRAPH INTO A RITUAL OF LEISURE

A 150-piece BR-05 Chrono brings Bell & Ross together with S.T. Dupont, pairing a two-tone automatic chronograph with a Ligne 2 lighter, cigar cutter and Macassar ebony humidor.

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BELL & ROSS PUTS 4.5 BILLION YEARS OF COSMIC HISTORY ON THE BR-X5

The BR-X5 Meteorite pairs Bell & Ross’s architectural instrument design with a Muonionalusta meteorite dial, making every one of the 250 watches naturally unrepeatable.

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THE PIAGET POLO MINUTE REPEATER MAKES ULTRA-THIN WATCHMAKING AUDIBLE

The minute repeater is one of those complications that exposes a watchmaker immediately. A perpetual calendar can hide complexity beneath a composed dial; a repeater must perform in public. Pull the slide and the movement has to measure the time, strike hours and minutes in sequence

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JULIEN TORNARE IS MAKING HUBLOT’S NEXT ERA ABOUT PROOF, NOT JUST PROVOCATION

Hublot built its modern reputation by making the improbable look normal: gold with rubber, ceramics in saturated colours, carbon composites, transparent sapphire and collaborations that traditional Swiss watchmaking once might have dismissed as theatre.

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AUDEMARS PIGUET BRINGS 151 YEARS OF WATCHMAKING TO SINGAPORE

Among the most remarkable objects is the 1921 Grosse Pièce. Commissioned before the First World War and completed seven years later, the 78 mm pocket watch combines 19 complications. Its astronomical indications include a rendering of the London night sky with hundreds of stars,

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ROLEX FOUR SEASONS: FOUR GEM-SET COSMOGRAPH DAYTONAS FOR A SHARED FUTURE

On 28 September 2026, four one-of-a-kind Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watches will be auctioned in London through Phillips, with proceeds supporting the Federer Foundation and Re. Each timepiece interprets a season through natural stone, coloured gemstones and precious metal, linking Rolex’s watchmaking with education and conservation.

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Greubel Forsey GMT Balancier Convexe: A More Compact Vision of World Time

Greubel Forsey’s latest GMT Balancier Convexe brings one of the independent watchmaker’s most intricate complications into a more compact titanium case. With a real-time rotating globe, 30-degree inclined balance wheel and newly integrated 72-hour power reserve, the blue edition places mechanical information within a distinctly sculptural architecture.

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AUDEMARS PIGUET NEO FRAME JUMPING HOUR: A NEW EXPRESSION OF A HISTORIC COMPLICATION

Audemars Piguet revisits the jumping hour complication through the Neo Frame, a watch that combines the visual language of 1930s design with a newly developed selfwinding movement. Its contemporary construction places an old method of telling time within a distinctly modern study of material, proportion and movement.

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