Your Watches Insight
Chanel brings the J12 back to men's wrists with the 42mm Golden Black, a matte ceramic diver-style watch powered by the COSC-certified Kenissi Caliber 12.1 and finished with gold-plated accents.
Perrelet expands its refined Weekend collection with a quartet of natural stone dials featuring turquoise, lapis lazuli, tiger’s eye, and black onyx in a 39mm steel case.
IWC’s fourth Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS team watch is the first purple dial in Pilot’s history — a titanium chronograph in the colours of the Singapore Grand Prix and its national orchid, the Vanda Miss Joaquim.
Atelier Wen and Massena LAB team up for a 50-piece limited edition that pairs a 99.9% pure tantalum case and integrated bracelet with solid 18k gold, hand-tremblage dials bearing Arabic and hand-calligraphed Chinese numerals. Uncovered at Geneva Watch Days 2026, the Inflection Shuo runs a customised Girard-Perregaux GP03300 and opens orders at CHF 33,800.
NOMOS recalibrated its signature ring-date complication to fit the compact 38.5mm Tangente case, with two new steel references that take the acclaimed DUW 6101 automatic into slimmer, more versatile territory.
Studio Underd0g has launched the 02Series Mantis, a Gen 2 field watch featuring a vibrant green full-lume sapphire sandwich dial, a 37.5mm steel case, and a custom Sellita SW200-2 M manual-wind movement.
Fears marks 180 years of family watchmaking and a decade since its revival with the Brunswick 39 Perpetual Calendar — a 9.4mm cushion-cased calendar with a Silver Mink dial.
Seiko reworks its flagship 300m Marinemaster with the in-house Calibre 8L45, a redesigned clasp with on-the-fly adjustment, and a ceramic bezel — served two ways: a permanent black edition and a blue JAMSTEC limited run celebrating half a century of Arctic exploration. We went hands-on with both.
Formex refines its best-selling Essence 39 for 2026 with a COSC-certified SW200-2 Power+ offering 65 hours, a screw-down crown, and a tool-free micro-adjust clasp from $1,850.
The independent Malaysian outfit celebrates nine years with a 200-piece worldtimer whose two-piece bezel solves the daylight saving problem that has nagged every worldtimer since Louis Cottier.
Cartier celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Privé line with Les Opus, a trio of platinum watches in burgundy livery, headlined by an all new Crash Squelette with a hand hammered calibre.
Omega updates the Speedmaster38mm collection with seven new references featuring sunburst dials, co-axial chronograph movements, and a design language that brings the smaller Speedmaster closer to Moonwatch DNA.
Longines adds a hand-wound monopusher chronograph and a moonphase model to the 2026 Master Collection, bringing column-wheel movements, barleycorn dials, and aggressive pricing to the dress watch segment.
A hands-on look at the new Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary, a 300-piece limited edition that revives the compact 1968 skin diver with modern ceramics and the 100-hour Calibre 1150.
Glashütte Original's 2026 Senator Chronograph drops to a slimmer 41mm case with a new flyback Calibre 37-24, and gains a Navigator variant that translates the same architecture into a pilot-watch aesthetic.
