Greubel Forsey is closing the book on the Balancier Convexe S² with two final ceramic editions, one in white, the other in black, featuring a 5N red gold bezel and case back. Each is limited to 11 timepieces, making them the most exclusive executions the S² has seen.
Introducing: Ralph Lauren 888 38 mm—On Bracelet and with a Swiss Quartz Calibre
The Ralph Lauren 888 collection continues to serve as the house's most classically proportioned watch family, and the new 38 mm reference doubles down on the formula: clean lines, traditional design codes, and a case size that reads as universally versatile. Available this April at select Ralph Lauren boutiques and authorized retailers, the 888 38 mm pairs a white lacquered dial with polished stainless steel and a Swiss quartz movement.
Experience: An INDYCAR Weekend with CVSTOS and Juncos Hollinger Racing at the Inaugural Grand Prix of Arlington
This past weekend, we were in Arlington, Texas, as guests of CVSTOS—the independent Swiss luxury watchmaker known for its bold engineering and avant-garde design—for the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington, the newest addition to the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES calendar. CVSTOS serves as the Official Timekeeper of Juncos Hollinger Racing for the 2026 season.
Weekend Reads: TAG Heuer's First Female CEO, a $590,000 Minute Repeater, and the Five Tourbillons That Mattered Most
Each week at WCL delivers editorial coverage across the spectrum of serious watch collecting—from industry analysis and new release evaluation to archival perspectives and manufacture insights. Weekend Reads curates the week's most substantial pieces: the editorials that reward deeper engagement and merit your weekend reading time. Five pieces worth your attention:
Perspective: One Month to Watches and Wonders 2026—What Our Predictions Tell You Before We're There
In thirty-two days, Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026 opens its doors for its most ambitious edition yet, with 66 exhibiting brands. Seven days split between professional and public programming. A Montreux Jazz Festival partnership. And a roster headlined by a returning Audemars Piguet—back for the first time since walking away from SIHH in 2019—arriving during the brand's 150th anniversary year.
Breaking News: TAG Heuer Names Béatrice Goasglas as Global CEO—First Woman to Lead the Brand in 166 Years
LVMH has appointed Béatrice Goasglas as CEO of TAG Heuer, effective May 1, 2026. She becomes the first woman to lead the 166-year-old Swiss watchmaker, succeeding Antoine Pin, whose departure was announced in January after roughly 18 months in the role.
Introducing: Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Flying Bridges. Automatic Winding with Micro-Rotor at USD 590,000.
Girard-Perregaux has been on a roll since the release of the La Esmeralda Tourbillon “A Secret” Eternity Edition. Now comes the Minute Repeater Flying Bridges, the Manufacture's third new top-tier calibre in under six months—a pace that would be ambitious for any brand, let alone one building movements of this complexity entirely in-house.
From the Editor: Five Tourbillons That Defined the Past Twelve Months. Each One Answered a Different Question.
The tourbillon remains the most overused word in luxury watchmaking and, simultaneously, the complication most capable of separating genuine mechanical ambition from decoration. Almost every manufacture offers one, but very few deliver something really defining. Over the past twelve months, WCL has published coverage on dozens of tourbillon watches across every price segment and philosophy.
From the Archives: Visiting the Audemars Piguet Manufacture. What You Should Know Before AP Walks Into Watches and Wonders.
On April 14, Audemars Piguet will walk into Palexpo for the first time as an exhibitor at Watches and Wonders Geneva. For a manufacture that sat out the original SIHH for years before joining, then operated independently after the salon's dissolution, and now enters the reconstituted event on its own terms during its 150th anniversary year, the significance of the moment is hard to overstate.
Introducing: Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026—Swaps Blue for Tri-Color
When Omega released its white ceramic Seamaster Diver 300M Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in January, it established a compelling visual language for the brand's 32nd edition as Official Timekeeper. Now, as the Paralympic Winter Games open in Northern Italy—a role Omega has held since 1992—the manufacture extends that same design vocabulary to a dedicated Paralympic edition that differs in two deliberate ways.
Weekend Reads: Bremont's Identity Crisis, a $10 Million Triple Tourbillon, and Parmigiani's Alta Rosa
Each week at WCL delivers editorial coverage across the spectrum of serious watch collecting—from industry analysis and new release evaluation to archival perspectives and manufacture insights. Weekend Reads curates the week's most substantial pieces: the editorials that reward deeper engagement and merit your weekend reading time. Five pieces worth your attention:
From the Editor: The New Bremont Felix the Cat Stole the Number 6. But Who Stole the Brand's Identity?
There is a sentence in Bremont's latest press release that deserves to be read twice: the brand is celebrating its passion for "joyful watchmaking—an approach long embedded within the brand's DNA." I struggle to recall precisely when joyful watchmaking became embedded in the DNA of a company founded on the uncompromising rigours of Martin-Baker ejection seat testing and the credibility of British military aviation.
Introducing: Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Automatic 36 mm Alta Rosa. A Careful Exercise in Chromatic Restraint.
Parmigiani Fleurier's Tonda PF 36 mm has quietly, without fanfare, become one of the more compelling propositions in the integrated-bracelet category. At a case size that nods to classical proportions rather than contemporary excess, and powered by a dedicated manufacture calibre, it occupies a position that most competitors have either abandoned or never attempted to occupy.
Insider: Bianchet B 1.618 UltraFino Titanium. The Independent Tourbillon Punching Above Its Weight.
The B 1.618 UltraFino is Bianchet's first ultra-thin design, first automatic movement, and first integrated bracelet. Three firsts in a single release from a brand only five years old. That level of mechanical ambition deserves attention.
Insider: Antoine Preziuso TTR3 Trillion Radiant—89 Carats and Three Tourbillons at 10 Million Dollars
Antoine Preziuso has been forging his own path since 1980—over four decades of independent Geneva watchmaking rooted in complication mastery and a refusal to follow convention. Born in Geneva with Italian roots, he trained at the city's École d'Horlogerie and built minute repeaters, perpetual calendars, and tourbillons under his own name and for some of the industry's most established houses.
Watch Shopping: Vacheron Constantin Boutique Opens at The Mall at Short Hills, New Jersey
Vacheron Constantin has just opened a new boutique at The Mall at Short Hills in New Jersey, expanding their retail footprint in the American Northeast. For collectors in the greater New Jersey area, the boutique represents a meaningful development: full access to the complete Vacheron Constantin collection, from the Fiftysix references through grand complications.
Weekend Reads: The Nautilus That Matters More, Rolex CPO Three Years Later, and a CHF 295,000 Louis Vuitton
Each week at WCL delivers editorial coverage across the spectrum of serious watch collecting—from industry analysis and new release evaluation to archival perspectives and manufacture insights. Weekend Reads curates the week's most substantial pieces: the editorials that reward deeper engagement and merit your weekend reading time. Five pieces worth your attention:
Introducing: Cvstos Challenge K. Khachanov Carbon. 50 Grams of Lighter, Darker, Louder.
When Cvstos and Karen Khachanov unveiled the first Challenge K. Khachanov last year, it landed as a focused proposition—a 55-piece limited edition in super-light aluminium, weighing only 55 grams, with blue PVD-coated bridges and a three split-bridge architecture that gave the CVS610 calibre real visual presence. At USD 19,800 it offered a lot of watch for the money, and the market agreed: it sold out.
Perspective: The Patek Philippe Reference 5712—The Nautilus That Matters More
There is a particular irony in the story of the Patek Philippe reference 5712. For the better part of two decades, it existed in the shadow of its simpler sibling, the 5711, which commanded waiting lists, secondary market premiums, and a cultural presence that transcended horology entirely. Yet it was the 5712—quieter, more mechanically ambitious, more horologically serious.
Introducing: Louis Vuitton Escale Minute Repeater. A CHF 295,000 Watch to Take Louis Vuitton Seriously.
For a decade, Louis Vuitton has been quietly assembling the infrastructure of a serious watchmaker. The 2011 acquisition of La Fabrique du Temps in Meyrin gave it a Geneva manufacture. A minute repeater is the one complication that cannot be faked, mass-produced, or reduced to a marketing exercise. It is also, perhaps not coincidentally, the card Louis Vuitton has chosen to play at LVMH Watch Week 2026.
