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Introducing: Parmigiani Fleurier Carillon Tourbillon 30th Anniversary—A Five-Piece Limited Edition
There are anniversary watches, and then there are anniversary watches. Parmigiani Fleurier's Carillon Tourbillon marks a philosophy of a 30-year-old Maison built not around a designer's vision but around a restorer's discipline: understand first, then create. That lineage traces directly to a specific object. In 2000, Parmigiani Fleurier restored a Perrin Frères pocket watch.
Introducing: Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P X Wristcheck—A 30-Piece Limited Edition
An interesting and unexpected collaboration to say the least. Piaget has joined forces with Austen Chu—better known as the Horoloupe on Instagram—and his company Wristcheck to present the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P X Wristcheck. Wristcheck was founded by Austen in Hong Kong in 2020, and now operates across Hong Kong, Macau, and New York.
Insider: Zenith Chronomaster Revival A384 Liberty II Edition—Celebrating 250 Years of U.S. Independence
As the United States prepares to mark its 250th anniversary, Zenith has released a fitting tribute rooted in genuine historical connection. The Chronomaster Revival A384 Liberty II Edition revisits the iconic A384 from 1969—one of the most storied tonneau-shaped chronograph cases in watchmaking history—and layers it with carefully considered symbolism honoring the American bicentennial and a half.
Introducing: Richard Mille RM HJ-02 In-House Automatic Tourbillon—Turning Jewelry Into Movement Architecture
Richard Mille presents the new RM HJ-02 In-House Automatic Tourbillon, the second chapter in the brand's high jewelry saga and a collection conceived to mark 20 years of designing for women. Presented as twelve unique timepieces organized into four chromatic universes—pink, violet, blue, and green—the RM HJ-02 treats gem-setting not as decoration but as architecture, with stones shaping every surface, from the case and buckle to the movement itself.
Insider: Konstantin Chaykin ThinKing Mystery—Hands-on with the World's Thinnest Mechanical Watch
The Konstantin Chaykin ThinKing Mystery is a watch that we’ve been wanting to review and photograph for quite some time. Finally, yesterday at the SIAR Summer Edition in Mexico City, our friends from Berger Joyeros made that possible for us.
Introducing: CVSTOS x Juncos Hollinger Racing Team Edition—A Five-Piece Tribute to the No. 76 Livery at Indy 500
Following an unforgettable inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington weekend spent as guests of CVSTOS and Juncos Hollinger Racing, the independent Swiss watchmaker has now continued to formalize its 2026 partnership with the INDYCAR Juncos Hollinger Racing Team by taking the team's identity directly onto the wrist.
Experience: The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Stories Exhibition Pop Up in the Miami Design District
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Stories Exhibition opened to the public last week, May 21, 2026, at Sweet Bird North, 95 NE 40 ST, in the heart of the Miami Design District, and will run through May 31, 2026. After our News piece announcing the Pop-Up on May 7th, we attended the opening in person last week
Introducing: MB&F LM Perpetual Chromatic Editions with Baguette Gemstone Bezels
A decade after its debut, MB&F revisits one of the most consequential perpetual calendars of the past twenty years with a trio of limited editions that bring high jewelry into conversation with mechanical processor architecture. The Chromatic Editions—three new references that frame the dial-side architecture with a hand-set baguette-gemstone bezel.
Introducing: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Monoface 'Or Deco Solo Tempo'—The Return to Its 1930s Proportions (Live Photos)
For 2026, Jaeger-LeCoultre takes the Reverso Tribute Monoface 'Or Deco' in the most interesting direction available to it: smaller, simpler, and closer to where the Reverso began. The new Reverso Tribute Monoface 'Or Deco Solo Tempo' drops the small seconds subdial, contracts the case to dimensions within striking distance of the 1931 original.
Introducing: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 Pegasus (Live Photos)
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Métiers Rares atelier transforms the Reverso into a sculpted canvas for the winged horse of Greek legend as Jaeger-LeCoultre continues to push the Hybris series into new artistic territory with the Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 Pegasus, a five-piece limited edition that channels the full force of the Manufacture's Métiers Rares atelier.
Introducing: Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds 'Or Deco' White Gold (Live Photos)
When Jaeger-LeCoultre debuted the Reverso Tribute Monoface Small Seconds 'Or Deco' in pink gold at Watches and Wonders 2025, the watch instantly read as one of those rare modern releases that felt simultaneously vintage and inevitable. A year later, the Manufacture rounds out the proposition with the obvious second move: the same watch, executed entirely in 18K white gold.
Introducing: Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual Platinum (Live Photos)
When Jaeger-LeCoultre unveiled the Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual at Watches & Wonders 2024—a release we singled out at the time as one of the most exciting of the show—it marked a new era for the Duometre collection by uniting two pillars of Jaeger-LeCoultre's high-precision expertise: the patented Duometre concept and an entirely new triple-axis tourbillon construction.
From the Editor: Eight Years Ago I Called the A. Lange & Söhne Cabaret a Unicorn—Lange Relaunched It as a Trophy
I wrote about the A. Lange & Söhne Cabaret in yellow gold back in 2018 and called it exactly what it was at the time: one of the least desirable watches in the Lange lineup. A unicorn—rare not because collectors were chasing it, but because almost nobody was. An art deco oddity in a rectangular case that the market had largely passed over since its discontinuation around 2011.
News: Jean-Marie Schaller, Founder of Les Ateliers Louis Moinet, Has Passed
The independent watchmaking world has lost one of its most visionary figures. The watch collecting community is mourning the loss of Jean-Marie Schaller, the founder and CEO of Les Ateliers Louis Moinet, who passed away peacefully on May 16 at the age of 66, following an illness that had kept him from attending Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026.
Insider: IWC Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar ProSet—Olive Dial, Gold Case, Show Me the Money
When Kurt Klaus engineered IWC's first perpetual calendar in 1985, the mechanism came with an unspoken condition: let the power reserve run out, and you were in for a careful, sequenced correction to avoid damaging the calendar. IWC chipped away at that over the years, until Watches and Wonders Geneva 2026, where the ProSet mechanism changed the equation entirely.
Introducing: A. Lange & Söhne Cabaret Tourbillon Honeygold—An Unexpected Comeback
The Cabaret has always been one of A. Lange & Söhne's most polarizing propositions. Introduced in 1997 as part of the brand's post-reunification rebirth, the rectangular case and art deco-influenced double-step bezel never drew the same crowd as the Lange 1 or the Datograph. It was discontinued around 2011 and has since lived as a secondary-market curiosity.
Perspective: Hublot Already Wrote This Story—Audemars Piguet Is Just Catching Up
There is a particular kind of brand suicide that unfolds in slow motion. You can see it happening, name every step as it occurs, and still watch the people in charge press forward. Hublot did it with excessive collaborations. Audemars Piguet is doing it now. The parallels are not subtle.
Introducing: Mauron Musy MU09 NODE°—Equipped with a Revolutionary Gasket-Free Sealing System
There are independents that spend years telling you what they're going to be, and then there are those that quietly build until the object does the talking. Mauron Musy, founded in 2013 in Switzerland's Broye Valley by Christophe Musy—an engineer, notably not a watchmaker—has always belonged to the latter camp.
Introducing: The Armoury x Naoya Hida & Co. Reference Type 4A-2 Floating Feathers
There are collaborations, and then there are collaborations. The former category is crowded with co-branded dials dressed up as creative partnerships. The latter is rare, and the Type 4A-2 Floating Feathers, the third collaborative timepiece between The Armoury and Naoya Hida & Co., belongs firmly in the rare camp.
