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A small spherical red gold watch on a long taupe double-wrap leather strap

New release

A watch the size of a marble: Blancpain's Lady B marks 70 years of the Ladybird

13 October 2026

A screwed balance wheel with hairspring from an early 1900s pocket watch

New release

No regulator, no drift: Fortis takes a free-sprung balance into a tool chronograph

13 October 2026

New release

Laurent Ferrier's Sport Traveller: two time zones, one push

A titanium sports watch with a new in-house calibre that jumps local time by the hour. And, unusually for the brand, a Swiss lever escapement.

13 October 2026

Close-up of a grey ceramic watch with a blue skeletonised movement and tourbillon, on a blue Alcantara strap

New release

Moser and Alpine go ceramic with a skeleton tourbillon

13 October 2026

Two square NOMOS Tetra 27 watches on black straps, one with small seconds and one with hours and minutes only

New release

Small and square: NOMOS adds two new Tetra 27 models

13 October 2026

The Patek Philippe Museum building in Geneva with red banners

New release

Patek Philippe's 5978P, and why an instantaneous calendar is so hard

13 October 2026

The Ressence RW-01 movement seen from the side and above on a white background

New release

Ressence finally builds its own engine: the TYPE 11 and the RW-01

13 October 2026

White modern watch factory building in Nidau, near Biel, Switzerland, in black and white

Industry

Swiss watch exports in August: growth almost everywhere except America

13 October 2026

The village of Môtiers in the Val-de-Travers seen from the south in summer

Auction

A steel watch from a small workshop just sold for over a million dollars

13 October 2026