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The Orbit shows its date only when asked: press the pusher at 10 o'clock, and a hand points to today's date on the ceramic bezel.

For the first time, the off-centre dial of Armin Strom's Mirrored Force Resonance carries a sunray guilloché, cut by hand on a rose engine lathe.

Konstantin Chaykin, the independent watchmaker who made Russia's first tourbillons, wanted more complexity for the Time Eater he shares with Louis Erard: specifically, a tourbillon.

Independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen made the glacial blue guilloché main plate at the heart of Armin Strom's latest Gravity Equal Force.

German artist Daniel Engelberg's concentric circles now orbit each other on a titanium dial, animated for the first time by Ressence's orbiting display.

Armin Strom completes its Gravity Equal Force collection in 18K rose gold. Kari Voutilainen cuts the grain d’orge guilloché pattern on the mainplate by hand, beneath a sapphire dial that seems to float.

A cult 70s driver’s watch reengineered in sapphire. The AMIDA Digitrend Open Sapphire fuses jump-hour mechanics, Swiss precision, and radical transparency—limited to just 150 pieces.

Benoît Mintiens and Mohammed Abdulmagied Seddiqi went into the desert together to gather the sand that fills this dial, sourced from each of the seven Emirates.

Manuel Emch of Louis Erard recalls that Konstantin Chaykin called with a grin: making watches together was fun, but he wanted to sell a few himself.

Chronoswiss casts the Strike Two Nugget in solid 18ct red gold, crafted by the independent watchmakers of Lucerne as a tribute to the gold rush.

Chronoswiss borrows its cue from the Tora, a watch it built in the 1990s. The Strike Two Stellar Blue takes that spirit into its darkest dial yet, a deep blue cut in radiating straight lines.

Revolution’s 20th anniversary sent founder Wei Koh back to the Czapek watch he had admired since 2023, and this time he helped remake it.