@universalgeneve Universal Genève’s return to watchmaking reached a decisive moment with the revival of “The Nina,” the Tribute to Compax chronograph that has won the 2025 Revolution Award for Best Revival Watch.

The category recognizes a historic model of near-legendary status brought back either as a regular production piece or a limited edition.

In this case, the award goes to a watch whose original identity was shaped as much by its design as by the woman who wore it: Nina Rindt, wife of champion driver Jochen Rindt, whose presence at race circuits in the late 1960s helped transform a functional chronograph into a cult object. ...

Given the strong contenders this year, the bar is high for the category of Best High Jewellery. @tiffanyandco Tiffany & Co.’s Bird on a Flying Tourbillon – Azure Blossom checks all the boxes, beginning with the glorious diamond bespeckled bird perched on the edge of a flying tourbillon and set amidst a sea of appliqué lacquered flowers.

Of course, this is an interpretation of Tiffany & Co.’s first flying tourbillon timepiece released last year, so in novelty terms, it is not wholly new. But it is a magnificent flex of Tiffany & Co.’s expertise in myriad high jewelry crafts, from champlevé enameling, lacquer work and miniature gold sculpting to diamond setting, the house’s specialty.

Given that this is Tiffany & Co., diamonds are the order of the day — all 771 of them in myriad sizes and cuts, and requiring more than 100 hours to set. The eponymous bird, meanwhile, is sculpted by hand from 18K white and yellow gold, and set with 70 diamonds that contribute to the whopping 3.8 carats on the piece in total.

The Artime movement Caliber AFT24T01 is immaculately hand finished, showcasing a full range of high watchmaking techniques, from beveling and satin finishing to mirror-polishing, along with a generous dusting of diamonds on two decorative plates.

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@audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet’s 2026 novelties read like a manifesto for the next 150 years and of course, the brand was never going to let a century and a half of watchmaking go by without a monumental display of horological dominance. One of the clear through-lines is a brand that’s committed to complications engineered around real human use, which can be seen in the suite of new offerings built around the Calibre 7139.

Of course, the brand’s flair for new takes on the familiar is in full effect too, with two new ‘tone on tone’ open-worked Royal Oak watches revealing their inner workings, the Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin Openworked and Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked. Finally, the follow-up to 2023’s popular Royal Oak turquoise dial is here, in yellow gold and malachite.

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Ever since its introduction in 1993, the @audemarspiguet Royal Oak Offshore has been firmly embedded in pop culture. Over the years, it`s become one of the quintessential sports-chic watches, always large and always in charge.

Today, we get three new takes on the ROO, in 42mm cases with characteristically bold palettes. There are two black ‘Mega-Tapisserie’ dials, with pink and teal inner bezels and, in the case of the turquoise, a matching strap. Then there’s a more understated option, with a blue-green dial and rose gold highlights on the dial and crown. All three are powered by the AP Calibre 4308. ...

With @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet set to return to Watches & Wonders this April, the Le Brassus watchmaker has begun its run-up to the fair with a slate of noteworthy releases, includingupdates to core collections, like this new Code 11.59 Tourbillon. Executed in a tasteful two-tone case in white gold and black ceramic, paired to a warm ivory dial finished in a guilloché pattern. Audemars Piguet approach to two tone is sophisticated. Rather than combining two shades of gold, the brand takes the opposite route by pairing ceramic, a decidedly modern material, with traditional white gold. The result is striking. The black ceramic case middle works naturally with the white gold case, and beyond the visual contrast, the two tone construction helps articulate the complex architecture of the Code 11.59 case, a quality that is often overlooked.

Inside the Flying Tourbillon is the cal. 2950, which debuted with the launch of the Code 11.59 lineup in 2019. The highlight of this movement, however, is on the front side. Thanks to the flying tourbillon construction, there are no bridges above the cage to obstruct the view, allowing the three arm steel cage to be admired in full. ...

The ROO Chronograph is a legend in its own lifetime, a larger-than-life platform that is bold more often than not. For 2026, @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet is introducing two new 43 mm references that expand this line with interesting combinations of ceramic, titanium, and carefully balanced color treatments, reaffirming the collection’s experimental vocation.

The first model is distinguished by a case made entirely of “Bleu Nuit, Nuage 50” ceramic, a well-known, AP-exclusive shade of blue, deep and saturated. The next offers a titanium case combined with a black ceramic bezel, pushers, and crown, creating an immediate contrast between the smoked green PVD “Mega Tappisserie” dial, nuanced with black and beige elements, lending the whole watch an alpine sports aesthetic. ...

Amid a slate of @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet releases, the announcement with the broadest impact is perhaps the arrival of a new in-house chronograph calibre for the Royal Oak Chronograph 38mm. Both the 38mm and 41mm Royal Oak Chronographs have relied on the Calibre 2385, which was based on a legendary ebauche, the Frederic Piguet Calibre 1185. While the 41mm model transitioned to the in-house Calibre 4401 in 2021, its larger dimensions made it unsuitable for the 38mm case, which left the smaller chronograph without an in-house alternative until now.

The new automatic Calibre 6401 offers a column wheel with a vertical clutch, but has a completely different architecture from the Calibre 4401, and offers a 55-hour power reserve. It will debut in three references, one in steel, one in pink gold and a gem-set pink gold model with a sand-toned dial. ...

As part of its ongoing 150th anniversary celebrations, @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet has unveiled the 150e Heritage Pocket Watch. It takes the architecture of the Calibre 1000 but reworks the control scheme for use as a pocket watch. More than that, it introduces what AP calls a “Universal Calendar” that reconciles solar, lunar and lunisolar time in a single display on the case back and is capable of indicating the dates of Christmas, Ramadan, Saint John’s Day, Diwali, Rosh Hashanah, Pesach, Vesak, Easter and the Chinese New Year, for any year from 1900 to 2099.

Functionally, it offers a mechanical means of understanding how different calendrical systems intersect within a given year, presented all at once. One thing to note right out of the gate is that this is a module that is contained within the case back and has no connection to the movement, meaning it does not run continuously. Instead, it is lookup table that is advanced manually via a fluted bidirectional wheel set into the caseback. Once the year is selected, it will display whether it is common or leap year, positions the lunar ring so that new and full moons align with their corresponding dates for the selected year, along with the correct dates of all the listed observances for that year until the year is manually changed again by rotating the fluted wheel in the case.

This brings the total number of complications to 30 but more than the sum of its parts, it is perhaps the most intuitive and user-friendly grand complication pocket watch ever made. ...

When @vacheronconstantin Vacheron Constantin launched the Overseas Tourbillon in steel some seven years ago, it stood out as a compelling proposition. It is not every day that a tourbillon regulator appears in a sports watch, and the use of a non-precious metal case and bracelet made it a more accessible proposition within the brand’s collection and among its peers.

The latest version is an unexpected evolution of the line; a bold, youthful dial rendered in deep red, paired with a titanium case. The result is arguably the most striking iteration of the Overseas Tourbillon to date. ...

The jumping hour is a complication that comes and goes, surfacing briefly, disappearing and then reappearing when least expected. At @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet, however, it has never quite followed that pattern. It shows up instead as part of a longer stretch of work, with APs archives citing that the manufacture produced 347 jumping hour wristwatches between 1924 and 1951, with designs that move across shapes, layouts and materials without settling into a single template. Some keep a minute hand, as if hedging slightly. In some examples, the apertures sit far apart; in others, they are drawn closer together, compressing the display into a narrower band. Square cases sit next to rectangular and cushion shapes.

The Neo Frame Jumping Hour is the latest expression of this design approach. Directly inspired by a single watch produced in 1929, known internally as pre-model 1271, the Neo Frame is described by CEO Ilaria Resta refers to as “a tribute to our rich horological heritage, reinterpreted through cutting-edge techniques and a contemporary approach.” It isn’t a shaped case with something added on top; it is a handsome and complete piece where the surfaces move into one another without interruption, and, despite its century-old inspiration, the watch feels completely modern. With a case inspired by the Streamline Moderne design movement, most clearly evident in the powerful vertical gadroons, which frame a black-PVD coated sapphire dial, all in a 32.6 x 34mm case in pink gold, with a textured black calfskin strap and the Caliber 7122, built specifically for this watch, and based off the ultra thin Caliber 7121. ...

Often, the phrase “he/she wrote the book on that” is used euphemistically. In the case of @n_foulkes Nick Foulkes, however, it is meant literally: he penned the iconic, officially certified tome on @patekphilippe Patek Philippe and has since written two factory-authorized books on Rolex — one on the Submariner and the other on the Datejust — with many more to come. He has also helmed @vanityfair Vanity Fair’s watch magazine, On Time, with flair and distinction, contributed to innumerable publications on luxury and horology, and even appeared multiple times on Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed List, such is his tenth-dan black-belt mastery of the sartorial arts.

Foulkes has also proven himself to be a brilliant leader of people in his capacity as President of the @gphg_official GPHG Jury for half a decade, bringing a wonderfully refreshing air of transparency and oratorical élan. For these reasons and many more, Nicholas Foulkes is the winner of our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.

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