The new @longines Legend Diver 59 brings one of the brand’s most enduring dive-watch designs back closer to its source. More than six decades after the 1959 original, Longines revisits the model with a new 42mm stainless-steel case, a domed box sapphire crystal and a refined Milanese mesh bracelet — details that give this latest edition a stronger connection to the historic diver that inspired it.

The dual crowns and internal rotating bezel remain central to the Legend Diver’s identity, while the grained black dial, raised Arabic numerals, arrow hands and “light Old Radium” Super-LumiNova bring out its vintage tool-watch character without sacrificing legibility.

Beneath the archival look, however, this is still very much a modern Longines. The Legend Diver 59 is ISO 6425-certified as a diver’s watch, water-resistant to 300 metres, and powered by the COSC-certified Longines calibre L888.6, a self-winding movement with a silicon balance-spring, enhanced magnetic resistance and a power reserve of up to 72 hours. ...

Padel is no longer just a fast-growing sport. Around the world, it is becoming a luxury lifestyle space of its own: social, stylish, highly brandable and increasingly close to the same aspirational country-club culture that tennis has represented for generations.

With @audemarspiguet’s latest move into the sport, watchmaking’s interest in padel has stepped up another level. Earlier this May, AP announced a global partnership as the Official Timekeeper of the Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour, alongside a new relationship with Agustín Tapia, padel’s current world number one player.

AP is not the first watch brand to notice padel though. @hublot, @richardmille, @rolex and @frederiqueconstant have all entered the space in different ways, aligning themselves with players, leagues and the sport’s growing global identity.

But for AP, the appeal goes beyond courtside visibility. Padel is social by nature, usually played in pairs and often found in lifestyle-driven settings where brands increasingly want to meet their communities. As the sport continues to grow, its luxury identity is still being shaped — and watchmaking clearly wants a place on court.

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@alangesoehne returns to one of its most distinctive rectangular creations with the new Cabaret Tourbillon Honeygold.

Limited to just 50 pieces, the new reference brings together a 750 Honeygold case and a black-rhodiumed Honeygold dial, creating a striking contrast between the warmth of Lange’s proprietary gold alloy and the dark, architectural finish of the dial.

The dial itself is made entirely in-house and constructed in three parts, with raised relief elements sculpted directly from the Honeygold material. Once black-rhodiumed, these raised elements are carefully polished by hand, allowing the warm lustre of the gold to reappear against the dark background.

At 6 o’clock, the open aperture frames the tourbillon, with its upper bridge and cage finished in black polish — one of the most demanding decorative techniques in watchmaking. It is also a fitting reminder of the Cabaret Tourbillon’s technical significance. When it was first introduced in 2008, the watch debuted Lange’s world-first stop-seconds mechanism for a tourbillon, allowing the watch to be set with one-second accuracy.

Inside is the manually wound calibre L042.1, a rectangular form movement shaped specifically for the case. Composed of 370 parts, including 84 for the tourbillon alone, it delivers a 120-hour power reserve and is finished with familiar Lange hallmarks including a three-quarter plate in untreated German silver, hand-engraved cocks, screwed gold chatons and blued screws. ...

Pocket watches are having another moment in the spotlight. But as the format returns through high watchmaking, auctions and red-carpet styling, the question remains: is this a genuine comeback, or simply another turn of the trend cycle?

In recent years, that return has taken many forms. @hublot Hublot and @danielarsham Daniel Arsham transformed the pocket watch into sci-fi industrial sculpture with the 2024 MP-16 Arsham Droplet, @louisvuitton Louis Vuitton has built out its Escales Autour du Monde series of one-off pocket watches, most recently with the 2026 Escale au Mont Fuji, while @parmigianifleurier Parmigiani Fleurier leaned into slow mechanical indulgence with the 2025 La Ravenale.

The auction market has only added to the momentum. In 2025, the 1907 J. Player & Sons “Hyper Complication” sold for CHF 2.2 million to become the most valuable antique British pocket watch ever auctioned, while @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet’s historic “Grosse Pièce” shattered the brand’s records with a USD 7.7 million result at @sothebyswatches Sotheby’s.

And now, with @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet and @swatch Swatch’s Royal Pop collaboration, the pocket watch has entered another phase entirely, somewhere between horology, fashion accessory and pop-cultural object.

What was once considered obsolete suddenly feels very current again.

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With the arrival of Royal Pop, @audemarspiguet’s collaboration with Swatch, the Royal Oak has once again been pushed into a new and unexpected form.

It also makes this an apt moment to revisit one of our favourite stories on the icon that started it all. Originally written to mark the Royal Oak’s 50th anniversary, @wei_koh_revolution’s retrospective looks at Audemars Piguet’s defining icon as a heroic archetype — one that has returned again and again in different guises, each shaped by its own moment in time.

Since its debut in 1972, the Royal Oak has appeared as the original luxury steel sports watch, the enduring Jumbo, a canvas for mid-sized chromatic expression, and a vessel for some of the manufacture’s most ambitious complications.

From the 14790 to the 16202, from perpetual calendars and tourbillons to the Double Balance Wheel Openworked and Supersonnerie, each version has revealed a different side of the same unmistakable design.

More than five decades on, the Royal Oak remains one of watchmaking’s rare icons: instantly recognisable, endlessly adaptable, and still capable of feeling new.

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The @audemarspiguet × @swatch Royal Pop was never going to be a simple MoonSwatch-style Royal Oak.

After weeks of teasers, speculation and internet sleuthing, the reveal was something far quirkier — and perhaps more interesting. Rather than placing the Royal Oak directly onto the wrist in affordable Bioceramic form, Swatch and AP have taken its most recognisable elements and moved them into a pocket watch format inspired by the Swatch Pop watches of the 1980s.

The Royal Oak references are all there: the octagonal bezel, exposed screws, “Tapisserie”-style dial and vertical satin finishing. But instead of an integrated bracelet, the Royal Pop can be worn around the neck, clipped to a bag, carried in the pocket or placed on a desk with its removable stand.

It may have disappointed anyone hoping for an accessible Royal Oak for the wrist, but the choice of format also makes sense. The pocket watch has been quietly returning as a styling object, collectible and piece of design theatre — less waistcoat nostalgia, more pendant, bag charm and pop-cultural accessory.

There is a strategic logic to it too. By taking the Royal Oak off the wrist, AP and Swatch give the collaboration enough distance from the original icon, avoiding the idea of a direct substitute while still allowing its design language to be reimagined in a playful, accessible way.

With Royal Pop, Swatch has once again found a way to make watchmaking feel exciting, accessible and impossible to ignore — this time by breaking the internet with Audemars Piguet, and by bringing the pocket watch back to the masses as a playful object of style.

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@favreleuba brings back the Harpoon, reviving one of its distinctive 1966 tool-watch designs with faithful proportions, archival details and a modern automatic movement.

Presented at Watches and Wonders 2026, the Harpoon Revival arrives 60 years after the original made its debut. It also comes at a meaningful moment for Favre Leuba, following the brand’s global relaunch in 2024 and its renewed focus on drawing from a nearly three-century archive without simply reproducing the past for its own sake.

The watch itself keeps things compact and restrained, with a polished stainless steel case measuring 37mm across, 10mm thick and 43.5mm lug-to-lug. Rather than inflate the design into something overtly contemporary, Favre Leuba has kept the Harpoon close to its original proportions, complete with a closed steel caseback that reproduces the engraved medallion of the 1966 model.

Much of the watch’s character sits on the dial. The gray sunray-brushed surface follows the tone of the original Harpoon, while the applied rhodium-plated hour markers retain the unusual horizontal orientation at 12, 6 and 9 o’clock. At 6 o’clock, the stylised Harpoon signature returns, balanced by a framed date aperture at 3 o’clock. Inside is the FLD04 caliber, based on the La Joux-Perret G100 automatic movement, running at 4Hz with a 68-hour power reserve.

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The watch world`s worst-kept secret has just revealed itself four days ahead of its original embargo.
 
With Royal Pop, Audemars Piguet and Swatch have taken one of watchmaking’s most recognisable and coveted silhouettes and pushed it into full color, full play mode. An octet (naturally) of Swiss-made Bioceramic pocket watches brings together Royal Oak codes — the octagonal bezel, eight screws and Petite Tapisserie language — with the spirit of the 1980s Swatch POP.
 
Made to be worn on a lanyard, clipped to a bag, slipped into a pocket, strapped to the wrist or stood on a desk, this is the Royal Oak idea broken free from the bracelet. There are six Lépine-style two-hand models and two Savonnette-style versions with small seconds, while the barrel drum even acts as a power reserve indicator — grey means wind it, gold means fully wound.
 
Inside is a new hand-wound SISTEM51 with 15 active patents, more than 90 hours of power reserve and a Nivachron balance spring (the non-magnetic titanium-based alloy developed by Swatch Group and Audemars Piguet in 2018). Just as importantly, AP says 100 percent of the company’s proceeds will go towards preserving and passing on watchmaking savoir-faire, with a focus on rare skills and the next generation of horological talent.
 
Although it was before the announcement of the Swatch partnership, in a recent interview with Revolution’s global editorial director Tracey Llewellyn, Ilaria Resta said: “We want the AP family to grow [and] to be diverse in terms of gender and age groups. We are trying different worlds to make sure that we become as inclusive as possible in terms of diversity of audience and clients.”
 
Royal Pop feels like that strategy made tangible: high-watchmaking codes, remixed for a wider, younger audience at an affordable price (USD 400-420). Whether they prove to be more attainable than a steel Royal Oak, queues and supplies will reveal all this coming Saturday. What we do know is that, unlike the MoonSwatch and Blancpain x Swatch Bioceramic Fifty Fathoms projects, this is a one-off collaboration.
 
Available from 16 May 2026 at selected Swatch stores.
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