In June 2026, @fpjourneofficial’s Chronomètre à Résonance “Souscription, No. 007” sold for USD 13,922,000. Beyond its rarity and extraordinary provenance, the result brought renewed attention to a watch that may well be the bravest in horological history.

The story of resonance stretches from Christiaan Huygens’ observations in 1665 to the clocks of Antide Janvier and pocket watches of Abraham-Louis Breguet. François-Paul Journe picked up that thread in the early 1980s, first attempting a resonance pocket watch before finally bringing the phenomenon to the wrist with the Chronomètre à Résonance in 2000.

Its two balances have no direct mechanical connection. Instead, they communicate through tiny vibrations transmitted across the shared movement plate, gradually settling into a common frequency. Journe staked his reputation on proving that this elusive phenomenon could work inside a watch worn on the wrist—a wager George Daniels acknowledged simply: “You have a lot of courage.”

Read the full story on RevolutionWatch.com (link in bio), and watch Masters of Chronometry Ep. 2 on Resonance, where @wei_koh_revolution and @constant.kw examine the phenomenon and Journe’s defining creation. ...

Some watches make their case before you even reach the specifications. The new @tagheuer Carrera Chronograph x Team Ikuzawa is one of them.

Created with Team Ikuzawa and Bamford Watch Department, the 39mm Glassbox Carrera looks to the vintage Heuer Roadmaster stopwatch that became part of the Japanese team’s visual identity in the 1970s. Its white Clous de Paris dial, printed indexes and flashes of red capture the clarity of a racing instrument, while the omission of a running seconds display creates space for the Team Ikuzawa signature at 6 o’clock.

Inside, the Calibre TH20-10 combines a column wheel, vertical clutch, bidirectional winding and an 80-hour power reserve. Limited to 150 pieces, each watch comes with two additional straps and a toolbox-inspired presentation case.

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@mingwatches MING has never been afraid of collaboration, but the MING 37.06 @royalselangor Royal Selangor feels especially close to home.

Created with Royal Selangor, the historic Kuala Lumpur pewterware maker founded in 1885, the watch brings a hammered pewter dial into MING’s 37-series grade-2 titanium case. Limited to 88 pieces, it is a collaboration between two Malaysian names, one rooted in contemporary independent watchmaking, the other in more than a century of pewter craft.

The dial is the clear focal point. Pewter is rarely used in watchmaking, but its warm tone and hammered finish give the watch depth, texture and a surface that will develop a soft patina over time.

The familiar 37-series case measures 38mm in diameter, just over 11mm thick, and weighs 35.9 grams at the head, with 100 metres of water resistance. Inside is the Sellita for MING SW300.M1, an automatic movement with roughly 50 hours of power reserve.

The local connection continues beyond the dial. The full production run is assembled in Kuala Lumpur, marking the first time MING has handled final assembly locally for a collaboration. Each watch is also presented in a hammered pewter box designed by MING and made by Royal Selangor.

The MING 37.06 Royal Selangor is priced at CHF 5,000 excluding taxes, available through Royal Selangor boutiques from 30 July 2026, with limited stock following on ming.watch from 6 August 2026.

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@vacheronconstantin may be the world’s oldest continuously operating watchmaker, but even its 270-year history feels young beside the civilizations revisited in its latest Métiers d’Art collection.

Created with the Louvre, the second Tribute to Great Civilisations brings Pharaonic Egypt, the Assyrian Empire, Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome to the wrist through a limited-edition quartet: the Buste d’Akhénaton, Lamassu de Sargon II, Athéna de Velletri and Tibre de L’Iseum Campense. Each model is limited to 15 pieces.

This time, the central figures are carved from stone rather than sculpted in gold, surrounded by glyptic work, marquetry, enamel, micro-mosaic and gilding. Developed over three years, each dial required up to 220 hours of work. Four ancient masterpieces, reinterpreted at the scale of a watch dial without losing their monumentality.

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@everywatch_official has just released its own H1 2026 Secondary Market Report, offering a transaction-based view of how the market developed across value, volume, liquidity, geography and demand.

The report points to a market that has grown considerably larger, although its different segments are moving at very different speeds. Transaction value rose almost twice as quickly as the number of watches sold, suggesting buyers were moving further up the price curve. A greater share of available market value also found buyers, even as the median watch took slightly longer to sell. More was changing hands, though individual transactions were not necessarily happening faster.

Those contrasts extend across the market. @rolex commanded the greatest share of spending, while the wider field accounted for more watches sold. @fpjourneofficial’s rise showed how scarcity can generate extraordinary value from very few pieces, while Rolex CPO overtook the unworn trade as certification increasingly shaped buyer confidence.

Geographically, US & Canada became the largest market by value, while a contracting Asia remained the fastest place to sell a watch. At auction, the broader market’s Rolex dominance gave way to @patekphilippe and F.P. Journe at the very top of the room.

The result is a secondary market growing along increasingly distinct lines, shaped by shifts in value, volume, liquidity and demand. Scroll through for some of the report’s key takeaways. ...

Another week, another wide-ranging set of new watches. @parmigianifleurier and Sincere Fine Watches opened with the Tonda PF Automatic 36mm Soft Violet SHH Edition, a 50-piece steel model pairing a Grain d’Orge guilloché dial with the collection’s knurled platinum bezel. @breitling marked its official partnership with Aston Martin through three Top Time B01 Chronograph 41 limited editions inspired by the DB5, complete with cushion-shaped counters and wooden inner bezels referencing the car’s instrument panel and handcrafted interior.

At the more complicated end, @moserwatches introduced the Endeavour Minute Repeater Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Cosmic Rain. Limited to 20 pieces, it combines a dial-side repeater, flying cylindrical tourbillon and an aventurine subdial scattered with mother-of-pearl shooting stars.

@the.horology.club and @toledanoandchan turned to Marcel Breuer’s architecture for The Breutalist, a 15-piece edition whose bead-blasted Grade 5 titanium case and bracelet evoke raw concrete, set against an unmarked mirror-polished dial. @hamiltonwatch also expanded the Khaki Field Power Reserve Mechanical 40mm with new blue and green dials, retaining its manual-wound H-23 calibre and fuel-gauge-style display for the 80-hour reserve.

@citizenwatch brought two distinct limited editions: the retro-leaning Tsuyosa Shore with its textured black-gradient dial and gold-coloured details, and the compact Rainell EX1540-58L with a rain-inspired blue gradient dial and 43-diamond bezel. Closing on a sugar rush, @chriswardlondon’s Twelve (Ti) Pic’n’Mix serves up six degradé dial colours in 36mm titanium cases, with each version limited to just 50 pieces. ...

@ferdinandberthoud introduces a new rose gold expression of the Chronomètre FB 3SPC, pairing its 42.3mm ethical 18-carat 5N rose gold case with a sandblasted nickel silver movement and warm beige dial elements.

First launched in 2022, the FB 3SPC brought together a variable-inertia balance, cylindrical balance spring and COSC chronometer certification — a combination that earned it the Chronometry Prize at the 2023 GPHG. Developed over three years, the cylindrical balance spring features two hand-formed Berthoud terminal curves and offers a different approach to precision from the constant-force mechanisms used in the earlier FB 1 and FB 2.

For the new FB 3SPC.2-1, the near-tonal composition is punctuated by blue CVD-treated 18-carat gold hands, selected screws and the power-reserve indicator. The movement remains visible through the caseback and the sapphire porthole at 9 o’clock, revealing the hand-finished construction beneath.

Powered by the hand-wound FB-SPC calibre, the watch runs at 3Hz, comprises 230 components and delivers a 72-hour power reserve. The Chronomètre FB 3SPC.2-1 is a non-limited edition and joins the existing white gold version in the collection. ...

@moserwatches has unveiled one of its most theatrical high-complication watches yet: the Endeavour Minute Repeater Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton Cosmic Rain. Limited to 20 pieces, the new model brings together a minute repeater, a one-minute flying tourbillon with a cylindrical hairspring, and a fully skeletonised hand-wound movement, all housed in a 40mm titanium case.

What sets this watch apart is how openly it presents its mechanics. Rather than hiding the minute repeater’s hammers and gongs on the reverse, Moser places them on the dial side, turning the striking mechanism into part of the display. At 2 o’clock, that transparency is offset by a domed aventurine sub-dial with a fumé effect and hand-applied mother-of-pearl inlays, creating the “Cosmic Rain” effect that gives the watch its name.

Powering the watch is the HMC 909, a 415-component manufacture calibre with a 90-hour power reserve. At 6 o’clock, the flying tourbillon is fitted with a cylindrical hairspring, a rare construction inspired by historic marine chronometers and produced by Precision Engineering AG, H. Moser & Cie.’s sister company. ...

There are many watches that have accompanied mankind at moments when the limits of human endeavor were pushed further than ever before. But when man first left the world that had contained all of history and stood on another celestial body, the watch that made the journey was the @omega Speedmaster.

Introduced in 1957 as the CK2915, the Speedmaster was never intended for space. Yet within a few short years, Wally Schirra’s CK2998 would become the first Omega in space, the ST105.003 would be NASA-qualified for all manned space missions, and the ST105.012 would become the reference worn on the Moon.

More than six decades later, the Speedmaster remains in NASA service — and is still the only wristwatch qualified for spacewalks.

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