@baitme and @gshock_us go bananas with “Yamagata’s Finest”, a new take on the DW5600 inspired by the fruit at its sweetest point of ripeness. It’s a tongue-in-cheek nod to timing — even a banana has its perfect moment.

The name pays homage to Casio’s mother factory in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. The watch comes packaged in a special can and box featuring “Shawty with Freckles”, a mascot that BAIT describes as representing the intersection of cultures shared by the two brands. The farm theme also carries into an accompanying BAIT FARMS apparel capsule, comprising a uniform jacket, hat and T-shirt inspired by the collaboration. ...

@cartier’s longstanding prize for emerging watchmakers is expanding into jewellery. The Cartier Talents of Tomorrow Prize brings the watchmaking award, established in 1995, and a new jewellery award under one framework, recognising three young talents in each discipline.

For this edition, “Cartier’s Wild Fauna” sets the creative brief. Drawing on the maison’s history of animal motifs, from panthers to tigers and crocodiles, watchmaking entrants will reinterpret the 1847 MC movement, while jewellery entrants will express an animal’s presence through a brooch.

The watchmaking award is open to students and apprentices in Switzerland, France, Belgium and Germany, with Sweden, Denmark and Finland joining this year. Jewellery entrants in France, Italy and Switzerland must have completed at least two years of training within a jewellery programme.

Eight shortlisted candidates in each discipline will develop their projects over a maximum of 80 working hours spread across three months. Each will receive guidance from a mentor of their choice outside Cartier, before submitting their completed project and a logbook documenting its development through sketches and photographs. Applications run from 1 October to 30 November 2026, with the award ceremonies scheduled for spring 2027. ...

@hautlence has spent more than two decades asking a simple question: why should telling the time be conventional?

The new Sphere Series 4 and Kubera Series 1 answer that in very different ways.

The Sphere puts the mechanics on full display. Its titanium jumping-hour globe rotates across three axes, while the minutes travel through a 180-degree retrograde display before snapping back to zero. The hand-wound A82 offers 72 hours of power reserve, but the real appeal is visual: time becoming a mechanical performance.

The Kubera is more restrained. Its stepped architecture draws from Cubism and the shaping of S.T. Dupont lighters, while the display does away with conventional hands entirely. The hour jumps through an aperture, forwards or backwards when setting, and a turquoise cursor continuously tracks the minutes around the perimeter. That seemingly simple indication requires a dedicated gear train and 36 additional components.

Different expressions, same obsession. Since the original HL appeared in 2005, HAUTLENCE has treated the act of reading time as part of the entertainment. More than 20 years later, it is still finding new ways to make that idea feel fresh.

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@panerai marked 100 years of its historic Piazza San Giovanni boutique with “Immersion,” a five-act exhibition at Florence’s Museo Marino Marini. Archival watches, instruments and documents appeared alongside contemporary materials and calibres, while light, sound and water guided visitors from the family shop to its Navy work, the depths and the open sea.

We spoke with Alessandro Ficarelli @aleficarelli, Panerai’s Chief Marketing and Heritage Officer, about the two sides of that family story. Maria Panerai managed the Orologeria Svizzera, opened in 1926, while Giuseppe Panerai developed instruments and watches for the Italian Navy under military secrecy. Ficarelli also recalled being shown the rare 1960s Ref. 6152/1 prototype that inspired the anniversary watches, including its hand-filed crown bridge designed for a better grip while wearing gloves.

At the end of “Immersion,” visitors encountered two Luminor Firenze 8 Giorni editions inspired by the prototype Ficarelli described. The green-dialled Platinumtech PAM01734 is limited to 100 pieces; the anthracite-dialled steel PAM01794 to 1,000. Both have 44mm cases and manually wound P.5000 movements with an eight-day power reserve.

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The Ballerina Twins are used to moving with uncanny grace. On @k_chaykin’s new Atomic Heart watches, they also tell the time. In the game’s alternative Soviet Union of 1955, the Twins are robotic bodyguards to Professor Dmitry Sechenov, with movements based on those of a Bolshoi Theatre ballerina. Created under an official licence to use Atomic Heart imagery, the watches give each Twin her own dial. The Left appears as a black silhouette against red; the Right has a silvery figure and a cropped cardigan represented by golden applied guilloché elements against graphite.

Synthetic rubies positioned at their chests serve as pointers on the rotating hour and minute discs. Above them, each Twin’s lunar “face” forms an oversized moon-phase display. The 40mm titanium watches are powered by the self-winding K.18-25, combining a modified La Joux-Perret G200 base with Chaykin’s 68-component display module and a 68-hour power reserve. Each version is limited to 69 pieces. ...

@rolex’s Four Seasons Daytonas raised a combined £37.3 million at @phillipswatches in London on 28 September. Aurel Bacs auctioned the four unique watches individually in Rolex’s first charity auction.

Summer led the results at £10.3 million. The Everose-gold Daytona pairs a turquoise dial with heart of ruby counters. Autumn, in yellow gold with a mookaite dial, followed at £10.2 million; the platinum Winter sold for £10 million; and the white-gold Spring brought £6.8 million.

Phillips describes the total as the largest single consignment to a charity auction ever. No buyer’s premium applied, and all proceeds will go to the Federer Foundation and Re:wild. Founded by Roger Federer, the former supports children’s early and foundational learning in Southern Africa and Switzerland. Re:wild, co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio, works to protect and restore wild ecosystems. ...

@moserwatches led the week with the Off-Grid, packing GMT, split-seconds timing, a perpetual calendar and more into an unconventional digital watch. @panerai followed with a blue openworked Luminor Tourbillon offering six days of power, while @ulyssenardin brought traditional guilloché to the Freak’s rotating hour disc.

@roger_dubuis closed its Merlin trilogy with a white stag and 12 sculpted knights. @formexwatch took its titanium Field watch into the cockpit, and @vacheronconstantin celebrated the Overseas with a 200-piece white-gold Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin.

Elsewhere, @montresbreguet cleaned up its core Marine models, Longines turned two Spirit Pilots blue, @tiffanyandco brought Venini glass to the Eternity, and @louiserardofficial reunited with @k_chaykin for two new Unfrogettable frogs.

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First spotted as charms at Pharrell Williams’ @louisvuitton Men’s Spring/Summer 2027 show in Paris, the Monterey Ceramic has now arrived as part of the maison’s permanent watch collection. Cute on the runway, certainly, although we still prefer it on the wrist.

The story begins in 1988 with the Gae Aulenti-designed LV I and LV II, Louis Vuitton’s first wristwatches. The LV II was particularly forward-looking, pairing its smooth pebble-shaped form with a zirconia-based ceramic case in glossy black or forest green.

Following the 39mm yellow-gold Monterey released in 2025 as a limited edition of 188 pieces, the latest models return the design to ceramic. Both retain the original’s 37mm diameter, lugless profile, syringe-shaped hands and crown at 12 o’clock, now finished with Clous de Paris knurling for a more tactile grip. The black version stays close to the original’s graphic colour scheme, combining a white lacquered dial with black markings, red hour and minute hands and a blue seconds hand. Its green counterpart takes a more contemporary tone-on-tone approach, adding white markings, yellow hour and minute hands and blue seconds.

Inside, the original LV II’s quartz movement gives way to the manufacture Calibre LFT MA01.02. The automatic movement runs at 4Hz and delivers a 45-hour power reserve. Both watches are water-resistant to 30 metres and paired with matching calf-leather straps.

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There was plenty to talk about at Siam Paragon @bangkokwatchweek. A four-second tourbillon, precision measured by the year and a century of watches put to work. The 25 September symposiums brought collectors into three very different worlds of watchmaking.


@jacobandco CEO Benjamin Arabov took us behind the spectacle, explaining the engineering that turns his father, Jacob Arabo’s ideas into reality. With God of Time, the challenge was controlling the energy needed to sustain its four-second tourbillon. With The Godfather II, it was fitting two melodies onto a single musical cylinder. The starting point, as he explained it, was always about the idea, and the next step was to make the impossible real, something that the brand has accomplished for the last 40 years.


@grandseikoofficial got us thinking about what makes a great everyday watch. Led by Takeshi Sakamoto. Vice President of Grand Seiko and Jonathan Bues, a true blue Grand Seiko fan long before he became its communications and brand advisor, the session explored Grand Seiko’s pursuit of the ideal wristwatch through its high-beat mechanical movements and Spring Drive UFA, rated to ±20 seconds per year. Of course, the discussion also turned to the details collectors have long asked for: more tapered bracelets, micro-adjustment clasps and smaller cases. @tantantalum joined the stage for the final Q&A segment that resulted in a lively conversation on what is the ideal Grand Seiko watch.


For @tudorwatch’s centenary, @cole_pennington opened the archives to tell the stories of the people who relied on its watches. From the British North Greenland Expedition to the Navy frogmen involved in Apollo recovery missions, these were tools with real jobs to do. Period advertisements and archival discoveries also brought the story closer to home, tracing Tudor’s longstanding ties to Thailand and motorsport in Asia. An interesting nugget — Cole speaks fluent Thai, much to the delight of the local audience. This was, by far, the most heavily subscribed session we have seen yet and the party went on for the night. ...