Fifteen years after Gérald Genta’s passing on 17 August 2011, his ideas remain embedded in modern watchmaking. The Royal Oak, Nautilus and Ingenieur are the most familiar examples, but they represent only part of a career that transformed how a wristwatch could be shaped and understood.

Born in Geneva in 1931 and trained as a goldsmith and jeweller, Genta was 23 when he designed @universalgeneve’s Polarouter in 1954 for SAS’s transpolar route between Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Later renamed the Polerouter, it was followed by his work on @omega’s Constellation and the asymmetrical gold @rolex King Midas.

The 1970s brought several defining designs. The @audemarspiguet Royal Oak, designed in 1970 and launched in 1972, elevated steel through its exposed construction and integrated bracelet. The Cobra Ref. 5403 explored case-and-bracelet unity in precious metal, while 1976 brought the @patekphilippe Nautilus Ref. 3700 and @iwcwatches Ingenieur SL Ref. 1832. The Pasha followed for @cartier in 1985.

Genta founded his eponymous company in 1969 and presented its first watches in 1973. Its automatic perpetual calendars, ultra-thin minute repeaters, jumping hours and retrograde displays revealed his technical ambition, while Disney character watches and the bronze Gefica Safari brought humour and unconventional materials. The 1994 Grande Sonnerie crowned this work with a Westminster carillon and more than 1,000 components in its most elaborate configurations.

Today, @geraldcharles_official draws from the archive of Genta’s final 11 years, while the Gérald Genta marque has returned under La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton. Founded by Evelyne and Alexia Genta, the Gérald Genta Heritage Association preserves and promotes his legacy, supports emerging talent and has collaborated on projects including Credor’s Locomotive revival and IWC’s film about the Ingenieur SL.

Fifteen years on, his work remains very much alive. Read our 2024 Gérald Genta collecting guide through the link in bio. ...

Mercedes-Benz’s 140th anniversary leads this week’s roundup, with @iwcwatches issuing a 140-piece Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar ProSet. The 42mm limited edition combines a black dial and gold details with a mechanism that allows its calendar displays to be adjusted forward or backward through a single crown position.

@swatch and @omega marked the total solar eclipse on 12 August with a Mission to the Sun sold exclusively in Spain for one day. @tagheuer, meanwhile, commemorated Circuit Zandvoort’s final Dutch Grand Prix with two orange-accented Formula 1 Solargraphs, limited to 1,500 pieces on rubber and 1,000 on steel.

@seikowatchofficial presented three additions to the Presage Classic Series. Inspired by the 1913 Laurel, the HCC005J1 features a white enamel dial with a red numeral at 12, while the HCC006J1 reinterprets the same design through black urushi lacquer and gold-coloured details. The limited HCC009J1, created with Tradman’s Bonsai, recreates the bark and pine-needle green colour of a Japanese black pine.

Elsewhere, the @watchhoandco × @seltenwatch Yum Cha recalls Jackie Ho’s childhood mornings at Hong Kong dim sum restaurants through an engraved and enamelled bamboo-steamer dial. @harrywinston closes the week with two Emerald Graffiti watches combining colourful mother-of-pearl dials, white gold, diamonds and aquamarines.

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From its unexpected Oscars debut on Robert Pattinson’s wrist to a new precision standard designed around everyday wear, the Master Control Chronometre opens a fresh chapter for @jaegerlecoultre. CEO Jérôme Lambert discusses the collection’s HPG Seal and COSC certification, its integrated bracelets and slim proportions, and how it brings design, performance and wearability into closer alignment across the manufacture.

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Mercedes-Benz celebrates its 140th anniversary this year, tracing the milestone to Carl Benz filing the patent for his three-wheeled motor car on 29 January 1886. Having worked with Mercedes-AMG since 2004, @iwcwatches marks the occasion with a 140-piece Big Pilot built around one of its most important recent advances in calendar watchmaking.

It is an apt choice for an anniversary devoted to innovation. The Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar ProSet 140 Years Mercedes-Benz features IWC’s gear-based ProSet mechanism, which allows the entire calendar to be adjusted forward or backward from a single crown position. Turning the crown moves the synchronised displays in precise daily steps, with no separate correction pushers or changes in crown position required. First introduced at Watches and Wonders 2026, ProSet marked the first time an IWC perpetual calendar could be adjusted both forward and backward through a single crown position.

Four subdials display the date, month, day and Double Moon phase for the northern and southern hemispheres, accompanied by IWC’s signature four-digit year indication. Its moon-phase display will deviate by just one day after 1,040 years.

The 42mm stainless steel case surrounds a black dial with solid gold appliqués and gold-plated hands. On the sapphire caseback is the historic star-and-laurel emblem associated with the formation of Mercedes-Benz in 1926, while the automatic caliber 82665 provides a 60-hour power reserve. ...

At its Watches & Wonders 2026 debut, @credor_official presented the Goldfeather GCBY991, a 60-piece limited edition distinguished by its painted porcelain dial and the first stainless steel Goldfeather offered internationally.

The dial was created with Hataman Touen, a kiln based in the historic porcelain village of Okawachiyama in Imari. Dark blue feathers are first painted onto the white porcelain before a layer of glaze is applied. Translucent feathers and hour markers are then added above, producing an alternating pattern of colour and transparency that appears to occupy two distinct levels. Once firing is complete, the porcelain is carefully ground to approximately 1mm thick.

The Credor logo and Goldfeather name are printed beneath the sapphire crystal, casting subtle shadows across the dial. Surrounding it is a slender steel case measuring 37.1mm in diameter and 8.3mm thick, powered by the manual-winding Calibre 6890. Part of Credor’s ultra-thin Calibre 68 family, whose U.T.D. lineage dates to 1969, the movement beats at 3Hz and provides a 37-hour power reserve.

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With Circuit Zandvoort scheduled to host its final Dutch Grand Prix in 2026, @tagheuer marks the occasion with two Formula 1 Solargraph 38mm limited editions inspired by the original Formula 1 collection of 1986.

Both watches feature sandblasted steel cases, grey opaline dials, orange-and-red minute tracks and orange TH-Polylight bezels bearing the collection’s familiar “daisy” motif. Ref. WBY111H.FT8128 is fitted with an orange rubber strap and limited to 1,500 pieces, while ref. WBY111L.BA0042 comes on a sandblasted three-row steel bracelet and is limited to 1,000 pieces.

Inside, the solar-powered Calibre TH50-00 draws energy from natural and artificial light. One minute in direct sunlight provides enough power for an entire day, while a full charge delivers up to 10 months of autonomy in darkness. ...

In this conversation, @chopard’s Co-President Karl-Friedrich Scheufele and Chief of Staff Karl-Fritz Scheufele trace the maison’s chiming story from the L.U.C Strike One and sapphire-gong Full Strike to the 686-part Grand Strike, its most complicated watch to date. Speaking at Chopard’s Gentlemen’s Evening during the Cannes Film Festival, they discuss the mechanical forebears of today’s notifications, the science of tuning a watch, the musicians and acoustic experts who helped refine Chopard’s sound, and why a chiming watch should ultimately make time intimate and give it a voice.

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More than 25 years after the original Quattro appeared, @chopard L.U.C and Revolution brought its founding design back with the Quattro Revolution Re-edition. Limited to 20 numbered pieces, it revives the original Ref. 16/1863’s 38mm × 9.54mm proportions and distinctive dial arrangement, now combining a Lucent Steel case with a pure, untreated 3N yellow-gold dial.

Introduced in 2000, the Quattro Ref. 16/1863 was powered by the hand-wound L.U.C Calibre 1.98, whose four barrels delivered 216 hours of power reserve. Its power-reserve display sat at 12 o’clock, balanced by the combined small seconds and pointer date at six.

The generations that followed brought new dimensions and dial arrangements, culminating in the 39mm Mark IV. After more than two decades of evolution, the Revolution Re-edition marks the first deliberate return to the Mark I architecture, restoring its original proportions and display.

Engine-turned guilloché, finely defined filet sautant rings and a laser-engraved marker for the final day of power reserve demonstrate how Chopard’s dialmaking has advanced. Now designated L.U.C Calibre 98.01-L, the hand-wound movement continues the original Calibre 1.98’s four-barrel legacy with nine days of autonomy.

Read more about the Quattro’s journey back to its beginnings on RevolutionWatch.com, and discover the Chopard L.U.C Quattro Revolution Re-edition at shop.revolutionwatch.com ...

@grandseikoofficial’s Spring Drive divers have evolved considerably since the first model surfaced in 2008.

The story began with the SBGA029, a 44.2mm steel diver powered by the 9R65 Spring Drive caliber and water-resistant to 200 metres. In 2020, the SLGA001 pushed the formula further with a titanium case, 600-metre rating and the five-day Caliber 9RA5. The Evolution 9 design language followed with the black-dialled SLGA015 in 2022 and blue SLGA023 a year later, establishing the Ushio identity inspired by the powerful Kuroshio Current.

Now, the new SLGB023 and SLGB025 Ushio 300 models introduce Spring Drive U.F.A. to the collection. Their Caliber 9RB1 is accurate to ±20 seconds per year, while the date has been removed and the power-reserve display returned to the dial.

At 40.8mm × 12.9mm and 122g in high-intensity titanium, these are Grand Seiko’s smallest and lightest divers yet, with water resistance increased to 300 metres. A redesigned clasp adds both dive-suit extension and incremental micro-adjustment, while red indicators reveal when the crown or clasp remains unsecured.

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@singerreimagined turns to one of the most storied manual-winding chronograph movements for its latest release. The Heritage V72 brings the Valjoux 72 into the brand’s restoration-led Heritage Collection, drawing on new-old-stock components preserved and unused for almost half a century.

Operating at 18,000vph, the calibre features small seconds, a 30-minute counter and a 12-hour counter in its classic three-register layout. Each movement is carefully assessed, assembled and refinished with frosted bridges, hand-polished chamfers, rhodium plating and selected blue ALD-treated components, before being engraved “Restored by Singer”.

Housed in a 38.8mm case with a glass-box sapphire caseback, the Heritage V72 is available in stainless steel or 18ct yellow gold. Either case can be paired with a stone-grey dial with oyster-coloured counters or a black dial with champagne counters.

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@seikowatchofficial has introduced the HDB010K1 Motocompo Limited Edition, a collaboration with Honda that leans fully into one of the most charmingly oddball designs of the early 1980s.

The original Honda Motocompo, launched in 1981, was a 49cc foldable scooter designed to fit inside the trunk of the Honda City. It was compact, practical, strange in exactly the right way, and very much a product of its time.

Seiko’s version picks up the idea with a 36.4mm Field series case, a bright yellow dial inspired by the Motocompo’s body colour, a black central stripe with the Honda logo, and a special “Automatic” font taken from the scooter’s original graphics.

The strap keeps the joke going, with “Carrying Point” and “Insertion Point” details referencing the way the Motocompo was secured when stored in a car. The caseback features the scooter’s silhouette and an individual serial number.

Limited to 8,000 pieces, the watch is powered by Seiko’s automatic 4R36 calibre, with day-date display, approximately 41 hours of power reserve and 10 bar water resistance. It even comes in a special box designed to look like the corrugated carton used to ship the original Motocompo.

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