@thehourglass_official’s @iamwatch_official returns to The Singapore EDITION from 12–15 November 2026, with public days from 13–15 November. Its newly announced program puts the people behind independent watchmaking in the spotlight, with 45 makers and friends of the retailer attending.

The conversations cover starting a watch brand, designing for the present and the relationships between independent makers and larger houses. For “Who Actually Invents Anything Anymore?”, independent watchmakers @andreasstrehler, @karivoutilainen and @rogerwsmithltd join Akrivia founder @rexhep.rexhepi in a discussion moderated by Revolution and The Rake founder @wei_koh_revolution.

George Daniels’s centenary also runs through the program, with lectures by Smith, a conversation featuring @phillipswatches senior consultant Aurel Bacs and a screening of The Watchmaker’s Apprentice. There are also GTGs with established and emerging makers, @manofthehourofficial screenings, and watchmaking masterclasses with Swiss Federal Master Watchmaker Michael Dubs.

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In 1980, Carlo Crocco launched @hublot with a gold watch on a rubber strap. Forty-six years later, CEO Julien Tornare has invited the founder back to revisit his original creation.

The result is the Classic Fusion Tributo. Its 38mm case retains the 12 slightly domed bezel screws, with a date at 3 o’clock and the MDM signature at 6. Two versions revisit the design: 18K yellow gold with a matte black dial, and 18K white gold with polished black onyx. Both come on black rubber straps.

The original’s quartz movement makes way for the automatic manufacture calibre HUB1711, offering approximately 60 hours of power reserve. Through the sapphire caseback, an H-shaped rotor appears in 22K gold for the yellow gold model and black tungsten for the white gold version. The case measures 9.5mm thick and is water-resistant to 100m.

The MDM initials carry a personal story, connecting Crocco’s wife Marie-Danielle with his Main Dans la Main Foundation. To mark the launch, Hublot is donating CHF 100,000 to the foundation, which supports vulnerable children and families.

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Following the first instalment of Tokyo Watch Week, here’s Part Two. Let’s dive right in.

One of the watchmakers who truly blew me away was Masahiro Kikuno. With a background in repairing rifles and mechanical hardware, he went on to become a self-taught independent watchmaker. Now he teaches watchmaking at a Japanese watchmaking school.

Masahiro Kikuno’s Complication Inherit began as an experiment to explore the possibilities of CNC machining before teaching his students how professional machines could be used in watchmaking. Using an inexpensive CNC machine he purchased himself, Masahiro went on to create a remarkable timepiece combining a minute repeater, chronograph, tourbillon and power reserve indicator, all housed in a 39mm case.

While the components are CNC-machined, the assembly and finishing are carried out entirely by hand. Masahiro produces just two pieces a year, with total production limited to six pieces.

Even more astonishingly, Masahiro is developing a watch featuring an entirely new escapement of his own design. He has already completed a single prototype, with plans to launch the watch approximately three years after the Complication Inherit.

The escapement, demonstrated here with an enlarged plastic model, is a fascinating reinterpretation of the traditional verge-and-foliot escapement. The balance wheel receives direct impulses from a small gear mechanism mounted on the opposite end of the balance staff, featuring specially customised teeth. What makes it even more incredible is that everything is developed in-house in his small atelier in Japan

Sometimes, the most compelling expressions of horology go beyond the wristwatch. Here, we have Fuyu-Geshiki, a timepiece by Shin Ohno, winner of the 2026 F.P. Journe Young Talent Competition.

Inspired by the view of a winter mountain landscape through a traditional Japanese window, Fuyu-Geshiki draws on the natural beauty of Shin Ohno’s hometown in Nagano. The timepiece combines a grande et petite sonnerie, a quarter repeater and a tourbillon.

The acoustic character evokes the gentle flow of water, echoing the tranquillity and serenity of the surrounding natural landscape. The Fuyu-Geshiki is ...

@thehourglass_official @urwerkgeneve’s wandering hours take a new shape with the UR-300 Time Quantum.

The display is built around two independent bars forming a T-shaped frame, with four three-sided prisms carrying the 12 hours. The active hour numeral doubles as the minute pointer, travelling across a 108-degree track at six o’clock.

At the end of each hour, the mechanism rearranges itself in a single coordinated jump. The bars swap horizontal and vertical roles, the supporting carousel advances 72 degrees and all four prisms turn to their next faces, bringing the next hour into position.

The automatic UR-30.01V provides 44 hours of power reserve inside a new grade-5 titanium case measuring 45.2 × 58.8 × 18.25mm. A discreet seconds display sits beside the minute track, while Urwerk’s Dual Flow Turbine regulates the automatic rotor’s speed to reduce wear. The UR-300 Time Quantum come on a NATO strap and is limited to 25 pieces in natural titanium, and 25 in black PECVD-coated titanium.

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@citizenwatchus Citizen has given its high-tech ATTESA a distinctly wintry treatment with the new ATTESA EVER SINCE Limited Edition BY1000-69L.

The deep blue dial is inspired by a winter morning, with subtle gradations suggesting distant mountains and glittering details recalling light catching snow and cold air. At six o’clock, Citizen’s Luna Program automatically displays the moon phase above a stylised mountain horizon.

Underneath the scenery is all the technology you would expect from ATTESA. The 41.5mm case and bracelet are made from Super Titanium with DURATECT Platinum, while the Eco-Drive Calibre H874 brings Atomic Timekeeping, Direct Flight across 24 time zones, a perpetual calendar and the fully automatic moon phase display.

Limited to 2,300 pieces worldwide, the Citizen ATTESA EVER SINCE Limited Edition arrives from November 2026 at a projected price of US$1,195.

It is a lot of Citizen technology packed into one watch, but this time the engineering comes with a rather good view.

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@ulyssenardin has two anniversaries to celebrate in 2026: 180 years of the manufacture and 25 years of the Freak. With the Super Freak and the new Freak X marking the occasion, we speak with managing director @matthieu_haverlan about the collection’s evolution and the way forward for the brand.

Our conversation explores Ulysse Nardin’s “ideas lab” mindset, the role of silicon and how the manufacture preserves its creative independence. We also ask a more personal question: Super Freak or Freak X?

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Five years after their first collaboration, @mingwatches and @massenalab revisit honeycomb with the 57.09 Secret Honey — and this time, the pattern keeps moving.

Above a dark brown, lacquered and circular-brushed base dial, three sapphire disks rotate once every 24 hours, 12 hours and 60 minutes. Their overlapping apertures create a continuously shifting interference pattern, revealing the honey hue as they turn. MING calls the effect “dynamic guilloché”.

The honey-coloured hour and minute indications glow orange with Super-LumiNova. Above them, the indices and both brands’ logos are engraved into the top sapphire crystal and filled with MING Polar White, adding a second luminous layer.

The 40mm grade-5 titanium case carries triple-stepped lugs in three colours: natural titanium outside, yellow-gold-toned TiN coating in the middle and rose-gold-toned TiSiN coating inside. Through the sapphire caseback, the automatic Sellita for MING 330.M2 reveals skeletonised, anthracite-coated bridges. Power reserve is approximately 50 hours. Supplied with Jean Rousseau goat leather and black FKM rubber straps, the Secret Honey is limited to 125 pieces. ...

Reporting live from the second edition of Tokyo Watch Week, held from 12 to 15 October 2026. Let’s take a closer look at some of the independent watchmakers and their timepieces.

First up: Naoya Hida (left), founder of his namesake brand, alongside master engraver Keisuke Kano (right).

Naoya Hida & Co.’s first-ever perpetual calendar, the Type 6, seen here on the wrist of the brand’s founder himself.

A truly remarkable collaboration between Naoya Hida & Co. and The Armoury, founded by Mark Cho. Based on the Type 4A-2, the “Floating Feathers” features a beautifully hand-engraved feather motif on the dial. Here, it is worn by the master engraver himself, Kano-san.

Masa’s Pastime founder Masaharu Nakajima (left), alongside rising-star independent watchmaker Nayuta Shinohara (right).

The Nayuta Shinohara Model C YG, featuring a beautiful 33mm yellow gold case and a sector dial adorned with finely engraved numerals. The guilloché inner dial, crafted in sterling silver, adds another layer of texture, while the hand-engraved K18 yellow gold hands follows the signature Masa’s Pastime design.

Transformed from the original Peseux 7001 hand-wound movement into an in-house nickel movement, featuring a beryllium centre wheel and an Alboron balance wheel, a composite material comprising 60% aluminium and 40% boron ceramic. The movement is further distinguished by a Breguet overcoil and a steel balance cock.

The new kids on the block, Quiet Club, represented by two of its three founders: CEO Hokuto Ueda (right) and Head of Watchmaking Norifumi Seki (left), who won the Young Talent Competition organised by F.P. Journe and the AHCI in 2020.

Quiet Club’s debut creation, the Fading Hours, is an exercise of focus and harmony on the mind, distinguished by a world-first vertical-striking alarm complication. The watch uses a hammer that strikes directly against the white gold dial, which doubles as the gong. The dial itself is divided into an inner and outer section: the hammer strikes the inner dial, while a concealed, doughnut-shaped resonating element beneath the bezel amplifies the alarm’s distinctive acoustic signature.

Norifumi Seki’s award-winning creation (right), whi ...

@ralphlauren’s Western Cushion takes a more compact form with a new 38mm collection in engraved sterling silver.

The cushion-shaped case draws on traditional Western silverwork, with intricate engraving and a subtly aged finish that brings out the metal’s depth and texture. Three dial options give it a different character: black lacquer with off-white numerals, off-white lacquer with black Roman and Arabic numerals, and natural turquoise. The turquoise version draws on one of the American West’s most recognisable stones. Cut from natural turquoise and polished to reveal its individual character, the dial brings a vivid touch of colour to the engraved silver case.

Inside all three versions is the self-winding RL514 movement, produced by Piaget exclusively for Ralph Lauren and decorated with Côtes de Genève and perlage. Interchangeable leather straps offer another way to personalise the look, continuing the collection’s focus on Western craftsmanship and individuality. ...

@alangesoehne is bringing its chronographs and the artisans behind them to ION Orchard this October. Running from 18 to 30 October 2026, “Challenging Chronographs” spans two spaces at the mall’s Level 1 Atrium, with the Datograph and its family of complications taking centre stage. The exhibition also explores Lange’s connections to classic motoring, including its long-standing partnership with the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on Lake Como.

The live demonstrations should be a good reason to stop by. A master watchmaker and master engraver from the manufacture in Glashütte will be on hand to demonstrate the work behind Lange’s watches, offering a closer look at details such as the floral scrollwork on balance cocks and decorative motifs on casebacks.

The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 9pm. Guided tours and live demonstrations are available by appointment, so make a little time for Lange on your next Orchard Road visit. Read more on RevolutionWatch.com ...