@arminstrom brings together two of watchmaking’s most fascinating ideas in the new Minute Repeater Resonance 12:59 First Edition.

Best known for its distinctive resonance system, the independent watchmaker has also explored more traditional high complications in recent years, including the minute repeater. This latest creation marks a major step forward, introducing an entirely new repeater developed in-house and combined with the brand’s signature double-balance resonance architecture.

Visually, the watch puts much of its complexity on full display. At six o’clock sits Armin Strom’s double balance, linked by a flexible spring to induce resonance. At 12 o’clock, four hammers are arranged in plain view, ready to strike four gongs for a Westminster chime — a richer and more complex sequence than a conventional two-gong minute repeater.

The watch also features a dedicated demonstration mode for its most dramatic party trick. Rather than requiring the wearer to manually set the time to 12:59, the Minute Repeater Resonance 12:59 First Edition can automatically play the fullest possible minute repeater sequence: 12 hourly strikes, three quarter-hour chimes and 14 minute strikes. The mode selector at nine o’clock also doubles as the repeater’s winding mechanism.

Housed in a 42mm titanium case with a salmon dial, the Minute Repeater Resonance 12:59 First Edition is powered by the hand-wound ARR25 calibre, offering a 40-hour power reserve, and is limited to 25 pieces.

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In Miami, @jaegerlecoultre brings its story into focus with The Reverso Stories, an immersive pop-up dedicated to the watch’s Art Deco origins, technical evolution and continuing role as a canvas for craft.

Open to the public in the Miami Design District, the experience traces more than 90 years of Reverso through the lens of design, innovation, craftsmanship and Art Deco identity. Presented across four chapters, the pop-up brings together archival timepieces, contemporary creations, high jewellery expressions and live demonstrations of decorative watchmaking techniques.

Among the standout watches on display, Jaeger-LeCoultre presents the latest Reverso ‘Or Deco’ pieces alongside the Reverso Hybris Artistica Calibre 179 Pegasus and the Duometre Heliotourbillon Perpetual in platinum.

The experience also extends beyond watchmaking through Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Made of Makers programme, with Olivecoat’s Reverso Webcomic, Yiyun Kang’s 3D video sculpture and culinary creations by Chef Nina Métayer at the 1931 Café bringing the Reverso into dialogue with art, digital media and gastronomy.

The Reverso Stories is open until 31 May 2026 at Sweet Bird North in the Miami Design District, with complimentary public access and guided tours available. ...

At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, @chopard once again occupied its familiar place between cinema, high jewellery and watchmaking.

For the opening ceremony, the Maison brought its Red Carpet Collection to one of cinema’s most closely watched stages. Seen up close, the collection showed Chopard at its most expressive, where gemstones, colour and sculptural forms become part of the festival’s glitz and glamour.

Chopard’s relationship with cinema also extends to the Trophée Chopard, awarded each year to two rising stars since 2001. This year, the honour went to Odessa A’zion and Connor Swindells, continuing the Maison’s annual celebration of emerging talent at Cannes.

Away from the flashbulbs, Chopard’s Gentleman’s Evening turned the spotlight to high watchmaking, opening with a masterclass in chiming watches led by Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, Co-President of Chopard, and Karl-Fritz Scheufele, Chief of Staff – Craft, Digital & Experience, and co-hosted by watch journalist Frédéric Brun. In addition to the L.U.C Strike One, the L.U.C Full Strike and L.U.C Grand Strike watches on display included some of Chopard’s most serious expressions of contemporary watchmaking, from the L.U.C Quattro Spirit 25 Straw Marquetry edition to the Zagato Lab One Concept in titanium and L.U.C Heritage Grand Cru with baguette-cut diamonds.

Now in its 28th year as official partner of the Cannes Film Festival, Chopard’s presence on the Croisette extends beyond the red carpet, bringing together cinematic glamour, high jewellery, fine watchmaking and the unmistakable atmosphere of the festival into one world. ...

As @iwcwatches mark 90 years of Pilot’s Watches, the new Venturer Vertical Drive represents one of its most radical rethinks of the genre yet. Created in partnership with VAST, the private space company working to build the first commercial space station, the watch has been engineered specifically around the demands of human spaceflight.

That means moving away from some of the most familiar Pilot’s Watch codes. Gone are the Arabic numerals, the triangle at 12 and, most notably, the crown. In micro-gravity environments, even a small snag or tear in a spacesuit can become a serious risk, so IWC has replaced the crown with a bezel rotation system and a rocker-style mode selector that allow the wearer to wind or set the watch more securely — even while wearing bulky gloves.

The execution feels suitably futuristic too. The 44mm case combines white ceramic with a black Ceratanium bezel, paired with a white rubber strap. On the dial, skeletonised white hands stand out against the black background, displaying both mission time on a 24-hour scale and local time. Inside is the IWC-manufactured Calibre 32722, an automatic movement designed to wind with the wearer, even in micro-gravity.

📷: @sidney_teo

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Some watch collections are built around status, rarity or the pursuit of universally recognised icons. The Patrick Parrish Collection feels very different...

Now live on @loupethis, the 41-lot sale brings together vintage watches shaped by function, experimentation, industrial design and personal fascination. A New York-based design dealer, gallerist and collector, @patrick_parrish_studio has spent much of his career championing unusual and often overlooked objects — an eye that clearly carries into this collection.

Carefully assembled over decades, the collection reflects Parrish’s interest in objects that solved unusual problems, captured the ambition of their era or simply refused to follow the obvious path.

Highlights include the Yema Bipole Duopoly Titanium, believed to be the first watch design created by Richard Mille; the Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox “Speed Beat GT” ref. E873; the Omega Seamaster 120 “Deep Blue” ref. 166.073; and a Breitling Chrono-Matic from the dawn of automatic chronograph development.

Across the collection, vintage watches become a lens for 20th-century design and technological optimism — shaped by curiosity, nonconformity and the instinct to look beyond consensus.

Lots from the Patrick Parrish Collection are now live on Loupe This, with closings beginning this week.

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IAMWATCH is back.

Following its 2024 debut, the watch gathering returns this year with its focus placed firmly on the people behind the watches.

Taking place from 12–15 November 2026 at The Singapore EDITION, IAMWATCH 2026 will bring together 50 watchmakers and friends of @thehourglass_official for an intimate four-day programme dedicated to collectors, enthusiasts and the wider culture of contemporary watchmaking.

The lineup includes some of independent watchmaking’s most recognisable names, from Kari Voutilainen, Rexhep Rexhepi and Andreas Strehler to Max Büsser, Konstantin Chaykin, Raúl Pagès and Jean-Claude Biver, among many others.

At a time when watch collecting can often be shaped by scarcity, spectacle and distance, IAMWATCH offers something more direct: the chance to encounter watchmaking through its makers, their stories and the conversations that happen around the watches themselves.

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@mbandf brings a new dimension to one of its most celebrated creations: the LM Perpetual, now reimagined in an ultra-limited Chromatic series defined by colorful gemstone bezels.

First introduced in 2015, the LM Perpetual remains one of MB&F’s most important horological statements, built around Stephen McDonnell’s groundbreaking reinterpretation of the perpetual calendar. The new Chromatic Editions frame that complex calibre with baguette-cut gemstones, without altering the watch’s original proportions.

The two white gold editions feature blue or purple sapphires sourced from Madagascar and Sri Lanka, while the rose gold version is paired with Mozambican red rubies. Each bezel is hand-set in Geneva by STG Creation with an elegant line of 48 baguette-cut gemstones. The new pieces also introduce color-matched PVD-treated hands, with blue, purple, and 5N tones echoing their gemstones or case color. ...

For 2026, @panerai places the Luminor’s military-rooted design alongside one of the brand’s longest-running technical fascinations: extended power reserve.

This year’s collection also reconnects the brand to the reference 6152/1, one of the military-era Panerai watches that helped define the Luminor’s unmistakable design language through its cushion-shaped case, crown-protecting bridge, sandwich dial and highly legible display.

Leading the line-up is the Luminor 31 Giorni PAM01631, powered by the new hand-wound P.2031/S calibre. With four barrels in series, the movement delivers a full 31-day power reserve, making it Panerai’s most ambitious technical statement of the year. Housed in a 44mm Goldtech case and limited to 200 pieces, it pushes the brand’s long-power-reserve story into month-long territory.

The broader collection builds on that historical language in different ways. The PAM01731 and PAM01735 revisit vintage-inspired dial executions, while the left-handed Luminor Destro PAM01732 introduces a matte blue sandwich dial to one of Panerai’s most historically distinctive configurations.

The Luminor 8 Giorni PAM01733 feels like the clearest bridge back to the brand’s original functional logic, pairing a 44mm Brunito steel case with the hand-wound P.5000 calibre and its eight-day power reserve. Finally, the forged titanium PAM01629 adds another layer to the story, bringing Panerai’s long-running interest in advanced case materials into the Luminor collection for the first time.

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@blancpain1735 expands its Ladybird Colors collection in two distinct directions for 2026, moving from soft, chromatic elegance to full high-jewellery expression.

The Ladybird Colors Nude Moka introduces a softer, warmer shade to the collection, inspired by natural tones such as sand, terracotta and coffee. Warmer than beige and softer than black, it gives the watch a more understated, second-skin elegance, carried through the alligator leather strap and two-tone Roman numerals.

The Nude Moka is offered in two executions: one with interlaced diamond circles on the dial, and another with a snow-set centre featuring 152 additional diamonds. Both versions are housed in 34.9mm red or white gold cases.

At the other end of the spectrum is Diamond Bloom, which pushes the same Ladybird Colors language into full high-jewellery. Available in white gold or red gold, the watch is set with 919 diamonds totalling 4.794 carats across the case, bezel, dial and buckle, while the crown is finished with a rose-cut diamond.

Both creations are fitted with a nacre perlée dial, a rare form of mother-of-pearl known for its softly shifting green and pink reflections. Beneath the colour and gem-setting, both watches are powered by Blancpain’s automatic calibre 1163L, with moon phase, small seconds and a 100-hour power reserve — a reminder that, even at its most decorative, the Ladybird remains rooted in watchmaking. ...

@omega’s newest Bond watch is officially crossing from console to collection. Created for the upcoming 007 First Light video game, the Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph 007 First Light marks the first-ever chronograph in James Bond’s Seamaster Diver 300M history.

The watch plays a central role in the game’s missions, where it appears as a true Bond gadget, fitted with a hacking device capable of disrupting electronic equipment, as well as a powerful laser strap.

For the production model, Omega translates the in-game design into a 44 mm stainless steel Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph, featuring a polished black ceramic bezel ring with a white enamel diving scale, polished black ceramic pushers, and a black ceramic dial with the collection’s signature laser-engraved wave pattern. A PVD bronze gold finish highlights the subdial ring at 3 o’clock and central chronograph seconds hand, while the remaining hands and indexes are rhodium-plated and filled with white Super-LumiNova.

Inside is Omega’s self-winding Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 9900, visible through the sapphire crystal caseback, which carries the 007 First Light logo in black metallisation. On the wrist, the watch debuts a new NATO strap inspired by the game, with six additional in-game strap designs also available separately. ...