@bovet1822 Bovet is one of the rare independent manufactures to maintain an unusually broad degree of vertical integration despite its modest scale. Producing around 1,000 watches annually with a team of roughly 55 specialists, the brand’s operations are divided between its facility in Tramelan and its historic headquarters at the Château de Môtiers in the Val-de-Travers. The manufacture in Tramelan is compact in size yet unusually complete in scope, encompassing an extensive range of traditional and modern watchmaking processes under one roof.

From CNC machining, dial-making and metal sheet stamping to hairspring production and hand engraving, the facility brings together industrial precision and artisanal craft. They reflect Pascal Raffy’s determination to retain control over how ideas move from conception to execution, without being reshaped by external constraints along the way. Once assembled, the movements are transferred to the Château de Môtiers, where casing, testing and inspection take place before delivery.

Most notably, unlike some vertically integrated manufactures where integration can seem somewhat nominal, Bovet’s in-house capabilities are fully exercised. The watches that result, extravagant in both decoration and mechanical conception, could hardly be more reflective of that.

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@grandseikoofficial has announced @shoheiohtani - the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar and one of baseball’s defining talents - as its global partner, with the collaboration officially beginning on 1 April 2026 through the Grand Moments Project. The partnership is framed around a shared respect for time, sincerity in each moment and the belief that sustained effort is what shapes the future. It also marks a new chapter in a longer relationship after 10 years with Seiko Watch Corporation. Ohtani now steps into a new phase with Grand Seiko.

And if the idea is to “Live Grand Moments,” Ohtani has already given baseball more than a few. There was the 493-foot Angels blast on 30 June 2023, still one of the most outrageous home runs of his career; the 473-foot Dodgers moonshot against Boston on 21 July 2024, one of the longest ever tracked at Dodger Stadium; the history-making 50-50 season, sealed on 19 September 2024; and, for Japan, the final out of the 2023 World Baseball Classic, when he struck out Mike Trout to seal a 3-2 win and Samurai Japan’s third title.

In other words, this is not simply a partnership with one of baseball’s biggest stars. It is Grand Seiko aligning itself with an athlete whose defining moments have been built through pressure, consistency and time. ...

@girardperregaux has been on a run in high-end watchmaking over the last few months, and the latest expression of the brand’s haute horlogerie credentials is the impressive Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Flying Bridges. This intimidatingly complex watch — all 46mm of it — is a contemporary take on the brand’s famous three bridges design, with the added complexity of a minute repeater and a tourbillon added into the mix. Powered by the newly developed, in-house calibre GP9530, an open-worked movement with 475 components, and a design that not only showcases the history of the maison and the exceptional finishing abilities of the people who work there (it takes nearly 440 hours to assemble and decorate the watch), but also is intended to amplify the chime and resonance of the repeater.

To ensure the purest possible sound, the plates and bridges have been made of titanium to facilitate vibration, and the mainplate has been secured directly to the case to ensure that the vibration is transmitted cleanly to the pink gold case. Even the domed sapphire crystals (both front and back are domed) amplify the melody created by the gongs and hammers, and great care has been taken to ensure that the micro-rotor and winding system are as silent as possible. Another design choice that’s been made in the name of acoustic performance is the openworked design. The lack of dial makes for better resonance — the side effect of being afforded an uninterrupted view of the calibre is a bonus. Bringing it all together is the fact that the repeater slide is shaped like the arrow-tipped bridge and, in a nice personal touch, each watch is fitted with a small plate bearing the artisan’s initials.

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@kuronotokyo`s new Diver’s is not really trying to be a conventional dive watch at all. Instead, Hajime Asaoka has approached the category by splitting it in two: a compact 35mm inner watch for daily wear, and a separate 46mm outer diving case that turns it into a recreational dive-ready instrument when needed.

The key idea is also the most unusual one: not the total removal of the crown, but a rethink of its role altogether. Asaoka has described the crown as the weak point of the dive watch, and his answer was to design a system in which, once the time is set, there is little reason to interact with it again. With a modern automatic movement doing the work thereafter, the Diver’s becomes a study in reducing the usual vulnerabilities of the category through architecture rather than convention. It is an eccentric, highly Japanese sort of rethink: part engineering exercise, part design study, and very much in line with Kurono’s habit of doing things its own way.

That inner watch is also worth a closer look on its own terms. It marks Kurono Tokyo’s first cushion-shaped case, sized at a restrained 35mm, with luminous cathedral hands in blued steel and a clean, highly legible dial designed with underwater visibility in mind. Power comes from the Miyota 90S5 automatic movement with around 40 hours of power reserve. Housed inside the outer case, the proposition shifts completely: the 46mm diving case pairs a red anodised unidirectional bezel with a tool-assisted screw system, offering 100M water resistance by hand and up to 300M when secured with the tool.

Offered worldwide via allocation-by-ballot, the Diver’s is available in limited numbers, with applicants holding recreational or higher diving certifications prioritised, though not guaranteed an allocation. ...

Presenting the @christiaanvanderklaauw × Revolution Grand Planetarium Eccentric Si14 (Silicium), an extraordinary six-piece limited edition that transforms celestial mechanics into a shifting theater of the night.

Astronomical complications represent one of the most expansive and evocative domains of watchmaking, and none capture the imagination quite like the mechanical planetarium. In this remarkable collaboration, Christiaan van der Klaauw — together with @pim_koeslag — brings the entire Solar System to the wrist.

Based on the original Grand Planetarium Eccentric first introduced in 2024, the Grand Planetarium Eccentric Si14 (Silicium) is a variation of the first and only mechanical wristwatch capable of displaying the real-time orbits of all eight planets, from Mercury all the way out to Neptune. Arranged across an iridescent dial crafted from nine pieces of oxidized silicon, the planets revolve along luminous orbital tracks, their paths illuminated in Super-LumiNova and engraved with their true orbital periods.

Encircling the dial is a zodiac scale, read via a triangular indicator opposite Earth, revealing the region of the sky in which the Sun appears from our vantage point. As darkness falls, the dial comes vividly alive — a miniature cosmos rendered in light.

Housed in a hardened 44mm stainless steel case treated with low-temperature carbon diffusion for exceptional durability, the watch is powered by the CVDK self-winding calibre CKM-01 with a 60-hour power reserve. The movement is crowned by a sculptural rotor shaped like the brand’s logo, set above bridges engraved with a field of stars.

Limited to just 6 numbered pieces.

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At first glance it might not seem like a bezel is particularly technical or important but @rolex goes to show that there is an immense amount of history (and engineering) in the humble bezel.

From Bakelite to aluminium to contemporary Cerachrom, the GMT-Master’s bezel insert traces a quiet but fascinating evolution in material science, durability and colour. And few colourways carry quite as much intrigue as the red-and-black “Coke”, a configuration whose history stretches back further than many realise.

This story revisits the “Coke” bezel not simply as a collector favourite, but as a case study in Rolex’s exploration of bezel materials and colours. From the first Bakelite insert with luminous radium numerals, to the aluminium era of references like the 16760 and 16710, to the patent filed by Rolex in 2023 for multicolored zirconia-based ceramic, the “Coke” bezel reveals a clear-cut narrative of engineering evolution. It also delves into the process behind creating these ceramic bezels, showing how what may seem like a mere ring of ceramic carries significant historical weight and technical challenges, especially in Rolex’s long pursuit of a two-tone red and black ceramic bezel.

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