@patekphilippe has made Italy the subject of 25 Rare Handcrafts creations reserved for the Italian market, unveiled for its Watch Art Grand Exhibition in Milan. The collection spans 14 wristwatches, four pocket watches, six dome clocks and one table clock.

Four Calatravas follow a Cinquecento through Amalfi, Puglia, Chianti and Como. Elsewhere, the “Venetian Cruise” pocket watch builds a mahogany boat from 334 tiny pieces of wood veneer, the “City of Milan” table clock carries an enamelled map across its dial and curved side panels, and “Sicilian Oranges” places orange trees before a softly painted view of Palermo.

Italy’s crafts and artists receive just as much attention. The “Florentine Mosaic” minute repeater recreates the look of hardstone marquetry in enamel; the “Dante” pocket watch draws on Botticelli’s portrait of the poet; and two Calatravas reinterpret Burano lace in pink and blue.

These pieces form part of a wider exhibition of around 500 timepieces and objects, including historic works from the Patek Philippe Museum. Visitors can also see watchmakers and artisans demonstrating their skills. The Watch Art Grand Exhibition runs from 2 to 18 October 2026 at CityOval in Milan.

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@patekphilippe Patek Philippe’s Grand Exhibition has officially opened its doors in Milan, and in addition to the more than 500 timepieces on show, as well as archival and artisanal wonders, there’s a suite of new additions to the catalogue in the form of the Patek Phillipe Gondolo Ladies First.

The square square Gondolo case return in a series of six of design-led jewellery watches that, according to Patek Philippe, are the result of “President Thierry Stern’s desire to offer women an easy-to-wear jewellery watch perfectly aligned for an age of informed and mindful choices”. It’s another solid string to the watchmaker’s bow of women’s watches, which already includes the everyday-oriented Twenty~4 and the more extravagant Aquanaut Luce models. The six new references are divided into three models: Ref. 7043G-001, Ref. 7043R-001 and Ref. 7043GR-001 with gem-set dials, and three Joaillerie models, Ref. 7043/250G-001, Ref. 7043/250R-001 and Ref. 7043/250GR-001.

These six new additions to Patek Philippe’s women’s assortment do an excellent job of honouring the Gondolo’s rich legacy, while offering an attractive, highly decorative yet functional watch. Not everything needs high complication and drama. Sometimes wearability smothered in hundreds of diamonds is enough.

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Seven new @patekphilippe limited editions mark the opening of the Watch Art Grand Exhibition in Milan, with all seven reserved for the Italian market.

Leading the collection is the platinum Ref. 5978P, a perpetual calendar chronograph limited to 120 pieces. Its day, date and month indications jump simultaneously at midnight, completing the change in just 30 milliseconds. The newly developed manually wound movement stores the energy needed for that transition while allowing the chronograph’s instantaneous 30-minute counter to continue operating. The calendar indications are in Italian, set against a navy-blue dial with a textured centre and black gradient rim.

Milan also appears on the dials of two Ref. 5531G World Time minute repeaters. Depicted by day and by night in grand feu cloisonné enamel, each version is limited to five pieces. The watch chimes the local time selected on its city disc.

Three white-gold Calatravas take their colours from the Italian flag: a green perpetual calendar Ref. 7147G limited to 100 pieces, a white date Ref. 7007G limited to 200, and a red minute repeater Ref. 7047G limited to just five. Completing the seven is a steel Aquanaut Ref. 5167A with a blue dial and strap, red accents and a 250-piece run.

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Thirty years ago, MR-G began with a difficult question: how could Casio make a metal G-Shock without losing the durability that defined it? The MRG-100, introduced in 1996, was the first answer. Since then, MR-G has become G-Shock’s showcase for advanced materials, Japanese craft and increasingly ambitious construction.

Its 30th-anniversary program tells that story through six watches. The Brinicle Frogman evokes ice formations with a hand-cut Cobarion bezel. Two Haruka models pair Hiroto Rakusho’s hand-applied platinum or gold leaf with blue colour created through laser processing.

The culmination is the Blue Rose Project, which brings Kikuo Ibe’s long-held sapphire ambition into production. Its centrepiece, the 20-piece MRG-D5000 Blue Sapphire, assembles multiple interlocking sapphire components around a titanium inner case. The challenge was to make sapphire part of a shock-resistant G-Shock despite its vulnerability to fracture on impact. Super Blue carries sapphire accents into a more familiar MR-G form, while a full-metal G-Shock brings the project’s blue sapphire details beyond the flagship line.

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@citizenwatchus has used washi paper for The CITIZEN dials since 2017, and these two limited editions make a lovely case for it. Handmade by artisans in Japan’s Kochi Prefecture, the paper brings texture to the dial while letting light through to the Eco-Drive movement beneath.

The AQ4100-65X puts ultra-thin Tosa Tengujoshi paper beneath a deep crimson upper plate. Its fine texture shows through the colour, with a sunburst pattern that catches the light. It comes on a matching Super Titanium bracelet and is limited to 350 pieces worldwide.

The AQ4106-00B goes in a different direction. Its Unryushi paper dial has long, cloud-like swirls and glinting gold fibres added during papermaking, so each pattern is a little different. A Sakura Pink Super Titanium case and crocodile leather strap complete the watch, which is limited to 300 pieces worldwide.

Both use the light-powered Caliber A060, rated to +/-5 seconds per year. There’s a perpetual calendar, too: it handles month ends and leap years automatically until 28 February 2100, and the date changes right at midnight.

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@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. ...