@serenawilliams Serena Williams and @audemarspiguet Audemars Piguet have been in each other’s orbit for more than a decade, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before that relationship resulted in a Royal Oak of her own.

The Royal Oak Selfwinding Chronograph “Serena Williams” Limited Edition is a 38mm exercise in contrasts. The familiar look of the Royal Oak is rendered in white ceramic, its sharp geometry softened by a pink-tinted mother-of-pearl dial that changes character with the light. It is a combination Williams herself describes through the ideas of strength and feminine energy, and aesthetically, the balance works rather well.

Limited to 500 pieces, the watch is delivered on the full white ceramic bracelet, though there is also a decidedly more playful pink rubber strap with white ceramic studs. Underneath all that colour sits the more serious story: Calibre 6401, Audemars Piguet’s new-generation integrated automatic chronograph movement, complete with column wheel, vertical clutch and a 55-hour power reserve. It replaces Calibre 2385, the movement that defined AP’s smaller automatic chronographs for nearly three decades.

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Watches and cars have long occupied the same enthusiast circles, linked by mechanical engineering, design and performance. @timetodrivefest will explore that connection through a three-day festival in Miami this November.

Presented by 0260, the inaugural Time to Drive Car & Watch Festival was co-founded by entrepreneur and collector @lexborrero and watch media personality @perridash. What began as intimate gatherings among enthusiasts has since expanded into international journeys, private events and now a full-scale festival.

The weekend opens on 6 November with Driver’s Seat, a separately ticketed track day at The Concours Club. The main festival follows at Mana Wynwood Convention Center on 7 and 8 November. The watch programme centres on the Collectors Club, which will host 38 brands and independent makers. Chopard, Grand Seiko, Zenith, Jacob & Co., Biver, MB&F, Greubel Forsey, Ulysse Nardin, URWERK, Arnold & Son, Armin Strom and Renaud Tixier are among those participating, alongside panels, live podcasts and the vintage-focused Luxury Exchange.

Cars receive equal billing through Icons of Stuttgart and the Festival of Champions. The line-up includes the Porsche Penske #7 Daytona-winning car, Ferrari 250 GTO, F40 and LaFerrari, the Porsche 964 Turbo seen in Bad Boys and the heavily modified Maybach 57 from JAY-Z and Kanye West’s “Otis” music video. Elsewhere, multidisciplinary artist Mark Delmont will transform a vintage Mercedes-Benz through the live Canvas Chrome project, while Assouline is expected to debut a forthcoming Porsche title.

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One transforms @jeffkoons’ Balloon Dog into a watch. The other compresses the creation of the universe into 44mm of sapphire architecture. The two releases mark the American artist’s first collaboration with @hublot. Developed over almost two years, the project saw Koons work closely with the manufacture on everything from dimensions and materials to varying levels of sheen, transparency and reflection.

The Classic Fusion Balloon Dog arrives in mirror-polished steel, red anodised aluminium and blue anodised aluminium, with each version limited to 200 pieces. Hublot reshaped the 42mm watch around the sculpture’s inflated forms, adding a domed crystal, balloon-shaped crown, dog-tail projection at 10:30 and a balloon dog counterweight on the seconds hand. Even the automatic HUB1710 receives a custom rounded rotor.

The MP-14 Origin heads in a very different direction. Its octagonal sapphire-and-titanium case surrounds concentric rings of white gold, diamonds and blue sapphires, with floating cubes displaying the hours and minutes. Beneath a blue sapphire dome inspired by Koons’ Gazing Ball series sits Hublot’s first automatic central tourbillon. The new HUB9014 calibre comprises 594 components, uses a peripheral winding system and delivers a 60-hour power reserve. Completed by an integrated sapphire bracelet, the MP-14 is limited to 30 pieces.

For Koons, both watches return to the same pursuit: creating a sense of awe, wonder and connection through objects.

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The redesigned @glashuetteoriginal 70s takes the cover of our upcoming US print issue.

Previously known as the Seventies, the television-shaped watch has been extensively reworked. Its steel case now measures 39mm × 39mm × 9.6mm, with softer transitions, a lower stance on the wrist and a redesigned integrated bracelet. The new Hexagrid dial appears in three music-inspired executions: silver “Stereo Panel,” brown “Tweed Amp” and the limited black “Vinyl Record.” Inside, the automatic caliber 36-11 — or rhodium-black 36-10 for “Vinyl Record” — delivers a 100-hour power reserve and features a silicon hairspring.

In Glashütte, we joined artist and longtime collector Michael Moebius (@moebiusart) as he encountered the new watch for the first time. Having previously gravitated towards the asymmetrical Pano collection, he was quickly won over by the 70s and its balanced proportions, textured dial and integrated construction.

The watch also opened a wider conversation. Moebius and Glashütte Original CEO Roland von Keith grew up on opposite sides of a divided Germany, yet both return to the resourcefulness, problem-solving and accumulated skills that continue to shape the manufacture today.

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The new @rolex Perpetual Padellone marks a striking return to complicated watchmaking, bringing together ideas that have appeared across the brand’s history in very different forms. Some of those clues were obvious. Others were hiding in plain sight.

From early calendar watches to more recent technical developments, the path to the new Padellone is a fascinating one — and it may tell us something about where Rolex is heading next.

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A new chapter in @rolex watchmaking arrives with the Perpetual Padellone.

Named after reference 8171 — the historic complete calendar timepiece known to collectors as the “Padellone” — the new creation brings together heritage, elegance and some of Rolex’s latest technical innovations.

Housed in a refined 39 mm case measuring 12.2 mm thick, the watch displays the date, day, month and moonphase, with a blue crescent-tipped centre hand indicating the date and a blue enamelled moonphase disc featuring full and new moons crafted from meteorite.

At its heart is the new calibre 7190, beating at 5 hertz and featuring the innovative Haplos system, which allows the movement to distinguish between 30- and 31-day months. At midnight, the date, day and month change instantaneously. The movement also incorporates Rolex’s Dynapulse escapement, Syloxi hairspring and optimized Paraflex shock absorbers, while delivering approximately 66 hours of power reserve.

The Perpetual Padellone is available in 18 ct Everose gold with either a Settimo bracelet or brown alligator strap, and in 950 platinum with an ice-blue dial and black alligator strap.

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Fifty years after @chopard first set diamonds free, Happy Diamonds circles back to the design that started it all.

The idea dates to 1976, when Chopard designer Ronald Kurowski saw sunlight sparkling across a waterfall in Germany’s Black Forest and set out to recreate the effect on the wrist. Each diamond was placed in its own gold bezel and allowed to spin between two sapphire crystals, creating a display that changes with every movement. The resulting cushion-shaped watch won the Golden Rose of Baden-Baden and established one of the maison’s most recognisable signatures.

For the anniversary, the new Happy Diamonds Heritage returns to the original’s compact silhouette and striking contrasts, pairing an 18K ethical yellow gold case with a polished black onyx dial. The 34mm model measures 8.53mm thick and carries 21 freely moving brilliant-cut diamonds totalling 1.05 carats.

Inside is the hand-wound Chopard 10.01-C, a compact manufacture calibre offering approximately 45 hours of power reserve. Its nickel-silver bridges and mainplate can be viewed through the sapphire caseback. A second 24mm model measures just 6.72mm thick and follows the same gold-and-onyx design with nine moving diamonds and a quartz movement.

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Following the rush of Geneva Watch Days, it was back to regular programming last week. @louisvuitton brought five Tambour Spin Time models into its permanent collection, including an Australian opal dial, the Antipode worldtimer and a platinum flying tourbillon. At Madring, @tagheuer trimmed the Carrera Chronograph Sport from 44mm to 42mm, adding four dial colors around the automatic TH20-00.

@jaegerlecoultre supplied the technical heavyweight: a one-off Duometre Grande Complication à Grande Sonnerie with 15 complications, roughly 1,300 components and a year-long assembly. @panerai marked 100 years of its Florence boutique with two eight-day Luminors: the 100-piece Platinumtech PAM01734 and 1,000-piece steel PAM01794.

@chronoswiss dressed its handless Neo Digiteur in Rose, Mint and Sky, each powered by the hand-wound C.85757 and limited to 99 pieces. @jacobandco went straight for spectacle, setting 54 diamonds onto the flying tourbillon’s balance wheel and 366 pastel sapphires across the 42mm white-gold pièce unique.

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Lightness is written into the name of the new @venezianico_official Redentore Levius, a mechanical dress watch weighing just 58 grams including its strap. Its new Zefiro dial carries rather more visual weight.The classically proportioned case is fashioned from Grade 5 titanium and measures 38mm across, 44.2mm lug to lug and 8.9mm thick. The case alone weighs only 12.9 grams, with brushed and polished surfaces preserving the more formal character of the Redentore line.

Across the dial, irregular guilloché lines radiate outwards in overlapping currents inspired by Zephyrus, the gentle west wind of Greek mythology. Fourth-generation artisan Linda Renzetti cuts each uninterrupted pattern on an 1850s rose engine, complemented by double-faceted alpha hands with polished and sandblasted finishes.

Power comes from the hand-wound V5000, manufactured in Italy by OISA. The calibre offers a 60-hour power reserve, is rated to ±3 seconds per day and can be viewed through the sapphire caseback, where its four bridges feature radial Côtes de Genève, polished anglage and micro-perlage.

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The masters of exuberant expression, @jacobandco Jacob & Co, mark a new chapter in their watchmaking story with the Brilliant Flying Tourbillon Baguette Pastel Arlequino. Given the sheer weight of stones on the case, dial and crown, it might take a second to spot what makes this timepiece so mechanically remarkable. For the first time in modern watchmaking, the balance wheel of the tourbillon is set with stones. A total of 54 brilliant-cut diamonds have been painstakingly set, allowing for a constant shimmer, while not interrupting the chronometric performance of the movement. But this new movement goes even further, even the rear bridges are set with stones — a total of 234 brilliant white diamonds to be specific, making this panoply of pastel stones as technically impressive as it is opulent. ...