On film’s biggest night, the women’s watches at the 2026 Oscars leaned fully into glamour. @zendaya brought exactly that in a diamond-set @rolex Lady-Datejust, Amy Madigan paired her Best Supporting Actress win with the quiet assurance of a diamond-set @omega Seamaster Aqua Terra, and @nicolekidman channelled old-world elegance with a vintage @omega cocktail watch.

In the mix, Kerry Condon’s @piaget Limelight Gala and @ritaora’s fully pavé @hublot showed just how naturally a watch can double as jewellery on the Oscars red carpet. And though an outlier in this lineup, @hudsonwilliamsofficial’s @bvlgari Serpenti still made for one of the night’s most striking watch choices among the actors in attendance. ...

At the 2026 Oscars, the dress watch emerged as one of the night’s strongest themes. Across the red carpet, brands leaned into elegance, precious metals and cleaner lines over outright spectacle.

What made the lineup especially interesting was how clearly each watch played to its brand’s strengths. Nicholas Hoult, Taron Egerton and Domhnall Gleeson wore @jaegerlecoultre Reversos, still among the most dependable dress-watch shapes on the red carpet, while @chrisevans’ @chopard L.U.C XPS and @channingtatum’s @tiffanyandco Union Square showed just how broad the category can be.

Elsewhere, @leonegabriel`s @bvlgari Octo Roma brought a more architectural edge, @pascalispunk’s @chanel Boy-Friend pushed at the category’s gendered boundaries, and Kieran Culkin’s @hublot Classic Fusion offered a dressier expression from a brand more often associated with bolder designs.

Then there were @simuliu and Robert Pattinson, both wearing watches that felt like early signals of what may be ahead. At the 2026 Oscars Vanity Fair After Party, Simu wore @zenithwatches G.F.J., while Pattinson appeared in what looks like an unreleased Jaeger-LeCoultre perpetual calendar. Taken together, they gave the post a final note of intrigue - as though Oscar night had also become an early preview of the conversation to come. ...

@franckmuller_asiapacific is refining the Vanguard for Asia-Pacific collectors with two new exclusives that place the emphasis less on spectacle and more on surface, texture and everyday wearability.

The first, the Vanguard Asia Pacific Exclusive introduced in October 2025, debuts a new in-house guilloché pavé de losanges dial crafted in Les Bois, Switzerland, paired with a contrasting micro-blasted sunburst centre, hand-painted numerals and a date display at 6 o’clock. The second, the Vanguard Sport Asia Pacific Exclusive launched in February 2026, takes a simpler route with a brushed dial, stamped sun guilloché, a hand-polished case and colour-matched side inserts that push it further into sport-luxury territory.

Both remain unmistakably Vanguard in form, but with a more measured tone — a dial-led update that makes Franck Muller’s bold tonneau-shaped line feel more focused, coherent and easier to wear day to day.

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From vintage Piaget to an ice-blue Rolex 1908, the 2026 Oscars offered a notably strong lineup of men’s watches.

Best Actor winner @michaelbjordan led the way in a vintage yellow-gold @piaget, while fellow Best Actor nominee @leonardodicaprio brought a more formal take on his familiar @rolex preference with the ice-blue 1908. Among the other nominees, @tchalamet returned once again to his beloved @urbanjurgensen, Wagner Moura kept things quietly classic with @omega, and Best Original Screenplay winner Ryan Coogler wore a @cartier Tank Guichet, a watch as distinctive as the films that have earned him such a devoted following. ...

At @phillipswatches Auction: The Geneva Sessions, Spring 2026, one of the clearest takeaways was the market’s appetite for watches that felt more collector-coded: rarer, more distinctive, and more legible to buyers already deep in the category.

That was most obvious with @fpjourneofficial. The Élégante 48 “Titalyt” sold for CHF 190,500 against an estimate of CHF 18,000–36,000, while the Chronomètre à Résonance RN reached CHF 355,600 on CHF 120,000–240,000. Even the surrounding collectible culture drew strong bids, from the “Construction Crew” hard hat to the BAIT x F.P. Journe Kokies Vinyl Toy Collectives.

But the pattern went beyond Journe. Independent and niche-led names also performed strongly, with the @laurent_ferrier Sport Auto, @moserwatches Endeavour Perpetual Calendar Tutorial, @montres_lecomte Series 2, and @greubel.forsey Double Balancier Convexe all beating estimates.

The same appetite showed up elsewhere too. @cartier’s CPCP Tank Chronographe Monopoussoir outperformed estimate, while more unusual pieces such as the @blancpain1735 Erotic Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater, @vacheronconstantin Medicus N°1, and even @ebel`s Ref. 5134901 sold well above expectations.

By contrast, @audemarspiguet,@rolex and much of @patekphilippe still sold well, but generally stayed closer to estimate ranges, suggesting a more measured appetite for familiar blue-chip references. One notable exception was the Patek Philippe Nautilus 40th Anniversary Ref. 5976/1G-001, which pushed well beyond estimate.

If this sale said anything about the current market, it is that buyers are still rewarding status, but often paying even harder for watches that signal taste, knowledge and specificity. ...

The watch world has long understood the value of cinema. But if Hollywood once set the tone, video games now represent a cultural and commercial space too large to ignore.

@omega is perhaps the clearest sign of that shift. In 007 First Light, the Bond universe appears to tease an unreleased Seamaster, suggesting that games may now matter to watch storytelling as much as film once did. Omega itself released promotional material around the game, which launches on May 27, 2026.

@hamiltonwatch, meanwhile, has been one of the more consistent names in the space, with Death Stranding 2 and now Resident Evil Requiem continuing a broader pattern of game integrations built around character and atmosphere. Hamilton’s latest Resident Evil Requiem tie-in consists of two limited editions, each capped at 2,000 pieces.

@tagheuer, for its part, brought Mario Kart into the Formula 1 line in 2022, with the tourbillon model giving the collaboration a more mechanically ambitious twist.

@franckmuller_geneve’s Final Fantasy XVI series took a similarly watch-led route, bringing the game into the Vanguard line through four limited editions, one of them a tourbillon.

Taken together, they suggest something larger: AAA games are no longer a novelty setting for watch brands, but an increasingly serious stage for visibility, storytelling and cultural reach. ...

@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. ...