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Vanguard Skeleton Swiss Limited Edition © Franck Muller
New Models
Here comes colour!

Summer is always a great pretext to ditch monochrome in favour of brighter, sunnier shades. With more and more watchmakers lavishing colour on their dials, the opportunity is too good to miss.

Thursday, 06 August 2020
6 min read
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Some brands, such as Louis Moinet, have set up television studios at their headquarters to keep the conversation going with retailers and customers.
Economy
How the health crisis is accelerating the digital transition

Every cloud has a silver lining. The disastrous impact of Covid-19 on the economy in general and the watch segment in particular is forcing brands to embrace the virtual world.

Monday, 11 May 2020
5 min read
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Les Cabinotiers : Ode à la musique © Vacheron Constantin
Watches and Wonders
Watches & Wonders lifts the curtain on 2020 trends

The online launch of Watches & Wonders 2020 spotlights what will be the first trends in watchmaking this year. Special mention goes to astronomical complications and skeleton watches, while women's collections get into shape with form watches. Sport-luxe is another of the year's big winners.

Monday, 27 April 2020
6 min read
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Zeitwerk Minute Repeater © A. Lange & Söhne
Watches and Wonders
Watches & Wonders, a world of complications

In watchmaking, nowhere is excellence more evident than in the complications that take a timepiece into another dimension, fuelled by the genius of brands always ready to reinvent themselves. As demonstrated at Watches & Wonders.

Saturday, 25 April 2020
6 min read
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Arceau Squelette © Hermès
Watches and Wonders
Watches & Wonders: the art of useful complications

Recent years have seen the return of useful functions and even "small" complications. Practical as well as more affordable, they encourage creativity in an already crowded segment. We look at some of the watches revealed ahead of Watches & Wonders 2020.

Friday, 24 April 2020
3 min read
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Personalised engraving Reverso © Jaeger-LeCoultre
Trend Forecaster
Customisation, one step at a time

It starts with the strap and ends with the full-blown experience of a bespoke timepiece. Personalising a watch has no other limit than the amount you're willing (or able) to spend.

Thursday, 09 April 2020
5 min read
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Big Bang One Click Calavera Catrina © Hublot
Trend Forecaster
Death-defying

Unless you're an Emo or a Goth, most people wouldn't be seen dead wearing a skull watch. And they would be wrong. Make no bones about it: today's skull watches are creative, innovative, high-mech pieces.

Wednesday, 18 December 2019
5 min read
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Dual Time Sapphire Cobra © Armin Strom
Trend Forecaster
Fifteen watches with nothing to hide

A rarely seen exercise in style ten years ago, skeleton watches are now part of the regular collections at brands intent on showing off their watches' inner beauty.

Thursday, 07 March 2019
5 min read
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Santos de Cartier
SIHH
The watches that lit up SIHH 2019

It comes alive after dark. Nothing can match its glow – except perhaps the odd jellyfish or octopus. Meet Swiss Super-Luminova, and its ever-expanding applications in watchmaking.

Monday, 28 January 2019
4 min read
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