This is one of the cleanest chronographs ever designed, with a minute counter on the main dial instead of in a separate subdial, no hour totalizer and a small seconds making a discreet sweep at 9 o’clock. For a sports watch, including the Luminor’s iconic huge crown protector, this watch is downright elegant. See more […]

It is rare to see an all-gold watch these days. The spectacle of the moment, even in men’s watches, is full-on diamonds. While the all-gold timepiece had come to be considered too flashy when rendered in yellow gold, it seems downright dignified when done in pink gold (especially compared to the glare of diamonds). And […]

The aisles were alive with the sound of music at the Baselworld watch fair this year. Minute repeaters chimed to the antics of jaquemarts and music boxes tinkled out tunes ranging from classical Bach to classic rock, adding a new sensory component to this annual carnival of watches. Some of these watches are actually tiny […]

It goes without saying that any watch – never mind a half-million-dollar tourbillon – made for powerhouse tennis ace Rafael Nadal to wear while playing, has to have some kind of extreme shock resistance. See more Richard Mille watches at Haute Time. First, you take a space age alloy. The movement/bridges of the RM 027 […]

The Gyrotourbillon 3, a masterpiece of complicated watchmaking, draws on skills and technology developed during the 180-year history Jaeger-LeCoultre, whose manufacture in Le Sentier in the Vallée de Joux was one of Switzerland’s first. The watch, part of the Hybris Mechanica collection that includes the first two Gyrotourbillon models and a Grande Sonnerie, is a […]

Just when you thought the era of the high-concept superwatch with space-age design was coming to an end in favor of more traditional timepieces, Hublot blows them all out of the water with the ultimate original superwatch – a category killer. The Masterpiece MP-05 La Ferrari sets a world record for the longest power reserve […]

The aisles were alive with the sound of music at the Baselworld watch fair this year. Minute repeaters chimed to the antics of jaquemarts and music boxes tinkled out tunes ranging from classical Bach to classic rock, adding a new sensory component to this annual carnival of watches.

This will be remembered as one of the most inventive eras in watchmaking, with more technical advancements in the last decade than in the previous 20 years. These eight modern masterpieces define the future of watchmaking while embracing its past.

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