Stories

Chronoswiss reads the moon two ways this season. The Lunar Chronograph Aurora takes the softer route, into a dial that shifts colour with the light.

Maximillion Cooper, Founder & Creative Director of Gumball 3000, has led the rally since 1999, and its partnership with Ulysse Nardin now brings a second watch.

URWERK co-founders Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei have turned a wandering hour satellite into a marker that follows sunlight from the Sun to the planets.

Czapek’s new steel chronograph borrows its dial’s deep, straight lines from the tread of a sports-car tyre, in a colour the brand calls Victory Green.

Watchmaker Stephen McDonnell designed a flyback into his Sequential chronograph from the first prototype, then held it back until every element was proven.

At La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, every internal angle of the new calibre DR002SR is finished by hand, because no machine can produce it.

SEVENFRIDAY made the PS2/03 “BC” for the season of celebrations, parties and family gatherings, and tailored it to match a tuxedo.

Independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen made the hand-guilloché salmon mainplate that now sits beneath the transparent sapphire dial of Armin Strom’s Gravity Equal Force.

Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens wanted to merge his universe with that of industrial designer Marc Newson, and the TYPE 3 MN is the watch they made together.

The One Week Skeleton Rose Gold is a tribute to the skeletonisation work of Armin Strom, who founded the company in 1967.

For its first rose gold outing, Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens has warmed the crownless TYPE 1° with a rose-gold-plated dial, and chose Dubai Watch Week to show it.

Armin Strom says Claude Greisler solved in 2016 what watchmakers had chased since Christiaan Huygens’s clock experiments of 1665: resonance that holds steady on the wrist.