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Breguet Classique Souscription 2025

A legacy reimagined

Montres Breguet has kicked off its 250th anniversary celebrations with the release of the Classique Souscription 2025. Paying homage to the original pocket watch created by the brand’s founder to announce to clients his return to Paris, the 2025 model is a faithful modernisation and rendition of the original.

The release is emblematic of the change in direction ushered in by Gregory Kissling, the newly minted CEO for the Swatch Group’s flagship marque, and a demonstration of the embarrassment of riches that lie in Breguet’s history.

Abraham-Louis Breguet started his firm on the Quai de l’Horloge, Île de la Cité, in 1775. He achieved immediate success with his watches, primarily due to the innovative quality of his mechanisms and elegant design, but the French Revolution forced a pause on his business. He moved to Switzerland and it wasn’t until 1797 when he returned to Paris that he rebuilt his name as a watchmaker.

An original Abraham-Louis Breguet Souscription pocket watches.

He did so by initiating a new business model, issuing a pocket watch called the Souscription, complete with an advertising pamphlet (an innovation at the…

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All Around the World

Why Nomos Glashütte’s Club Sport Neomatik Worldtimer wowed the Watches & Wonders crowds

In just six years’ time, it’ll be a century since Swiss watchmaker Louis Cottier – in response to increasing use of transcontinental trains, ocean liners and passenger-based aviation –created a timepiece whose rotating and fixed rings reflected the world time-zones which had been established in 1883. Since then, international transit has not only been democratised, […]

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The Old Razzle-Dazzle

Watches & Wonders 2025 was all about the spectacle. And why not?

If Watches & Wonders 2024 was all about America’s Cup boats, 2025 was the year of the F1 car. On the IWC stand it appeared smashed and smoking – an actual crashed car from Brad Pitt’s summer blockbuster, F1. TAG Heuer went for a more traditional approach, giving it some stand space, while Tudor opted […]

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Go ahead and jump!

The fall and rise of the “wandering hours” complication

We tend to think of digital watches as a purely 70s phenomenon, the logical next step after the introduction of quartz at the beginning of the decade, the last stop before the future arrived – or at least that’s how I felt when I first strapped on my Texas Instruments LED (finished in leather-effect plastic […]

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Patek Philippe at Watches and Wonders 2025

Tradition, transformed

Every year at Watches & Wonders Patek Philippe dazzles with its new releases. At the 2025 edition of the fair, the Geneva-based watchmaking powerhouse launched a series of pieces sure to delight even the most demanding of its clients. Among the new 15 references there was an exceptional new Calatrava model and an intricate Quadruple […]

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The Watch You Wear And What It Says About You

Five London tribes and their wristwear

With thousands of new watches being presented annually, working out which of them best suit individual personality traits has never been more confounding. To make sense of it all, we’ve come up with five-character types – all of them denizens of the British capital and shaped by London’s multifaceted culture and institutions – and decided which timepieces […]

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Two decades of Hublot’s Big Bang

An anniversary extravaganza

In 2005, with Jean-Claude Biver at the helm, Hublot launched the model that would put the company firmly on the map of luxury watchmaking: the Big Bang. In that same year, the watch won the design prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. Since then, the Big Bang collection has accounted for around 40 […]

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Chanel J12 Bleu

A new chapter in ceramic excellence

The new Chanel J12 Bleu celebrates 25 years of excellence by Chanel in ceramic watchmaking. With the introduction of a striking new shade exclusively developed for Chanel, the J12 starts a new adventure in the world of colour, expanding beyond its classic black and white predecessors. THE EVOLUTION OF AN ICON When Chanel introduced the J12 […]

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Richard Mille RM 43-01 Ferrari

The purest expression of a racing machine on your wrist

For their second collaboration with Ferrari, Richard Mille has unveiled the RM 43-01, a tourbillon split-seconds chronograph that has been developed with the famous car marque. After almost a quarter century, for the brand that always claimed to be a “racing machine on your wrist”, this is the watch that represents the latest in F1 […]

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A new home for Rolex in London

Watches of Switzerland opens a new flagship Rolex boutique

After 16 months of meticulous refurbishment, finally the new flagship Rolex boutique opened its doors on 14th March 2025. Managed by Watches of Switzerland, which has been working with Rolex since 1919, the new store houses one of the largest collections of new and pre-owned Rolex watches in Europe. Brian Duffy (CEO, Watches of Switzerland) […]

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Game Time: Boulton Death Stranding 2

Hamilton partners with Hideo Kojima

The latest adventure of a watch company into the fictional world has resulted in the Hamilton Boulton Death Stranding 2. In partnership with Hideo Kojima, the creator of the blockbuster apocalyptic video game, Death Standing, Hamilton has produced a watch modelled on the in-game timepiece worn by pivotal character Neil in Death Stranding 2: On […]

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Vanguart Orb

Avant-garde design meets masterful craftmanship

The Vanguart Orb is a stunning example of 21st century innovative and imaginative watchmaking. Somewhere in the mix between the hyper haute horlogerie of Richard Mille and Greubel Forsey lies Vanguart. As surprising as it might seem, given the Renaud et Papi super string thread that runs across various high-end brands, there is a place […]